Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said that one key lesson for future administrations to learn from the experience gained during the tenure of outgoing President Hassan Rouhani is that there is no benefit in putting one's trust in the West. Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks during his last officialmeeting with ...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says his administration is opposed to an action plan against sanctions that is under discussion at the Parliament, saying the emergency bill, if passed into law, will be detrimental to the diplomatic process aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal. Rouhani made the remarks during a cabinet meeting in Tehran on Wednesday,...

Tasnim Iranian President Hassan Rouhani highlighted his administrations efforts to deal with the economic consequences of the US sanctions and the coronavirus pandemic while economic boom and stability is still high on the agenda. Speaking at a Thursday session of the Administrations Economic Coordination Headquarters, the president said the government ...

MNA Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei is meeting with President Hassan Rouhani and his cabinet members via video conference. The meeting is being held on the occasion of the National Government Week, which started today. Rouhani is set to deliver a report to the Leader on the governments latest activities. The ...

Financial Tribune - The Iranian National Tax Administration announced tax brackets on buyers of gold coins in the last fiscal year (March 2019-20). As per an INTA bylaw outlining details of the gold tax, all those who bought up to 185 gold coins are eligible for fixed taxes. Different rules govern buyers of higher number of coins, ISNA reported....

ISNA | Erfan Khoshkhoo: Iranian President Hassan Rouhanis pick for the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade failed to garner the minimum number of votes by the Parliament members for the post. In an open session of the parliament on Wednesday morning, the lawmakers disqualified Hossein Modarres Khiabani from taking the helm at the ministry with 140 ...

Bloomberg | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: Last week, an 18-page document began circulating on Iranian social media that was purportedly a draft of negotiation points for a new agreement between China and Iran. The unverified document, which listed over 100 potential projects, led to breathless reporting that Iran had prepared a final contract that would ...

Al-Monitor | Shervin Ghaffari: Parliament Speaker Mayor Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf starts his new job at a time when Iran faces great challenges, with the conservatives set to dominate Iranian politics in the near future. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani addressed June 10 his Cabinet and spoke about the country's recent struggles, saying that "the ...

Al-Monitor - Irans state-funded international TV channels, including Press TV, could soon be taken off the air due to accumulated debt amid the countrys cash reserve crisis. Accumulated debt in foreign currency is heralding a grim fate upon a large network of state-funded TV channels Iran has been building over decades to wage what it calls the ...

The New York Times | Farnaz Fassihi: Health experts say the government did not heed the warnings about easing restrictions too soon. Cases spike in eight provinces. When Iran began to reopen late last month, commuters packed subways and buses, young people lined up for takeout hamburgers and pizza, and traffic snarled highways. Shoppers crowded ...

Radio Farda - President Hassan Rouhani's Chief of Staff Mahmoud Vaezi has joined voices with other members of the cabinet to slam Iran's Supreme Audit Court (SAC) for a report last week that said $4.8 billion provided to importers disappeared. In a new response to SAC's annual report, Vaezi lambasted the court for keeping mum about the financial ...

The Washington Post | Jason Rezaian: Many leaders around the world are itching to resume normal life after the devastating economic effects of the pandemic. Yet it is Iran, of all countries, that seems to be moving forward the most aggressively. This week it will be the first large country to resume many normal routines. In February and March, Iran ...

MNA Iranian President Hassan Rouhani introduced Kazem Khavazi, the deputy of Iran's previous agriculture minister and head of Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organization, as the new agriculture minister to Iran's Parliament. Khavazi needs to take MPs' votes of confidence next week. On November 25, 2019, Rouhani accepted the resignation ...

MNA Members of the Iranian's Parliament will commence debate over the government's proposed budget bill for the next Iranian fiscal year 1399 (beginning on March 21, 2020) on Monday. On December 8, President Hassan Rouhani submitted the Budget Bill for the next Iranian year of 1399 (to start on March 20, 2020) to the Parliament in the presence ...

Al-Monitor | Heidarali Masoudi: Iran's parliament is studying a proposed budget for the next fiscal year amid an extremely tight economy suffering under intense US sanctions. One important aspect of this proposal is Foreign Ministry funding, which has been under increased pressure from both proponents and opponents of President Hassan Rouhanis administration....

MNA Criticizing Rouhani administrations policies, Spokesman for the Iranian Parliament's National Security Committee Hossein Naghavi Hosseini said that problems in the country can be solved through relying on domestic capabilities not relying on Westerners. Rouhanis administration started the work with a view towards the West and foreign countries ...

Financial Tribune - The government can withdraw 3.4 billion from the National Development Fund of Iran in the next fiscal year (starts March 2020), to finance development projects. As proposed in next year's budget bill (202-21), NDFI, the sovereign wealth fund, resources would be used in financing 15 categories of projects, namely innovative industries,...

FNA - Tehran's provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani censured the government of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani for not informing the society before the sudden execution of the gas price hike plan. A calamity occurred due to a wrong decision that led to the death and injury of several people and damage to some ...

Bourse and Bazaar | Khosro Kalbasi: About twenty years ago, when Milad Nouri first told his parents and university instructors that he wanted to be a programmer, they thought he was another good-for-nothing youth. Today, Nouri is one of the veteran programmers who have helped lead Irans digital revolution, contributing to the launch of companies whose ...

Radio Farda - President Hassan Rouhanis administration announced Tuesday that two billion euros ($2.22 billion) will be taken from Iran's National Development Fund and given to the military, boosting its budget by 8 percent in the next Iranian calendar year. Iran is in the grip of a deep recession with a 9 percent contraction this year and faces ...