Iran-Finland Joint Chamber of Commerce was officially launched after electing the members of board of directors in the meeting of its founders and in presence of ambassadors of both countries.

Deputy Industry, Mine and Trade Minister and Head of Iran Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) says Iran’s exports have increased by 65 percent in the first four months of the current year comparing to the same period last year.

The chairman of Iran-Syria Joint Chamber of Commerce said that the value of Iran’s export to Syria has risen 36 percent in the first four months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-July 22), as compared to the same period of time in the past year.

Ali Asghar Khaji, the senior advisor to Iran’s foreign minister for political affairs, has held a phone conversation with the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen over the latest developments in the Arab country, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. 

Tea production in Iran has risen 25 percent in the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-August 22), Head of Iran's Tea Organization (ITO) Habib Jahansaz told IRIB.

Iranian Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI) has it on the agenda to conduct over six trillion rials (about $142.8 million) worth of research projects in various upstream areas, including exploration, drilling, production, and enhancing recovery factor of the fields, an official with the institute announced.

Noting that Tokyo is closely following the Vienna talks aimed to revive the 2015 nuclear deal officially called the JCPOA, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi suggested on Sunday that resolution of “very complicated issues” entails “more negotiations”.

West Azarbaijan province, in the northwest of Iran, provided 60 percent of the apples exported from the country in the past Iranian calendar year (ended on March 20), a provincial official announced.

More than a week after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban and the collapse of the Afghan government, Iran outlined its nascent policy toward the new reality in a neighboring country with which Tehran is likely to have difficulty dealing.

Secretary-General of Iran’s Oil Refinery Industry Contractors Association warned overconsumption of gasoline in the country and said if it is not controlled, in ten years Iran will become a fuel-importing country.