Iran’s non-oil exports to Iraq showed a 23 percent increase in comparison with the similar period the previous year.
Russia says it is still committed to a pledge it has already made to grant two loans worth $2.5 billion to Iran.
Irans non-oil exports during the first four months of the current Iranian calendar year (started on March 20) showed a 21 percent increase in comparison with similar period the previous year.
South Korean companies will soon be able to settle their accounts with their Iranian counterparts in euros.
Iran says Japan has agreed to fund a plan to purchase passenger planes from its industrial giant Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
The World Bank says a landmark nuclear deal that Iran signed with the P5+1 last year has already enabled the country to gain access to as much as $30 billion of its assets that had been frozen as a result of the sanctions.
The US has taken another minuscule step toward easing trade restrictions against Iran, allowing international companies to fly American-made aircraft to the Middle Eastern country.
Iran has called for joint efforts with Russia to remove the “customs hurdles” which it says are obstructing the expansion of trade between the two countries.
China has joined South Korea to announce that it is planning to invest $3 billion in Iran’s fisheries.
Iran expects its state-sponsored purchases of wheat from domestic farmers to surpass 10 million tonnes this year, Agriculture Minister Mahmoud Hojjati says.