Iran Chamber Newsroom

Iran to launch first air taxi at Imam Khomeini Airport

Imam Khomeini Airport City, located in southern Tehran, is expected to start operating air taxi services for the first time in the country’s capital city.

Transportation

Iran produces over 16 million tires in 8 months

Iranian tire manufacturers have produced 16.5 million tires in the eight months to November 20 registering an output increase of 22 percent year on year.

Mine and Industry

Iran, Afghanistan inaugurate Khaf-Herat railway project

A joint railway project linking eastern Iran to western Afghanistan was inaugurated on Thursday with presidents of the two neighboring countries delivering remarks through video-conference.

Transportation

Iran planning to import 42mn doses of COVID-19 vaccines

Iran aims to take delivery of nearly 42 million doses of coronavirus vaccines from abroad to immunize high-risk groups of the population against the disease while the public will receive jabs being developed inside the country.

Society Economy

US failed to shrink Iran oil exports to zero: Rouhani

Iran’s president says despite the economic war launched by the administration of US President Donald Trump against Tehran, Washington has failed in its efforts to shrink the Islamic Republic’s oil exports to zero.

Energy

Iran to authorize export of ventilators, oxygen machines, face masks

Iran’s minister of industries says the country faces an oversupply of key equipment needed to battle COVID-19, the disease caused by coronaviurs, saying his ministry plans to authorize exports of those items in the near future.

Mine and Industry

Iran-Turkey trade recovers in October despite pandemic

Mutual trade between Iran and Turkey has recovered in October 2020 to reach the corresponding month of 2019, data released by Turkish Statistical Institute show.

Trade

Iran Coronavirus cases top 1 million amid third wave

The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Iran soared past one million on Thursday, less than 10 months into the pandemic, as the Health Ministry reported a decline in hospitalizations and deaths.

Society Economy

Iran’s 1st export consignment arrives in Afghanistan via Khaf-Herat railroad

The first consignment of Iranian export goods has arrived in Afghanistan through the long-awaited Khaf-Herat railroad, which is slated to be officially inaugurated in coming days.

Trade

Lotfabad border crossing reopens for trade between Iran and Turkmenistan

Iran and Turkmenistan have allowed limited transshipment of goods through a major border crossing nine months after it was closed because of movement restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

Trade