FATF extends suspension of anti-Iran measures until February
Tasnim – The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) gave Iran a final deadline of February 2020 to tighten its rules against…
Economy
Iran plans to spend €300mn to build 200 large cargo ships: Minister
Press TV – Iran’s minister of industries and trade says the country will spend nearly 300 million euros to build 200 large…
Top official says Iran continues to sell oil and ‘The Enemy Does Not Know How’
Radio Farda – President Hassan Rouhani’s chief of staff has said October 17 that Iran is still able to sell its oil…
3 signs the ‘maximum pressure’ campaign against Iran isn’t working
RT | Darius Shahtahmasebi: The US’ so-called “maximum pressure” campaign targeting Tehran is certainly having a lasting effect on the people of…
Iran H1 steel output rises to 23m tons
Financial Tribune – Semi-finished steel made up 13.08 million tons of the total output, up 6% year-on-year, while finished steel production increased…
Iran energy exchange deals top $500 million
Financial Tribune – Trading in different energy carriers at Iran Energy Exchange has generated foreign currency income worth $519 million for the…
Burned by Trump, Iranians report negative views of the United States
Bourse and Bazaar | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: Three new waves of nationally-representative surveys conducted by the University of Maryland over the past six…
Importers buy forex worth €7.8b at Iran’s secondary forex market
Financial Tribune – The total value of foreign currencies sold by exporters of non-oil goods at Iran’s secondary market amounted to €9.2…
Iran’s top stock market performers announced
Financial Tribune – In a report examining the performance of businesses operating in the stock market, the Central Securities Depositary of Iran…
Annual premium income in Iran insurance sector to exceed $5.2bn till March
Press TV – Head of Iran’s regulatory body for the insurance sector says total premiums collected by insurers in the country would…
Iran fines food delivery company over breach of competition law
Press TV – Iran’s antitrust regulator has forced a major online food delivery company to pay fines over its breach of competition…
US extends Iraq sanctions waiver for Iranian gas, power imports
S&P Global – The US has granted Iraq another 120-day waiver that will allow it to continue to import Iranian electricity and…
COSCO Dalian supertanker wins temporary U.S. sanction waivers to unload oil
Reuters – A supertanker owned by COSCO Shipping Tankers (Dalian) has received a temporary waiver from U.S. sanctions that has allowed the…
TEDPIX extends losing streak
Financial Tribune – Almost all of the symbol tickers of listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange were in the red on Tuesday…
GC rejects bill on forming Commerce Ministry
Financial Tribune – The Guardians Council–a watchdog body that ensures laws are in line with the Iranian Constitution and the Islamic law–has…
Iran faces challenges in privatization plans
Al-Monitor | Bijan Khajehpour: One of the impacts of the current US sanctions on Iran is the loss of income as a…
Iran, EEU announce trade tariffs
Financial Tribune – The average tariff set by the Eurasian Economic Union on Iranian goods as part of a preferential trade agreement…
Iran raises $700mn through local bourse for oil project financing
Press TV – Head of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) says more than $700 million has been raised to finance oil…
Rouhani calls US sanctions on Iran ‘crime against humanity’
Al-Monitor – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has once again slammed the United States for abandoning the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, a departure…
Subsidy helps India traders sell sugar to Iran – sources
Reuters – Indian mills are aggressively selling old season sugar to Iran after New Delhi announced a subsidy to help cash-strapped mills…
US prosecutors accuse Turkey’s Halkbank of scheme to evade Iran sanctions
Reuters – U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday charged Turkey’s majority state-owned Halkbank (HALKB.IS) with taking part in a multibillion-dollar scheme to evade U.S.…
US ‘deeply concerned’ about untrackable China ships carrying Iran oil: officials
Reuters – The White House is warning Chinese shipping companies against turning off their ships’ transponders to hide Iranian oil shipments in…
Iran: Privatization reforms on agenda
Financial Tribune – Economy Minister Farhad Dejpasand says considerable changes are in the making to reform the procedures of future privatization programs…
Iran says renewable power capacity will top 4,000 MW in mid-2021
Press TV – Iran energy officials say the capacity for electricity production from renewable sources would increase by five times to reach…
Automakers, tech firms sign deals to curb foreign reliance
Financial Tribune – To curb the Iranian auto industries’ reliance on imports, car manufacturers have forged several deals with local tech firms…
Tehran stocks tumble amid selloff rush
Financial Tribune – After a two-day bull market, Tehran stocks took a drubbing on Monday, shedding more than 6,000 points to close…
IMF sharply cuts Iran, Saudi growth forecasts
AFP – The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday sharply downgraded growth projections for Saudi Arabia and Iran, the two largest Mideast economies,…
S. Korea halts pharmaceutical exports to Iran
MNA – South Korea has stopped its exports of medicine and related products to Iran, an official from Medical Equipment Department of…
South Korea’s US crude imports jump in September; no imports from Iran
Reuters – South Korea’s crude oil imports from the United States more than doubled in September, while its imports of Iranian oil…
EU sees spike in Afghan migrants as many leave sanctions-stricken Iran
Reuters – More Afghans than Syrians have migrated to the European Union so far this year, official data shows, making them the…
Iran ready to restart talks if US sanctions removed: President Rouhani
Press TV – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the country is ready to restart nuclear talks with the member states of the…
Lavan refinery offering Euro-grade output
SHANA – The managing director of Lavan Refinery said the facility’s output met European standards after it underwent a plan to improve…
Iran accounts for quarter of all exports to Iraq
Financial Tribune – Iran accounts for about a quarter of all exports to neighboring Iraq. According to Iran’s commercial attaché to Iraq,…
Iran firms ready to step in exploration projects
SHANA — The Managing Directors of OIEC and TEKNO companies has indicated their companies’ readiness to step in sophisticated exploration projects in…
Iran announces big increase in renewable power purchase prices
Financial Tribune – The guaranteed purchase price paid by the government for renewable power generated by private companies has, on average, increased…
Iran self-sufficient in oil exploration: Official
SHANA — The deputy NIOC director of development and engineering affairs said Iran was fully self-sufficient in exploration activities. Addressing a ceremony…
Iranian students barred from US: lost money, broken dreams, no answers
The Guardian | Caleb Hampton and Simon Campbell: They had been accepted to prestigious postgraduate programs, many in California, but they got…
50% growth in essential goods imports from Iran’s Imam Khomeini port
Financial Tribune – Close to 9 million tons of essential goods were unloaded at Imam Khomeini Port located in the southern Khuzestan…
Energy min.: Joining of Iran to EAEU develops peace, friendship in region
MNA – Referring to joining of Iran to the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in the coming weeks, Iranian Minister of Energy Reza…
Tehran stocks roar back to life
Financial Tribune – Leaving behind a lethargic week, Tehran stocks opened trading session on a strong note Saturday as the market recovered…