Domestic Economy

The share of women in managerial roles at all levels has increased from 13.7% in the Iranian year ending March 2018 to 18.6% in the current year (March 2019-20), Iran’s Vice President for Women…

Will the US-China trade war grow to affect Iran’s economy? Experts present two diverse perspectives on this escalating tension and its impact on Iran’s economy.

Payam International Airport, located in the city of Karaj, 35 km from Tehran, is scheduled to operate a passenger flight on Sept. 9, leaving Karaj for Mashhad in the northeastern Khorasan Razavi…

Iran's exports to Oman have increased fivefold over the past six years, the head of Iran-Oman Chamber of Commerce said. Mohsen Zarrabi made the statement during a meeting of Omani Ambassador to…

Currently, only 10% of the capacity of Chabahar Port are being utilized, the deputy industries minister for commercial affairs said.

The Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare will initiate the identification of households belonging to the top three high-income deciles as of Sept. 23 to eliminate them from the…

National Iranian Copper Industries Company sold 84.6 trillion rials ($745 million) worth of products in the first five months of the Iranian year (March 21-Aug. 22), according to the managing…

Majid Reza Hariri has been elected new chairman of Iran-China Chamber of Commerce.  Hariri had earlier served as vice chairman of the chamber, Mehr News Agency reported.

Tax revenues have risen by 45% in the first five months of the current fiscal year (started March 21) compared with the same period of last year, according to the director of Iranian National…

Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture is planning to launch a business school.  This will be Iran’s first business school in its conventional, standard and academic…

Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has authorized the government to withdraw funds needed to complete the railroad project connecting the southeastern port city of…

The new approach adopted by Iranian and Emirati authorities toward deescalating tensions and protecting regional security could help improve trade between the two neighboring countries in the…

Iran’s Gini Index was at 0.4093 in the last fiscal year (March 2018-19), indicating that the gap between the rich and the poor increased by 0.0112 points or 2.8% compared with the year before (…

A total of 213 domestically-made rolling stock worth 36,625 billion rials ($322 million) joined Iran's railroad network during a ceremony attended by Roads Minister Mohammad Eslami and the head…

More than 61.36 million tons of commodities were loaded and unloaded in Iran’s 21 commercial ports during the first five months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Aug. 22) to register a 2.36…

Recent studies by the National Elites Foundation reveal a significant downtrend in the emigration of Iranian university entrance exam (locally known as concours after the French word meaning…

Seven mining and mineral projects are ready to be inaugurated in the provinces of Kerman, Zanjan, South Khorasan and Isfahan, the chairman of Iranian Mines & Mining Industries Development…

Iran's overall non-oil foreign trade (except crude oil, mazut, kerosene and exports via suitcase trade) during the first five months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Aug. 22) stood at $35.…

Afghanistan has exported its first consignment of perishable goods to India through Iran’s Chabahar Port, ILNA quoted Behrouz Aqaei, director general of Ports and Maritime Organization of Sistan…

Iran is home to 217,138 registered cooperatives as of Aug. 6, of which 93,306 or 43% are active, according to a report by the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare's Statistics and…

Iran's box office earnings in the five months ending Aug. 22 stood at 1.66 trillion rials ($14.5 million) to register an increase of 347.99 billion rials ($3 million) or 26% compared with last…

The Statistical Center of Iran has released a report reviewing changes in Producer Price Index during the first quarter of the current Iranian year (March 21 to June 21).

The Securities and Exchange Organization has given the go-ahead to the High Council of Free Zones to issue 3,000 billion rials ($26.2 million) worth of sukuk (Islamic debt securities) to finance…

An average increase of 15% has been levied on Iran's freeway tolls, Secretary of Freeway Investor Companies’ Workgroup Khodayar Khashe’ announced. Noting that freeway tolls in Iran amount to…

Oil revenues are generated from selling the country’s capital assets and should be spent on augmenting capital assets, such as development projects, the head of Plan and Budget Organization,…