Iranian Ambassador to India Gholamreza Ansari says Tehran and New Delhi plan to hold a joint economic commission next week.

Iran’s deputy minister of industry, mines and trade says exports of the country’s mineral industries grew by 38 percent in the last Iranian calendar year (which ended on March 20, 2013).

Turkish Minister of Development Cevdet Yilmaz has called for the expansion of economic ties with neighboring Islamic Republic despite foreign pressures.

Iran's Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance, Shamseddin Hosseini says US-led sanctions have not paralyzed the Islamic Republic, and pointed that some such bans have worked in favor of the country.

Iran and Guinea-Conakry have discussed a plan to establish a joint investment fund for the implementation of small and medium-sized projects.

Iran's ambassador to Spain, Morteza Saffari Natanzi, says the US-led Western sanctions against the Islamic republic are causing more harm to Spain than Iran.

Iran's economy minister says Tehran has devised a series of strategies to counter the effects of the West’s sanctions against the country.

An Iranian official says the Islamic Republic’s non-oil exports increased despite sanctions in the last Iranian calendar year, which ended on March 20, 2013.

Iran has reaped USD 12 billion through exporting petrochemicals in the last Iranian calendar year which ended on March 20, a deputy oil minister says.

Turkish Minister of Development Cevdet Yilmaz has called for the further expansion of economic cooperation between Iran and Turkey.

The Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) has set a new record in trading volume, surpassing the 40,000 unit mark for the first time.

A senior Iranian trade official says Iran and Pakistan enjoy abundant potential for increasing the volume of their trade transactions, and called for the promotion of economic exchanges between Tehran and Islamabad.

Iran and Turkey have resumed their trade of gold for natural gas and made a USD-120-million deal in February, circumventing tough US sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear energy program.

An Iranian deputy oil minister says the country plans to build a new petrochemical hub in the southeastern port city of Chabahar through USD 20 billion of investment.

The director of Iran’s Trade Development Organization (TDO) has estimated the total value of the country’s non-oil export of goods and services in the previous Iranian year (that just ended on March 20) at USD50 billion.

India is set to sign a transit agreement with Iran, and invest over USD 100 million in the southeastern Iranian port city of Chabahar in order to facilitate the transportation of commodities to Afghanistan, Press TV reports.

Iran’s Minister of Economy and Finance Shamseddin Hosseini says US-led sanctions have assisted the Islamic Republic in achieving its objective of weaning its economy off petrodollars.

The managing director of the National Petrochemical Company says the Islamic Republic of Iran’s neighboring countries have demanded an increase in the export of the country’s petrochemical products.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has produced over 308,000 tons of aluminum ingots in the first eleven months of the current Iranian calendar year, which began on March 20, 2012.

The US has imposed sanctions on two Iranian firms, saying the companies provide insurance services to Iran's main petroleum shipper in its latest bid to mount pressure on Tehran over its nuclear energy program.

Despite the US-engineered sanctions imposed on Iran, the country has managed to export nearly USD 30 billion worth of non-oil goods, excluding gas condensate, over an eleven-month period.

The United States has granted new waivers on Iran sanctions to 11 countries in exchange for their reductions of purchases of Iranian crude oil.

Iran, Iraq and Syria have signed a tripartite telecommunication agreement aimed at establishing an optical fiber network linking the three countries.

An Iranian deputy petroleum minister says the country’s nominal petrochemical production capacity is close to reaching 60 million tons (mt).

A recent report by an international think tank has warned that the US-engineered sanctions against Iran would in the long run adversely affect economic stability in the entire Middle East.

India has announced that it will continue the import of urea from Iran and the Asian economic powerhouse imported nearly two million tons of the organic compound from the Islamic Republic so far this year.

The Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) says the country's volume of non-oil trade has hit USD85.9 billion in the first 11 months of the current Iranian calendar year (started March 20, 2012).

The volume of Iran foreign trade exchanges has reached USD78 billion during the first ten months of the current Persian calendar year (started March 21, 2012), an official says.

Head of Egypt's Interest Section in Iran Khalid al-Said Ibrahim Amari says a large Egyptian economic delegation is due to arrive in the Islamic Republic later this week.

A Pakistani business delegation is in Iran to explore new avenues for trade cooperation between Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the southern Iranian province of Fars.

The Islamic Republic has inaugurated the Middle East's largest float glass plant in Yazd province in central Iran.

Iran and Pakistan have started several days of crucial talks to finalize a contract for the construction of a billion-dollar gas pipeline project between the two countries.

Recent data show that the Islamic Republic of Iran was the 15th largest steel producer in the world for the year 2012.

Iran and Argentina have increased bilateral trade cooperation as the two countries move to shore up diplomatic ties, a report by a foreign trade consultancy says.

The United States has imposed new sanctions on Iran’s energy sector in a new attempt to force the Islamic Republic to halt its nuclear energy program.

The European Union's (EU) General Court has ordered the bloc to lift sanctions against the Iranian state-owned Bank Saderat.

Iran and Turkey have called for their annual trade exchanges to soar to USD35 billion from the current USD22 billion.

The chief minister of the Pakistani province of Punjab has called for the expansion of relations between Tehran and Islamabad, lauding the kudos Iran has earned in the region.

The President of Italy-Iran Chamber of Commerce and Industry has called for the expansion of economic relations between the two countries, saying that Rome will be Tehran’s main European trade partner for the year 2013.

Fresh data show that Iran's foreign trade volume reached around $79 billion over the past ten months, despite the US-engineered economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic.