EghtesadOnline: Secretary of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution Saeed Reza Ameli has called for the formation of a joint international committee working against the COVID-19 pandemic in a letter to world religious leaders.

EghtesadOnline: Oil prices fell for the first time in four days on Wednesday, slipping from as much as five-month highs as mounting coronavirus cases worldwide and in the United States undercut market confidence about a potential pickup in fuel demand.

EghtesadOnline: Over 271 million people in the world do not live in the country in which they were born. These people, called international migrants, represented 3.52% of the world’s population in 2019. There were 1.9 million migrants worldwide originally from Iran in 2019. Iranians accounted for 0.7% of the total population of migrants. Iran’s population was 82.9 million in 2019 and 2.29% didn’t live in their homeland, the United Nations says

EghtesadOnline: Iran is the 12th biggest producer of footwear in the world, producing 177 million pairs annually.