59% of Iran's digital economy is concentrated in Tehran, communications ministry official says

Ehsan Chitsaz, deputy for ICT development and digital economy policy and planning at Iran's Ministry of Communications, said 59% of the country's digital economy is concentrated in Tehran, and that a province's share of the digital economy falls as its level of development falls. He spoke on 21 July 2026, the second day of the Iran Economic Outlook conference for the year to March 2027, where he named continuing sanctions, the high cost of capital, damage to infrastructure, the regulatory regime and declining trust in policymaking as the main uncertainties facing the sector. The outlet headlined the 59% as a concentration of digital economy companies; the statement it quotes refers to the digital economy itself.