VP: Iran continues to jump nat’l production despite sanctions
IRNA – Iranian Vice President and Head of the Budget and Planning Organization Mohammad Baqer Nobakht said on Thursday that given this…
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VP: Iran welcomes joint venture investment of Turkish private sector
IRNA – Iranian Vice President and Head of the Budget and Planning Organization Mohammad Baqer Nobakht said on Monday that the Government…
VP: Anti-Iran sanctions imposed by US mere failure
IRNA – Iranian Vice President and Head of the Budget and Planning Organization Mohammad Baqer Nobakht said on Thursday that the implementation…
Gov’t to employ 3,000 nurses, healthcare workers
Financial Tribune – A total of 3,000 nurses and other healthcare workers will be employed by the government, according to a letter…
Manufacturing gives Iran a lifeline
Bloomberg | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: Earlier this month, Mohammad Bagher Nobakht, the official responsible for planning Iran’s state budgets, told parliament he planned “to…
Iran allocates $75 million to jobless benefits for coronavirus
Press TV – Iranian authorities say a new rescue scheme is available to the main pension fund in the country to pay…
Iran health sector gets another $260 mln in rescue over pandemic
Press TV – The Iranian government has earmarked some $260 million to the country’s health sector in a fresh attempt to help…
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…
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…
Health Ministry equipped to fight coronavirus outbreak: Official
IRNA – Head of Plan and Budget Organization of Iran Mohammad Baqer Nobakht announced here on Friday that Ministry of Health and…
No Iranian wants Gov’t to renegotiate with US: Official
Tasnim – Head of Iran’s Plan and Budget Organization Mohammad Baqer Nobakht highlighted the US government’s non-commitment to its promises and agreements…
$750mn worth of fund allocated out of NDFI for shipbuilding: Nobakht
MNA – It was proposed that $750 million worth of money, out of financial resources of the National Development Fund of Iran…
Section-1 of Tehran-Shomal freeway to be inaugurated in Feb.: Nobakht
MNA – Head of Plan and Budget Organization (PBO) Mohammad Bagher Nobakht announced on Tuesday that Section-1 of Tehran-North (Shomal) Freeway is…
Iran taking new paths to overcome sanctions: Official
Tasnim – Head of Iran’s Plan and Budget Organization Mohammad Baqer Nobakht highlighted the country’s measures to export a million barrels of…
Subsidized forex maintained in Iran’s 2020-21 budget
Financial Tribune – Despite persistent calls by economic experts and academia on the government to scrap subsidized currency allocations, it appears that…
Oil sales to account for %7 of Iran’s revenues next year
Press TV – Iran’s oil sale, once a staple of the country’s yearly budgets, would account for a tiny portion of government’s…
Govt. bodies ink MOU for building 20,000 small PV systems
Tehran Times – Iran’s Planning and Budget Organization (PBO) inked a memorandum of understanding with Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation and the Organization…
Iran’s 2020 Budget Bill to be submitted to Parl. on Dec. 6: Nobakht
MNA – The Head of Plan and Budget Organization Mohammad Bagher Nobakht said that the Budget Bill for the next Iranian calendar…
VP: Less privileged classes to pocket revenues from gas price rise
FNA – Iranian Vice-President and Head of the Management and Planning Organization (MPO) Mohammad Baqer Nobakht said that a total sum of…
Iran starts gasoline rationing, hikes prices: state TV
Reuters – Iran introduced gasoline rationing and price hikes on Friday with an official saying that the revenue would be used for…
Iran Nat’l budget not to be reliant on oil revenues next year: Official
Tasnim – The head of Iran’s Plan and Budget Organization highlighted efforts to reduce the country’s reliance on oil revenues and said…
Only development projects to get oil revenues in Iran’s 2020-21 budget
Financial Tribune – Oil revenues are generated from selling the country’s capital assets and should be spent on augmenting capital assets, such…
No budget deficit in current year: PBO head
Tehran Times – Head of Iran’s Planning and Budget Organization (PBO) said despite the decrease in the country’s oil revenues the country…
VP says gov’t determined to prevent increasing pressure on people despite severe sanctions
IRNA – Vice President and Head of the Budget and Planning Organization Mohammad Baqer Nobakht stressed that despite bottlenecks, pressures and restrictions,…
Mianeh-Tabriz railway to be inaugurated within next two months
MNA – Vice President and Head of Plan and Budget Organization Mohammad-Baqer Nobakht made the remarks on Thu. on the sidelines of…
Iran to cut budget dependency on oil revenues to zero: Nobakht
MNA – Head of the Plan and Budget Organization Mohammad-Bagher Nobakht said Sun. that the new reforms in the structure of the…
988k job opportunities to be created by Mar. 2020
MNA – Head of the Plan and Budget Organization Mohammad-Bagher Nobakht announced on Wednesday that by the end of the present Iranian…
Over $6.4b allocated to unfinished projects
Tehran Times – The Iranian government has allocated 270 trillion rials (over $6.4 billion at the official exchange rate) for the completion…
Monthly inflation rate down, economic growth to improve next year
MNA – “The government managed to curb the inflation rate in the past months and according to predictions economic growth will improve…
Sanctions not to prevent country from development, progress
MNA – Vice President and Head of Plan and Budget Organization Mohammad-Bagher Nobakht said that sanctions do not prevent country from progressing.…
Iran plans deep cut in reliance on oil incomes
Tasnim – Iranian Vice President Mohammad Baqer Nobakht said a new scheme to reduce the country’s reliance on oil revenues is expected…
Rouhani briefed on plans of 4 vice-presidencies, sport ministry, CBI
MNA – The performance of four vice-presidencies, the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs, and the Central Bank of Iran, and their…
Economic problems to be left behind: Iran VP
IRNA – The Vice President of Iran has stressed that the economic problems people are facing today will surely be left behind.…
Iran: Subsidy choices take center stage
Financial Tribune – Where oversight mechanisms cannot be enforced by the government, allocating subsidized currency will not help but hinder because “the…
Gov’t rejects, later consents to wage hike
Financial Tribune – As per the amendment, apart from the fixed annual pay raise, the government is also allowed to increase wages…
Iranian official: Efforts underway to address economic woes
Tasnim – Head of Iran’s Plan and Budget Organization Mohammad Baqer Nobakht said efforts are underway to deal with the tough conditions…
Iran developed country based on global indicators: VP
IRNA – Based on global official statistics and indicators, Iran has developed in various sectors and is even among the countries with…
Iran’s reliance on oil revenues to decrease by 28%: VP
Tasnim – Iranian Vice President Mohammad Baqer Nobakht reiterated the country’s policy to reduce its reliance on oil exports and said in…
New Iran budget assumes $21 billion of oil income
Press TV – The state budget for the new Iranian year starting in March assumes $21 billion of oil revenues, down 28…
Official: Next budget bill focuses on Iranians’ livelihood amid US sanctions
Press TV – Mohammad Baqer Nobakht, head of Iran’s Budget and Planning Organization, says the budget bill for the next Iranian calendar…