Domestic Economy

The value of trade between Iran and Turkmenistan has increased by 20% over the past two years, deputy minister of mine, industry and commerce, Mojtaba Khosrowtaj, said on Saturday, expressing hope…

Trade turnover between Iran and Turkey stood at $13.72 billion in 2014, recording a 6% decrease compared with 2013 when the figure stood at $14.57 billion, according to the latest data released by…

About $4.9 million worth of Iranian-made refrigerators were exported in the first ten months of the current Persian calendar year (ending 20 March), recording an increase of 35% compared with the…

Iran Civil Aviation Organization (CAO) has expressed readiness to establish flights between Iran and Tunisia to facilitate tourism exchange between the two countries, IRNA reported on Saturday.…

Iran and Georgia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on passenger and goods transportation, Mohammad Javad Atrchian, head of transit and terminals department of The Islamic Republic of…

Transactions in the housing sector are expected to rise in the upcoming year (starting March 21), head of the real estate union, Hesam Oghabie told IRNA on Saturday.  The incremental upward…

Head of Trade Promotion Organization (TPO), Valiollah Afkhamirad proposed a preferential trade agreement between the Iranian and Indian governments on certain commodities, in a meeting with…

The climatic change in the region of Lake Urmia and a consequent drought has taken its toll on numerous plots of land in Azarshahr – the capital of Azarshahr County, East Azerbaijan Province, IRNA…

The head of the Privatization Organization has criticized the process of implementing privatization in Iran, saying: "In some cases, while ownership has been transferred to the private sector,…

Despite great potential in Iran’s fishmeal industry, the sector has not been able to attract significant investments so far, according to a report by Persian newspaper Forsat Emrooz.

The Producer Price Index (PPI) increased by 15.3 percent by the end of Bahman (11th month of the Persian calendar ending February 20th) compared to the same period last year, according to the…

Iran exported $4.2 billion worth of food and agricultural products in the first ten months of the present Iranian calendar year (ending March 20), an official in the Federation of Iranian Food…

The southwestern province of Ardabil produces 6,000 metric tons of honey every year, Mehr news agency quoted a provincial official with agricultural Jihad as saying. According to Dehghan Bagheri,…

Secretary General of Iran-Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and Trade Mozafar Alikhani called for the removal of visa requirements for Iranian and Afghan traders and reduction of…

According to official statistics released by Iran’s Central Task Force to Combat the Smuggling of Goods and Currency, $20-25 billion worth of contraband is annually smuggled into and out of…

A joint council was established on Thursday between the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture of Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan Province, and its counterpart in…

The volume of exports and imports from the 11 major commercial ports in the country has exceeded 140 million metric tons since the beginning of current Iranian year (ending March 20), IRNA quoted…

The agriculture sector accounts for 90 percent of the country’s total water consumption, IRNA quoted deputy manager of Iran Water Resources Management Company, Jahngir Habibi as saying. He added…

The export of tiles and ceramics generates $500 million in revenues per annum, IRNA quoted Mojtaba Shirali, a member of Tiles and Ceramics Producers’ Council as saying on Tuesday.

The ban on the import of fertilized chicken eggs and day-old chicks from France has been lifted, Jamaledin Javidi, an official in Iran Veterinary Organization (IVO) told Mehr news agency on…

The number of passengers on international flight entering Iranian airports rose by 23% in the first ten months of the current year compared with the similar period last year, managing-director of…

The policy of distributing cash subsidies among citizens was wrong in the first place, First Vice-President, Es’haq Jahangiri, said on Tuesday.

The parliament on Tuesday decided to allocate $300 million from the National Development Fund of Iran (NDFI) to support knowledge-based companies.

The decision is in line with the…

Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare, Ali Rabie on Wednesday called for the development of the cooperative sector in line with the policies of “resistance economy”, noting that…

Deputy minister of cooperatives, labor and social affairs, Kourosh Parand on Tuesday called on the private sector and entrepreneurs to invest in developing career-oriented education and micro and…