Iran has entered the fourth and final phase of its vaccination campaign as the Health Ministry has lowered vaccine eligibility age to people under the age of 60. Spokesman for the National…

The Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Monday that Iran will downscale its nuclear activities if the United States fully returns to “all of its commitments under the nuclear agreement and UN…

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Gita Gopinath, chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, has warned that emerging markets cannot afford a repeat of the "taper tantrum" market disruption that occurred in 2013 as the…

Iran and 27 members of the European Union traded €2.25 billion worth of goods during the first six months of 2021, to post a 0.37% growth compared with the previous year's corresponding period…

Cotton boll harvest has begun in the northern Golestan Province’s rain-fed plantations and that of irrigated fields will begin in the next few days. A total of around 60,000 tons of refined…

The average goods and services Consumer Price Index of “Communications” in the 12-month period ending Aug. 22, which marks the end of the fifth Iranian month of fiscal 2021-22, increased by 17.8…

The judiciary and Central Bank of Iran signed a memorandum of understanding on Monday to facilitate information exchange and help detect and prevent fraud and financial crime.  As per the…

More than 233,000 futures contracts worth 5.173 trillion rials ($20 million) changed hands at the Iran Mercantile Exchange in the calendar month ending August 21. Underlying assets traded were…

The Central Bank of Iran seems unsatisfied with the current electronic wallet services offered by banks and payment service providers and has warned them to revise their regulations that so far…

Foreign exchange rates pared more of their previous gains on Monday dragging down gold prices in the domestic market. The dollar retreated further toward 270,000 rials in Tehran’s open market,…

Tehran stocks slumped on Monday under unrelenting panic selling in almost all shares as nervous investors’ struggled to sell fearing that a lingering sell-off may wipe off all previous gains.…

Vaccine rollout is expected to expedite by next week when larger shipments start to arrive into the country, chairman of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, Karim Hemmati, said on Monday.  “…

President Ebrahim Raeisi said his administration will act in a way that it can manage the country’s affairs even under sanctions by employing domestic capacities and principles of resistance…

A total of 619,199 tons of goods were exported through Dogharoun border crossing to Afghanistan via 22,364 trucks during the first five months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Aug. 22),…

Demand for red meat has declined by 25-30% and per capita consumption lowered to 8.5 kilograms in the current Iranian year (March 2020-21) compared to the year before, according to the chairman…

Support for Iranian startups and knowledge-based companies had been high on the agenda of the former president, Hassan Rouhani, during his eight-year tenure that started in 2013. Government…

The Education and Human Resources Institute, affiliated with the Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture, is scheduled to hold a specialized online business course.

The Iranian Parliament’s double-urgency motion called “Surge in Housing Production” has been approved by the Guardians Council – an oversight body that ensures laws are in line with the Iranian…

More than 80 illegal water wells were sealed during the fifth month of the current Iranian year (July 23-Aug. 22) in Tehran Province, preventing the annual discharge of more than 2 million cubic…

The National Iranian Oil Company needs investment worth $10 billion to refurbish the petroleum industry’s dilapidated equipment, an energy analyst said. “It will be next to impossible to raise…

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Chief scientist of the World Health Organization (WHO) Soumya Swaminathan has called for an evidence-based global scientific effort to understand Covid-19 origins, a Singaporean media outlet…

After days of consecutive rallies, foreign exchange and gold prices dropped in Tehran on Sunday spurring a bout of selling.   The dollar bucked a month-long rising trend and retreated to…

Stock trade was choppy Sunday starting with sell-off in the early hours before demand picked up in the middle of trade and closing under higher sell-side pressure at the close of the session.…