IRNA Iran will focus on non-oil exports in the new Iranian calendar year (starting on March 21, 2019), the parliament speaker said. In planning the budget of new Iranian year, Iran will focus on the issue of non-oil exports, Ali Larijani said on Friday. He noted that the issues of national production, housing industry as well as subsidies for ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian dailies on Saturday and picked headlines from 19 of them. The front pages of Iranian dailies were dominated by a number of stories such as the first hiking of the Supreme Leader in the heights of Tehran since his prostate surgery last month. On the international front, the winning of the 2014 Nobel ...

Iranian presidential election hopeful, Ali Akbar Velayati, says tackling unemployment and inflation would top his agenda, if he is elected president. Velayati, who is a member of the principlist Coalition of Three, said on Thursday that he will prioritize the economic problems. The senior Iranian official, who currently serves as a senior advisor ...

Presidential hopeful Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi has slammed the administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for its failure to pay attention to employment and production. Pour-Mohammadi, who is currently head of the General Inspection Office of Iran, made the remark in a speech at Imam Sadeq University of Tehran. He also stressed the significance ...

By Bloomberg Iranplans to cut itsunemployment rateto 7 percent by 2015, theTehran Timesreported, citing Deputy Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare Mohammad-Hossein Forouzan. Irans High Council of Employment has developed an investment package, valued at 1.96 trillion rials ($159 billion), with the aim of creating 1.1 million new ...