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Iran yoy inflation at 26% in September

The Statistical Center of Iran (SCI) says the country’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) had risen by 0.2 percentage point to reach 26 percent year-on-year in the calendar month ending September 21.

Macro Economy

US can impose neither negotiations nor war on Iran: Rouhani

Iran’s president told the UN General Assembly Tuesday that the United States could impose "neither negotiations nor war" on the Islamic Republic amid heightened tension between the longtime foes over Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with major powers.

Society Economy

Iran Air to launch new roundtrip flight route to Dubai

Iran’s flag carrier airline, Iran Air, has announced it is launching roundtrip Dubai-Lamerd-Dubai flights as of Sept. 27.

Transportation

Drivers account for majority of coronavirus loan applicants in Iran

Public transportation operators, educational centers and beauty salons account for majority of applications submitted for the government-backed coronavirus bailout loans, Iran’s Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare has announced.

Society Economy

Iran Air has announced in a statement that flights to Istanbul would resume as of September 25 with Flight 719 from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport to Istanbul.

Iran Air to resume Tehran-Istanbul flights from September 25

Transportation

The Iranian health ministry is preparing 14 million flu vaccine doses as part of its efforts to head off complications that might impact the healthcare system in the country in the autumn and winter if people simultaneously contract the flu and the COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.

Iran prepares 14 million flu shots amid coronavirus outbreak

Society Economy

Around 86% of Iran’s agricultural activities are carried out by small-scale farmers and only a meager 14% are undertaken by large agricultural corporations that yield better harvests as well as higher economic profit.

Small-scale farmers handle 86% of Iran’s agriculture

Agriculture and Environment

Iran, Russia and Azerbaijan are close to starting works on a project to link their power systems, shows a report, as Tehran seeks greater access to regional energy markets to export its surplus electricity.

Iran to link power grid to Russia, Azerbaijan

Energy

President Hassan Rouhani has inaugurated seven new hospitals across Iran, a sign investment has kept flowing into the country’s health sector despite financial costs imposed on the government because of the spread of the coronavirus.

Iran opens 7 new hospitals, total bed capacity reaches 141,000

Society Economy

The Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Line Group (IRISL) says revenues of the company topped $778 million in the year ending June 21 despite a series of harsh US sanctions seeking to choke off the country’s trade.

IRISL reports $778 million in revenues despite US sanctions

Transportation

Iran Airports Company registered 8,431 overflights during the month ending Aug. 21, which indicate a 15.57% increase compared with the previous month.

Flights over Iran airspace gradually increasing

Transportation

The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) says COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus pandemic, was to blame for a 0.6-percent contraction in the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) without oil in the fiscal year quarter ending June 20.

Coronavirus caused Iran’s quarter GDP to shrink by 0.6%: CBI

Macro Economy

A total of 1.37 million tons of fruit and vegetable worth $425 million were exported from Iran during the first five months of the current Iranian year (March 20-Aug. 21).

Iran exports fruit, vegetable to 43 countries

Agriculture and Environment

A new wave of devaluation for Iran’s rial seems to have come to an end as the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) resumes rationing the US dollar while it dismantles price restrictions in two government-run exchange markets.

Rial regains as Iran’s CBI puts brakes on dollar

Financial Markets

Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture

Established in 1884, Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA) is a non-profit and non-governmental institution which aims at facilitating economic growth and development in the country. Iran Chamber tries to further coordinate the activities of the private sector. As an economic forum, representatives from both the government and the private sector attend Iran Chamber's sessions. Meanwhile the institution acts as an advisory body to the government, parliament and judiciary.

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