VIENNA: OPEC agreed Monday to extend oil supply cuts until March 2020, three OPEC sources said, as the group’s members overcame differences in order to...
LONDON: Hard-line cleric Ebrahim Raisi has swiftly emerged as one of Iran’s most powerful figures and a contender to succeed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali...
GENEVA/LONDON: In early January, labor activist Esmail Bakhshi posted a letter on Instagram saying he had been tortured in jail, attracting support from tens...
LONDON: Tamnoush, an Iranian company that makes fizzy drinks, has shut down its production line after 16 years and laid off dozens of workers. It was facing...
DUBAI/LONDON: Tomato paste is not the most obvious economic indicator, but in Iran, where it is a staple that some people have started panic-buying, it says a...
AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France / LONDON: PIran’s resident Hassan Rouhani has demanded that European countries do more to offset the U.S. sanctions after one of the...
LONDON/NAIROBI: In January, the Comoros Islands quietly cancelled a batch of its passports that foreigners had bought in recent years. The tiny nation off the...
LONDON: Fifteen-year-old Ma’edeh Shabaninejad was arrested two months ago at her aunt’s house in the southern city of Ahvaz, where she was hiding after...
LONDON: Iran warned of a tough crackdown on Sunday against demonstrators posing one of the boldest challenges to its clerical leaders since nationwide unrest...
LONDON: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has arrested at least 30 dual nationals during the past two years, mostly on spying charges – twice as many as earlier...
Iran has signed a flurry of deals with foreign companies since the easing of international sanctions on Tehran in 2016 after it agreed to limits on its...
LONDON: Low on cash but high on hope, Iran’s technology entrepreneurs are learning to live with revived hostility in the United States and growing...
LONDON/DUBAI: Daesh (ISIS) is seeking to radicalize disaffected ethnic minorities in majority-Shiite Iran to encourage attacks intended to avenge Tehran’s...
LONDON: In February 2016, Helga Kern boarded a plane to Iran, registered with the depository to trade stocks and within weeks opened a broker account and...
LONDON/PARIS/FRANKFURT, Germany: French carmakers PSA and Renault are turning their U.S. absence into an Iranian advantage by piling into a resurgent market...
MANAMA/DUBAI: At a wake in Iran’s holy city of Qom in February, a small group of Bahraini emigres and preachers mourned a young militant killed in a gunbattle...
LONDON: Hard-line preacher Ebrahim Raisi, seen as pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani’s main challenger in a May 19 election, is a close ally of...
DUBAI: Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Monday the government’s economic policies had fallen short and called for a new “resistance...
BEIRUT: Iran’s carpet makers are distancing themselves from their government in promoting their handmade work, as they seek to regain valuable U.S. sales and...
DUBAI/BEIRUT: Abandoning a long-standing reticence, Iranians are increasingly candid about their involvement in Syria’s war, and informal recruiters are now...
DUBAI: Nine people accused of storming Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran in January appeared in a Tehran court Monday, Fars news agency reported, a few weeks...
DUBAI: Executive pay, a source of controversy at shareholder meetings in the West, has become a political issue in Iran where revelations of high compensation...
DUBAI: Iran is gradually restoring banking links with the rest of the world by forging ties with smaller foreign institutions, even though large global banks...
DUBAI: Long used to lucrative state contracts, Iran’s construction company faces leaner times, as overseas firms better able to attract financing push for...
DUBAI: Iran’s parliament reconvenes in late May with dozens of greenhorn lawmakers who will hold the key to accelerating reforms to boost foreign investment...