President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi will start a three-nation tour of Africa on Tuesday. Heading a delegation, the Iranian president will embark on a tour of Kenya, Zimbabwe and Uganda on Tuesday. After taking office in August 2021, Raisi adopted a new foreign policy oriented towards neighbors, Muslim states, Asian countries and the members of the ...

Irans Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy said that considering Africa as a priority is on the agenda of the incumbent governments foreign policy. Mehdi Safari pointed out that a joint commission of Iran, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe will be held in the coming months. The commission aims at reaching a balanced trade with Africa,...

Iran Khodro, the biggest automobile producer in the Middle East, has reactivated its assembly line for production of Samand sedans in Senegal, its deputy director for exports and international affairs says. The company began assembling cars in Thies, Senegal's second largest city 70 km from Dakar, in 2008 through a local joint venture named Seniran ...

Tasnim Irans Foreign Ministry spokesman said the Islamic Republic is determined to enhance its trade ties with Africa and Latin America. Irans foreign policy is balanced and active, and the number of trips made by the foreign minister to African and Latin American countries as well as Asian nations is noteworthy, Seyed Abbas Mousavi told Tasnim ...

MNA In a Monday Tweet, Iranian FM congratulates Africa Day, which reminds everyone of the Africans struggles against oppression. "Congratulations on Africa Day 2020, reminding us of the brave struggles of Africans against oppression," he tweeted. "Iran has always been, and will forever be, a reliable partner of all fraternal African nations,...

MNA President Rouhani has said that Iran considers relations with African countries very important, adding the Islamic Republic of Iran is willing to deepen ties with African countries. President Hassan Rouhani made the comments in a meeting with the new non-resident Ambassador of Burkina Faso to Tehran on Saturday while receiving his letter of ...

Financial Tribune - Irans exports to African Group member states stood at $557.73 million from March 21, 2018, to Jan. 20, indicating a 9.94% decrease, as imports were worth $114.53 million, down 53.95% year-on-year. I ran traded 1.86 million tons of non-oil commodities worth $672.26 million with the member states of African Group during the first ...

MNA President stressed that Iran is willing to deepen relations with African countries, including Mali, adding, there are good opportunities for development of relations between Iran and Mali in economic fields." Speaking on Saturday while receiving the letter of credentials of the new Ambassador of Mali to Tehran, Hassan Rouhani said, the Islamic ...

Financial Tribune - Irans exports to African states stood at $513.51 million from March 21 to Dec. 21, indicating a 6.86% increase, while imports were worth $93.76 million, down 51.34% year-on-year Iran traded 1.7 million tons of non-oil commodities worth $607.28 million with the member states of United Nations African Group during the first nine ...

MNA Rouhollah Estiri, the director general for international business affairs of the Directorate for Science, said that Middle East and Africa are main target markets of Iranian information technology (IT) firms. About 20 trade and business trips were made to various countries including the Middle East and Africa during the government of President ...

FNA - A senior Iranian trade official announced that the country has increased its exports to the African states to a considerable extent. "Iran's exports to the African states in the first six months of the current(Iranian) year (started on March 21) amounted to $397mln which shows a 17% increase compared with the same period last year," Director-...

MNA Vice Presidencys Director of Biotechnology Development Department Mostafa Ghanei said that agricultural bio-fertilizers produced in the country will be exported to Africa. Under the agreement inked in this regard, it is supposed that Iranian knowledge-based companies active in the field of agriculture and biotechnology will export ...

MNA At a one-day conference dubbed Iran-Africa Cultural Dialogue in South Africas capital Pretoria, the attendees stressed the need for expansion of ties between Iran and Africa. The Iran-Africa Cultural Dialogue, which was held in Pretoria through the efforts of Iranian cultural attach and was hosted by the South African Human Sciences ...

IRNA Iran's vice-president for science and technology, heading a high-level delegation including heads of 45 knowledge-based companies, departed Tehran for east Africa on Tuesday. Representatives of some ministries and organizations are also accompanying Sorena Sattari in his visit to east African countries. The goals of the visit have been ...

Press TV - As US sanctions against Iran loom large, the country is looking for potential solutions to maintain trade with other countries with a top official in Tehran now proposing to barter oil products for gold with Africa. Hassan Khosrowjerdi, the president of Iran-Africa Council for Economic Cooperation, was quoted by media as saying that ...

IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Tuesday that Iran-Africa ties are beyond political relations, as Iran has always given priority to the continent in its foreign policy. Addressing ceremony marking International Africa Day, he added that since 1963, some 32 African countries have gained independence and got rid of arrogance. In ...

IRNA Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Larijani said on Saturday that Iran intends to expand its ties with African states, so it is following up useful consultations in this concern. He made the remarks in a meeting with Ivory Coast parliament Vice-Speaker Perwatt Oula. Given the problems which the Islamic states are facing, it is necessary that ...

IRNA Expansion of relations with African nations is among Tehran's foreign policy priorities, said Iran's First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri on Thursday. Jahangiri, stopping over in Tunisia on his way to Bolivia to participate in the fourth meeting of gas exporting countries, met with the country's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sabri ...

IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif returned home late on Friday, wrapping up his five-day African tour. His three-leg African tour first took him to South Africa and later to Uganda and Niger, respectively. During his two-day trip to South Africa, Zarif first attended Iran-South Africa Trade Forum and then held talks with the countrys ...

president.ir- The president welcomed development of relations with African countries as a key principle in foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran and emphasised that Tehran welcomes development and deepening of its relations with all African countries, including Tanzania as a friend country. Dr Hassan Rouhani met with Tanzanian Foreign Minister ...