CBI chief dismisses IMF’s forecast of Iran’s economy
FNA – Governor of the Central Bank of Iran Abdolnasser Hemmati categorically dismissed a recent forecast by the International Monetary Fund (IMF)…
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Iran’s top banker urges IMF to resist US pressure as loan request lingers
Press TV – Iran’s Central Bank Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati says the International Monetary Fund (IMF) should approve Tehran’s request for a loan without…
US stalling massive IMF liquidity boost over Iran, China – sources
Reuters | David Lawder, Andrea Shalal: U.S. opposition to opening new avenues of funding for Iran and China is preventing the International Monetary…
Middle East set for sharp economic fall due to Covid-19 “Great Lockdown” says IMF
Forbes | Dominic Dudley: Middle East economies are set to suffer a huge economic hit this year because of the Covid-19 pandemic.…
IMF’s assessment of Iran funding request is ‘taking time’: official
Reuters – The International Monetary Fund is still assessing Iran’s request for $5 billion in emergency financing in a process which is…
Iran’s Top Banker: IMF loan unconditional
Tasnim – The loan that Iran has asked the International Monetary Fund for in order to deal with the coronavirus outbreak is…
IMF predicts lower contraction for Iran economy after pandemic
Press TV – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has expected that the Iranian economy would do better in the wake of the…
Why sanctions on Iran must end
Press TV | Yasir Ali Mirza: Iran is among the worst-hit countries affected by the novel Coronavirus pandemic. As per the World…
Sanctions illegitimately block Iran’s money and loan request
IRNA – The United States’ unilateral, extraterritorial sanctions are in contradiction with the principles of international law, including territoriality, non-intervention, free trade,…
US has no right to veto Iran’s IMF loan bid: Spokesman
Tasnim – The spokesman for Iran’s administration lashed out at the US for its attempts to block Tehran’s request for an emergency…
How the IMF can help Iran despite US objections
Bloomberg | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: The coronavirus epidemic has hammered Iran’s economy. Like many developing countries around the world that have seen export…
Coronavirus: Key US senator urges Trump to approve Iran’s IMF loan request
Middle East Eye – Dianne Feinstein says it is in interest of United States to help Iran contain disease A senior Democratic…
CBI Chief briefs IMF on Iran’s rights, US obstructions
IRNA – Governor of Central Bank of Iran Abdolnaser Hemmati in a letter to International Monetary Fund on Thursday elaborated on Iran’s…
President Rouhani: IMF must fulfill its duties without bias against Iran
Press TV – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the International Monetary Fund (IMF) must fulfill its duties toward all member countries, including…
Intel: US comes out against emergency COVID-19 IMF loan for Iran
Al-Monitor | Bryant Harris: The United States opposes Iran’s request for a $5 billion emergency loan request from the International Monetary Fund…
Virus-hit Iran urges IMF to approve its loan request
Bourse and Bazaar | Amir Havasi: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged the InternationalMonetary Fund on Wednesday to give the sanctions-hit country a…
VP: US cannot veto Iran’s application for IMF loan amid coronavirus outbreak
FNA – Iranian Vice President for Economic Affairs Mohammad Nahavandian said that no country, including the US, has the right to veto…
Iran’s Rouhani urges IMF to give Tehran $5 billion coronavirus loan
Reuters – Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday the International Monetary Fund would be guilty of “discriminatory behaviour” unless it provides…
Iran says US sabotage of $5b loan bid from IMF amounts to “crimes against humanity”
IRNA – Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shankhani said in a Twitter message on Sunday that US sabotage…
Iran’s urgent IMF loan request challenges Trump policy
Bourse and Bazaar | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: For the first time in 60 years, Iran has requested a loan from the International Monetary…
The coronavirus crisis is a diplomatic opportunity for the United States and Iran
Foreign Policy | Robert Malley, Ali Vaez: Washington and Tehran could use the public health emergency to show goodwill, dial down tensions while…
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…
Iran-US relations and the Corona Virus crisis
The Dispatch | Tridivesh Singh Maini: Iran has asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for emergency funding (it is for the first…
Iran says it has asked IMF for $5 billion emergency funding to fight coronavirus
Reuters – Iran has asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for emergency funding to help it fight the coronavirus outbreak, which has…
Iran applies for $5 billion loan from IMF to battle coronavirus
Tasnim – The Governor of the Central Bank of Iran said he has asked the International Monetary Fund for a $5 billion…
Rising employment casts doubt on IMF’s grim forecast for Iran’s economy
Bourse and Bazaar | Djavad Salehi-Isfahani: In October, the IMF downgraded its forecast of Iran’s economic growth for 2019 from -6 to -9.5…
Iran’s economic resiliency makes talks more likely
Bloomberg | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: The International Monetary Fund has revised downward its projections for Iran’s economy this year, predicting a 9.5% contraction,…
Iran would need oil at $195 a barrel next year to balance budget: IMF
Reuters – Iran would need oil priced at $194.6 a barrel to balance its budget next year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF)…
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,…
Iran’s economy is bruised, but not broken
Bourse and Bazaar | Djavad Salehi-Isfahani: Last April, in a column for this blog I predicted that sanctions are very unlikely to…
Iran inflation could reach 40 percent this year as economy shrinks further – IMF
Reuters – Iran’s economy is expected to shrink for the second consecutive year and inflation could reach 40 percent, an International Monetary…
Tale of two economies: IMF tallies up sanctions wreckage in Iran
Bloomberg | Ladane Nasseri and Filipe Pacheco: The re-imposition of U.S. sanctions on Iran’s oil exports is undoing every assumption the International Monetary Fund…
Iranian representatives attend IMF-World Bank meeting
MNA – Acting Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Seyyed Rahmatollah Akrami attended the annual meeting of International Monetary Fund and World…
EU financial chiefs discuss doing business with Iran
IRNA- Some senior financial executives from Europe have reportedly met in on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the International Monetary…
IMF reverses Iran growth, lifts Saudi forecast
Bourse and Bazaar | AFP: The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday predicted Iran’s economy will sink deep in the red due to renewed…
High stakes for Iran in upcoming FATF meeting
Bourse and Bazaar | Matthew Spivack: A few days ahead of an international meeting in which Iran’s efforts to improve anti-money laundering…
Iran’s coverage: Reports of Iran-EU missile talks ‘A Complete Lie’: FM
Daily look at Iran’s late-breaking news and upcoming events: Reports of EU-Iran missile talks ‘A Complete Lie’: Zarif Iranian Foreign Minister…
IMF sees steady growth for Iran but economic reforms needed
AP — The International Monterrey Fund is predicting a steady growth in Iran’s economy but cautions it still faces a number of…
IMF unfazed by Trump threats over Iran plans
Press TV- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says its policy in awarding loans to Iran will not change in the wake of…
Iran’s economy minister in US for IMF annual meeting
Tasnim – Iranian Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Massoud Karbasian has travelled to Washington, D.C., to attend the annual meeting of…