Domestic Economy

Official report puts Iran’s September inflation at 42.9%

The Iranian government’s statistics agency has reported a slight increase in the country’s inflation rate in the calendar month to September 22.

Macro Economy

Iran president says political diplomacy has to serve economic diplomacy

Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi on Saturday referred to the significance of trade and exports in the country’s new five-year development plan and said that political diplomacy has to serve economic diplomacy.

Macro Economy

Solat Mortazavi becomes Iran’s new minister of labor

Iranian president’s pick for Minister of Cooperatives, Labor, and Social Welfare Solat Mortazavi won the vote of confidence of the Iranian Parliament on Wednesday.

Macro Economy

Iran’s five-month tax revenues grow 73% YOY

Governor of Iran’s National Tax Administration Davoud Manzour put the country’s tax revenues during the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21 – August 22) at 2000 trillion rials which he said shows a 73% growth compared to figures from last year’s corresponding period.

Macro Economy

Iran’s manufacturing sector grows 5.1% YOY in March-August

Figures by the Iranian industries ministry (MIMT) show the country’s manufacturing sector expanded by 5.1% in the five calendar months to August 22 compared with the same period last year.

Macro Economy

Iran’s Q1 economic growth at 3.8%

Figures by the Statistical Center of Iran (SCI) show the country’s economy grew by 3.8% in the first quarter of the calendar year that started late March.

Macro Economy

UN special rapporteur urges US to halt unilateral sanctions on Tehran

A UN special rapporteur has said that since the re-imposition of the US unilateral sanctions in 2018, general prices in Iran rose 85% and food prices doubled.

Macro Economy

Supreme Leader communicates general policies of Iran’s 7th development plan

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has issued a series of directives that outline the key principles of a five-year plan for economic, social and cultural development in Iran.

Macro Economy

Iran collects $6 billion of taxes in five months

Iran’s tax revenues stood at 1.853 quadrillion rials (about $6.617 billion) in the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-August 22), Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday.

Macro Economy

Iran creates nearly 1 million jobs in a year

Iran’s labor ministry says nearly one million jobs have been created in the country in the year to late August despite economic problems facing the country because of foreign sanctions.

Macro Economy