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Evidence Library

The primary material behind Tehran Index research. Each record below is one source object, an interview, a filing, a report, with the structured claims we extracted from it. Claims flow into company facts, timelines, and dossiers. Only current events enter the Signals feed.

10Annual reports
8Executive interviews
4Company statements
4Exchange filings
2Registry documents
2Shareholder reports
156Extracted records
30 source objects catalogued. Publication dates marked “pending” are under verification and those objects stay out of the Latest signals view until confirmed. The archive grows as the research desk processes new primary material.
Registry documentIR-EV-0018Source published 2026-07-11

Corporate registry records, Digikala group + operating entities

Official corporate registry / gazetteOriginal language: Persian

Official registry records for BOTH Digikala legal entities: the group holding (Digikala E-Commerce Trading Group Co., registered June 2018) and the operating company (Noavaran Fan Avazeh, registered January 2013). Yields: dual-board governance (group chaired by an investor-side representative; opco chaired by co-founder Saeid Mohammadi), complete registered-capital histories for both entities, signature-rights notices, license inventory, and board terms to Sep 2026. Retrieved 2026-07-11; identifiers held internally per policy.

11 extracted recordsDigikala
Registry documentIR-EV-0024Source published 2026-07-11

Corporate registry records, Digipay, Alibaba, Divar/Hezardastan, Snapp

Official corporate registry (Rasmio index)Original language: Persian

Indexed registry capture: legal-entity maps and current registered capitals for the four wave-3 groups, 14 entities identified incl. Snapp's four-entity structure and the Hezardastan holding tree. Partial identifiers not stored; full boards and capital histories pending direct registry retrieval.

7 extracted recordsDigipayAlibabaDivarSnapp
Company statementIR-EV-0019Source published 2026-07-11

Digikala Group corporate structure page

about.digikala.comOriginal language: Persian

The group's own structure statement (retrieved 2026-07-11): 10 group companies (incl. Optime, Ganje; Komoda removed by TI determination, the page still lists it, treated as outdated on that point) vs the opco's service lines; holding operational from July 2021; group owns 100% of the Digikala opco (Noavaran Fan Avazeh) and all or part of the other companies.

3 extracted recordsDigikalaDigipay
Executive interviewIR-EV-0017Source published 2026-07-10

Executive interview, Saeid Mohammadi (Digikala Group)

Saeid Mohammadi, Co-founder & Group CEO, Digikala E-Commerce GroupRecorded interview, Persian business media (on file)Original language: Persian

On-record interview (ref. on file). Founder interview covering group scale, investment history, and strategy. Speaker is co-founder and Group CEO (role per his self-declared profile; episode title credits him as creator and founder). Recording predates upload materially; claims are treated as disclosures reflecting their stated periods, not current events.

12 extracted recordsDigikala
Executive interviewIR-EV-0002Source published 2026-07-04

Executive interview, Masoud Tabatabaei (Digikala.com)

Masoud Tabatabaei, CEO, Digikala.com (operating company)Recorded interview, Persian business media (on file)Original language: Persian

On-record interview (ref. on file). Interview with the CEO of the Digikala.com operating company (distinct from group founder Saeid Mohammadi). Operating and leadership disclosures extracted as period-stamped facts.

8 extracted recordsDigikala
Exchange filingIR-EV-0032Source published 2026-07-01

Digipay FY1402-FY1404 financials on Codal, reported by Digiato

Digiato (from Codal disclosures)Original language: Persian

Digipay financials as disclosed on Codal, for years ended 30 Azar: operating revenue 237B (FY1402) → 494B (FY1403) → 1,163B toman (FY1404), a 2.4x jump in the last year. Gross margin 69% → 65% → 75%. General and administrative costs 82B → 316B → 776B toman. Net profit 71B → (2B) loss → 25B toman. Digiato notes Codal does not disclose the cost detail, so the quality and durability of that profit cannot be judged from the filing alone.

7 extracted recordsDigipayDigikala
Executive interviewIR-EV-0007Source published 2026-06-01

Executive interview, Talasea leadership

Peivast, industry press (video)Original language: Persian

Peivast video segment (19m42s). Talasea CEO on the impact of new gold-trading regulations on small businesses, with platform metrics. Contemporaneous regulatory commentary.

1 extracted recordTalasea
Company statementIR-EV-0006Source published 2026-05-30

Market coverage, Digipay / DigiCard launch (Digikala Group e-banking)

Peivast, industry press (video)Original language: Persian

Peivast video segment (5m50s) on Digikala Group's move into physical payments: Digipay's DigiCard launch with Bank Tejarat, plus operating metrics. Short-form news coverage of a dated current development.

