LONDON/DUBAI: Cargill, Bunge and other global traders have halted food supply deals with Iran because new U.S. sanctions have paralyzed banking systems...
DUBAI/LONDON: Iran is likely to ride out the storm from U.S. oil sanctions, suffering recession but no economic meltdown, thanks to rising crude prices and...
DUBAI: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered officials to urgently find solutions to ease an economic crisis spurred by the...
ANKARA/PARIS: Iran and European powers have made good progress in talks to end the conflict in Yemen as Tehran has shown itself willing to push for a...
ANKARA/PARIS: Iran expects to hear from Airbus in the coming days about the fate of an order for 100 planes that looks to have been wrecked by the United...
ANKARA: Morad Sabzevari was among thousands of jubilant Iranians who took to the streets to celebrate a nuclear deal with major powers in 2015. He expected it...
ANKARA: Iranians quickly closed ranks against a hawkish new U.S. approach to Tehran, but Iran’s powerful hard-liners are set to exploit the latest dispute...
ANKARA: When Daesh (ISIS) called on members of Iran’s Sunni minority in March to wage a religious war on their Shiite rulers, few people took the threat...
ANKARA/LONDON: Growing strains with the United States and political infighting at home threaten Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s plans to expand social...
DUBAI: Iranians yearning for detente abroad and greater freedoms at home have handed President Hassan Rouhani a second term, but the hard-line forces he...
LONDON/ANKARA: Iran has asked the Bank of England to set up special clearing accounts for its banks, but has so far been rebuffed in its effort to resolve an...
ANKARA: Donald Trump’s bellicose rhetoric toward Iran now appears likely to help keep President Hassan Rouhani in office for another term, but will make...
ANKARA: Many Iranians who dreamed of quiet, comfortable lives after a nuclear deal with world powers in 2015 are starting to worry for the first time in...
ANKARA/PARIS: A row over U.S. visa bans may further weaken Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s efforts to attract foreign investors to Iran, particularly...
ANKARA: An Airbus A321 airliner landed in Tehran Thursday, the first to arrive out of the 200 Western-built aircraft ordered by IranAir following the lifting...
ANKARA: The death of former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani deprives Iran’s reformers of a powerful ally, boosting anti-Western hard-liners before a...
ANKARA: Donald Trump’s victory and the war on Daesh (ISIS) have given Iran’s hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps what it sees as a unique opportunity...
ANKARA: Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election is likely to empower hard-liners in Iran who are pushing for global isolation and discourage...
ANKARA: A year after Iran’s nuclear deal with the West, hard-liners are gaining authority in a backlash against pragmatic President Hassan Rouhani that his...
ANKARA/DUBAI: Iran said Wednesday it would resist any plan to restrain its oil output as fellow OPEC ministers flew to Tehran to try to persuade the country...
ANKARA/DUBAI: Iran’s cancellation of a conference where it had been set to unveil investment contracts to international oil firms signals that political...
ANKARA: Hope for change is dwindling but not gone among supporters of Iran’s main pro-reform opposition, although its leaders remain under house arrest and...
ANKARA: Many Iranian women and young people are disillusioned about the upcoming elections, desperate for reform but losing hope in their pragmatic president...
ANKARA: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps did well under international sanctions, and the elite military force is destined to become still richer now that...
DUBAI/ANKARA: The lifting of sanctions set off scenes of jubilation in Iran’s parliament: Supporters planted kisses on the forehead of Foreign Minister...