** IRAN DAILY
-- Iran, Turkey considering trilateral trade meeting with Saudi Arabia
Iranian and Turkish foreign ministers held a meeting in Tehran on Sunday, which lasted nearly four hours. According to Iran Daily’s reporter, the two sides discussed a range of issues, including bilateral cooperation, developments in the Caucasus region, Syria, and Afghanistan.
During a joint press conference after their meeting, the Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that delegations of the two sides discussed the follow-up of the agreements reached during a recent meeting between the presidents of the two countries.
He also referred to the two countries’ goal of reaching a 30-billion-euro trade volume, saying, “We are now in the middle of the road.” Amir-Abdollahian added that the two sides announced their readiness to sign a comprehensive document on joint cooperation.
-- MP: Crude sales not tied to JCPOA revival, sanctions removal
Iran’s incumbent administration has never tied oil sales to revival of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and removal of sanctions imposed on the country, said a member of Parliament on Saturday.
Talking to Shana, Hossein Hosseinzadeh added, “Although sanctions have their own impacts, the current government has managed to carry out acceptable measures through great efforts and determination.”
The country’s oil sales stood at less than 0.5 million barrels per day (bpd) when the current administration took over,” recalled the lawmaker, “but now we have witnessed an increase in oil and condensate exports thanks to the Oil Ministry’s positive approach and firm decision on promoting energy diplomacy”.
-- Five-month exports of agro-products rise 19%
The head of the Department of Monitoring and Foreign Trade of the Central Organization for Rural Cooperatives (CORC) announced a 19% growth in the export of livestock, fisheries, agricultural and food products in the first five months of the current Iranian year.
Iran’s export of agricultural and food products from March 21 to August 22 registered a 3% rise in weight, and 19% rise in value, compared to the same period of last year, said Rouhollah Latifi.
** KAYHAN INTERNATIONAL
-- Saudi Arabia Discovers Benefits of the Iran Trade Transit Route
It is said trade transcends all barriers, whether geographical or political as well as terroristic, of which the prime purveyor is the US regime, which could rightly be called the enemy of all humanitarian values with its cowardly and criminal policy of sanctions in a bid to mar the peace and progress of sovereign independent nations.
Washington, however, is the eventual loser and is unable to stop the growing trade ties of states it views as clients, let alone the countries it bitterly opposes.
-- IRICA: Iran Imports Over 4 Tons of Gold Ingots
Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) has reported that over four tons of standard gold ingots, valued at $265.376, were imported by Iran in the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21 to August 22).
Gold ingots imports accounted for 1.1 percent of the country’s total import value in this timespan, IRICA added.
-- Official: Iran Exports $16bn of Petrochemical Products
The secretary general of the Iranian Association of Employers of Petrochemical Industry Ahmad Mahdavi Abhari said on Sunday that $53 billion worth of non-oil products was exported from the country in the last Iranian calendar year (ended March 20) $16 billion of which was the share of petrochemical companies.
Mahdavi Abhari made the remarks in a news conference and added, “If production is supported and obstacles are removed in the country, the economy will grow and consequently, the export of products will increase.”
** TEHRAN TIMES
-- Russian translation of Iranian resistance literature showcased at Moscow book fair
A number of significant works of Iranian resistance literature, which have been translated into Russian, are on show at the 36th Moscow International Book Fair (MIBF). The highlight of the books is "Cell Number 14", a collection of memories of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei from the prisons and the exiles of the revolution era.
"Shina's Daughter", “Peace Be on Ibrahim”, "Water Never Dies”, "The 23 People”, “Blood Pool” and “An Immigrant from the Land of the Sun” are other notable works on display in Iran’s pavilion.
-- 300 idle industrial units revived in Iran since late March
As announced by the head of Iran Small Industries and Industrial Parks Organization (ISIPO), 300 idle industrial units have been revived in the country since the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21). Emphasizing that reviving the stagnant units is a major plan of the current government, Farshad Moghimi said that 1,900 idle units are also planned to come back to the production cycle by the yearend.
Iran’s 13th government administration has managed to revive 5,400 idle and semi-active industrial units across the country since it took office in September 2021, an official with the Industry, Mining and Trade Ministry said last week.
-- Mashhad expects travel boom as Iran relaxes COVID rules
The number of foreign arrivals in Mashhad is expected to double during the last ten days of Safar, the second month of the lunar Islamic calendar in which Shia Muslims hold special mourning services.
“It is predicted that this year the arrival of foreign pilgrims to Mashhad will increase more than two times in the last ten days of Safar,” ISNA quoted a local official as saying on Sunday.
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