Domestic Economy

The Statistics and Economic Analysis Center of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture has measured for the first time the purchasing managers’ index in Iran, under the Farsi…

About 152 tons of saffron worth more than $240 million were exported from Iran during the first eight months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Nov. 21). According to Gholamreza Miri, the…

More than 200 new cooperatives were registered during the Iranian month ending Dec. 21, which shows a 48% decline compared with the corresponding period of last year.

The overall goods and services Consumer Price Index in Iran registered a year-on-year increase of 37.4% in the Iranian calendar month of Azar (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) compared with the similar month of…

Statistics released by the Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade show the domestic production of home appliances has declined. About 296,500 washing machines were produced in Iran during the…

East Azarbaijan Province exported 1.6 million tons of commodities worth $1.19 billion in the first nine months of the current fiscal year (March 21-Dec. 21), registering a 40% and 33% growth in…

Cotton is set to be the first genetically-modified crop authorized for cultivation in Iran.

Fossil fuel subsidies paid by the Iranian government are 21 times more than its direct subsidy payments, Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said last week. 

An increase of 53.9% was registered in the Producer Price Index in the Iranian month of Azar (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) compared with the similar month of last year, the Central Bank of Iran's latest…

Iran’s non-oil foreign trade during the one-month period ending Dec. 21, which marks the end of the Iranian month of Azar, stood at $4.93 billion, indicating a decline of 34.27% compared with…

Iran recorded a trade surplus of $738 million in the nine months ending Dec. 21, 2018, the latest report by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration shows.  Exports, excluding…

Mineral products constituted the largest share of Iran's exports to Turkey during the first eight months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Nov. 21).

Tehran Province earned 260 trillion rials ($2.5 billion) in revenues during the first eight months of the current fiscal year (March 21-Nov. 21), indicating a 12.5% rise compared with the…

The retail price of tomato paste during the month ending Dec. 21 increased by 248.7% compared with the same period of last year.  A kilogram of tomato paste went for 190,137 rials ($1.6)…

Iran's apparel market was worth 267.58 trillion rials ($2.38 billion) in the last fiscal year (ended March 20, 2018).  The figure was announced in a new report released by Tehran Chamber…

Iran's northern Mazandaran Province has exported 90,000 tons of kiwis worth $90 million in the current Iranian year (started March 21), registering a staggering 300% growth year-on-year, an…

Tehran Province has a 20% share from Iran’s total industrial production units, Yadollah Sadeqi, the head of Tehran Industries, Mining and Trade Organization, said. Tehran also accounts for 17.6…

More than 1.46 trillion rials ($13.12 billion) worth of investments are estimated to have been made in the industrial units, for which establishment permits were issued in the first seven months…

Some 120,000 tons of wheat and pulses have been exported to Afghanistan, mainly from India, through Chabahar Port in southern Iran since October 2017 when the first such Indian consignment…

The import ban on secondhand and repaired products has been lifted, provided they are approved by the Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran.

Iran's gross domestic product hit 3,738 trillion rials ($33.38 billion at the exchange rate of 112,000 rials per dollar) during the first half of the current fiscal year (March 21-Sept. 22) to…

A plan is in the making to start a special bus service   between Tehran and Alborz Province to the west, as a solution to help ease commute.

The inflation gap measured by the Statistical Center of Iran between the first income decile (those with the lowest income) and the 10th decile (those with the highest income) increased 0.4% to…

With the opening of the Indian Ports Global Limited's office in Chabahar on Monday, Iran has officially leased the operational control of Shahid Beheshti Port to India.  The Indian company…

No epidemic of the acute avian flu has been reported in Iran since the beginning of the current fiscal year (March 21), an official with Iran’s Veterinary Organization said. Ali-Safar Makan-Ali…