Iran Chamber Newsroom

Iran Air adds 3 Airbus A319 planes to its fleet

Iran Air, the country’s flag carrier, will now have 32 operational airplanes in its fleet. The company has been hit most by the US sanctions on selling civilian aircraft to Iran. However, it’s has been trying to improve its fleet despite Washington’s punitive measures.

Transportation

Tehran Stock Exchange soars 3% in only one session

Iran’s largest stock market, TSE, started the first day of the week with a big rally in one trading session. Export-based steel and mining companies’ shares were big gainers as forex markets registered rises.

Financial Markets

Norwegian Air flies stuck Boeing out of sanctions-hit Iran

A Boeing commercial airliner that belongs to budget carrier Norwegian Air and was stranded in Iran after an emergency landing in December has left arrived in Stockholm after being stuck for two months.

Transportation

Iran to unveil company similar to INSTEX ‘soon’: CBI

INSTEX was created by Germany, France and the UK on the last day of January after months of deliberation by European countries. Its a financial mechanism meant to provide a legal and transparent channel in which Europe engages in trade of non-sanctioned goods with Iran following US sanctions.

Trade

FATF extends Iran’s window, CBI welcomes move

Iran has been under pressure and scrutiny by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to pass the measures in a bid to allow the ease and smoother financial transactions with the world.

Trade

Iranian, Portuguese SMEs to use INSTEX to expand business ties

Although Portugal was the 75th destination of Iranian exported products, businessmen from this European country have traveled to Iran to expand business relations between the two countries as the creation of INSTEX has seemingly breathed new air into Iran’s trade with Europe.

Trade

Japan to continue Iran oil purchase: envoy

Japan has been one of the eight countries that have been exempted from the US sanctions to be able to buy energy from Iran. Tokyo says it’s willing to import Iranian crude but needs an extension of its waiver.

Energy

Top Iranian business delegation attends joint Syria-Iran business forum

Gholam Hossein Shafei, President of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA) headed a high-level Iranian business delegation to attend a joint business forum between Syria and Iran that was held in Dama Rose Hotel in Damascus on 29 January.

Photo Gallery

Post-war Syria, Iran’s golden investment opportunity

Allies since the onset of Iran’s Islamic Revolution of 1979, Tehran and Damascus have developed their ties, mostly political, over the years. Economic relations have been put on the back burner for years, but now Syria’s open-door policy for Iranian firms is a gold opportunity that mustn’t be missed.

Trade

Iran opens 3rd phase of Persian Gulf Star refinery to become self-sufficient gasoline producer

The Persian Gulf Star gas processing plant is the most modern and the largest project of its kind in Iran and the largest in the world that has been developed to not only help country stop importing gasoline but also turn into a potential exporter of this product.

Energy