Domestic Economy

A total of 22.6 billion cigarettes were produced in Iran during the first five months of the current fiscal year (started March 21), registering a41.3% growth compared with the corresponding…

The Statistical Center of Iran has released a report reviewing price changes of food products in the Iranian month ending Sept. 22.  The biggest month-on-month price rise was recorded for…

The Statistical Center of Iran has released a new report, detailing consumer price changes in Iran's 31 provinces for the sixth month of the current Iranian year (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The report…

Iranian miners paid 7.19 trillion rials ($63.4 million) in mining royalties to the government during the first five months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Aug. 22).  The volume…

Iran’s egg exports have ceased for more than a month now, says Nasser Nabipour, chairman of Tehran's Union of Producers of Egg-Laying Chicken’s board of directors.

Can Oman become the new hub for the reexport of Iranian products? The head of Iran-Oman Chamber of Commerce, Mohsen Zarrabi, believes so.  “The two countries’ economic transactions,…

The overall unemployment rate in Iran, the proportion of total jobless population of ages 10 years and above, stood at 10.8% in the first quarter of the current Iranian year (March 21-June 21),…

Iranian steel mills produced a total of 17.18 million tons of crude steel during the first eight months of 2019, which indicate a 6.4% rise compared with the corresponding period of 2018, the…

The Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade's review of 57 products in the industrial, mining, chemical and petrochemical categories in the first five months of the current Iranian year (March…

A joint forum was held between officials and businesspeople of Iran and Syria on Tuesday in Tehran where the two sides surveyed ways of expanding bilateral economic ties. 

The advance in consumer prices slowed noticeably in the five-month period ending Sept. 22, prompting discussions about what led to this change.  

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday a day before the prime minister addressed the…

Iranian parliamentarians agreed in principle to the formation of a commerce ministry with 132 votes in favor and 78 against while eight abstained from voting on Wednesday. 

The construction of Shahid Rajaee Port's new mechanized mineral terminal will allow vessels with a capacity of 150,000 tons to berth there, the deputy head of the Ports and Maritime Organization…

Colza cultivation has begun in Iranian provinces, according to the director of Agriculture Ministry’s “National Oilseed Project”. “Colza seeds, sufficient to cultivate 500,000 hectares of farms…

Iran has the largest area under mineral exploration in the Middle East, the deputy minister of industries, mining and trade said.

Hamid Zadboum has been appointed the new head of the Trade Promotion Organization of Iran by Minister of Industries, Mining and Trade Reza Rahmani. Zadboum has served as Iran’s attaché to…

Eurasian Economic Union’s Business Council and the Iranian Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture have signed a memorandum of cooperation. The MoU was signed on Sept. 25 on the…

Mohammad Reza Ramezani has been appointed the new secretary-general of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture. Gholamhossein Shafei, the chairman of ICCIMA, appointed the…

The monthly goods and services Consumer Price Index growth fell to an 18-month low in the sixth month of the Iranian year (ended Sept. 22), latest data released by the Statistical Center of Iran…

Rising tensions between Tehran and Washington are increasingly affecting Iran's tourism industry.  More and more travelers choose to stay away, being afraid something might happen. But…

The Ports and Maritime Organization of Iran is going to sign a contract with the private sector on Tuesday for the construction of Iran's biggest mechanized mineral terminal at Shahid Rajaee…

Iran's box office earnings during the first half of the current Iranian year (March 21-Aug. 22) stood at 1.78 trillion rials ($15.64 million) to register an increase of 334.4 billion rials ($2.…

Wheat cultivation season has begun and more than 12 million tons of the staple grain are expected to be produced across the country this crop year, the head of the National Wheat Farmers’…

Truck movement from the four border crossings of Chazzabeh and Shalamcheh in Khuzestan Province, Khosravi in Kermanshah Province and Mehran in Ilam Province will be banned from Oct. 9-25,…