Irannews headlines on Monday include Irantest-firing missilesin naval drill; Huawei technologies accusation ofoffering embargoed HP gear to Iran;Ahmadinejad criticizing pressure to impose Islamic valueson people;U.S. Treasury Department Undersecretary David Cohen remarks overIran intentions on resolution over its nuclear program; Iranian police officialsannouncementon ...

The Tehran Police force has announced that 88 gold and foreign currency brokers have been arrested, as disputes have intensified between the Iranian government and the Central Bank over handling the crisis in the currency and gold markets. Police officials reported today, December 30, that 88 people had been arrested for being engaged in the illegal ...

By Trend Iran's intelligence minister Heydar Moslehi said that as of now, some 50 people have been arrested in connection with the free market unrests in the country, Fars reported. The U.S. dollar cost some 24,500 rials during the last week of September, and it went sky-high to 37,000 rials on October 2 and 40,000 rials on October 3. As a ...

By Trend Three more people have been arrested in Iran's Isfahan province, in connection with manipulating the foreign exchange market, IRIB NEWS reported. The Prosecutor's office of Isfahan province said that as a result of special operations at local currency exchange markets, three people have been arrested. Reportedly, all of the captived ...

By Reuters (Reuters) - Iran's state budget is under pressure and the government has cut spending in some areas, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying as the country struggles to cope with Western economic sanctions. "Right now in terms of the budget we are under pressure," Ahmadinejad said in a speech on Tuesday, according to the ...

By Trend Thirty persons, who are suspected for manipulating the foreign exchange market in Iran last week, have been arrested and will soon be sent to court, Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi announced on Sunday. Large amounts of foreign exchange and golden coins have been seized from the arrested persons, he told the Mehr News ...

By Xinhua TEHRAN, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) A prosecutor in the Iranian capital Tehran announced Thursday that 16 people related to creating disorder in local currency market have been arrested, the semi- official Mehr news agency reported. The prosecutor was quoted as saying that 16 people main elements behind disorder in the currency market who took ...