Foreign Policy | Sina Toosi: U.S. President Donald Trumpsaidon June 5 that Iran should not wait until after the presidential election to make the Big deal, but can get a better deal with him now. Trumps remarks came after a recent prisoner swap, which saw detained U.S. Navy veteran Michael White released from Iran in exchange for Iranian AmericandoctorMajid ...
Financial Tribune - The governments decision to offer its stakes in several companies in the stock market and allow the so-called Justice Shares to be tradable saved the bourse from a potential bubble burst, says Saeed Laylaz.
The well-known economist welcomed both initiatives implying that it came at a right time when unusually large amounts of ...
Bourse and Bazaar | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: On Monday, the Iranian rialsank to a historic low.But those Iranians who scrambled to convert their rials into dollars found it difficult to do soas they have for months. Since April, reports on the accelerating crisis have consistently noteda lack of hard currencyavailable at Irans exchange bureaus.
This ...
Bourse and Bazaar | Maziar Motamedi: Among currency fluctuations and returning sanctions, Iran is now battling a paper crisis. Gradual price hikes have been increasing pressure on book and newspaper publishersover the last year, but the scale of the crisis became clear when Culture Minister Abbas Salehiannouncedon August 4 that the country has just ...
Bloomberg | Marc Championand Golnar Motevalli: French President Emmanuel Macrons trip to Washington is just the public face of whats been an intensive effort by European leaders to rescue the nuclear deal with Iran from U.S. PresidentDonald Trump.
Fully focused on the Trump threat, they may be missing another one emerging in Tehran. Macrons invocation ...
If we had acted before the economy plunged into this crisis, sanctions would definitely have failed to bite.
An Iranian economist says that from 2005 onward Irans economy has grown more dependent on imports thanks to the organized, systematic and intentional measures [the governments have adopted].
Saeed Laylaz, who is also a journalist, a university ...
Saeed Laylaz, an Iranian economist, says that mismanagement of the previous government has caused the country more losses than sanctions.
An Iranian economist says that from 2005 onward Irans economy has grown more dependent on imports thanks to the organized, systematic and intentional measures [the governments have adopted].
Saeed Laylaz, who ...