Financial Tribune - The Majlis Research Center, the research arm of the parliament, has published the results of three meetings with representatives from the private sector and business owners in the country. The report covers major hurdles from the perspective of businesses. Apart from the detrimental effects of US sanctions on key sectors of the ...

By Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The Iranian national symphony orchestra has been disbanded for lack of funds, musicians said Monday, another sign of the effects of Western economic sanctions.. Orchestra members told the semiofficial ILNA news agency Monday that they have not rehearsed together and have not been paid for three months....

AFP -Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's "mismanagement" is largely responsible for Iran's severe economic crisis, most candidates for this week's presidential election have argued, accusing the outgoing leader of squandering the country's oil wealth. One of the four conservative candidates running for the June 14 election, Mohsen Rezai, said Ahmadinejad's presidency ...

By Jerusalem Post MP Jalali launches blistering attack on Ahmadinejad, blames "internal mismanagement" for 80% of Iran's economic problems. An influential conservative Iranian lawmaker said on Wednesday that Iran should not dismiss the effects of sanctions. MP Kazem Jalali, the spokesman for Irans National Security and Foreign Policy Commission ...

By The New York Times TEHRAN Iranian police officers moved to arrest unlicensed currency dealers and increase patrols in the center of the capital on Monday to prevent unofficial trading from disrupting new government-imposed rates of exchange for the national currency, the rial. Over the past days,Irans leaders have sought to stabilize the ...

By The Guardian President's government is blamed for mismanagement and incompetence as rial hits all-time low Iran's president,Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has survived many crises during his seven years in office, both at home and abroad. But fears over thecountry's crumbling economy, which have exposed the extent of internal divisions at the top ...