By Reuters Oct 3 (Reuters) -Iranis working to shrink and eventually eliminate the free market in its tumbling rial currency, the economy minister was quoted as saying amid signs that foreign exchange trade outside a government-sanctioned centre was drying up. "The unofficial currency market will be gathered up," Shamseddin Hosseini was quoted ...

Akbar Torkan, the chief aide to President Hassan Rohani, says it was illegal for 160 billion rials to be transferred from presidential coffers to the newly established Iranian University, which is linked to former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The announcement indicates that on August 3, the day of Hassan Rohanis inauguration, the former administration ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEICriticalThreats Project Iran AnalystWill Fulton.   Politics Head of the Imam Khomeini Research and Education Institute Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdisaid, Lack of presence in the elections is a betrayal to Islam. MP Mohammad ...

Government finding new ways to softenthe impact of tough sanctions Tehran Irans economy is clawing its way back to health after nearly a year of harsh Western sanctions, the countrys top financial official said in an interview in which he insisted that no amount of outside pressure would force Tehran to change its nuclear policies. Seyed Shamseddin ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Shamseddin Hosseini said his country's non-oil trade hit 78.2 billion U.S. dollars during the first 10 months of the current Iranian calendar year starting on March 20, Tehran Times daily reported on Sunday. Iran exported 34.5 billion U.S.-dollars of non-oil goods and imported ...

By Reuters TOKYO, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Iran's foreign exchange reserves are in a "good position", itsfinanceminister said on Friday, as the government grapples with a steep decline in its currency and sanctions from Western countries over its nuclear programme. Shamseddin Hosseini, Iran's minister of economic affairs and finance, told reporters ...