EghtesadOnline: Iran’s accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a watershed event for diplomacy, which can also open up new frontiers for the country’s economy.

EghtesadOnline: Iran traded 716,900 tons of non-oil commodities worth $549.79 million with Vietnam, Indonesia, South Africa, Turkey and Argentina, collectively known as VISTA , in the first Iranian month (March 21-April 20) to register a 39.81% and 42.06% growth in tonnage and value respectively compared with last year’s corresponding month.

EghtesadOnline: Iran traded 10.81 million tons of non-oil commodities worth $6.33 billion with the VISTA group of countries in the last fiscal year (ended March 20, 2019) to register a 42.85% and 27.33% decline in tonnage and value respectively compared with the year before.