Member of Iran’s Council of Saffron Ali Hosseini has warned about the growing trend of smuggling the bulbs of saffron plant into neighboring Afghanistan; saying if the trend continues…
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Between five and seven thousand metric tons of olive oil is smuggled into the country annually, Mehr news agency quoted Nader Jalallat, a member of Iranian Olive Council as saying on Sunday.
According to official statistics released by Iran’s Central Task Force to Combat the Smuggling of Goods and Currency, $20-25 billion worth of contraband is annually smuggled into and out of…
The value of goods smuggled into the country plus that of the fuel that is smuggled out amounts to more than 600 trillion rials (more than 21.8 billion dollars based on official exchange rate)…
During the first nine months of the current year (March 21-December 21), 12 trillion rials (over $342 million at market exchange rate) worth of contraband imported goods were seized, which…
Large amount of textiles smuggled into the country have threatened the domestic textile industry and have become a lucrative business during the past decade, the major beneficiary of which are…