Govt. ready for close coop with new Parl. according to constitution
MNA – President Hassan Rouhani says the government is ready for close cooperation with the new Parliament within the frameworks of the…
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64% in Tehran need Gov’t aid
Financial Tribune – According to a telephone survey of 1,028 Tehran’s residents conducted from April 5-8, a total of 64.4% said they…
MP: Iran should provide more support to families with no income
MENAFN – AzerNews – Iran’s government should implement necessary measures to support individuals to earn a living during the coronavirus spread, said…
Iran Gov’t remedial measures to soften COVID-19 impact
Financial Tribune – Government officials have put forth a range of measures to lessen the detrimental impact of the new coronavirus outbreak…
Tax and transparence
Financial Tribune | Amin Sabooni: Many governments and municipalities say they use the money for a variety of reasons, such as promoting…
Jailed billionaire’s helper must repay $1.3 billion to Iran’s government
Radio Farda – A court in Tehran has sentenced a colleague of the imprisoned Iranian billionaire to twenty years of jail and…
Gov’t to sell $3.3b in bonds to plug budget deficit
Financial Tribune – The Ministry of Economy will issue Islamic financial securities worth 380 trillion rials ($3.3 billion) to partly compensate the…
Gov’t agrees on women’s presence at stadiums
IRNA – Iran’s Vice-President for Legal Affairs Laiya Joneidi stated on Wednesday that women’s presence at stadiums is authorized, adding the government…
Iran gov’t invests $225m in innovation fund
Financial Tribune – The Iranian government has agreed to invest 26 trillion rials ($225 million) in Iran National Innovation Fund to support…
Removing economic problems, one of govt.’s prioritized programs
MNA – Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Massoumeh Ebtekar said that removal of economic problems is one of the prioritized…
Hidden subsidies benefit the rich
Financial Tribune – In terms of deciles, each family in the tenth (highest) decile on average gets 210 million rials ($1,400) in…
Iranian teachers fill gap between state, society after floods
Al-Monitor | Mohammad Reza Niknejad: Although governments are responsible for dealing with natural disasters, individual and collective relief efforts by citizens cannot be…
Gov’t obliged to pursue US anti-IRGC move in int’l fora
IRNA – Iranian lawmakers obliged the government to take legal action against the United States’ illegal decision on blacklisting the Islamic Revolution…
Govt. to grand $9.5b to prosper SMEs
MNA – In a bid to protect Iranian economy and prosper industrial parks, some 400 trillion rials (about $9.52 billion) of financial…
Iran’s government falling into a debt trap of its own making
Bourse and Bazaar | Navid Kalhor: President Rouhani’s budget proposal for the upcoming Iranian year will see the government run a deficit…
Iran Gov’t extends $333m loan for 2 major carmakers
Financial Tribune – The government is set to offer Iran Khodro and SAIPA loans worth 40 trillion rials ($333 million). The money…
Iran Gov’t allowed debt securitization in budget bill
Financial Tribune – In next year’s proposed budget the government is allowed to securitize up to 200 trillion rials ($2 billion) of…
Ayatollah Khamenei urges govt to form taskforce to tackle banks, liquidity issues
Khamenei.ir – The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution– Ayatollah Khamenei– urged the government of President Rouhani to form a taskforce to…
Encouraged by government, Iranian entrepreneurs dream of ‘Smart Cities’
Bourse and Bazaar | Rana Jalali: “Smart Cities” integrate multiple information and communications technology (ICT) and internet of things (IOT) solutions to…
Tehran pays 58% of Gov’t tax revenues
Financial Tribune – Tehran accounted for 58% of government’s tax revenues (560 trillion rials or $12.87 billion) in the last fiscal year…
Iran Gov’t rolls out long list of banned imports
Financial Tribune- The government has banned the import of 1,339 commodities categorized as “non-essential goods with domestic counterparts”. As per an official…
Photos: President Rouhani meets senior government officials
ISNA | Mona Hoobehfekr: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani meets senior directors of government bodies at Islamic Summit Conference Hall in the north…
Iran lifts ban on registration for imports of rice
Reuters – Iran has lifted ban on registration for imports of rice for five months, the customs administration announced in a statement…
Iran minister says government will listen to protester demands
Bloomberg | Golnar Motevalli & Ladane Nasseri: Iran’s labor minister pledged to listen to the demands of protesters who’ve taken to the streets…
Gov’t expected to take serious action against Trump’s remarks: Raisi
IFP- Ebrahim Raisi, the conservative presidential candidate in Iran’s 2017 election, has lashed out at Trump’s anti-Tehran remarks, saying that the Iranian…
Gov’t slaps new tax on auto production
Financial Tribune- President Hassan Rouhani’s government has issued a call requiring local automakers to contribute to modernizing the transportation fleet. According to…
Iranian gov’t earmarks $462m for rail expansion
Financial Tribune- The government has earmarked 18.5 trillion rials (over $462 million at market exchange rate) to complete a set of ongoing…
A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on January 5
Newspapers today covered the ongoing war of words between the Iranian government and the Judiciary. There were also calls by newspapers and…
President stresses importance of supervision, inspection
IRNA – President Hassan Rouhani here on Wednesday said the government should do its utmost not to lose public confidence. Speaking in…
Economic issues Iran’s foremost problem: Leader
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has met with President Hassan Rouhani and the members of his administration on…
Larijani calls for closer convergence between government, parliament
Tehran, July 4, IRNA – Present situation in the country prescribes a closer convergence between the government and parliament, says Iran parliament…
Gov’t approves air pollution roadmap
The Council of Ministers on Friday approved a roadmap containing a set of guidelines aimed at reducing air pollution in Iran’s eight…
Foreign Ministry operates under supervision of government, Leader
Tehran, June 6, IRNA – Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari said on Monday that Foreign Ministry is operating under supervision of…
Gov’t eyes wheat exports
The government is expected to buy an estimated 9.5 million tons of wheat from local farmers in the current Iranian year (March…
President Rouhani calls for gov’t-Majlis coordination
Tehran, May 7, IRNA – President Hassan Rouhani called for coordination between the Iranian lawmakers and his government in order to help…
Gov’t lacks funds to tackle dust storms
The government lacks the financial resources to effectively battle the crippling dust storms that have dogged more than two-thirds of Iran, according…
Gov’t debt to banks stoking inflation
A money market analyst has warned about the inflationary effects of the mammoth government debt to the banking system, saying it was…
Parliamentary motion does not tie government’s tactical hands
An Iranian MP says the parliamentary motion on nuclear talks does not tie the hands of government and the country’s nuclear negotiating…
Larijani: Majlis, gov’t to hold session on approved of nuclear achievements preservation bill
Tehran, June 21, IRNA – Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said on Sunday that the sixth joint meeting between Majlis and government is…
Gov’t boasts condensate export growth
TEHRAN June 17(Shana)–The government spokesman has said that Iran’s gas condensate exports increased 11.5% last calendar year from the preceding year. Mohammad-Baqer…