The story of Iran's importing second-hand and new cars is raised only to manage public opinion and reduce pressure on the government, but apparently, the government does not intend to allocate foreign currency to import cars.

Al-Monitor - Google took action against Iranian government accounts for coordinated activity, the tech giant announced Wednesday. The move follows similar actions by Facebook and coincides with Twitter rolling out labels for select government accounts on its platform. Google announced it terminated 16 YouTube accounts in April that were allegedly ...

Financial Tribune - Following reports that the Central Bank of Iran has allowed companies to import goods without transferring foreign currency, the CBI outlined conditions for doing so. The so-called import without forex allocation refers to a method of import where companies can use their own foreign currency, in or outside the country, for imports....

Financial Tribune - The government will launch one of its biggest schemes to divest banks non-financial assets in the coming week, a deputy minister of economy said. The divestiture is related to non-financial assets of state-owned Bank Sepah, according to Abbas Memarnejad, the deputy economy minister for banking, insurance, and state-owned companies' ...

Press TV - New figures by the Iranian government show that the manufacturing sector expanded by over 14 percent in terms of size over the past calendar year. Irans Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade (MIMT) said on Tuesday that the number of licenses issued for setting up manufacturing units in the country rose by nearly 28,000 in the year ending ...

MNA First Vice President Eshagh Jahangiri said that the government is seeking to reduce outbreak of coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, in the country seriously. Every individual in the country has a key and decisive role in prevention of the novel coronavirus, he stressed. Speaking in phone talks with governor generals of some provinces in ...

Radio Farda - A poll conducted by the state-run Iran Students Polling Agency (ISPA) shows that the level of people's satisfaction with the Islamic Republic's performance is 15 percent in the capital city of Iran. The poll taken in the Province of Tehran also shows 54 percent of the people believe that anti-establishment protests will continue in ...

Financial Tribune - One of the main objectives of the government in the next Iranian year (starting March 20, 2020) is to boost domestic production and employment. As one of the appendixes to the newly unveiled budget bill suggests, the Iranian government is planning to create close to one million jobs by shoring up main sectors driving economic ...

Financial Tribune - The Iranian government has set next years departure tax at 2.64 million rials ($20) for travelers who take their first overseas trip of the year, as per the budget bill of the next fiscal year (March 2020-21), 3.96 million rials ($30) for their second trip and 5.28 million rials ($40) for the third or more trips. Last years departure ...

IRNA - Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Sunday that the Iranian government is to take advantage of any possible lawful means to support the legitimate rights of Iranian citizens throughout the world. In response to the question raised by reporters on sanctioning Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), the spokesman said ...

Sputnik - The Iranian cabinet has allowed tech firms to start mining cryptocurrencies but warned about potential risks, the presidential office said in a press release on Monday. "The council of ministers ... has approved the mining of cryptographic processing products", the press release read. At the same time, it stressed that cryptocurrencies ...

Financial Tribune - As part of its plans to reform the limping banking sector, the government has launched a program to sell excess property of state banks. According to the Economy Minister Farhad Dejpasand, a one-year program is underway for 10 government-owned banks (including the biggest lenders) to relinquish the excess assetsmostly real estate ...

Financial Tribune - Spokesman of the Majlis Joint Commission said Tuesday that the government has been allowed to issue Islamic bonds up to 290 trillion rials ($2.5 billion) in rials and foreign exchange for the next fiscal (March 2019-20). According to the Islamic Consultative Assembly News Agency, Mehdi Mofatteh said earnings from bonds are to ...

IRNA Iranian government is expected to appoint two females as ambassadors to foreign countries. 'Two more female ambassadors will be introduced in the near future,' Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a meeting with Women Fraction in the Iranian parliament. Hamideh Zarabadi, the spokesperson for Women Fraction in the Iranian ...

Financial Tribune - As per regulations announced by the High Council of Cyberspace on Saturday, a National Information Exchange (NIX) system will be established to help facilitate automated and digital information sharing and dissemination between government organizations and the people. The council meeting was presided by President Hassan Rouhani ...

IRNA - Iranian vice president for Women and Family Affairs said supporting economic activity, production, entrepreneurship and industrialists is a serious government plan. Addressing expert meeting of the entrepreneur women in Alborz Province on Monday night, Masoumeh Ebtekar said that the government has many different strategies and policies to ...

Financial Tribune - More than 9.5 million tons of wheat worth 120 trillion rials ($750 million) have been purchased from local farmers across the country by the government in the current Iranian year, registering a 5.5% rise both in weight and value compared with last year. This was stated by an advisor to the agriculture minister and executive ...

Financial Tribune - At least 26 travel agencies operating in Iran's capital have had their licenses revoked due to unlawful operations, as tourism authorities are tightening their oversight following severe public backlash. "These agencies had various complaints against them, in addition to flouting regulations. Therefore, we issued several warnings ...

Financial Tribune - Around 101,000 tons of fresh tea leaves worth 2.01 trillion rials ($17.1 million) have been purchased from local farmers since the beginning of the current Iranian year on March 21, registering a 4% increase compared with the similar period of last year, the head of Iran Tea Organization said. So far, 22,000 tons of processed ...

Financial Tribune- Secrecy is a hard habit to ditch for governments. But at least it is becoming clearer that the executive branch of the Iranian government, when compared with other branches, is determined to take significant steps toward openness. The information provided and published on the website of the Ministry of Economic and Finance Affairs ...