TEHRAN (Iran News) – The value of Iran’s annual seafood exports will reach $600 million by March 2020, indicating a 20-percent growth year-on-year, said the secretary-general of Aquatics’ Production and Trade Union of Iran. Ali-Akbar Khodaei added the figure marks a record in Iran’s annual seafood exports. According to statistics by Iran Fisheries Organization, he […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The head of Iran’s Organ Transplant Management Center said the “cruel” sanctions imposed by the US against the Islamic Republic have negatively affected rare disease patients. Speaking at a meeting with high-ranking Spanish health officials in Madrid, Mehdi Shadnoush presented a report on the situation of patients with rare diseases in […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – A senior energy official announced that Iran’s gasoline export, for now, includes some 25 million to 30 million liters per day as a result of the implementation of the gasoline rationing scheme that recently came back into force. Spokesman of the Iranian Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters’ Union Hamid Hosseini […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Chief Executive of Iran International Exhibitions Company (IIEC) Bahman Hosseinzadeh said that two Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) will be signed between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Uzbekistan. These two MoUs will be inked between the two countries in the fields of customs and standards. He made the remarks on […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran and Turkey are updating the list of items in a preferential trade agreement, known as PTA, they have signed, the Iranian ambassador to Ankara said. Mohammad Farazmand said the initial list of commodities under a preferential trade agreement between Iran and Turkey is not effective anymore, because it needs a […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Exports to Iraq through Mehran’s border terminal, located in the west of Ilam province, amounted to about 1.3 million tons, worth over $800 million during the eight months to November 21. Director-General of Ilam Customs Administration Ruhollah Gholami said Iran’s exports to Iraq through the major gate witnessed a 25% increase […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the country’s next budget bill for the coming fiscal year has been designed to counter US sanctions and that it is not much reliant on oil revenues. “Our budget for the next year, like the current year, will be based on resistance against sanctions; the budget’s […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Dozens of European firms have announced readiness to cooperate with Iranian companies in the petroleum industry within the framework of a European trade mechanism, an Iranian official said on Saturday. Reza Padidar, chairman of the Energy Committee of Tehran Chamber of Commerce, told a news conference in the Iranian capital that […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that the recent turmoil in Iran and the fact that its economy is pressured, is mainly a result of the illegal sanctions the US imposed on the Islamic Republic after unilaterally withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal. “Problems in Iran are very serious, to […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Abdolnasser Hemmati said on Saturday that his country and Oman are enjoying very close political relations which will bring about stronger economic ties, adding that he will have more meetings with Omani officials. “Good political ties between Iran and Oman have paved the […]