Todays top stories in Iran include Faezeh Hashemi's denial of the charge of disturbing Evin prison; ending of the sixth court session of Kahrizak suspended judges; Iran MPs private meeting to study the effects of increasing rate of essential commodities; Iran MPs' appointing new Labor Minister and Isfehan Textile workers' protest in front of Iranian ...

Irans government said it will continue providing U.S. dollars at a preferential rate to exporters of essential goods, contradicting earlier comments by ministry officials and parliament members who said the program had been revised. Foreign currencies at a preferential rate are still being allocated for essential goods, Vice-President Mohammad Reza ...

Iranian meat and cookingoil pricessurged after the government stopped providing foreign currencies at a preferentialexchange rateto importers of essential goods, the Tehran-basedSharghnewspaper and other local media reported. Meat prices have increased 60 percent, while cooking oil prices climbed 35 percent,Ahmad Tavakoli, a lower house member of ...

TEHRAN Iranians rushed to supermarkets to buy cooking oil, red meat and other staples on Tuesday, stockpiling the goods over new fears of price spikes from a change in the official exchange rate that could severely reduce the already weakened purchasing power of the rial, the national currency. The change, less than two months before critical national ...