Smuggling in Iran
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December 30, 2020 19:28
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March 05,2019Following the latest government crackdown on illegal mobile phone imports, the price of handsets has shot up 20% in the market. “With declining supply, the price of handsets has increased 15-20%... -
February 12,2019Following the launch of the Mobile Registry Scheme in December 2017, close to 250,000 smuggled cellphones have been detected and disconnected from local operators’ networks by mid-June 2018. With... -
January 15,2019Sugar cubes, tomato paste, rice, fish, eggs and many other products categorized by the government as “essential goods”, importers of which get subsidized foreign currency, are now popping up in... -
November 18,2018The policy of subsidizing gasoline is visibly not sustainable nor is it compatible with national interest as it has resulted, among other things, in encouraging border dwellers to smuggle fuel,... -
November 16,2018Bolstered by a steep decline in the value of rial, gasoline and diesel smuggling business has shot up by 50% in underdeveloped Sistan-Baluchestan Province. Close to 20 million liters of gasoline... -
October 10,2018Home appliances topped the list of confiscated commodities in the sixth month of the current Iranian year (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22). According to data released by the Ministry of Industries, Mining... -
October 07,2018Close to 33.15 trillion rials ($245.55 million) worth of contraband goods were confiscated during the five months to Aug. 22, showing a 123% surge compared with the similar period of last year.... -
October 07,2018Iran’s Intelligence Ministry announced on Sunday that its forces in the northwestern province of West Azarbaijan have seized one of the biggest hauls of heroin confiscated in recent years. -
October 06,2018There has never been reliable data on the amount of fuel smuggled out of Iran to neighboring countries during the past few decades, but estimates put the number in the region of 10 million liters... -
September 21,2018A man has been arrested for smuggling $38,000 from Afghanistan to Iran, an Afghan official said on Tuesday. The cash was being carried to the neighboring country in a cement truck, said Jelani... -
September 17,2018The Central Bank of Afghanistan raised concerns about the increasing smuggling of US dollars to neighboring countries, especially Iran, from Afghanistan and warned that this could further impact... -
August 03,2018Iran’s intelligence forces disbanded a criminal ring on Thursday involved in foreign currency and gold smuggling. Coordinated security operations across the northwestern province of West Azarbaijan... -
July 14,2018Thirty-four containers of contraband fuel were confiscated in the southern Hormozgan Province’s Shahid Rajaee Port last week, the director general of Hormozgan Ports and Maritime Organization said... -
June 23,2018Customs officials at Khorasan Razavi Province’s Sarakhs, the northeastern city along the Iran-Turkmenistan border, have seized 2,990 kilograms of copper ingots concealed in two trucks carrying a... -
May 28,2018Cigarette imports fell to zero over the first two months of the current Iranian year (March 21-May 21) compared with the import of 503 million cigarettes year-on-year, Ali Asghar Ramzi, the head of... -
May 13,2018Some 75% of the Iranian chewing gum market is dominated by foreign brands, most of which have been smuggled into the country while only 25% of the market is supplied by domestic brands, the... -
May 08,2018Ninety percent of Iran's imports and transit will be controlled by advanced inspection technology by the Iranian yearend (March 20, 2019), the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs... -
May 05,2018Iranian Tobacco Company has signed a memorandum of understanding with Pishgaman Pakhsh Arman Gostar Company as the representative of Philip Morris International to import and jointly produce... -
April 25,2018Some 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... -
April 18,2018Iran’s official apparel imports in the last Iranian year (March 2017-18) stood at around $59 million, while statistics from the International Trade Center suggests apparel entering the country... -
March 06,2018More than 36.21 trillion rials ($810.38 million) worth of contraband goods were confiscated in Iran during the first 10 months of the current fiscal year (March 21, 2017-Jan. 20), registering a 23.... -
March 04,2018The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, which has been assigned the task of tackling commodity smuggling in the Persian Gulf, will support the administration in the broader war on smuggling, the IRGC... -
March 02,2018Afghan police of counter-narcotic drug department succeeded in preventing the smuggling... -
February 06,2018Contraband accounts for 63% of all cosmetics in the Iranian market, an official with the Headquarters to... -
November 19,2017Incoming passengers are not allowed to bring more than one cellphone and will have to...