2 extracted recordsDigipay
Annual reportIR-EV-0031Source published 2025-10-12

DigiExpress FY1403 performance report (group logistics arm), reported by Zoomit

ZoomitOriginal language: Persian

DigiExpress FY1403 report: 34M+ packages delivered; 54.6M km driven; 95%+ on-time; Tehran the largest destination at ~16M packages; peak day 27 Bahman 1403 at ~150,000 packages; 9.5M packages in winter; 1,611,000+ same/next-day deliveries; 59 distribution centres; 251 parcel lockers with daily capacity up 239% and 2M+ packages collected through them; FBM (seller-packed) 50,000+ orders across 180+ sellers in Tehran/Alborz; ~2,500 direct and indirect staff, >12% women.

10 extracted recordsDigikala
Annual reportIR-EV-0028Source published 2025-09-07

Digikala annual report FY1403, operating and marketplace figures

Digikala (about.digikala.com)Original language: Persian

The company FY1403 report: 466,169 active sellers, 14.5M SKUs, 5.5M average daily visits, 4.4M average daily searches, GMV +71%, orders +30%, online-store revenue +90%, 959 infrastructure centres, 731 pickup points, and Digikala at 28% of an Iranian online-retail market that is itself 6.4% of total retail.

9 extracted recordsDigikala
Company statementIR-EV-0029Source published 2025-09-07

Trade-press read-through of the FY1403 annual report

DMBoard · Peivast · Zoomit · DigiatoOriginal language: Persian

Four licensed Iranian trade outlets independently reporting the same FY1403 figures (sellers 466,169; SKUs 14.5M; daily visits 5.5M; GMV +71%; orders +30%; credit purchases +129%). Corroboration that these are the figures the company put into the public record.

6 extracted recordsDigikala
Executive interviewIR-EV-0004Source published 2025-07-25

Executive interview, Mostafa Amiri (ZarinPal)

Mostafa Amiri, CEO, ZarinPalRecorded interview, Persian business media (on file)Original language: Persian

On-record interview (ref. on file). Payment-gateway market and ZarinPal's position. Note: guest is Mostafa Amiri, CEO; relationship to founder Ali Amiri not independently verified. Statements reflect mid-2025 context.

2 extracted recordsZarinpal
Exchange filingIR-EV-0027Source published 2025-05-29

Digikala Group FY1403 audited financial statements (as reported)

DigiatoOriginal language: Persian

Digikala Group FY1403 performance as carried in Hamrah-e Aval (MCI)'s audited financial statements to 30 Esfand 1403 (20 March 2025), reported by Digiato: operating revenue above 30,423B toman; net profit above 538,891M toman; current liabilities 12,485B toman; non-current assets ~5,001B toman; H2 operating revenue +23% on H1 while net profit fell 32%. Group scope: Digikala, Digipay, Diginext, Fidibo and others. Digiato notes the two companies' fiscal year-ends may differ. We hold the press report of the filing, not the filing document.

6 extracted recordsDigikalaDigipay
Executive interviewIR-EV-0001Source published 2025-04-18

Executive interview, Majid Hosseini Nejad (Alibaba Group)

Majid Hosseini Nejad, Co-founder, Alibaba GroupRecorded interview, Persian business media (on file)Original language: Persian

Long-form founder interview covering Alibaba Group's market position, travel-market structure, and group strategy. Historical disclosure: statements reflect the situation as of publication (April 2025), not current events.

6 extracted recordsAlibaba
Executive interviewIR-EV-0003Source published 2025-04-11

Executive interview, Sobhan Foroughi (Tapsell)

Sobhan Foroughi, CEO, TapsellRecorded interview, Persian business media (on file)Original language: Persian

On-record interview (ref. on file). Covers Tapsell's acquisition of Cafe Bazaar and the digital-advertising market. Historical disclosure: statements reflect early-2025 context.

3 extracted recordsCafe BazaarTapsell
Executive interviewIR-EV-0005Source published 2025-01-24

Executive interview, Miare leadership

Recorded interview, Persian business media (on file)Original language: Persian

On-record interview (ref. on file). Topic: Digikala's 235B toman investment in courier startup Miare. Guest name not stated in the episode title; attribution pending.

1 extracted recordMiare
Annual reportIR-EV-0020Source published 2023-07-012022-23

Digipay annual report FY1401 (third edition)

Digipay / Digikala GroupOriginal language: Persian

Digipay's third annual report: BNPL (2M+ credits, 610K users), micro-loans (2.3M+), wallet volumes, gateway throughput, reach; leadership editorials by founder-CEO Houman Amini and chairman H. Mohammadi. Publication month per public search (July 2023), exact date pending.

