Nach längerer Zeit hat die iranische Zentralbank detaillierte Zahlen zur Inflationsrate in Iran veröffentlicht.  Im September 2012 lagen die Preise 28,1% höher als im September 2011.  Lebensmittel waren nach Berechnungen der iranischen Zentralbank 38,7% teurer, Kleidung 38,5% und Gesundheitsleistungen 24,3%.     Produkte waren 34,4% teurer, Dienstleistungen 20,1% und die Kosten für Wohnen, Wasser und Energie lagen 14,5% höher.  Detaillierte Zahlen liegen bei.

Iran has risen its steel production output by more than 9 percent, the World Steel Association (WSA) announced, adding that the country is now the world’s 15th steel producer. According to the WSA’s latest report, Iran’s steel production output hit 14.463mln tons in 2012, showing a 9.6-percent growth in comparison with the year before. Among 62 world major steel producers, Iran jumped two steps higher and became the world’s 15th steel producer in 2012, the report said. Iran ranked above UK, Spain and Canada. 

Last month, Managing Director of Mobarakeh Steel Company Mohammad Massoud Sameenejad announced that Iran “is the biggest steel producer in the Middle East and North Africa”. “The WSA has named Iran as the biggest producer of steel in the Middle East and Africa in the same period,” Sameenejad said in December. Elaborating on his company’s share in Iran’s steel production, he said that Mobarakeh Steel Company produced 46 percent of Iran’s steel output in the 10 months of 2012. 
“Despite the intensified sanctions during the last two years, the capacity of Iran’s steel production has increased 5mln tons and we will be completely self-sufficient in the steel industry in the next three years,” Vice-President of Iran’s Steel Association Hamidreza Taherizadeh said in July. 

TEHRAN - Iran conducted $78.2 billion in trade in non-oil goods with other countries during the first ten months of the current Iranian calendar year, which began on March 20, 2012, according to Iranian Finance and Economic Affairs Minister Shamseddin Hosseini.  The country exported $34.5 billion worth of non-oil goods and imported $43.7 billion of non-oil goods during the 10-month period, ISNA quoted Hosseini as saying on Saturday.  He also said that exports of industrial and mineral goods increased by 30 percent year on year. 

Iran exported around $43.7 billion worth of non-oil goods in the previous Iranian calendar year and imported about $61.8 billion worth of non-oil goods to hit the unprecedented mark of $105 billion in annual trade.  In May 2012, Trade Promotion Organization of Iran Deputy Director Kiyumars Fat’hollah Kermanshahi said that annual imports and exports are projected to reach $77 billion and $83 billion respectively by March 2016.

TEHRAN, Jan. 7 (MNA) – Four Asian countries are now purchasing nearly all of Iran’s oil exports according a report this week from the Economist’s Intelligence Unit (EIU).  “Almost all of Iran's oil exports now go to China, South Korea, Japan and India,” the report said even as it noted a sharp decline in the amount of oil each country purchased from Iran during 2012.  With many of Iran’s oil customers bowing to Western sanctions, Iran’s dependence on the four Asian countries has grown substantially. Tehran has become especially dependent on China, which has long been its primary trading partner. Still, China is now estimated to purchase roughly 50% of Iran’s total oil ex­ports.