Carmaker Volkswagen AG rejected on Thursday a report suggesting it had decided against doing business in Iran after coming under pressure from Donald Trump’s ambassador to Germany, saying its position on the country had not changed. U.S. sanctions against Iran, introduced by President Trump after his decision to pull the United States out of the […]

 Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said Iran will definitely veto any decision which threatens its interests. The minister made the remarks in an interview in his office with reporters from S&P Global Platts and Bloomberg News on Thursday. Speaking to Bloomberg, Zanganeh warned that some oil producers are trying to create an alternative suppliers’ […]

 Iran’s exports of minerals rose 15 percent in the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-August 21) compared to the same period last year. The value of exported minerals stood at about $5 billion in the mentioned time span, IRNA reported quoting Jafar Sarqini, deputy industry, mining and trade minister as […]

 Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE)’s main index (TEDPIX) gained 3,058.12 points or 1.97% on Saturday to end trading at 158,119.2. About 4.16 billion shares valued at $120.88 million changed hands at TSE for the day. The index added 3,000 points to reach 158,000. On the same day, IFX, the main index of Iran’s over-the-counter (OTC) market, […]

The Iranian National Tax Administration collected 366 trillion rials (about $8.57 billion) in tax during the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-July 22, 2018), up 10 percent year on year. According to the administration’s head, Seyed Kamel Taqavinejad, more than 190 trillion rials (over $4.5 billion) was collected as direct […]

 Iran is expected to export $1.5 billion worth of medical herbs each year by March 2021, Irannewsdaily Rported quoting an official with the Ministry of Agriculture. Hossein Zeynali, the ministry’s medical plants project manager, said exports of medical herbs stood at $450 million last [Iranian calendar] year (which ended on March 20). “Some $150 million […]

 Iran exported over 3.107 million tons of steel products during the five-month period from March 21 to July 21, an increase of five percent from the same time span last year. Meanwhile, the country’s nine major steel companies exported 483,510 tons of steel products during the mentioned period, down 24 percent from last year’s figure, […]

 Turkey has proposed establishing a joint bank with Iran for facilitating trade between the two countries, IRNA reported citing an article published in the Turkish newspaper “Dünya”. “Establishing a joint bank through which the two sides could conduct bilateral trade and businesses without the need for U.S. dollar would be the final step for developing […]

The government will start levying taxes on business owners’ transactions processed through point-of-sale devices to combat tax evasion, the head of Iran National Tax Administration announced. “Considering the need to organize POS devices active inside and outside Iran and create a framework for them to prevent tax evasion and reduce dubious bank transactions, a coalition […]

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is grabbing headlines for all the good and bad reasons. U.S. opposition to it is known to all and sundry because of the escalating trade war between Washington and Beijing. Now India has also raised concerns over the ambitious project, asserting that it violates India’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. India raised […]