9 extracted recordsDigipayDigikala
Shareholder reportIR-EV-0030Source published 2022-11-06

Digikala Group shareholding structure (company disclosure, reported by Zoomit)

ZoomitOriginal language: Persian

Zoomit reproducing Digikala's own published shareholder disclosure: co-founders Hamid and Saeid Mohammadi >33%; IIIC (International Internet Investment Cooperatief U.A., a European investment co-operative formed 2015) 32.67%; Sarava Pars 25.64%; ESOP 4.46%; remainder >4% across Lilian Mod Tejarat, Bazaar-e Ati Ara, Pomegranate Investment AB, Kia Asa Tejarat Toos and Pars Gostar Dina. First round via Sarava in 1391 (2012); second round in 1395 (2016) from IIIC at $100M under a FIPPA foreign-investment licence, the first foreign capital into the company, which bootstrapped for its first six years. In 1400 (2021) the group was formed and took 100% ownership of the operating entity (Noavaran Fan Avazeh). Note: predates the 2024 MCI transaction. The article's political framing is out of scope and not used.

8 extracted recordsDigikala
Annual reportIR-EV-0022Source published 2022-07-012021-22

Divar annual report FY1400

DivarOriginal language: Persian

Divar's FY1400 report (PDF held via mirror): 53.1M unique phones (+20%), 139.7M ads, 21.8M advertisers, install milestones, usage-pattern stats. Publication July 2022; appears to be Divar's last annual report.

1 extracted recordDivar
Annual reportIR-EV-0021Catalogued2024-25

Snapp Group annual report FY1403

Snapp GroupOriginal language: Persian

FY1403 report + blog summary: 1.514B trips across 424 cities, 81.5M cumulative accounts, 8.57B app opens, 88.7% average stated market share, Pro subscribers, CSR figures. Full report page: snapp.ir/1403-annual-report.

10 extracted recordsSnapp
Annual reportIR-EV-0009Cataloguedend

Snapp Annual Report FY1403

Primary document catalogued in the Tehran Index research archive; extracted claims appear as period-stamped facts on the linked company profiles.

8 extracted recordsSnapp
Exchange filingIR-EV-0008Catalogued2026-27

System Group, Codal, AGM decisions filing

Codal (Tehran exchange disclosure system)Original language: Persian

Primary document catalogued in the Tehran Index research archive; extracted claims appear as period-stamped facts on the linked company profiles.

8 extracted recordsSystem Group
Annual reportIR-EV-0010Catalogued2021-22, 2024-25

Digikala annual reports (official series)

Primary document catalogued in the Tehran Index research archive; extracted claims appear as period-stamped facts on the linked company profiles.

5 extracted recordsDigikala
Exchange filingIR-EV-0011Cataloguedto 2026-03-20

Tapsi, Codal, AGM decisions filing, FY ending 1404/12/29

Codal (Tehran exchange disclosure system)Original language: Persian

Primary document catalogued in the Tehran Index research archive; extracted claims appear as period-stamped facts on the linked company profiles.

3 extracted recordsTapsi
Annual reportIR-EV-0013Catalogued2020-21

Divar Annual Report FY1399 (reviewed)

Primary document catalogued in the Tehran Index research archive; extracted claims appear as period-stamped facts on the linked company profiles.

2 extracted recordsDivar
Company statementIR-EV-0016Catalogued2024-02

Tapsi acquisition announcement

Primary document catalogued in the Tehran Index research archive; extracted claims appear as period-stamped facts on the linked company profiles.

2 extracted recordsTapsi
Annual reportIR-EV-0012Catalogued2022-23

Alibaba.ir annual report FY1401 (reviewed)

Primary document catalogued in the Tehran Index research archive; extracted claims appear as period-stamped facts on the linked company profiles.

2 extracted recordsAlibaba
Annual reportIR-EV-0015Catalogued2024-25

Snapp Group HR Annual Report FY1403

Primary document catalogued in the Tehran Index research archive; extracted claims appear as period-stamped facts on the linked company profiles.

2 extracted recordsSnapp
Executive interviewIR-EV-0023Publication date pending verification

Executive interview, Arian Bagheri (Ganje)

Recorded interview, Persian business media (on file)Original language: Persian

On-record interview (ref. on file). Ganje (Digikala Group smart-locker venture), from idea to Digikala investment. Co-founder/CEO Arian Bagheri. Upload date pending verification.

Extraction and translation are Tehran Index research work; claims retain the evidence state of their source. See Methodology for how evidence classes and verification tiers are defined.