<p dir="ltr"><span>Financial Tribune- Abbas Memarnejad, deputy minister for banking, insurance and state companies' affairs, said the lenders are supposed to sell 400 trillion rials ($3 billion) of their properties by next March.<br> Pointing to the variety of assets, Memarnejad said the assets include real estate, manufacturing units, and shares that will be divested as per regulations pertaining to each asset, ILNA reported. <br> Skittish lenders are under mounting government pressure to end their non-banking businesses by getting rid of expensive real estate and surplus holdings.<br> <br class="t-last-br"> </span></p>