"The priority of the Iranian administration is economic, and we seek to develop economic relations in the region," President Ebrahim Raisi said in a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday evening on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

Production of iron ore concentrate in Iran has risen four percent during the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-August 22), as compared to the same period of time in the past year.

Iranian Industry, Mining, and Trade Ministry approved seven programs for improving the commodity distribution system in the domestic markets in a meeting held on Thursday, IRIB reported.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has tried in recent years to balance its ties with the world and it has tried to focus on relations with independent countries after the West-oriented countries acted insincerely and followed the U.S. policy of imposing unilateral and cruel sanctions on it.

President Seyed Ebrahim Raisi said that Iran and Kazakhstan have diverse and numerous economic capacities to enhance the level of joint interactions and cooperation, adding, "Joint work groups can identify and operate these capacities in the form of strategic relations in different sectors".

Iran’s export of steel products increased 88 percent during the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-August 22), as compared to the same period of time in the past year.

Director-General of Iran's Trade Promotion Organization (TPO)'s Office of Arabian and African Countries says Iran will soon open its trade center in Sulaymaniyah of Iraq.

The deputy managing director of Chabahar Free Zone Organization (CFZO) has said over 51.34 trillion rials (about $1.27 billion) of investment has been attracted in Chabahar Free Trade-Industrial Zone in the previous Iranian calendar year 1399 (ended on March 20), registering 322 percent rise year on year.

Iran is going to open a trade and permanent exhibition center in Sulaymaniyah city of Iraqi Kurdistan in the near future, the director-general of Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization (TPO)’s Office of Arabian and African Countries announced.

Iran’s Transport and Urban Development Minister Rostam Qasemi announced that the first step for the implementation of the one-million housing project will be taken by the next two weeks.