Domestic Economy

The Producer Price Index for the “agronomy, horticulture and traditional husbandry” group in the four-quarter period to March 19, 2020, which marks the end of last Iranian year, increased by 32.…

A total of 80,072 tons of goods were exported from Milak border terminal in the southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan Province to the neighboring Afghanistan during the first month of the current…

Mirjaveh border crossing in Sistan-Baluchestan Province located on Iran-Pakistan frontier has reopened after an over two-month hiatus, announced Rouhollah Latifi, spokesperson of the Islamic…

Iran is looking to finalize a plan based on which identification documents will be issued for hand-woven Persian carpets by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2021), the head of Iran…

Swarms of desert locusts that have invaded the country since mid-February have caused no damage to farms and orchards so far, thanks to the effective battle carried out by the Plant Protection…

The average Producer Price Index for industrial chicken farms in the fourth quarter of the last Iranian year (Dec. 22, 2019-March 19) decreased by 7% compared with the corresponding quarter of…

The Purchasing Managers’ Index, known by its Farsi acronym Shamekh, for Iran’s overall economy nosedived to its lowest level in the first month of the current fiscal year (March 20-April 19) in…

Earnings from the first-week screening of Ebrahim Hatamikia’s “Exodus” at Tehran’s Milad Tower parking lot’s drive-in cinema hit 708.7 million rials ($4,295) by May 7.  For the first time…

More than 24.27 million Iranians were employed in the last fiscal year (March 2019-20), nearly 430,000 more than the year before. 

Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture plans to hold two courses entitled "Incoterms 2020" and “Foreign Purchase and Order Management” with the aim of improving the skills…

Colza harvest season has begun in the northern Mazandaran Province, one of Iran’s main production hubs of oilseed, IRNA reported on Saturday. The government will purchase each kilogram of colza…

Labor force participation rate—the proportion of the population of ages 15 and above that is economically active either employed or looking for a job—stood at 44.1% in the last Iranian year (…

Iran’s non-oil commercial exchanges with Persian Gulf Arab states, including Iraq, the UAE, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, hit $21.5 billion in the last Iranian…

The government will complete the construction of eight hospitals by the end of President Hassan Rouhani’s tenure in June 2021, which will add 1,286 beds to the number of Iranian hospital beds, a…

The Producer Price Index for the electricity sector in the four-quarter period ending March 19 decreased by 3.96% compared with the same period of the year before, according to data reported by…

Fourteen consignments of pharmaceutical raw materials, lab kits and medical equipment worth €11 million have been imported since March 20 from France, Germany and Spain from northwestern border…

Iran exported 6,500 tons of eggs during the two months to May 20, the president of Tehran's Egg-Laying Chicken Producers Union said. Nasser Nabipour added that 40,000 tons of eggs were exported…

Iran’s business environment deteriorated in winter (Dec. 22, 2019-March 19) on a quarter-on-quarter basis, ending its four-season streak of improvement registered in autumn, Iran Chamber of…

A total of 1,650 tons of raw silk cocoons are estimated to be produced in Iran in the current fiscal year (March 2020-21) to register a 20% increase compared with the year before, according to…

A batch of pharmaceuticals, including antiserum, orthopedic supplies and lab kits, worth €5.17 million entered Iran via West Azarbaijan Province’s Sari Su border market near Maku in recent days…

About 8.1 million tons of goods worth $3.8 billion were exported from Iran to Iraq through the Iraqi Kurdistan Region during the last fiscal year that ended on March 19, according to the…

Mouteh and Zarshouran gold mines produced a total of 1,139 kilograms of gold ingots in the last Iranian year that ended on March 19, 2020.

Iran exported more than 41,000 tons of eggs during the last fiscal year that ended on March 19, 2020.  According to Reza Torkashvand, the head of Producers of Egg-Laying Hens Union, the…

Seventy to 80 reefer containers of bananas have been piled up at Iran's southern ports but the Central Bank of Iran failed to allocate foreign currency needed to start their customs clearance,…

Iran-Armenia trade grew by 3.44% to hit $74.6 million during the first quarter of 2020 compared with the corresponding period of 2019.  Imports from the neighboring country increased 104%…