TEHRAN- Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE)’s main index (TEDPIX) gained 3,309 points or 3.5 percent to 98.817 in the tenth Iranian calendar month Dey (December 22, 2017-January 20, 2018), Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday. As reported, 23.515 billion securities worth 57.227 trillion rials (about $1.271 billion) were traded through 1.56 million deals in the stock […]

TEHRAN- Exports of dairy products from Iran increased 30 percent during the first nine months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-December 21, 2017) compared to the same period of time in the past year, according to an agriculture official. Deputy Agriculture Minister Hassan Rokni said the country has exported over 750,000 tons of […]

TEHRAN- Iran exported 84,000 tons of pistachio worth $677 million during the first nine months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-December 21, 2017), IRIB news reported citing the data by Islamic Republic of Iran customs Administration (IRICA). Pistachio was the country’s seventh top non-oil product exported in the mentioned time span. Iran exported […]

TEHRAN- Iran imported 56,076 cars valued at over $1.488 billion during the first nine months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-December 21, 2017),reported on Saturday citing the data by Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA). In last June, the Iranian government shut down the online auto import registration system saying that the […]

TEHRAN – Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development for International Affairs Asghar Fakhriyeh Kashan on Sunday said, “with the allocation of $500 million worth of finance by the Republic of Azerbaijan, construction operation of Rasht-Astara Railway project will go on stream between Iran and Republic of Azerbaijan within the framework of joint venture (JV) […]

TEHRAN – In his meeting with the Norwegian Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran Lars Nordrum on Saturday, Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian revealed the expansion of cooperation between Iran and Norway in the field of renewable energies. Turning to the age-old relationship between Iran and Norway, dating back to 100 years ago, the […]

TEHRAN– Deputy Minister of Agricultural Jihad Hassan Rokni said talks are underway with the Iraqi officials to remove the obstacles ahead of tariff levied on dairy and dairies’ products. Rokni put the export growth of dairies in the nine month of the current Iranian calendar year in 1396 (from March 21 to Dec. 22) at […]

TEHRAN- Iran and Pakistan agreed to revive passenger train service between Iran’s Zahedan in south eastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan and Pakistan’s Quetta in Balochistan till mid-September 2018, IRNA reported on Thursday. During a two-day meeting held to collaborate on Iran-Pakistan railway transportation joint committee at the place of Pakistan Ministry of Railways, the two sides […]

TEHRAN-Iran waived the ban on rice imports for a five-month period starting from Sunday, Tasnim news agency reported on Friday. The waiver was announced to Industry, Mining and Trade Minister Mohammad Shariatmadari in a letter by Agriculture Minister Mahmoud Hojjati on January 14. On December 31, 2017, the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s revenues from crude oil and oil products exports reached 536.8 trillion rials (about $12.128 billion) in the first eight months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-November 21, 2017) up 49 percent compared to its preceding year’s same period. The country’s crude oil sales reached 402.4 trillion rials (about $9.09 billion) […]