energypress:   Deputy Transmission and Cryptocurrency Project Executive Tavanir said: "The global hash rate de­crease was between 5 and 12 percent, but 12 percent is a very large number, as load behavior data shows a 2,400 megawatt reduction in load power."

According to Energy Press, Mohammad El-Dad, Deputy Head of Transfer and Executive Director of the Cryptocurrency Project of Tavanir Company, said in relation to the news published regarding the iss­ues raised that 5% of the world’s mining is carried out in Iran, “In recent days, numerous news and fi­gures have been raised in Iran about the significant decrease in the global processing and hash rate recorded in the global Bitcoin networks.” He continued: “These figures ranged from 5% to 12%, and various sites and experts in this matter pointed to the decrease in the global hash rate, which 12% is a very large number, but from the load behavior information that we have extracted relatively accu­rate­ly, we witnessed a power reduction of up to 2,400 megawatts in the country’s load on the days when the internet was down.”

TEHRAN-TIMES:   Mashhad’s Shahid Hasheminejad International Airport has resumed flight opera­tions to 12 international and 3 domestic destinations, as the region emerges from a tense 12-day conflict between Iran and the Zionist regime of Israel.

According to Mahmoud Amani-Bani, the director-general of airports in Khorasan Razavi province, flights have been restored following the reopening of eastern Iran’s airspace. International flights from Mashhad now operate to Beijing, Istanbul, Dubai, New Delhi, Shanghai, Kabul, Karachi, Lahore, Medina, Muscat, Moscow, and Doha, while domestic flights serve Zahedan, Chabahar, and Kerman.

“After the lifting of airspace restrictions, operations to several domestic and international destinati­ons have resumed, and some foreign airlines have submitted requests to reinstate their services,” he said.

Amani-Bani also noted that three international carriers -Turkish Airlines, Flydubai, and Air Arabia-have already resumed services to Mashhad. Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest city and a major religious tou­rism hub, is the capital of Khorasan Razavi province.

TEHRAN-TIMES:   Iran exported $11.655 billion worth of non-oil goods in the first quarter of the cur­rent Iranian calendar year (March 21–June 21), according to Faroud Asgari, deputy economy minis­ter and head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA).

The volume of non-oil exports stood at 34.476 million tons, representing a 9.3 percent decrease in weight and a 14.4 percent drop in value compared to the same period last year. The average customs value of exported goods was $338 per ton, down 5.6 percent year-on-year. Petrochemical exports du­ring the quarter totaled 11.133 million tons, valued at $4.684 billion, which marks a 28.7 percent de­cline in weight and a 24.5 percent decrease in value from the year before. The top non-oil export items were liquefied propane at $874 million, liquefied butane at $611 million, methanol at $576 mil­li­on, petroleum bitumen at $574 million, and natural gas at $456 million. China was Iran’s largest ex­port destination with purchases totaling $3.511 billion. It was followed by Iraq at $1.905 billion, the Uni­ted Arab Emirates at $1.592 billion, Turkey at $937 million, Afghanistan at $510 million, Oman at $437 million, and Pakistan at $420 million.

Iran’s total non-oil trade during the quarter reached 43.489 million tons, valued at $24.684 billion.

Im­ports accounted for 9.013 million tons of that volume, worth $13.029 billion—down 4.35 percent in  weight and 11.73 percent in value year-on-year. The average value of imported goods was $1,446 per ton, reflecting a 7.7 percent decline. Key import items included unrefined gold at $965 million, animal feed corn at $883 million, rice at $500 million, sunflower seed oil at $493 million, and mobile phones at $372 million.

TEHRAN-TIMES:   The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected that Iran’s economy will reach a gross domestic product of $1.746 trillion in 2025 based on purchasing power parity, an in­crease of $51 billion compared to the previous year. However, the Fund expects the country’s GDP per capita, also based on PPP, to decline slightly from $17,222 in 2024 to $17,103 this year.

The IMF estimates Iran’s GDP at current prices will fall from $401 billion in 2024 to $341 billion in 2025, marking a $60 billion decrease. It also forecasts a significant slowdown in real economic growth, with a rate of just 0.3 percent this year, down from 3.4 percent in 2024.

According to the report, inflation is expected to rise from 32.6 percent in 2024 to 43.3 percent in 2025. The volume of exports of goods and services, which expanded by 4.6 percent last year, is pro­jec­ted to shrink by 5 percent. Imports, which grew by 10.6 percent in 2024, are forecast to contract by 9.6 percent this year.

Despite these trends, Iran is expected to maintain a positive current account balance of $3 billion in 2025. This reflects a decline of $7.9 billion from the $10.9 billion surplus recorded in 2024 but indica­tes the country will continue to generate more income from abroad than it spends.

The IMF also anticipates a rise in the unemployment rate, from 7.7 percent in 2024 to 9.5 percent in 2025. Government revenues are expected to decline slightly from 10.6 percent of GDP to 9.5 percent, while expenditures are projected to increase marginally from 14.7 percent to 14.9 percent of GDP. As a result, gross government debt is forecast to rise from 36.8 percent of GDP to 39.9 percent this year.

Total investment is projected to remain stable at 39 percent of GDP, unchanged from the previous year.