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 ...

Financial Tribune - Justice Shares are shares of government-owned companies that were given to the six lowest income deciles of Iranians ten years ago. They could not trade the shares and received a small part of the dividends in the last two years The initiative to ease restrictions on trading the so-called Justice Shares will allow Justice Shares ...

Press TV - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khameneihas endorsed a government request to vest restricted stocks of dozens of government-run companies that are owned by tens of millions of Iranians. In a decree issued on Tuesday, Ayatollah Khamenei ordered the government to prepare the required conditions for owners of the Justice ...

Al-Monitor | Navid Kalhor: In the 40 years since Irans Islamic Revolution, consecutive Iranian governments have pursued social justice as a key policy principle. The distribution of so-called justice shares, beginning almost 12 years ago, is one such example of a populist policy that had been promised to underprivileged Iranians under mass privatization ...