Domestic Economy

Seven provinces, namely Markazi Province (6.7%), West Azarbaijan (7.5%), Hamedan (8%), Semnan (8.1%), Zanjan (8.2%), North Khorasan (9.7%) and Gilan (9.9%), registered single-digit unemployment…

Iran’s Economy Minister Ali Tayyebnia left Tehran for Brasilia on Tuesday to attend a meeting of Brazil-Iran Economic Commission after a gap of two decades. He is also scheduled to meet Brazilian…

Financial Tribune’s parent company Donya-e-Eqtesad Media Group, and China’s Guangzhou Daily Group signed a memorandum of understanding on Monday in Tehran, allowing each side access to the other’s…

As much as it sounds flashy, it is real. Germany is willing to connect with Iran in achieving the marriage of technology and industry, otherwise known as “Industry 4.0” or the fourth industrial…

The Tourism Holding Company has received proposals from renowned international groups to build 30 hotels in Iran.

Close to 1.7 million tons of non-oil goods valued at $670 million were exported to Japan during the seven months ending October 21. The export value stood at a meager $23 million in last year’s…

Iranian firms manufactured more than 111,000 tons of tires and inner tubes during the first half of the current Iranian year (started March 20), which indicates a 14% rise over last year’s…

Iran-Iraq border crossings of Mehran in western Ilam Province and Shalamcheh in southwestern Khuzestan Province will be closed to cargo transportation from November 14 to 21, as the number of…

Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi met with his Chinese counterpart, Li Xiaopeng, in Beijing on Monday to discuss avenues of expanding cooperation in the transportation…

Some 230,000 tons of walnuts worth around $1.65 billion are produced in Iran every year from 153,000 hectares designated for the cultivation of the nut, an official with the Agriculture Ministry…

Iran is making the case for joining WTO’s Trade Facilitation Agreement that offers the same advantages as membership of World Trade Organization, with the additional benefit of taking a shorter…

In January, senior diplomats from across the world formally announced the lifting of sanctions against Iran. In principle, this put a definitive end to 37 years of various degrees of sanctions…

Iran exported 5.1 million tons of non-oil goods worth $1.6 billion to India during the seven months to October 21, registering a 3% increase in value over last year’s corresponding period. Gas…

Majlis Research Center has called for a pushback in the retirement age in Iran, which is lower than that in many other countries.

The average age of retirement in Iran stood at 49.9 years…

With the majority of its nuclear-related economic sanctions lifted, companies around the world are making a beeline for Iran, which is music to the ears of global engineering, procurement and…

Census field officers have collected data from nearly 17.5 million or 70% of all Iranian households since the beginning of the door-to-door phase of the eighth National Population and Housing…

Low crude prices severely restricted government revenues that fell far short of expectations in the first half of this year, raising alarms about the future growth in the economy of OPEC's No.3…

Iran exported more than 5,000 tons of non-oil goods worth $15 million to France during the seven months to October 21, registering a %52 jump in value compared with the similar period of a year…

Rice imports are banned in Iran every year from late June to late November to support local farmers and domestic production, Minister of Agriculture Mahmoud Hojjati said.

The Sixth International Exhibition of Agricultural, Organic, Health and Natural Products Technology, otherwise known as “Iran Agro Tech 2016”, is scheduled to be held at Tehran’s International…

Kish Airlines’ second medium-range Airbus 321 aircraft was delivered on Thursday, citing the carrier’s public relations. Kish Airlines’ first twin-engine narrow-body A321 was delivered about a…

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Each Iranian household earned over 9.49 million rials ($259 at market exchange rate) on average from selling secondhand belongings in the last Iranian year (March 2015-16), which indicates a 10.9…

There was a fall in the number of international flights passing through Iran’s airspace over the past month, according to CEO of Iran Airports Company, Rahmatollah Mahabadi. “The number of the…

Exports of farmed caviar are estimated to reach 1,000 kilograms by the end of the current Iranian year (started March 20), the head of Iran Fisheries Organization, Hassan Salehi, said.

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