Domestic Economy

A forum between Iranian and Macedonian businesspeople was held in Skopje on Thursday. 

The Iranian side was led by Chairman of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and…

Top government officials, managing directors, members of the board of directors, provincial governors, as well as mayors and city councilors of provincial capitals will not receive a pay rise in…

Iran’s commercial exchanges with Pakistan reached $1.3 billion during the last fiscal year (March 2017-18), marking a rise of close to 15% compared to the year before, Iran’s ambassador to…

Iran’s non-oil foreign trade in the first month of the current fiscal year (March 21-April 20) stood at $5.66 billion, indicating a 12% rise compared with last year’s corresponding period.

Payments to the Civil Servants Pension Organization accounted for the biggest part of the government’s expenditure in the first month of the current Iranian year (March 21-April 20). 

The average goods and services Consumer Price Index for urban areas in the 12 months ending April 20, which marks the end of the first Iranian month of Farvardin, increased by 9.2% compared with…

Iran Airports Company registered 33,651 takeoffs and landings during the Iranian month ending March 20, 2018, which shows a 5% decline compared with last year’s corresponding period.

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Drivers from Iran, India, Russia and Azerbaijan will participate in the International North-South Transport Corridor Friendship Motor Rally to help promote the corridor to their respective…

Some 100 trillion rials (over $2.38 billion) worth of confiscated contraband are being kept in warehouses, the fate of which has not been decided, the head of Majlis Industries and Mining…

The northern port and free trade zone of Amirabad, located in Mazandaran Province, will host a forum on marine exports to Caspian Sea littoral states on July 11, the port’s director said on…

In pursuit of the new Iranian year’s national goal, “Support for Iranian Products”, as well as improving the competitiveness of Iranian ports and non-oil exports, the Ports and Maritime…

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed an interim agreement with a validity of four years for the formation of a free trade zone to deal with a limited range of goods between the Eurasian…

Some 5,400 tons of hand-woven Persian carpets worth $424 million were exported from Iran in the last fiscal year (ended March 20, 2018), registering an increase of 18.11% in value compared to…

More than 180,400 hectares of farmland were equipped with modern irrigation systems in the last Iranian year (March 2017-18), the chairman of Modern Irrigation Systems Project undertaken by the…

Less than 1% of the revenues earned from the Subsidy Reform Plan were allocated to the production sector between 2010-11 and 2016-17, according to a report by Majlis Planning and Budget…

Iran traded $1.85 billion worth of non-oil goods with Italy in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2018), which is 9.67% more compared to the year before, making the European country Iran’s…

The government plans to clear over 60% of its debt to the Social Security Organization (500 trillion rials or $12 billion) through a debt swap deal, the deputy minister of cooperatives, labor…

The Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare’s Center of Statistics has published Iran’s provincial share of GDP for the fiscal 2015-16. 

Tehran Province, wherein lies the…

The import tariff for silk thread has increased from 15% last year to 26% in the current fiscal year (started March 21), the head of Sericulture Expansion Center affiliated with the Ministry of…

The number of foreign flights using Iran’s airspace in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2018) increased by 12% compared with the year before, the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development’s…

Iran has been facing acute water scarcity since past many years. 

The effects of warming climate and lower precipitation over the years have exacerbated the problem, but it cannot…

Iran-Iraq Chamber of Commerce plans to send a business delegation to Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan to attend a conference on expansion of trade ties between Iran and the Kurdish region, the chamber…

A total of 695,454 tons of oil and non-oil products were loaded and unloaded in the ports of Qeshm Island located near the Strait of Hormuz during the Iranian month of Farvardin (March 21-April…

A total of 38.34 million tons of iron ore concentrate was produced in Iran in the last fiscal year (ended March 20, 2018), to register an 18% growth compared to the year before.

Iran’s National Business Environment Index has improved in the first quarter of the current fiscal year (March 21-June 21) compared to the previous quarter, according to the results of a country…