North Korean leader Kim Jong Un capped off his 10th year in power with a speech that made more mention of tractor factories and school uniforms than nuclear weapons or the United States,…

Tehran stocks retreated at the beginning of trading week on Saturday amid a meaningful increase in capital outflow by retail investors.  Toiling near the psychological 1.4 million points…

Secretary of Iran's Private Banks and Credit Institutions Association says the current lending rates are too low, stressing that deposit rates must be at least 3% higher than the inflation rate…

The Industries Ministry and seven banks signed a memorandum of understanding Saturday for a pilot program for a new supply chain finance (SCF) announced by the Central Bank of Iran.   The…

The government plans to sell its excess property via the Iran Mercantile Exchange in the near future, the IME’s deputy for supervisory affairs said.   

A total of $212.05 million worth of commodities weighing 2.09 million tons were exported from Mazandaran Province during the current Iranian year’s first nine months (March 21-Dec. 21), showing…

Bony fish output from Iran’s three northern provinces bordering the Caspian Sea amounted to 1,458 tons from the beginning of the current fishing season in mid-October until Dec. 21, marking an…

The growth in Consumer Price Index in the current Iranian year’s ninth month (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) was the highest (3%) for Hamedan Province compared with the previous month. According to data…

Iranian component manufacturers have faced many problems over the last two years, due to restrictions imposed by sanctions and the coronavirus pandemic.  However, despite these conditions…

The fiscal 2022-23 budget bill, submitted to the Iranian Parliament on Dec. 12, had initially envisioned an increase in retirement age by two years amid mounting challenges troubling the Social…

The Statistical Center of Iran says GDP grew by 4.2% in the second quarter of the current fiscal year (June 22-Sept. 22). Without taking oil production into account, Q2 growth stood at 3.3%,…

Importing water from neighboring states, such as Tajikistan and Afghanistan, is neither logical nor feasible to address the water shortage in drought-stricken regions of the central plateau,…

In the month since OPEC and its allies last met and affirmed plans to keep hiking oil production in January, Dated Brent has risen almost 10%.

The nationwide project to overhaul hydroelectric power plants and improve power output is on track and close to 5,000 megawatts of electricity have been added to the national grid, the head of…

Exports of Bu Ali Sina Petrochemical Company in Mahshahr, Khuzestan Province, are expected to reach $1 billion by the end of the current Iranian year (March 2022), managing director of the…

President Ebrahim Raisi said security and destiny of all human beings are intertwined with each other, stressing that a decent international system is in dire need of rationality, justice and…

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei lauded Martyr General Qasem Soleimani as a “lasting and ever-living reality,” saying his killers will be among the forgotten in the…

A senior diplomat warned that nobody, even the Taliban, should make the dire mistake of trusting the United States.

The Central Bank of Iran has launched a new framework to help finance the supply chain, a senior bank official said.  Mostafa Qamari-Vafa, head of CBI public relations, made the…

 After a sharp decline in check use a month before, check transactions rebounded in the eighth month of the calendar month to Nov.21.  According to data published by the Central Bank…

After gains a week before, Tehran stocks ended the last trading week higher amid noticeable increase in the participation of retail investors.  In choppy trade ending Wednesday, the…

An estimated 470,000 futures contracts worth 19.03 trillion rials ($65.6 million) changed hands at the Iran Mercantile Exchange in the last calendar month ending Dec. 21.  Agriculture…

A total of 1.2 million tons of goods have been exported from Sistan-Baluchestan Province’s border markets since the beginning of the current fiscal year (March 21), registering a 33% growth…

Iran and the 27 member states of the European Union traded €3.38 billion worth of goods from the beginning of 2021 till October end, registering a 5.27% growth compared with last year's…

The Iranian National Tax Administration’s earnings grew by 60% in the three quarters of the current fiscal year (March 21-Dec. 21) compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year, says…