TEHRAN (Iran News) According to a statement from TCCIMA’s public relations office, the meeting focused on fostering constructive dialogue and exploring potential areas for collaboration. Mahmoud Najafi-Arab, President of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce, highlighted the history of positive economic and investment ties between the two countries. However, he acknowledged that due to international sanctions, Japanese companies have exercised increased caution in their dealings with Iran, resulting in a decline in economic engagement in recent years.

Najafi-Arab stressed that the current conditions are not permanent and urged Japanese companies to establish their presence in Iran’s market early on. He proposed that continuous engagement between TCCIMA and JETRO’s Tehran office could help identify mutual economic opportunities. He also expressed TCCIMA’s readiness to sign a formal cooperation agreement with JETRO, pointing to promising fields for collaboration such as pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, automotive industries, education, and startups. He further suggested initiating formal communication between TCCIMA and the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Fereydoun Verdinejad, Secretary-General of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce, also voiced the Chamber’s commitment to strengthening ties with JETRO. He emphasized the need for mechanisms to facilitate information exchange between Iranian and Japanese companies and economic actors. Verdinejad added that TCCIMA could serve as a platform for transferring Japanese technical and managerial knowledge to the Iranian business community.

Nobutaka Makawa, Executive Vice President of JETRO, welcomed the proposal to sign a cooperation agreement and stressed the importance of carefully reviewing its terms. He expressed satisfaction with the Tehran Chamber’s proactive approach and affirmed JETRO’s intent to deepen its cooperation with TCCIMA as part of broader efforts to expand Japan-Iran economic interactions.

The meeting concluded on a positive and constructive note, with both sides agreeing to continue consultations aimed at identifying and pursuing joint economic opportunities.

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In the meeting, Mr. Aikawa said that it was his first visit to Kerman Province and thanked for great hospitality of the province, adding that his visit was aimed at studying the condition of foreign nationals and immigrants living in Kerman Province.

He added that over 1000 hygienic packages were to be distributed among the immigrants, and thanked officials of the province for cooperation for implementation of their program.

Aikawa went on to say that Japan is to have some programs in three drought provinces of Iran in collaboration with the international organizations, noting that to support the health of Iranian people, Japan donates 3 MRI machines that two of them will be donated to the towns of Kahnouj and Bam in Kerman Province.

He announced readiness to cooperate and support Afghan refugees in Iran who have problems and to this end, the embassy donates one ambulance adding that Japan had good cooperation with Iran during quake in the town of Bam and it had good cooperation in reconstruction of the town.

Aikawa further said people of Japan and Iran especially people of Kerman Province have many similarities but there is no drought in Japan and to this end, Japan is ready to help Kerman Province to fight against the drought.

He said that he saw a Chinese group of tourists in the hotel and reiterated that he would work for the presence of Japanese tourists in Kerman.  He noted that he would try to correct travel information to Kerman Province and called on Iran government to give Japan the information about the security in order to clear misunderstandings.

He said that during his stay in the province he was to visit Bam Citadel and Shahzadeh Garden of Mahan and would study the condition of the sites and security of them and will report it to his government to prepare the ground for the presence of Japanese tourists and expressed hope soon Japanese tourists would visit Kerman Province.

Aikawa went on to say that although Iran is under sanctions, some of Japanese companies are active in Iran and expressed hope the talks on renewal of the JCPOA would end successfully and the trade relation between Tehran and Tokyo would be restored. He reiterated that Japan has experienced many earthquakes and Iranian people and people of Kerman have had good cooperation in aiding japan.

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Forouzan said that in line with reaching the top of the ranking  in the region in terms of economy, reinforcing commercial relations, exports to neighboring countries, support from labor and Iranian capital, and expansion of international trade markets for Iranian goods are of the main goals of the ministry.

He went on to say that major part of Iran’s important economic capacities is 15 neighboring states which has population over 560m and they are very close to 25 countries in the region. He added that countries like China, India and Russia are among these countries and they actually and potentially have a big market for inter-regional trade.

Forouzan stated that existing capacities in the labor, cooperatives and social welfare ministry include petrochemical industry, steel, social services, agro and foodstuff sectors, pharmaceutical, concrete, transportation, cellulose industry and tourism which can be good grounds for increasing forex revenues of the country and boosting economic boom in the country.

He also pointed to the national and international achievements of Martyr Genera Qasem Soleimani in the field of international economy relations and sated that activation of transit route to Syria, Mediterranean Sea and Africa, reinforcing big market of exports of goods and engineering, social and technical services, economic union of Iran, Iraq and Syria, revival of the Silk Road in the West Asia, forming headquarters for promoting economic relations in the region and revival of economy-centered diplomacy have been of major achievements of Martyr Soleimani  for sublime of the position of Islamic-Iran economy.

Forouzan then reminded that removal of executive hurdles, support of exporters’ rights in the target countries and supervising it in the international bodies, using modern methods of active marketing with cooperation of economic enterprises of the ministry as well as attracting foreign investment for participation in the technology and innovation projects and easing provision of effective capital goods in the production are all on the agenda of the ministry.

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 India’s Secretary of Economic Relations in the Ministry of External Affairs T. S. Tirumurti expressed New Delhi’s keenness on launching Chabahar-Zahedan, Khaf-Herat railroads as golden opportunities for trade between India, Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asian countries.

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