Tasnim Tehrans Criminal Police denied rumors that one person had been killed in the recent turmoil in downtown Tehran that led to the closure of the grand bazaar. Commander of Tehrans Criminal Police Colonel Hamidreza Yarahmadi quashed rumors that turmoil in Tehrans grand bazaar over the past days had resulted in the death of an individual. He ...

By The Daily Star TEHRAN: Calm returned to central Tehran on Thursday, a day after it was rocked by unprecedented protests over Iran's plunging currency, but all money-changers and most shops were closed, witnesses told AFP. The Grand Bazaar -- the normally bustling commercial heart of the city -- was mostly shuttered, with mainly streetside ...

By Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's national currency is rebounding from record lows, days after protests flared in the country's largest display of anger at economic conditions since Western sanctions were tightened this summer. The semi-official ISNA news agency said the Iranian rial rose to 29,000 against the U.S. dollar on Saturday ...

By Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Tehran's main bazaar has been closed as authorities tighten controls trying to halt the fall of Iran's currency after it hit a record low. The semiofficial Mehr news agency says the bazaar - the traditional commercial hub in Iran's capital - was closed for security reasons on Wednesday. Iranian officials ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Constructive interaction tops Irans policy, president says Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reaffirmed his administrations commitment to pursue the policy of constructive interaction with the world, but at the same time ensured that the national interests will be upheld in that approach....

TEHRAN (FNA)- A vast fire incident occurred in Tehran's Bazaar on Monday morning, killing two people. "Massive fire which broke out in Tehran's Bazaar today killed 2 businessmen and the people who were hanging out of windows were rescued by using hydraulic ladder," Tehran Fire Brigade Department Spokesman Seyed Jalal Maleki told FNA on Monday....

With this months presidential election less than two weeks away, the windows of the ironware shops in Tehrans Grand Bazaar should be pasted thickly with campaign posters. Instead, however, many of the shop windows are featuring simple A4 sheets of paper with typed announcements of their closure or sale, testimony to a quiet revolt now under way by ...

TEHRAN In the Grand Bazaar, throngs of customers stand aside to make way for porters as they doggedly pull rattling metal carts. They carry carpets and leather shoes, keeping goods pulsing in and out of the Iranian capital's commercial artery. Shelves are stocked with foreign and domestic products alike, from Lindt chocolate to counterfeit Nike slippers....

Tehran's Grand Baazar is a symbol of Iranian commerce. The azure that dominates Shia architecture, the Persian calligraphy and the Zoroastrian symbols adorning walls all testify to the beauty lying just below the surface of old Tehran, where the Grand Baazar provides more than just solace from the capital's frenetic pace.The monuments, mosques and ...

By The New York Times TEHRAN Iranian police officers moved to arrest unlicensed currency dealers and increase patrols in the center of the capital on Monday to prevent unofficial trading from disrupting new government-imposed rates of exchange for the national currency, the rial. Over the past days,Irans leaders have sought to stabilize the ...

By Trend Thirty persons, who are suspected for manipulating the foreign exchange market in Iran last week, have been arrested and will soon be sent to court, Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi announced on Sunday. Large amounts of foreign exchange and golden coins have been seized from the arrested persons, he told the Mehr News ...

By Trend Members of the Iranian parliament (Majlis) have put in a request to summon President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to explain about incidents which occurred last week in Iran's foreign exchange free market, the Mehr News Agency reported. So far, 93 MPs have undersigned the request, an MP said on the condition of anonymity. There is a possibility ...

By Reuters (Reuters) - Tehran's Grand Bazaar reopened under close police supervision on Saturday, traders said, days after clashes between riot police and crowds protesting against the collapse of the Iranian currency shut down the market. The resumption of trade suggested authorities had succeeded at least temporarily in containing public discontent ...

By Reuters Oct 5 (Reuters) -Iranwill defeat an enemy "conspiracy" against its foreign currency and gold markets, an adviser to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday, following violent protests that forced the closure of Tehran's grand bazaar. Riot police fought demonstrators and arrested money changers in and around the ...

By Xinhua TEHRAN, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) A prosecutor in the Iranian capital Tehran announced Thursday that 16 people related to creating disorder in local currency market have been arrested, the semi- official Mehr news agency reported. The prosecutor was quoted as saying that 16 people main elements behind disorder in the currency market who took ...

Tehran's grand bazaar has faced wide range of scuffles during recent days. There are various speculations over perpetrators of these tensions. Tehrans main bazaar has been closed on Wednesday as authorities tighten controls trying to halt the fall of Irans currency after it hit a record low. The semiofficial Mehr news agency says the bazaar ...

By Ynet News Amid economic protests in Tehran, supreme leader says West pressuring Iran because it is 'not bowing to the hegemonic system.' Top commander: We can destroy Israel in 24 hours . TheIranianregime "has not bowed and will never surrender to pressure, and this has made the enemy furious," Supreme Leader Ayatollah AliKhameneisaid Wednesday ...

By Reuters (Reuters) - An Islamic trade association inIranstrongly condemned the protests that flared in Tehran's main bazaar as an enemy conspiracy and said traders had dealt with the "treacherous" acts, Iran's state news agency reported late on Wednesday. Riot police clashed with demonstrators and arrested money changers in Tehran on Wednesday ...

By Reuters (Reuters) - Iranian riot police clashed on Wednesday with demonstrators and foreign exchange dealers in the capital Tehran over the collapse of the country's currency, which has lost a third of its value against the dollar in a week, witnesses said. Police fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators, angered by the plunge in the value ...