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  • State-Controlled Economy Is Iran’s Biggest Economic Challenge 25 May 2025

    State-Controlled Economy Is Iran’s Biggest Economic Challenge

    TEHRAN - Prominent Iranian economist and researcher in the philosophy and epistemology of economic science, Mousa Ghaninejad, stated that the most significant problem plaguing Iran's economy is its centrally controlled, command-style structure. He asserted that both the financial and real sectors of the Iranian economy suffer due to misguided policymaking.

US sanctions are “more fragile than” Iran’s economy 04 Oct 2018

US sanctions are “more fragile than” Iran’s economy

 Addressing Basij volunteer forces on Thu., Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei asserted that US sanctions are “more fragile than” Iran’s economy, emphasizing that the Iranian nation will “slap the US in the face” by defeating those bans​​​​. Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks during a speech to a large gathering of Iran’s Basij volunteer […]

UN’s top court rules in favor of Iran, orders U.S. to lift sanctions 03 Oct 2018

UN’s top court rules in favor of Iran, orders U.S. to lift sanctions

International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an interim order to the United States on Wednesday to lift its sanctions against Iran linked to civil aviation, humanitarian goods, and medicines. Judges at the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the UN, have handed victory to Tehran over a case against US which states […]

Iran to construct 540MW power plant in Syria 03 Oct 2018

Iran to construct 540MW power plant in Syria

 Iranian Mapna Group Company signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Syrian Public Establishment of Electricity for Generation (PEEG) on Tuesday for constructing a 540 megawatt (MW) combined cycle power plant in Syrian port city of Latakia, IRNA reported. The MOU was signed by PEEG’s Managing Director Mahmoud Ramadan and MAPNA Group’s Managing Director Abbas […]

We took you seriously, Shamkhani tells Bolton after missile attack 03 Oct 2018

We took you seriously, Shamkhani tells Bolton after missile attack

“We did take you seriously. This Hajizadeh [the IRGC Airspace commander] took you seriously when he landed missiles three miles away from you,” Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani said on Tuesday, addressing Trump’s national security advisor John Bolton. Addressing a veterans’ conference in Tehran, Shamkhani was referring to the IRGC’s missile attacks […]

After repeated record lows, rial recovers unexpectedly 03 Oct 2018

After repeated record lows, rial recovers unexpectedly

Following government’s Saturday measure to grant authority to the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) to interfere in the foreign exchange market in defense of the rial, the Iranian currency started to regain incrementally. On Tuesday, in the Iranian capital, money exchange shops offered around 140,000 rials for one U.S. dollar, while the rate stood at […]

Iran’s Persepolis earn remarkable win over Al Sadd of Qatar in ACL semis 03 Oct 2018

Iran’s Persepolis earn remarkable win over Al Sadd of Qatar in ACL semis

 Persepolis of Iran football team earned a remarkable 1-0 win over Qatari giants Al Sadd in the first leg of the AFC Champions League semi-finals. In the match held in Doha’s Jassim bin Hamad Stadium, Ali Alipour was on target from the penalty spot in the 86th minute. Persepolis won the match without their three […]

Iran’s Aug. crude exports to Japan up 65% on year 02 Oct 2018

Iran’s Aug. crude exports to Japan up 65% on year

 Iran’s crude oil exports to Japan jumped 65 percent year on year in August, marking the fourth consecutive month of increase, Platts reported citing Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)’s trade data. According to the data released on Thursday, the Asian country shipped in 177,475 barrels per day (bpd) of Iranian crude oil […]

“All Mama’s Babies” to screen at Cinema Verite 02 Oct 2018

“All Mama’s Babies” to screen at Cinema Verite

 “All Mama’s Babies” by Rezvan Sarmad will be screened in the national competition of the 12th Cinema Verite, Iran’s major international festival of documentary cinema, which is scheduled to be held in December. The documentary covers a story about Sarmad family. The filmmaker’s parents decide to transform their house into a 9-floor apartment building to […]

Amano rejects Netanyahu claims about Iran, says IAEA won’t take intel at face value 02 Oct 2018

Amano rejects Netanyahu claims about Iran, says IAEA won’t take intel at face value

The UN nuclear watchdog has said its independence is paramount and it does not take intelligence presented to it at face value, in an apparent response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claims of a “secret atomic warehouse” in Iran. Netanyahu – who opposes the nuclear deal between Iran and major powers that the International […]

JCPOA important deal for boosting regional security 02 Oct 2018

JCPOA important deal for boosting regional security

 Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl said that Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), is an important deal for the security of the region. Speaking to IRNA, she said her country feels a special responsibility for Iran nuclear deal since the agreement had been signed in Austria. She pointed to the bilateral […]