China National Petroleum Corp. is expected to take the lead on a $5 billion project to develop Iran’s share of the world’s biggest gas deposit, taking over...
Iran plans to implement a new financial rescue package Monday to try and halt the rial’s decline, coinciding with the re-imposition of severe U.S....
Whatever steps Iranian leaders take after Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the nuclear accord, none will be more critical to domestic stability...
For half a century, Payam’s family hardware firm near Ferdowsi Square has supplied Tehran’s builders with tools – through revolution, war and more recently...
With a plane ticket booked, graphic designer Najmeh Mohammadi headed to the currency traders on Tehran’s Manouchehri Street at 6 a.m. Tuesday for the dollars...
Iranian police clamped down on foreign-exchange offices while the central bank introduced new measures to encourage bank deposits, as a rial depreciation...
Iran’s central bank has ceased issuing permits and licenses for new private banks or commercial lenders, after the collapse of several major institutions...
TEHRAN: Iran made progress this week in preserving its new-found place in the global economy. French energy giant Total SA and German carmaker Volkswagen AG...
An OPEC deal to curtail oil production appeared in jeopardy as Iran said it won’t make cuts while Saudi Arabia insisted Tehran must be willing to play a...
DUBAI: Valiasr Street, the 19-kilometer boulevard that Shah Reza Pahlavi built in the 1930s to link his summer palaces in the north of Tehran to a new train...
TEHRAN: Several of Iran’s biggest banks have been drawn into a fight between the government and its hard-line opponents, as the merits of last year’s nuclear...
TEHRAN: Iran is exploring a return to international debt markets for the first time since 2002, a senior government official said, as the Islamic Republic...
BERLIN: Iran, where beaches are segregated by gender and alcohol is banned, is getting its first foreign-branded seaside hotel, complete with swimming pools,...
TEHRAN: Away from the offices and hotels where Iranian officials greet foreign executives, the narrow, winding walkways of Tehran’s bazaars are a stream of...
TEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arrived in Italy Monday for the first stop of a European tour that’s expected to see him sign contracts to purchase...
DUBAI: When Mahdi Yazdizadeh tried to import and sell a type of high-tech robot that stocks warehouses, he found himself running from one Tehran office to the...
KUWAIT: Money manager Mona Hajialiasghar got her first big career break the same year the world took notice of her Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Thirteen years...
Iranian Treasury bills traded over the counter for the first time as the country took a step forward in boosting liquidity in its debt markets in anticipation...
TEHRAN: An increasing number of international investors are preparing to trade Iranian stocks once economic sanctions are lifted, according to the head of the...
Iran can boost oil production in one week after international sanctions are lifted, and OPEC’s refusal to accommodate Iran in export markets would result in...
DUBAI: Iranian stocks climbed to the highest level in three months as diplomats from the Persian Gulf country and six negotiating powers moved closer to...
TEHRAN: Iran said it’s received “positive” feedback from international oil companies on the new contracts being prepared for the return of foreign investors...
TEHRAN: Sporting a monogrammed tie in tie-less Tehran, he could not have been mistaken for a local. As an American who remembers well the U.S. hostage crisis,...
DUBAI: One of the first things Leila Daneshvar did after Iran agreed to a framework for a nuclear accord was to contact European suppliers that had shunned...
TEHRAN: Few people are likely counting on a successful conclusion to Iran’s nuclear agreement more than the country’s bankers. Sanctions and loose monetary...