Economy

The construction of the $2.17 billion freeway connecting Tehran to Chalous in the northern Mazandaran Province has made 32% progress, says deputy minister of roads and urban development, Saeed…

Saffron harvest began in Iran mid-October and will peak between late October and early November 5, a member of Iran’s National Saffron Council, Ali Hosseini, said.

Iran exported over 62…

Iran’s non-oil foreign trade during the seven months of the current Iranian year (started March 20) stood at $49.16 billion.

Iran exported over 40,000 tons of pistachios worth $381.64 million during the first half of the current Iranian year (started March 20), the Ministry of Agriculture’s news portal reported. The…

Close to 140,000 tons of fresh tea leaves have been purchased from local farmers by the government since the beginning of the harvest season five months ago, says the head of Iran Tea Organization…

Iranian Mines & Mining Industries Development & Renovation, as a dynamic organization, has successfully overcome the management crisis and dealt appropriately with the decline in global…

On Monday morning, the Iranian Privatization Organization hosted a delegation of Czech economists headed by Professor Petr Drulak alongside Czech Ambassador in Tehran Svatopluk Cumba.

The Geological Survey of Finland, also known by its Finnish acronym GTK, and the Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization signed a memorandum of understanding in…

A senior financial regulator said on Tuesday South Korea will support the development of Iran’s capital markets, citing ongoing financial cooperation between the two countries.

Tehran Stock Exchange’s main index, TEDPIX, gained 240 points or 0.31% to end Tuesday trade at 78,808.8.    

More than 786 million shares valued at $86.7 million changed…

An international workshop on intellectual property was held at the University of Tehran’s Science and Technology Park earlier this week with local and international experts in attendance.

Iran has devised a system that automatically filters offensive websites and “cleans” the Internet of indecent content, said Iran’s Communications and Information Technology Minister Mahmoud Vaezi…

Iran’s vice president for science and technology, Sorena Sattari, is leading a delegation of Iranian business owners to China at the invitation of the president of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bai…

Some 60% of citizens of the Iranian capital lost access to the Internet due to a major malfunction in the city’s telecoms infrastructure late in the evening on October 24.

Iran exported about 7.2 million tons of non-oil goods worth $3 billion to Iraq during the first half of the current Iranian fiscal year (started March 20), registering a 3.3% decline in value…

First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri and Malaysia’s Minister of Foreign Trade Mustafa Muhammad met in Tehran to discuss ways to remove banking obstacles existing due to the residual US economic…

Bank Melli Iran is planning to turn its branches in Germany and Iraq into bank subsidiaries, aiming to enhance performances of the branches in the two countries. BMI currently has subsidiaries in…

Since 2008, when the upheaval of the financial crisis descended on global markets, the International Monetary fund, among other global institutions, scrambled to help governments avert a more…

Tehran Stock Exchange’s main index, TEDPIX, gained 198.50 points or 0.25% to end Monday trade at 78,568.8.

More than 795 million shares valued at $55.6 million changed hands for the day.…

Half-year corporate earnings reports are coming out. Twenty-four companies listed on Tehran Stock Exchange and Iran Fara Bourse released their half-year financial statements on Monday, covering…

A group of 35 Belgian businessmen visited the Tehran Stock Exchange on Sunday. The group toured the trading floor on Hafez Street and was briefed on Iran’s capital market structure, tools and…

The government sold only 41.4% of the bonds it offered in the first five months of the current Iranian year (started March 20).

The IRNA report showed Iran’s small money market overflowed…

Close to 580 kilograms of caviar worth around $1.39 million were exported to 12 countries during the first half of the current Iranian year (started March 20), registering an 18.5% decline in…

Efforts to utilize Iran’s transportation capacities are gaining momentum, with multilateral meetings with Europe, Turkey and CIS states held in Tehran in recent days focusing on transit…

Formal talks for visa-free travel between Iran and Russia will begin as early as next year, says Iran’s Ambassador to Russia Mehdi Sanaei.

In a long post on his personal channel on the…