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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.

Mine minister says Iran to break gold production record 16 Sep 2018

Mine minister says Iran to break gold production record

Iranian Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Mohammad Shariatmadari says that Iran will break its own records with producing 10 tons of gold in the current Iranian calendar year of 1397. Iranian Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Mohammad Shariatmadari said Sat. that Iran has recently registered an annual production of 90 million tons of […]

U.S. may waive sanctions for Indian-built Iranian port linking to Afghanistan 15 Sep 2018

U.S. may waive sanctions for Indian-built Iranian port linking to Afghanistan

The U.S. is reportedly considering granting a waiver to the Iranian port of Chabahar that would permit trade there despite the return of U.S. sanctions against trading with Iran. Chabahar is Iran’s southernmost city, its only deep-water port and the anchor of the Chabahar-Hajigak corridor, a road and rail connection between the Indian Ocean and […]

OPEC puts Iran’s Aug. oil output at 3.584m bpd 15 Sep 2018

OPEC puts Iran’s Aug. oil output at 3.584m bpd

Iran produced 3.584 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil in August, a 150,000 bpd decrease from 3.734 million bpd in July, according to OPEC’s latest monthly report published on September 12 citing secondary sources. The OPEC’s report also put Iran’s oil output based on direct communication at 3.806 million bpd, unchanged compared to July. […]

€3.2b paid for importing basic goods 15 Sep 2018

€3.2b paid for importing basic goods

The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has paid €3.2 billion to import basic goods during the past month, according to the central bank governor. “In the past month, 1.8 billion euro has been paid for importing basic goods including oil, meat, rice, medical equipment, etc., while 1.4 billion euro has been supplied by the domestic […]

Ex-governor of CBI appointed as presidential advisor 15 Sep 2018

Ex-governor of CBI appointed as presidential advisor

 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani appointed the ex-governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), Valiollah Seif, as his special advisor for monetary and banking affairs. Despite the critics repeatedly lashed out at Seif for his policies, in particular those about foreign currency market during his office at CBI, Rouhani selected him as his advisor in […]

Trump’s sanctions on Iran could push oil prices above $100 per barrel 12 Sep 2018

Trump’s sanctions on Iran could push oil prices above $100 per barrel

 US sanctions on Iran’s energy industry, when they come into effect in November, could potentially drive oil prices above $100 per barrel, according to an industry expert. US West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures traded at about $68 per barrel on Tuesday, while Brent crude futures sat at nearly $78, CNBC reported. “If there was […]

Iran issues tender to buy 30,000 tons rice from India 12 Sep 2018

Iran issues tender to buy 30,000 tons rice from India

Iran’s state grains buyer Governmental Trading Corporation (GTC) has issued an international tender to buy 30,000 tons of rice to be sourced from India, European traders said on Monday. The tender closes on October 9. The sella grade rice of type 1121 is sought in two 15,000 ton consignments for shipment in containers between October […]

Iran’s 4-month oil revenue up over 60% yr/yr 12 Sep 2018

Iran’s 4-month oil revenue up over 60% yr/yr

 Iran’s revenues from crude oil and oil products exports reached 419 trillion rials (about $9.98 billion) in the first four months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-July 22, 2018) up 60.7 percent compared to its preceding year’s same period. The country’s crude oil sales reached 348.9 trillion rials (about $8.3 billion) in the […]

Development projects worth $16.6m launched at Mehrabad Intl. Airport 12 Sep 2018

Development projects worth $16.6m launched at Mehrabad Intl. Airport

Seven development projects worth 700 billion rials (about $16.6 million) were launched at Tehran’s Mehrabad International Airport, according to the director general of the airport. Mir-Saeed Safinia said the projects have been handed over to the contractors and are scheduled to be completed within 18 months, IRIB reported on Tuesday. He mentioned conducting some improvements […]

New trading codes issuance up 45% since March 12 Sep 2018

New trading codes issuance up 45% since March

 The number of trading codes issued in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) has increased 45 percent since the beginning of current Iranian calendar year (March 21) compared to the same period of time in the previous year, TSE spokesman Hamid Rouhbakhsh told IRIB on Monday. Some 72,000 trading codes have been issued in the TSE since […]