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If you wanted to understand a country's wealth or identify the economic borders of the world hundreds of years ago, all you had to do was look at its ports, customs houses, and the ships docked at its harbors. Whoever controlled these gateways determined who was allowed to enter the market and who was left outside. Today, however, a profound transformation has taken place. Customs houses and commercial terminals still stand where they have always stood, but they are no longer the principal instruments of economic power. A significant portion of the world's economic borders has moved to a place invisible to the naked eye, into software algorithms, cloud infrastructure, and global standards for data exchange. The world's economic borders have not disappeared. Rather, they have shifted from the physical, analogue world into digital networks, and today it is computer code that issues our visa for entry into the global economy.

Roza Mojtahedzadeh, Vice Chair of the Iranian Virtual Businesses Association, told Asia News that the disruption of international internet access in Iran was far more than a communications outage; it triggered a severe crisis across the country's digital economy. According to her, the consequences extended beyond online businesses and platforms, affecting investment, software development, digital infrastructure, and even the future of the sector's workforce.

The 16th Internal Conference of Iran Success Organization was held on June 15, 2026, under the theme “Credibility and Sustainability” at Tehran’s Olympic Hotel. The event brought together economic activists, senior insurance industry executives, shareholders, managers of financial and payment facilitation companies, as well as employees and their families.

Coffee consumption in Iran has grown significantly over the past decade, making the country’s coffee industry one of the fastest-developing sectors. Alongside changing consumer tastes, production and industrial activities related to coffee have also increased. In this context, Amin Davoodi spoke with Ali-Asghar Asghari, manager of Max Coffee, about the current state of the industry.