Financial Tribune - Economy Minister Farhad Dejpasand says considerable changes are in the making to reform the procedures of future privatization programs The Iranian government will institute fundamental changes in the existing procedures regarding privatization. Its nearly 28 years since the first privatization sale in Irans economy. State ...

Iran Front Page- IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Thursday, January 18, and picked headlines from 12 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Several papers today covered the remarks made by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani about the need for understanding the cyberspace ...

Al-Monitor- Anewly released videohas shown the process in which a body of 74 clerics elected then-President Ali Khamenei to the highest position in the decade-old Islamic Republic, a position he has held for nearly three decades. While parts of the video from the June 4, 1989, Assembly of Experts meeting havebeen seen before by Iranian viewers, the ...

Iran Front Page- IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Wednesday, January 10, and picked headlines from 15 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The top story in all Iranian newspapers today was the remarks made by Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader of Irans Islamic ...

Iran Front Page- IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Tuesday, January 9, and picked headlines from 17 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The top story in many newspapers today was the Second Tehran Security Conference, which was held in the Iranian capital on Monday....

Al-Monitor- On Aug. 14, Irans supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,appointed AyatollahMahmoud Hashemi Shahroudias the new chairman of the Expediency Council. Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjanihad headed the councilfor decades, until his death in January. The Expediency Council was established in 1988 to resolve differences or conflicts between ...

Iran Front Page- IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Tuesday, July 11, and picked headlines from 19 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The top story today was the remarks made by IRGC Quds Force Commander Major General Qassem Soleimani about the ISIS terrorists ...

Iran Front Page- IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Sunday and picked headlines from 13 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Many Iranain newspapers today covered a decision by a committee tasked with monitoring the campaigns for Irans presidential election ...

Iran Front Page- Iranian newspapers today covered the remarks made by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif about the upcoming presidential votes. Zarif highlighted the significance of peoples high turnout in previous elections in 2013, and called for peoples presence in the May votes. The terrorist attacks in Syrias Damascus, where dozens ...

Iran Front Page- One of the top stories today was the promise made by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to report about his administrations performance by the next week. According to todays newspapers, his report will be particularly focused on how much the government has pursued the Resistance Economy principles outlined by Irans Leader. This was ...

Iran Front Page- All newspapers today covered the remarks made by the Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a meeting with commanders and personnel of Irans Air Force on Tuesday. They also covered President Hassan Rouhanis comments about the course of Tehrans talks with world powers over its nuclear energy program, and the ...

Al-Monitor- Much has been said about the political legacy of formerIranian PresidentAli Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjanifollowing his death Jan.8 at the age of 82 from a heart attack, but his most lasting legacywill be in higher education. Ayatollah Rafsanjani was among the founders of Islamic Azad University (IAU)and served as head of its Founders' Committee,...

Al-Monitor- When former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died Jan. 8, it was thought that his death might be another nail in the coffin of Saudi-Iranian dialogue, and thus usher an era of additional tension between Tehran and its Arab neighbors. Yet a personal condolence letter from Saudi King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud to the family ...

Iranian Diplomacy- When Seyyed Hossein Mousavian was appointed as Irans ambassador to Bonn, then capital of Germany, the European power became the gateway for relations between Iran and the West, minus the United States of course. However, efforts were made through this gateway to find a way for dtente with the US. That proved futile in spite ...

Iran Front Page- Iran has lost one of its most influential leaders and a strong voice for reform and for the improvement of regional relations, said Annan, who also chairs The Elders, an international non-governmental organisation of public figures noted as elder statesmen, peace activists, and human rights advocates. President Rafsanjani understood ...

IRNA Following demise of Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, flags of 56 states were flown half-mast and 29 presidents extended their condolences. Ex-president and Chairman of the Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani passed away at the age of 82 on January 8 for cardiac arrest caused by heart attack. Millions of Iranian citizens ...

IRNA Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in a message to his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif extended his condolences on the occasion of demise of late Chairman of Iran's Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. 'By passing away of Ayatollah Rafsanjani, the people of China lost a good friend who had an important role in broadening ...

IRNA German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier condoled the demise of Ayatollah Hasehmi Rafsanjani. In a message to his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif, Steinmeier expressed condolences to the people and government of Iran over the sad occasion. Ayatollah Rafsanjani died at the age of 82 due to a heart attack in a hospital in ...

RT|Catherine Shakdam: This week Iran lost one its most senior revolutionary figureheads: Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Hailed a hero and visionary by his contemporaries, the mainstream has nevertheless opted for slander to angle its forthcoming neocon argument better. Readers beware: Google armchair analysts are on the prowl, and they have ...

Tehran Times The family of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani issued a statement on Tuesday expressing gratitude to the Iranian nation for attending the funeral of the late ayatollah in huge numbers. How beautiful people said their farewells to a man who lived for them, struggled for them and wished for their greatness, the statement read. It went on ...