The Statistical Center of Iran (SCI) announced that the inflation rate in the twelve-month period ended on September 22, which marks the end of the sixth Iranian calendar month of Shahrivar, stood at 45.8 percent, rising 0.6 percent from the figure for the twelve-month period ended on the last day of the fifth month.

The Point-to-Point inflation in the Ira­­nian month to September 22, indicated a 43.7% rise com­­pa­red with the similar month of the previous Iranian year. The point-to-point inflation rate was 0.5 percentage point more than the figure for the previous month.

Eurostat:   EU27-Iran Foreign  from January till July 2021 generated 2,581 mil­li­on Euro.

The 27 EU coun­­­tries exported goods worth € 2,105 million Euro (-5%) to Iran and imported goods worth € 476 million (+8%). Germany was the most important EU trade partner of Iran, with a trade vol­ume of 1,010 million Euro, fol­lowed by Italy (348 million Euro) and the Ne­ther­lands (265 mil­lion Euro).

The European Union (EU27) export of goods to Iran in January till July 2021 stood at 2,105 mill­i­on Euro, a de­crea­se of 5% com­­pared to January-July 2020. Ac­cor­ding to the la­test da­ta by Euro­stat, the sta­tis­tical of­fice of the European Union, 40% of the EU ex­­ports to Iran ca­me from Ger­­­many that de­­­li­ve­red goods worth € 848 million, that was 8% less than in the first seven month of 2020. Second (12%) was Italy with ex­ports worth € 252 mil­­li­on (-23%), fol­lowed by the Netherlands (€ 246 million, +16%).

January till July 2021 the 27 EU countries imported goods worth € 476 million from Iran (+8%).  Most of the Iranian ex­ports to the Eu­­ro­pean Union (34%) went to Germany, which im­ported goods worth 162 mil­­lion from Iran (-2%), fol­­lowed by Italy  (€ 96 million, +54%)  and Spain (€48 million, +29%).

Financial Tribune:   The “industries and mines”, and “services” grew by 13.8% and 4.5% respectively, but “agriculture” contracted by 4.5%, according to a new SCI report

The Statistical Center of Iran says the economy registered a 7.6% year-on-year growth in the first quarter of the current fiscal year that started on March 21. The “industries and mines”, and “services” sectors grew by 13.8% and 4.5% respectively, but “agriculture” contracted by 4.5%, ac­cording to a new report posted on the SCI website. The center noted that GDP growth, exclu­ding the oil sector, stood at 4.6% in Q1 (spring).

The SCI report came shortly after the Central Bank of Iran had reported that the Iranian econo­my grew by 6.2% in Q1. According to a new report published on the bank’s website, except for the drought-hit agriculture with -0.9%, all economic sectors saw growth during the period (spring): oil with 23.3%, industries and mines with 2.1%, and services with 7%.

Noting that the services sector has shown distinct signs of recovery after it was hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic in the first quarter of last year (registering a -2.5% growth), the report attri­bu­tes the expansion mainly to the subsectors of “transportation and warehousing”, “health and social work”, “wholesale, retail and auto repair”, “information and communications”, and “pro­fessional, scientific and vocational”. The report added that growth, excluding the oil sector, stood at 4.7% in Q1.   …   …   …

Die Sommerzeit in Iran endet am  Mittwoch, den  22 September 2021, 00:00. Die Uhren werden um Mitter­nacht (Dienstag auf Mittwoch) eine Stun­­de zurückgestellt.  Bis Beginn der Win­ter­zeit in Deutsch­land am 31. Ok­to­ber beträgt der Zeitunterscheid zwi­s­chen Deutschland und Iran le­dig­­lich 1,5 Stunden.