The Iranian National Tax Administration has earned 810 trillion rials ($20.9 billion) in tax revenues so far in the current Iranian year (started March 20, 2016), according to its chief Kamel…
Domestic Economy
China is Iran’s biggest trading partner, yet while the trade marked an all-time high in terms of volume, trade value has taken a beating amid the global bear market.
“In 2016, 66.32…
Iran’s seafood export is estimated to reach $400 million this year, which will register a 14% rise compared with last year, according to the head of Iran’s Fisheries Organization.
The…
The field of information and communications technology has created 10% of all the jobs in Iran, the minister of cooperatives, labor and social welfare said.
“This share is expected to reach…
An economic delegation from Sweden headed by the country’s Minister of European Union Affairs and Trade Ann Linde is scheduled to arrive in Tehran on February 11 to survey ways of expanding…
Two-thirds of government expenditures are unnecessary, the parliament speaker said.
“We are short of [financial] resources. Unfortunately, our spending is high and we refuse to admit it,”…
Iran is now producing enough nitrogen fertilizers to meet all the needs of its agriculture sector, the managing director of Agricultural Support Services Company said.
The talk of tariff hikes on paper imports never fails to send shivers down the spine of most consumers, particularly newspapers.
Groups ranging from publishers to newspaper owners to…
French construction company Vinci SA has agreed to develop Mashhad International Airport after representatives of the company visited the Iranian airport and held talks with its officials, the…
A 20-member Indian trade delegation visited Iran from January 28-30 to promote export of rice since Iran is one of the largest importers of Basmati rice from India.
According to Indian…
Cigarette production in Iran is estimated to reach 45 billion in the current Iranian year (ending March 20, 2017), up 50% compared with last year, the head of Tobacco Planning and Supervision…
Malaysia’s Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities Datuk Seri Mah Siew Keong will lead the economic and technical missions on palm oil, timber and rubber products to Iran and India from…
Iran’s working-age population, i.e. people over 10, stood at 65.3 million in the last Iranian year (ended March 19, 2016), registering a 15% increase compared to a decade ago when it was 56.8…
High-tech road cameras are being installed in Iran’s main transit routes for recording the weight of commercial vehicles to fight smuggling, says the Anti-Smuggling Organization’s Spokesman Qasem…
Boeing’s $8 billion deal to sell 80 jets to Iran Air was already in trouble before President Donald Trump took office. Now it’s even more in doubt.
And that could mean trouble for American…
Heading a 25-member delegation, Malaysian Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities Mah Siew Keong is scheduled to arrive in Tehran on Sunday to survey avenues of expanding bilateral ties…
Two hundred and fifteen cooperatives and two guild unions were registered during the Iranian month ending January 19.
These newly-founded cooperatives, most of which are active in the…
Iran is planning to lay 9,134 kilometers of railroads, a deputy minister of roads and urban development said.
Kheirollah Khademi added that track-laying of more than 3,500 kilometers of…
An aggregate of 15.86 trillion rials (about $396.5 million) have been invested in Aras Free Trade-Industrial Zone over the past three years, the managing director of FTZ SAID. Mohsen Khadem Arab-…
A 20-member Iranian delegation comprising representatives of Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture attended a joint business forum with their Danish counterparts in…
A paper recently authored by economists Roman J. Zytek and Mohammad Reza Farzin has reviewed the experience of Iran’s Targeted Subsidies Reform. The study addresses several criticisms of the key…
Iran’s GDP is projected to grow by 6.2%, as inflation is expected to average 9.8% in the next Iranian year (March 2017-18), according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance's estimates…
Iran has been pursuing trade promotion in the Commonwealth of Independent States countries for achieving economic cohesion with the region, director of planning at Iran’s Trade Promotion…
The goods and services Consumer Price Index for rural areas in the 12-month period ending January 19, which marks the end of the Iranian month of Dey, reached 7.1% compared with last year’s…
Iran exported around €523 million worth of goods to Italy over the seven months to July 30, 2016, registering a 95% hike compared with the corresponding period of the year before.
