The government has decided to appoint Farhad Parvaresh, CEO of the flag carrier Iran Air, as Iran’s new permanent representative to the International Civil Aviation Organization, according to…
Economy
Swiss bank Credit Suisse AG has deployed 20 robots in its offices, some of which are helping employees answer basic compliance questions, the bank's global markets chief executive, Brian Chin,…
A spokesman for the Anti-Smuggling Headquarters says the long awaited national scheme to curb the huge and growing market for smuggled smartphones will be launched in June.
The registration of the 23nd round of the International Exhibition of Electronics, Computer and E-Commerce (Elecomp 2017) has been launched. Elecomp 2017, is a four day event (starts July 21)…
President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday officially launched the production line of Peugeot 2008 and the locally designed IKCO Dena+. Peugeot 2008 is the first car to be produced through the joint…
The First International Conference on Virtual Water was held in Tehran on Monday at the Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture to address the water shortage looming over a…
Bank Maskan has opened more than 163,000 housing savings accounts with an average deposit of 230 million rials ($6130), with the total deposits amounting to 36 trillion rials ($960 million), a…
Two Iranian private banks are to open branches in Munich, the capital of the German state of Bavaria, which will greatly enhance the prospect of Iran-German financial interactions, the deputy…
German banks will soon finance major Iranian projects, as bilateral banking relations expand, announced the head of financial institutions at the Euler Hermes insurance.
According to Jan-…
Tehran Stock Exchange’s main index gained 41.60 points or 0.05% to end Monday trade at 79,826.6.
More than 1.5 billion shares valued at $66.6 million changed hands for the day.
Shahd…
The monetary base in Iran grew by 17.3% by Jan. 2017 to reach 1,722.3 trillion rials, which is 3.2 percentage points lower than its growth rate in 2015-16.
Iran’s misery index has had a 40% improvement since President Hassan Rouhani took office in Aug. 2013, as it went down from 48.8 in 2013 to 29.3 in 2016, according to data released by Cato…
As many as 1,366 Iranian companies took part in 54 international and specialized exhibitions overseas in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2017), indicating a respective growth of 38% and 65…
Exports from Arvand Free Trade Zone in southwest Iran hit $1.2 billion in the last Iranian year (March 2016-17).
Close to 540 billion rials ($14.3 million) worth of investments have been made in Nowshahr Port in the northern province of Mazandaran since President Hassan Rouhani took office in August 2013,…
Iran was Iraq’s third biggest trading partner in 2016 after China and Turkey, the Iraqi commercial attache to Iran said.
“At present, we are trying to ease investment regulations and offer…
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s official visit to Iran in early March 2017—his third in three years—was scheduled to include the trial run of a section of a new railroad along the Iran-…
President Hassan Rouhani said as many as 100,000 jobs have been created in cyberspace in recent years. “Residents in rural areas export their handicrafts online and many tourists learn about…
Grégoire Blaise, CEO of Renault Trucks Middle East and North Africa, says following an agreement between Arya Diesel Motors and Renault Trucks in December a training center will be opened to…
Turkish auto sales are likely to decline in the second quarter of 2017 due to ongoing concerns over a fall in buyers and a depreciating Turkish Lira making car prices more expensive, according the…
The government has invested 170 billion rials ($4.5 million) in a subsidiary of Iran Khodro in the northern Mazandaran Province, according to the head of the production plant.
CEO of IKCO…
The 2017 Maruti Suzuki DZire is dropping the Swift prefix and will now be marketed simply as the ‘DZire’ in the Indian, Pakistani and Sri Lankan markets, according a report from Colombo. The small…
Reducing dependency on oil revenues and diversifying its income sources have been on the agenda of Iran's government for the past four years, the Iranian minister of economy said.
Iran is reviewing two major projects to engage in further leasing activities to develop its rail and air fleet, the minister of roads and urban development announced.
Bank Sepah plans to establish branches in China and South Korea since Iran’s trade value is considerably high with these two countries, said an official with Bank Sepah, adding that they already…

