Bloomberg |Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: Earlier this month, Mohammad Bagher Nobakht, the official responsible for planning Irans state budgets, told parliament he planned to sideline oil in the economy and run the countrys programs without oil. He didnt have much choice: Iran, Nobakht said, had earned just $8.9 billion from the sale of oil and related ...

Press TV - New figures by the Iranian government show that the manufacturing sector expanded by over 14 percent in terms of size over the past calendar year. Irans Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade (MIMT) said on Tuesday that the number of licenses issued for setting up manufacturing units in the country rose by nearly 28,000 in the year ending ...