Domestic Economy

The Plan and Budget Organization has allocated 150 billion rials ($880,000) to the Forests, Ranges and Watershed Management Organization to help battle wildfires across the country as the…

Coronavirus bailout loans will ultimately increase money supply but that’s the lesser evil when it comes to making a choice between inflation and recession.

After a short uplift following the reopening of border crossings, transit between Iran and Georgia has been suspended again, this time for unknown reasons. 

More than 4,000 schools will be inspected in summer to evaluate the seismic safety of their buildings, according to Farnam Khojastehfar, an official with the Central Taskforce of Technical…

The Statistical Center of Iran will introduce a new base year, i.e. fiscal 2021-22, for comparison in the measure of economic indexes, Asadollah Rezaei, a researcher with the center, says.…

The outbreak of coronavirus has inflicted over 17,000 billion rials ($98.26 million) in losses on businesses in the ornamental plant and flower sector, the director general of Greenhouses,…

Nearly half a million accounts were sold since the start of online screening of Iranian movies on April 12 over a period of one month. 

The Cabinet has amended the regulation based on which rice cultivation was to be restricted to the two northern provinces of Gilan and Mazandaran.  As per the new regulation, Khuzestan…

A regulation that mandates standards for honey production will come into effect in the current Iranian year (started March 20), in collaboration with the Institute of Standards and Industrial…

The Food and Agriculture Organization has delivered the first batch of its technical assistance to Iran’s Plant Protection Organization to help the country battle the invasion of desert locusts…

The Statistical Center of Iran has released a new report, reviewing price changes in food products during the month ending May 20.   Fifteen out of 24 food items examined by SCI…

The so-called “Starting Business Single Window” was launched on Saturday, in the presence of government and private sector officials, including Economy Minister Farhad Dejpasand, the heads of…

The Social Security Organization, Iran's biggest pension fund, was hit particularly hard by the coronavirus pandemic because on the one hand, a majority of its members work in virus-hit…

A traditional Population and Housing Census in 2021-22, held with numerous enumerators collecting field data would cost an estimated 4,200 billion rials ($24.27 million), whereas the register-…

Iran’s trade with Turkey totaled $719.53 million during January-April 2020 to register a decrease of about 75% compared with the corresponding months of 2019, data released by Turkish…

Mobarakeh Steel Company sold 391.44 trillion rials ($2.23 billion) worth of steel in the last fiscal year that ended on March 19, 2020, marking the highest among all Iranian steelmakers,…

About 12,000 tons of rice have been imported into Iran via Bushehr Port from India, Mohammad Shakibi-Nasab, an official with the Bushehr Ports and Maritimes Organization, said on Wednesday.…

Administrative and Recruitment Affairs Organization has issued a new directive on working hours for government offices in line with the guidelines of the National Headquarters to Fight…

Iran’s northern province of Mazandaran exported 853,000 tons of day-old chickens to Afghanistan during the month ending May 20. According to Director General of Mazandaran Veterinary Department…

The construction of Iran’s largest greenhouse complex has been launched on 100 hectares in North Khorasan Province’s Shirvan County. A ceremony was held on Tuesday attended by Agriculture…

The Purchasing Managers' Index for Iran's housing sector fell to its lowest level in the month ending April 19 since the release of PMI reports began in the fiscal month ending Oct. 22, 2019.…

Iran exported 679,510 tons of agricultural and food products worth about $336 million during the month to April 19 to register a 25.85% rise in tonnage and a 9.13% decline in value compared with…

The average Consumer Price Index of tobacco in the 12-month period ending May 20, which marks the end of the second Iranian month, grew by 18.7% compared with the corresponding period of the…

The Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran issued non-compliance licenses for 128 non-standard import shipments and returned them to the country of origin in the last Iranian…

Some 228,000 tons of commodities worth $271 million were exported via Tamarchin border crossing, located in Piranshahr County in West Azarbaijan Province, during the two months to May 20 to…