Iran increases its metals, mining products exports by 126% year-on-year in March-July to $5.08 billion.

Iran saw its output of sponge iron increase by 9% to 30.52 mln T in the year to late March.

Iran launches five major metals and manufacturing projects with an investment of nearly $300 million.

A 200 km railway line, long touted as the sole viable option to build Afghanistan’s economy, will come to operation in the next couple of weeks, connecting the Afghan city of Herat to Mashhad in Iran.

Construction materials accounted for 70 percent of exports from Iran’s minerals and mining sector, says a minister.