Economy

Iranian women’s participation rate in labor force is one of the lowest compared to many other countries and that is to blame for Iran’s overall low participation rates in the world.

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Tehran Stock Exchange’s main index gained 829.12 points or 0.85% to end Monday trade at an all-time high of 98,358.4.

About 1.1 billion shares valued at $79.8 million changed hands at…

The Seventh International Exhibition of Office Furniture is scheduled to be held on Jan. 11-14, 2018, at Tehran’s International Fairground.

The financially embattled Iran Steel Pension Fund plans to merge with the Social Security Organization, a parliamentarian said. Aboulfazl Hassanbeygi added that the merger is expected to take…

Egg prices marked a 9% hike during the week to Dec. 22 compared to the previous week and a 53.7% rise compared with last year’s corresponding week, reaching 126,000-175,000 rials ($3-4.1) for…

More than 1.4 million tons of bitumen worth $368 million were exported from Iran’s southern Hormozgan Province during the first nine months of the current Iranian year (started March 21), the…

Around 56,180 tons of kiwis worth $30 million were exported from Mazandaran Province during the nine months to Dec. 22, the director general of Mazandaran Province’s Customs Bureau said.

Tax revenues collected from Tehran Province stood at 174 trillion rials ($4.14 billion) in the first half of the current year (March 21-Sept. 22, 2017), indicating a 42% rise compared with the…

Around $867 million worth of livestock and poultry products were exported from Iran during the eight months to Nov. 21, registering a 7% increase compared with the similar period of last year,…

According to a recent report released by the Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade, Iran exported $60.47 million worth of services during the six months to Sept. 22, indicating a 13.3%…

Tehran International Permanent Fairground is hosting the third International Exhibition of Hospital Building, Infrastructure, Installation, Equipment and Related Industries, otherwise known as…

A local official in the Iraqi Kurdistan’s Haj Omran district stated that no official decision has been taken to reopen Haj Omran border checkpoint, although Iranian authorities had previously…

Some 530,000 tons of goods worth $512 million were exported from Qazvin Province during the first eight months of the current fiscal year (March 21-Nov. 21, Chairman of Qazvin Industries, Mining…

Iran exported a total of $902 million worth of goods to Iraq through Mehran Border Crossing in the first nine months of the current fiscal year (started March 21).

Alternative Fuels Association, a local NGO, has introduced a CNG tank replacement scheme and will give loans to people who own CNG hybrid vehicles more than 10 years old.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is recalling around 1.8 million heavy duty Ram pickups due to a mechanical problem that could make it possible for a driver to inadvertently shift the truck out of park…

More than 40,000 Housing Saving Accounts have been opened in the third quarter  of the current fiscal year to Dec. 21 to mark a whopping jump of 57.6% compared with the same period of last…

Before the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (the formal name of Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers), international ties of Tose’e Ta’avon Bank were confined to…

A few months into the implementation of a Central Bank of Iran directive that meant changes for the banking system, depositors and markets, the regulator’s deputy for economic affairs has deemed…

As per the directive recently implemented in the banking system, natural persons are only allowed to open a total of six accounts with each bank while none of the accounts can be of the same…

As per the directive notified by the Iranian National Tax Administration, bank accounts with an annual turnover of over 50 billion rials ($1.19 million) are subject to anti-money laundering…

Private sector players and government officials engaged in the steel sector met on Sunday at the Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade to discuss the steel industry’s potential and challenges…

The Iranian coal industry, long underutilized despite its massive potential, is capable of driving the mining sector, boost energy production and create the sorely-needed jobs envisioned in the…

The government has limited the hours during which import order registrations can be made.

Based on the new regulation, importers are required to register their orders online only from 8…

Tehran and Kiev agreed to cooperate on protecting and breeding different plant species.

The agreement took effect in accordance with a directive by Cabinet ministers who authorized the…