Smuggling in Iran

The managing director of Iran’s Confiscated Assets Organization says his organization has not sold impounded cars to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Amin Daliri said as per law, his…

Trading in animals and birds is lucrative for smugglers across the world and Iran is no exception.

The Center for Tobacco Planning and Supervision has listed the names of contraband cigarette brands in the Iranian market.

Chairman of the center, Asghar Ramzi, said Marlboro, Royal Five,…

Iranian authorities have made new decisions with regard to import regulations for curbing rampant smuggling of clothes into the country.

According to the Headquarters to Combat Smuggling of…

A spokesman for the Anti-Smuggling Headquarters says the long awaited national scheme to curb the huge and growing market for smuggled smartphones will be launched in June.

Smuggling has had a downtrend since Hassan Rouhani took office as Iran’s president in August 2013.

About 80,000 tons of tea are brought into Iran every year, 30,000 tons of which are contraband, the head of Iran Tea Organization said.

Some $12-13 billion worth of goods are estimated to have been smuggled into the country over the past Iranian year (March 2016-17) down from $15.5 billion compared to the previous year,…

The High Council of Free Zones has given the nod to the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration to exercise customs controls and collect duties at ports of entry of free trade zones.…

The rate of smuggling is expected to decline by 20% from last year’s $15.5 billion and reach $12-13 billion this year, the spokesman of Headquarters for Combating Smuggling of Commodities and…

Two trillion rials (about $54.5 million) worth of contraband were confiscated by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration during the 11 months to February 18, registering a 56% rise…

Each year 12.5 million cell phones are brought into Iran illegally depriving  government coffers $350 million in tax revenues, says a business official.

In an operation carried out by the Intelligence Ministry on the outskirts of Tehran, seven containers of apparel, textile and accessories worth about 10 billion rials ($2.6 million) were…

During the first ten months of the current year that ends in March, anti-narcotics police managed to dismantle 26 drug smuggling bands in the northwestern Ardebil Province, said Colonel Mohammad…

Some 300 billion rials ($7.5 million at market exchange rate) worth of contraband, including mini-computers, professional cameras and powerful servers, have been confiscated in Tehran.

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More than 1,430 tons of chewing gum worth over 69 billion rials (close to $1.71 million at market exchange rate) were imported during the seven months to October 21, according to figures released…

The confiscation of contraband medicine and cigarettes registered a fourfold and threefold rise respectively in the eight months to November 20, compared with the corresponding period of last…

More than 52 trillion rials (over $1.36 billion at market exchange rate) of contraband goods were confiscated during the five months to August 21.

The confiscations were seven times as much…

Twelve smuggled cars confiscated in Fars Province in the last Iranian year (ended March 19, 2016) will be exported to other countries, said the director general of the southern Iranian province’s…

A department tasked with combating smuggling in cyberspace will be launched in cooperation with the Ministry of Intelligence and Cyber Police of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Habibollah Haqiqi,…

Smuggling will see a sharp decline and reach $6 billion by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2017).

Trade between Oman and Iran dates back millennia, according to Marc Valeri, a political scientist and expert on Persian Gulf countries.

Some 70 trillion rials (more than $1.96 billion at market exchange rates) worth of contraband have been confiscated in the first half of the current Iranian year (started March 20), according to…

According to figures released by the Anti-Smuggling Organization, apparel tops the list of goods smuggled into Iran. The Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration says imports of clothes…

Tehran police confiscated two containers of contraband carrying foreign clothes, bags and stationery worth 11.5 billion rials ($325,779) over the weekend, IRNA reported. According to Iran’s Anti…