230 people killed in November protests: MP
Tehran Times – Top MP Mojtaba Zonnour has said 230 people were killed during the protests in November 2019. “In these incidents,…
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Nearly 200 to 225 people killed in November protests, minister suggests
Tehran Times – Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli has suggested that nearly 200 to 225 people were killed during the widespread protests…
Restrictions on subsidized gasoline quotas in Iran
Financial Tribune – Fuel cards that hold 360 liters of gasoline will not be charged from April, head of the Planning Department…
The assassination of Gen. Soleimani has united Iranians like never before
Foreign Policy | ROHOLLAH FAGHIHI: Grief and anger seized Iranians after the U.S. killing of Gen. Qassem Suleimani last Friday. Enormous numbers of…
Cash subsidy payments to rise in next fiscal year
Financial Tribune – The parliamentary body responsible for reviewing the budget bill, the Majlis Joint Commission, has approved the pooling of next…
Iran’s judiciary refuses to say how many were killed in November protests
Radio Farda – The spokesman for Iran’s Judiciary has once again evaded responsibility to announce the number of protesters killed during the…
No foreign national arrested during Nov. unrest: official
MNA – Iran’s Prosecutor-General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri has rejected rumors about the arrest of foreign nationals during the recent unrest in the…
What’s all the buzz about 2019 Iran gasoline protests?
Iran Review | Alireza Hashemi: The Iranian government imposed petrol rationing and raised gasoline prices from 50 percent to 200 percent mid-November.…
Promoting CNG as the national fuel, challenges and merits
MNA | Ebrahim Fallahi: Following the implementation of the gasoline rationing scheme, the government has been promoting the use of Compressed Natural Gas…
Iran starts internet shutdown ahead of possible new protests: report
Reuters – Iranian authorities have shut down mobile internet access to overseas sites in several provinces, an Iranian news agency reported on…
Iranian official denies Ayatollah Khamenei ordered protests crackdown
Bloomberg – A senior official in the office of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has denied a report the supreme leader ordered President…
Iran’s daily gasoline consumption down by %15.9: Official
Press TV – Iran’s daily consumption of gasoline has dropped by almost a sixth more than a month after the government announced…
Iran: Gasoline rationing did not eliminate smuggling
Financial Tribune – Rationing gasoline and raising pump prices by 200% that started on Nov. 15 will have no substantial effect on…
After the Iran protests: How Europe can keep diplomacy alive
Bourse and Bazaar | Ellie Geranmayeh: The Middle East is facing a wave of protests—with the latest unrest in Iran sweeping the…
IRGC head blames foreign influence for protest ‘sedition’
Al-Monitor – The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami, issued a warning to the United States about provoking unrest…
Cleric blames Rouhani administration for abruptly raising gas price
FNA – Tehran’s provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani censured the government of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani for not…
Why the official death toll in recent events in Iran has not been announced yet?
Tehran Times | Mohammad Ghaderi: The main question that has been raised in regard to the events of the past few weeks…
Most of those killed in recent riots were not even present in protests: Iran’s Shamkhani
Tasnim – Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said the majority of those killed in last month’s protests…
President: National internet will be provided in parallel with foreign internet
IRNA – President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that national internet will be provided in parallel with foreign internet and that the…
Enemies had been counting on recent unrest in Iran: Vaezi
MNA – Iranian President’s Chief of Staff Mahmoud Vaezi said on Wednesday that a number of countries including the US, Israeli regime,…
Several riot leaders arrested in western Iran
FNA – Commander of Kermanshah province’s Law Enforcement Police Brigadier General Ali Akbar Javidan announced that his forces have recently arrested 4…
Iran: $500 million in government’s grant to retrofit cabs, vans
Financial Tribune – The government’s Economic Council has approved a proposal by the Oil Ministry based on which the state-owned National Iranian…
Iran targeting export of 30mln liters of gasoline per day
FNA – A senior energy official announced that Iran can now export some 25 million to 30 million liters of gasoline per…
Ayatollah Khamenei labels some Iran protesters martyrs
Al-Monitor – In a rare though not unprecedented move, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei indirectly acknowledged excesses in the crackdown on…
Leader calls for dealing with people injured, killed during recent unrest based on ‘Islamic compassion’
MNA – The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has responded to a letter from the Secretary of the Supreme…
Iran’s Rouhani calls for release of innocent, unarmed protesters
Reuters – Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani called on Wednesday for the release of any unarmed and innocent people who were detained during…
New cash transfers may lift 2 million Iranians out of poverty
Bourse and Bazaar | Djavad Salehi-Isfahani: The gasoline price hike of November 15 triggered widespread and violent protests in Iranian cities. Three…
Will Iran’s 50% gas price hike pay off for the economy?
Al-Monitor | Bijan Khajehpour: On Nov. 15, Iran announced a shift in its gasoline subsidy policies that led to massive social protests…
CIA behind recent unrest in Iran: Paul Craig Roberts
Tasnim – Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former US assistant secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under President Ronald Reagan in 1981,…
How Iran’s hard-liners tried to ride wave of protests
Al-Monitor | Rohollah Faghihi: Feeling the heat, Iranian hard-liners are distancing themselves from the government’s fuel price hike. The government announced Nov.…
Sanctions may have fueled Iran protests, but have yet to further US goals
The New York Times | David E. Sanger: President Trump likes to say that Iran is “a different country” after 18 months…
Judiciary: 300 in custody over suspected role in Tehran riots
Press TV – The Iranian Judiciary says around 300 individuals currently remain in custody over their suspected involvement in the deadly riots…
Iran Gov’t toughens eligibility for livelihood assistance program
Financial Tribune – After having paid $194.37 million to about 17.7 million households (60 million people) in the first round of the…
Iran: CNG use in vehicles helps cut fuel costs
Financial Tribune – Converting gasoline-powered vehicles, especially vans, to compressed natural gas hybrids can help reduce fuel costs for motorists by 100%,…
Fuel price riots exposed enemies’ opportunism: Top general
Press TV – A top military commander says recent fuel-related riots that broke out across Iran exposed the degree of opportunism by…
Iran’s DoE discounts gasoline rationing scheme
Financial Tribune – Kalantari: The decision to ration gasoline for private cars, cabs …has nothing to do with the torpid campaign against…
Some officials surprised by recent unrest in country: MP
MNA – In an interview with Mehr news agency, the Chairman of an Iranian Parliament’s fraction said “inconsiderate about the warnings of…
Senior cleric criticizes govt. for improper implementation of gasoline rationing plan
MNA – Tehran provisional Friday Prayers Leader Mohammad Javad Haj Ali Akbari has called on the government to apologize the people for…
Iran: Gasoline and shock therapy
Financial Tribune | Amin Sabooni: When the government raised pump prices last week by 50%, from 10,000 rials to 15,000 rails (for…
Gasoline price hike turbocharges demand for CNG hybrid cars
Financial Tribune – Demand for CNG hybrid cars and prices of such vehicles have soared since the Iranian government decided to triple…