Iran imports $5 billion of genetically modified crops a year despite government restrictions on the production of biotech products, local media said on Monday.

Iran’s steelmakers are calling on the government to raise import tariffs on certain steel products amid a “crisis” in the industry due to a number of factors, including dumping by China and other exporters.

Newly published figures suggest that car imports to Iran have significantly dropped in the first quarter of the current Persian calendar year (starting on March 21).

Indonesia is in talks with Iran for a long-term oil supply deal to meet its rising demand for crude as the country is expanding its refineries, its Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Sudirman Said has said.