Iran, a land of big business opportunities in agriculture, tourism, oil and natural gas

Iran a huge market of + 80 million consumers. Iran's economy is a mixture of central planning, state ownership of oil and other large enterprises, village agriculture, and small-scale private trading and service ventures. 

The Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran is responsible for developing and maintaining the Iranian rial, which serves as the country's currency.

Tehran is the economic center of Iran, hosting 45% of the country's industries.

The administration continues to follow the market reform plans. Iran has developed a biotechnology, nanotechnology, and pharmaceuticals industry.

Iran has leading manufacturing industries in the fields of car-manufacture and transportation, construction materials, home appliances, food and agricultural goods, armaments, pharmaceuticals, information technology, power and petrochemicals in the Middle East.

According to FAO, Iran has been a top five producer of the following agricultural products in the world in 2012: apricots, cherries, sour cherries, cucumbers and gherkins, dates, eggplants, figs, pistachios, quinces, walnuts, and watermelons.

Over five million tourists visited Iran in the fiscal year of 2014–2015, ending 21 March, four percent more year-on-year.

Alongside the capital, the most popular tourist destinations are Isfahan, Mashhad and Shiraz.

Iran has the second largest proved gas reserves in the world after Russia, with 33.6 trillion cubic metres, and third largest natural gas production in the world after Indonesia, and Russia. It also ranks fourth in oil reserves with an estimated 153,600,000,000 barrels. It is OPEC's 2nd largest oil exporter and is an energy superpower.

Education in Iran is highly centralized. The requirement to enter into higher education is to have a high school diploma and pass the national university entrance examination, Iranian University Entrance Exam (known as concour), which is the equivalent of the US SAT exams.

Iran is the ninth country to put a domestically built satellite into orbit and the sixth to send animals in space.

In the biomedical sciences, Iran's Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics is a UNESCO chair in biology.

According to a study by David Morrison and Ali Khadem Hosseini (Harvard-MIT and Cambridge), stem cell research in Iran is amongst the top 10 in the world.

Iran placed its domestically built satellite, Omid into orbit on the 30th anniversary of the

Iran is the seventh country to produce uranium hexafluoride, and controls the entire nuclear fuel cycle.