Domestic Economy

More than 1 million tons of goods worth $479.24 million were exported from the southern Sistan-Baluchestan Province during the first eight months of the current fiscal year (March 21-Nov. 21) to…

President Hassan Rouhani submitted the budget bill for the fiscal 2019-20 to the parliament on Tuesday. "Improving the livelihoods of the Iranians, stimulating domestic production and boosting…

Major Iranian lead and zinc producers extracted 815,177 tons of ores in the first eight months of the current fiscal year (March 21-Nov. 21), which indicates a 32% rise in production compared…

President Hassan Rouhani is scheduled to submit the budget bill for the next fiscal (March 2019-20) to the Iranian Parliament on Tuesday.  The budget bill was unveiled by the Plan and…

Walnut production from 171,000 hectares of orchards in Iran amounted to 200,000 tons in the current crop year, which is around half the amount of estimated production, an official with the…

Some 295,000 tons of commodities worth more than $200 million were exported from Iran's northern Golestan Province in the first nine months of the current fiscal year (March 21-Dec. 21).

The qanat-based saffron farming system in Iran's northeastern Khorasan Razavi Province’s Gonabad County has been formally designated as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System.

Iran exported 4.58 million tons of agricultural and food products worth $4.57 billion during the first eight months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Nov. 21) to register a 7.9% growth in…

Iran’s bilateral trade with neighboring Turkey totaled $8.25 billion in the first 10 months of 2018 to register a decrease of 10.31% compared with last year’s corresponding period, according to…

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

Plans are underway to establish a barter system to trade Persian hand-woven carpets for other commodities, says Fereshteh Dastpak, the head of Iran National Carpet Center. She noted that major…

Iran’s International Property Rights Index score increased by 0.22 points in 2018 compared with 2017 to stand at 4.74 (out of 10) for 2018.  Iran ranked 91st out of 125 countries under…

Maku Free Trade Zone in northwestern Iran will soon become the country’s major port of entry for importing livestock and meat, as per the preliminary agreement reached by the officials of FTZ…

About 420,000 tons of agricultural products cultivated in greenhouses worth 10 trillion rials ($98 million) are exported from Iran’s central Yazd Province every year.

Around 88.37 million tons of commodities were loaded and unloaded in Iran’s 17 major ports during the first eight months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Nov. 21) to register a 13.3%…

Major Iranian copper producers extracted about 120 million tons of copper ores during the first eight months of the current fiscal year (March 21-Nov. 21), which indicates a 7% growth compared…

Agriculture Minister Mahmoud Hojjati and President of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture Gholamhossein Shafei signed a memorandum of understanding. The deal was signed…

About 99,000 tons of red meat were supplied by Iranian slaughterhouses in the summer of the current fiscal year (June 22-Sept. 22), more than 12,000 tons of which pertained to Tehran Province.…

Iran exported 2.38 million tons of bitumen worth $561 million during the first eight months of the current fiscal year (March 21-Nov. 21) registering a 7.46% decline in tonnage and a 16.15%…

The Iranian flag carrier’s second regional flight with ATR 72-600 aircraft was operated on Thursday, leaving Tabriz International Airport in East Azarbaijan Province for Heydar Aliyev…

The average Export Price Index in Iran (using the fiscal year ending March 2012 as a base year and in rial terms) stood at 240.5 for the second quarter of the current fiscal year (June 22-Sept.…

A total of 3.66 million tons of non-oil goods and about as much oil products were transited via Iran’s ports during the first eight months of the current fiscal year (March 21-Nov. 21), Mohammad…

Iran's major aluminum producers' output stood at an aggregate of 231,031 tons during the first eight months of the current fiscal year (March 21-Nov. 21), which indicates a 3% increase compared…

The Cabinet has given the nod to the privatization of two top Tehran football clubs, Esteghlal and Perspolis, by the Iranian Privatization Organization.  The organization has been tasked…

Fruits traditionally consumed by Iranians on Yalda Night, which coincides with Dec. 21 this year, are aplenty and available at reasonable prices, the head of Fruit and Vegetable Sellers Union…