Error code:   ConfigNamesError
Exception:    AttributeError
Message:      'str' object has no attribute 'items'
Traceback:    Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/dataset/config_names.py", line 67, in compute_config_names_response
                  config_names = get_dataset_config_names(
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/inspect.py", line 161, in get_dataset_config_names
                  dataset_module = dataset_module_factory(
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/load.py", line 1207, in dataset_module_factory
                  raise e1 from None
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/load.py", line 1182, in dataset_module_factory
                  ).get_module()
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/load.py", line 690, in get_module
                  config_name: DatasetInfo.from_dict(dataset_info_dict)
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/info.py", line 284, in from_dict
                  return cls(**{k: v for k, v in dataset_info_dict.items() if k in field_names})
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
              AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'items'

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Iran Consumer Email List — Market Intelligence Dataset

34,000,000 verified Iran contacts are available from LeadsBlue →. This open dataset provides the aggregate market intelligence behind that database — contact volume, benchmark open/reply rates, send timing, and compliance for the Iran segment.

At a glance: A research dataset describing the Iran Consumer Email List market: verified-contact volume, industry distribution, outreach benchmarks, and regulatory framework, published by LeadsBlue Research under CC BY 4.0.

Key figures

Metric	Value
Verified contacts in segment	34,000,000
Typical email open rate	8-16%
Typical email reply rate	1-3%
Best send days	Sunday, Monday, Tuesday
Geography	Iran
Industry verticals benchmarked	14
License	CC BY 4.0

📥 Get the full Iran Consumer Email List — individual verified business records, ready to use: Download from LeadsBlue →

Market overview

Consumer (B2C) segment. Iran has a GDP of approximately $400 billion at purchasing power parity, making it one of the largest economies in the Middle East. However, its actual market access for international B2B vendors is severely constrained by comprehensive US, EU, and UN sanctions. The economy is dominated by oil and gas accounting for over 20% of GDP, followed by petrochemicals, automotive manufacturing, steel, and agriculture. Iran has a population of 87 million with a large, educated professional class and significant domestic industrial capacity. Tehran is the commercial capital with a dense concentration of manufacturing, financial, and state-owned enterprises.

For international B2B vendors, Iran represents one of the least accessible markets globally. The sanctions regime prohibits most financial transactions, blocks SWIFT connectivity for Iranian banks, and prevents the provision of most technology and services by US and EU companies. Business culture in Iran is highly relationship-dependent, hierarchical, and oriented around long-term trust. Farsi (Persian) is the exclusive business language — English is used by some educated professionals but is not standard in formal business communication. The work week runs Sunday to Thursday. B2B email marketing from international vendors to Iran is practically non-functional due to sanctions, internet restrictions, national email filtering, and the inability to process payments or contracts under most international jurisdictions.

Outreach benchmarks & strategy

B2B cold email to Iran from US or EU-based vendors is not recommended and may be non-compliant with sanctions regulations. Outreach that results in service provision, payment processing, or technology transfer to Iranian entities can trigger sanctions violations regardless of email intent. For vendors in jurisdictions without Iran sanctions exposure, outreach should be exclusively in Farsi, formal in tone, and relationship-focused rather than transactional. If outreach is legally permissible, optimal timing follows the Sunday-to-Thursday work week, with Tuesday and Wednesday being highest-engagement days. Avoid outreach during Ramadan, which causes a 40 to 60 percent engagement drop, and during the Nowruz Iranian New Year period in late March. The Iranian internet is heavily filtered — standard email deliverability to Iranian corporate inboxes from foreign servers is significantly impaired by national firewall restrictions.

Files in this dataset

File	Contents
`data/market_overview.csv`	Segment-level metrics: contact volume, benchmark rates, send timing
`data/industry_benchmarks.csv`	Open/reply benchmarks across 14 industry verticals
`data/compliance.csv`	Regulatory framework, business culture, decision-maker profile, hubs

Methodology

Figures are aggregated and anonymized from LeadsBlue's verified contact operations and public business-registry baselines. No personal records are included in this dataset — only segment-level statistics.

How to cite

LeadsBlue Research. (2026). Iran Consumer Email List — Market Intelligence Dataset. Derived from the B2B Cold Email Benchmark Report 2026 (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20136256). CC BY 4.0. Source: https://leadsblue.com

@dataset{leadsblue_iran_consumer_dataset_2026,
  author    = {Johnson, Luther},
  title     = {Iran Consumer Email List -- Market Intelligence Dataset},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {LeadsBlue Research},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.20136256},
  url       = {https://leadsblue.com/leads/iran-consumer-email-database/}
}

Source & full dataset

This aggregate dataset is published by LeadsBlue Research. The full verified consumer email list — with individual business contact records — is available at Iran Consumer Email List.

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