EghtesadOnline: Producer Price Index for the industrial sector in the four quarters ending March 20, 2018, which marks the end of winter, increased by 15.5% compared with the same period of last year, according to data reported by the Statistical Center of Iran.

EghtesadOnline: Banks and credit institutions provided the industrial and mining sector with 1.51 quadrillion rials ($36 billion) worth of loans in the last fiscal year's first 11 months (March 21, 2017-Feb. 19), indicating a 8.3% rise year-on-year, statistics released by the Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade indicate.

EghtesadOnline: The industrial sector generates 32% of all jobs in Iran, a report by the Iranian Parliament’s Research Center said.

EghtesadOnline: What should the underperformance of Iran’s manufacturing sector be attributed to—macroeconomic policies or the businesses themselves? Perhaps both are to blame.

EghtesadOnline: Deputy Minister of Industries, Mining and Trade Mohsen Salehinia has declared that a longstanding recession plaguing the Iranian industrial sector is now a thing of the past.

EghtesadOnline: A 5% economic growth is predicted for the next Iranian year (starting March 21) and since oil and agriculture sectors have already developed, in order to reach the aforementioned growth, housing and industrial sectors need to expand, said the chairman of Majlis Planning and Budget Commission.

EghtesdaOnline: The industrial sector registered an export growth of 38.44%, the highest among all Iranian economic sectors, in the final quarter of the last fiscal year (Dec. 22, 2017-March 20) compared with the same period of the year before and a 41.93% rise compared with the previous quarter (Sept. 21-Dec. 21, 2017), the Statistical Center of Iran's website reported.

EghtesadOnline: The Producer Price Index for the industrial sector in the 12 months ending Dec. 21, 2017, which marks the end of fall, increased by 12.7% compared with the same period of last year, the Statistical Center of Iran reported. The sector’s PPI for the 12 months to Sept. 22, which marks the end of summer, increased by 10.2%.

EghtesadOnline: More than 19,000 industrial projects launched by previous governments have been completed with more than 710 trillion rials ($19 billion) of investment under President Hassan Rouhani’s administration, which created 302,000 direct jobs, according to the Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade.

EghtesadOnline: Iran's industrial sector has managed to repay 4.5% of its debts to the banking system over the past four years, said the minister of industries, mining and trade.