TEHRAN- Iranian Deputy Industry Minister Mojtaba Khosrotaj and a top official from Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) conferred on developing mutual trade bonds in Tehran, the official website of Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) reported on Wednesday. In this meeting, Khosrotaj, who is also the head of TPO, discussed increasing cooperation on auto industry, manufacturing […]

Although Iran ranks first in the world in terms of natural gas reserves – according to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy, the country holds around 18 percent of total proven natural gas reserves globally-, when it comes to exports, it has a long way to the top of the list of gas exporting […]

TEHRAN- Iran-Georgia business forum and the 6th meeting of the two countries joint economic committee was held in the Georgian capital, the portal of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA) reported on Wednesday. The business forum was reportedly attended by the Iranian Labor Minister Ali Rabiei, Georgian Minister of Economy and Sustainable […]

TEHRAN – An Iranian-German company is going to finance a 100-megawatts solar farm worth $120 million in Iranian central province of Yazd, IRNA reported on Wednesday. According to the managing director of the company this solar farm is part of a 500MW project which is due to be implemented in Iran by the company. The […]

TEHRAN- Carlos Ghosn, the CEO of Renault, announced that his company has a long-term serious plan for presence in the Iranian market. Making the remarks during a press conference in Paris last week on revealing the company’s mid-term plan, the CEO underlined the significance of Iranian market and stressed that Renault will not leave the […]

Rural areas actually have vast potential for economic growth pegged to food production and related sectors, The State of Food and Agriculture 2017 says. And with the majority of the world’s poor and hungry living in these areas, achieving the 2030 development agenda will hinge on unlocking that oft-neglected potential, it adds. Doing so will […]

An Italian asset manager has purchased stakes in an Iranian financial company thus becoming the first foreign fund house to invest in the nation’s financial sector.   The Financial Times reported that Azimut, a €48-billion group headquartered in Milan, had acquired 20 percent of Mofid Entekhab, an Iranian asset manager, for an undisclosed sum. “We were looking […]

TEHRAN- Transit of goods via Iran rose 27 percent during the first six months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-September 22) compared to the same period of time in the past year, according to a transport official. Reza Nafisi, director general of Transit and International Transportation Department in Iran Road Maintenance & Transportation […]

TEHRAN – Central Bank of Iran (CBI) and Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Trade and Development Bank signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on bilateral cooperation on Monday. the MOU was signed by ECO bank’s Vice President Burhanettin Aktas and Hossein Yaqoubi, the director general of CBI’s International Affairs Department, in Ankara. The MOU specifies the […]

Iraq’s central government has launched a probe into the hefty oil revenues of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), further seeking to seize key businesses in the separatist northern region two weeks after the Kurdish leaders held a highly controversial referendum to secede from the Arab country in open defiance of Baghdad. According to a statement […]