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  • 53% Increase in Import of Essential Goods 22 Jun 2025

    53% Increase in Import of Essential Goods

    TEHRAN - The Minister of Economic and Financial Affairs announced a significant rise in the import of essential goods, highlighting a 53% increase over the past week.

Major steel producers’ output rises 18% in 8 months on year 06 Jan 2019

Major steel producers’ output rises 18% in 8 months on year

 Iran’s major steel producers produced 16.64 million tons of crude steel during the eight-month period from March 21 to November 21, 2018, with 18 percent growth from the figure of the same period of time in the past year, IRNA reported on Saturday. These producers produced 14.169 million tons of crude steel during the eight-month […]

Iran’s trade balance turns positive in nine months 05 Jan 2019

Iran’s trade balance turns positive in nine months

Despite US reimposition of sanctions on Iran, trade balance in the country in the nine months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21 – Dec. 21) turned positive. Iranian Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Farhad Dejpasand made the remark in a meeting with Ayatollah Sobhani, a prominent Marja in Iran, and said, “with the coordination made in this […]

Iraq remains Iran’s top non-oil export destination 05 Jan 2019

Iraq remains Iran’s top non-oil export destination

Iran exported 15.485 million tons of non-oil commodities worth $6.929 billion to Iraq during the past nine months (March 21- Dec. 21), keeping the Arab country its top export destination for several consecutive months. According to the data released by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration, the figure accounts for 17.81% of the volume […]

Iran ready to double electricity exports to neighbors 05 Jan 2019

Iran ready to double electricity exports to neighbors

 Iran has the potential to double the current bulk of its electricity exports to neighboring countries, CEO of Tavanir Company said Saturday. CEO of Tavanir Co., in charge of development of electric power generation, said Saturday that the bulk of electricity that Iran currently exports to other countries is too little compared to the generated volume, […]

Iran to build 1,000 MW solar farm in Markazi 05 Jan 2019

Iran to build 1,000 MW solar farm in Markazi

Iran is set to build its largest-ever solar farm with a capacity as much as 1,000 megawatts in Markazi province, central Iran, a senior official said. Saeed Farrokhi, Markazi province’s deputy governor for economic affairs, said the photovoltaic power plant will be constructed over a 2,000-hectares area near the city of Saveh, turning it into […]

‘Banking system reformations on agenda’ 05 Jan 2019

‘Banking system reformations on agenda’

 “The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has neither overlooked nor postponed reformation of banking system during the past recent months,” the central bank’s governor Abdolnasser Hemmati announced underscoring that the bank has always had modification of banking system on its agenda. “During the past three months [since the appointment of Hemmati as CBI governor], all […]

Sistan and Baluchestan power capacity to exceed 2.6 GW by 2021 02 Jan 2019

Sistan and Baluchestan power capacity to exceed 2.6 GW by 2021

 Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said on Tuesday that the electricity generation capacity in Sistan and Baluchestan province is set to reach 2,685 megawatts by March 2021. Noting that the power plants in Sistan and Baluchestan currently generate some 1,340 MW of electricity, Ardakanian said several projects are underway across the southeastern province that are slated […]

150bn Rials worth of credit allocated in Sistan and Baluchestan prov. 02 Jan 2019

150bn Rials worth of credit allocated in Sistan and Baluchestan prov.

Head of Islamic Revolution Mostazafan Foundation Mohammad Saeedikia revealed the allocation of 15 billion rials worth of credit to one of the deprived cities in Sistan and Baluchestan province. He made the above remark in the inaugural ceremony of 800 residential units, special of relief seekers of this province in Qasr-e Qand, and said that […]

India exempts rupee payments for Iran oil from hefty taxes 02 Jan 2019

India exempts rupee payments for Iran oil from hefty taxes

India’s finance ministry has exempted rupee payments made to the National Iranian Oil Co (NIOC) for crude oil imports from a steep withholding tax, according to a government order reviewed by Reuters. The exemption, put in place December 28 but backdated to November 5, will allow Indian refiners to settle about $1.5 billion of outstanding […]

Next year’s budget bill estimates privatization at $1.19b 02 Jan 2019

Next year’s budget bill estimates privatization at $1.19b

 The national budget bill for the next Iranian calendar year 1398, which starts on March 21, 2019, has envisaged transferring 50 trillion rials (about $1.19 billion) worth of state-run shares to the private sector, Mohammadreza Pour-Ebrahimi, the chairman of the Parliament Economic Committee, told IRNA on Tuesday. As previously reported, in its planned budget for […]