Nearly 1,200 Iranian factories revived in one year, over 21k jobs created
Press TV – Iran’s ministry of industries (MIMT) says hundreds of ailing or closed factories have been revived over the past calendar…
Economy
Iran pays another $32 mln to fund fight against coronavirus
Press TV – The Iranian government has provided another $32 million in emergency funding to the health sector amid a nationwide effort…
Coronavirus pandemic grounds 90 percent of Iranian flights at peak season
Press TV – Iranian airlines have canceled nearly 90 percent of their flights planned for a holiday season after the novel coronavirus…
Efforts for unfreezing Iran’s assets, getting loan from IMF on positive track: CBI
Tasnim – Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Abdonnaser Hemmati said the CBI is making all-out efforts to provide funds…
Iran offering $5bn in cheap loans to buffer businesses from pandemic
Press TV – The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has approved emergency funding worth nearly $5 billion to offer cheap loans to…
Iran revises buying price for wheat to support farmers
Press TV – Iran has lifted for a second time in a year the price at which it buys locally produced new-season…
Top banker: Iran may get part of frozen assets
Tasnim – A portion of Iran’s frozen financial assets will likely be freed for the purchase of medicine and basic commodities, the…
Iran to continue development of joint oil & gas fields in new year
IRNA – Iran will go ahead with implementation of important oil projects including development of joint oil and gas fields in the…
Official puts Iran’s last year unemployment rate at 10.6%
IRNA – Head of Plan and Budget Organization of Iran Mohammad Baqer Nobakht on Tuesday briefed the government’s efforts to rein in…
Iran not invited to WB/IMF initiative on coronavirus coordination
Press TV – Iran has been sidelined from an initiative by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to coordinate…
Pakistan PM asks Trump to lift Iran sanctions
IRNA — Prime Minister of Pakistan who believes that US sanctions against Iran are cruel and unfair has once again called upon…
Tehran shuts down commercial centers to contain COVID-19
MNA – All commercial centers across capital Tehran, except for those related to food supplies and pharmacies, have been ordered to close…
Iran’s foreign trade hits new high in volume terms despite US sanctions
Press TV – Head of Iran’s customs office has made a statement about the general situation of foreign trade in the past…
British petition calls on suspension of sanctions against Iran
Press TV – A petition calling on the British government and parliament to suspend sanctions against Iran for the duration of the…
Zarif: US sanctions ‘main obstacle’ to Iran’s COVID-19 battle
Press TV – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says US sanctions against Iran have hampered the country’s access to medicine and medical…
Iran’s chief banker says economy emerged from harshest year on record
Press TV – The governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) says robust and sound monetary policies adopted by the bank…
VP: Nationalization of oil opened new chapter in Iran development
IRNA – First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri believes that the 1951 nationalization of oil industry in Iran opened a new chapter in country’s…
US blacklists 5 UAE-based companies over purchase of Iran oil
Reuters – The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on five United Arab Emirates-based companies, accusing them of having collectively purchased in…
UK presses US to ease Iran sanctions to help fight coronavirus
The Guardian – Tehran says 1,135 have died and experts fear true figure could be five times as high The UK is…
US announced illegal sanctions amid Iran’s fight with coronavirus
Reuters – The United States on Wednesday identified seven companies that it has blacklisted for trade in Iranian petrochemicals – three based…
Inflation erodes bond market’s real value
Financial Tribune – Iran’s bond market grew twofold in two years from January 2018 till January 2020, but its real value changed…
MTN pushes for Iran growth in face of virus, sanctions
Bloomberg – MTN Group Ltd. said its Iranian business is still able to achieve strong sales growth in the short term, even…
SCI reports Q3 rise in EPI, IPI inflations
Financial Tribune – Export Price Index, an indicator measuring the overall change in prices for goods and services sold abroad, (using the…
Tehran stocks dip 0.7%
Financial Tribune – After a short-lived bull market in the earlier session, the benchmark of Tehran Stock Exchange dipped 0.72% on Tuesday.…
Iran’s non-oil foreign trade deficit at $1.5 billion
Financial Tribune – Iran’s non-oil foreign trade during the first 11 months of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2019, to Feb.…
The coronavirus is killing Iranians. So are Trump’s brutal sanctions.
The Intercept | Mehdi Hasan: The U.S. government is run by sociopaths. How else to explain the Trump administration’s callous disregard for…
Sanctioners issue no permit for imports of medicine, food to Iran: Nobakht
MNA – Head of Plan and Budget Organization (PBO) Mohammad Bagher Nobakht said on Tuesday that the imposers of sanctions on Iran…
Iran raps certain NAM states for blocking statement on US sanctions
Tasnim – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman strongly criticized certain members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) for breaking a consensus about opposition to…
Talks underway in IMF on offering emergency loan to Iran: spox
MNA – A spokesperson in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that talks are underway in the international body on giving Iran…
Zarif urges world states to join ‘global campaign to disregard’ US bans
Press TV – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warns that the American sanctions are “literally” taking lives in Iran in the midst of…
Gold drops, gold coins rise in Tehran market
Financial Tribune – Gold declined in Tehran on Monday, though gold coins were sold at higher prices. According to Tehran Gold and…
Coronavirus: Implications for Iranian pension funds
Financial Tribune – As the human costs of COVID-19 pandemic continue to rise, the virus is also taking its toll on the…
Exporters sold €16b on secondary forex market
Financial Tribune – Exporters of non-oil goods sold €16 billion ($17.8 billion) in their overseas revenues on the secondary foreign exchange market,…
US sanctions endanger Iranian women’s health: MP
MNA – Emphasizing the shortage of health and medical facilities due to US illegal sanctions, the Chairman of women and family fraction…
Envoy calls on intl. community to end US cruel sanctions
MNA – Iran’s Ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali said the sanctions had limited Iran’s financial resources and ability to confront coronavirus outbreak,…
Russia calls for lifting US sanctions obstacle to Iran’s campaign against corona pandemic
IRNA – Russian Foreign Ministry in statement urged the United States to remove sanctions against Iran which created obstacle to Iran’s campaign…
Iran calls on Europe to defy US sanctions amid COVID-19 outbreak
Press TV – Iran’s foreign minister has called on London and the European Union to defy Washington’s anti-Iran sanctions amid the outbreak…
Iran’s CB lists businesses directly affected by COVID-19
Financial Tribune – The Central Bank of Iran has released a list of businesses that have been directly affected by the outbreak…
Central Bank of Iran: Q3 growth at 1.2%
Financial Tribune – Iran’s gross domestic product in the third quarter of the current Iranian year (March 21-Dec. 21, 2019) stood at…
Hemmati announces loan scheme for businesses hit by coronavirus
Financial Tribune – The governor of the Central Bank of Iran on Wednesday outlined financial aid to help mitigate economic losses arising…