Mellat Insurance, affiliated with Bank Mellat, is planning to establish Iran’s second life insurance company, said Alireza Ebrahimpour, Mellat Insurance’s CEO. Mellat is set to own a 20% stake in…

The Money and Capital Markets Commission of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture–known as the country's private-sector Parliament–has published a report on Iran's foreign…

Iran Insurance Company, the country’s biggest insurer, has come up with measures to boost its solvency, including plans for purchasing stocks of a major bank, the firm’s chief executive told a…

Bank Sepah will join the ranks of the few public-sector banks whose capital adequacy ratio meets the minimum standard when the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance allocates the approved funds…

British Prime Minister Theresa May has resisted pressure to reexamine the viability of the international nuclear deal with Iran from her Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, who urged her to…

Russia rejected allegations by the US that Iran sponsors terrorism, stressing that Tehran must be present in the anti-terror front.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made the…

A lawmaker said he believes a detente between Iran and its Persian Gulf Arab neighbor, Saudi Arabia, is unlikely, in view of the fact that Riyadh was pleased by the anti-Iran rhetoric of the new…

Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Jaberi Ansari held talks with visiting UN Special Representative for Iraq Jan Kubis on a range of issues, including the latest efforts to restore stability to the…

Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission will convene soon to discuss how to respond to new US sanctions over the recent test-firing of a medium-range ballistic missile, a lawmaker…

Leader of Islamic Revolution said the threatening language of the new US President Donald Trump toward Iran will be responded by the nation at Friday rallies celebrating the anniversary of the…

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said he expects US President Donald Trump to try and renegotiate the nuclear accord, indicating “difficult days” ahead.

Iran will announce "good news" about a series of its post-JCPOA nuclear achievements in April. Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, made the statement during a…

The Agriculture Ministry has set a wheat production target of 12.6 million tons in the next Iranian year (March 2017-18), an official with the ministry said.

The target is part of the…

Ninety-three percent of all the raw vegetable oil in the domestic market is imported, according to secretary of Iranian Vegetable Oil Industry Association, Dariush Mahmoudi. “This is despite…

Negotiations have been underway to attract investments worth $3 billion in major Iranian airports, for which firm contracts for about $649 million have been signed so far, a deputy minister of…

About 120 million tons of oil products and 10 million tons of non-oil goods were loaded and unloaded in the ports of Bushehr Province located in southern Iran, over the 10 months to January 19,…

Over 80% of tires imported to Iran come from China, says Abbas Abbasi, a member of the Association of Tire Manufacturers, adding that the 20% anti-dumping duty currently in place is not sufficient…

Iran’s Ministry of Agriculture believes Malaysia can have a better differential import duty for palm oil.

Announcing the above, the Malaysian government’s news agency Bernama said Malaysia…

Tehran Stock Exchange’s main index added 87.30 points or 0.11% to end Tuesday trade at 76,766.

More than 858 million shares valued at $45.7 million changed hands for the day.

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Boeing’s agreement to sell 80 passenger jets to Iran may not be directly impacted by new US sanctions on Tehran, but the deal still could unravel.

This was stated in an article published on…

The Iranian government has finally caved in to pressure by the private sector calling for reduction of import duties on flat steel products due to local producers’ inability to meet downstream…

The government has issued 20 million bonds worth 3 trillion rials (about $780 million) at the over-the-counter Iran Fara Bourse to pay its debts to the Ministry of Education and those accumulated…

A fiscal boost to the United States is more likely in 2018 than this year, according to Goldman Sachs economists, as “the balance of risks is somewhat less positive” one month into the new year…

UniCredit began Italy’s biggest corporate share sale on Monday in an attempt to raise €13 billion ($14 billion) to rebuild the bank’s capital after a balance sheet clean up.

The Chilean economy grew only by 1.5% in 2016, the worst economic record in seven years, the central bank announced, Xinhua reported. In December, the Monthly Index of Economic Activity (Imacec)…