
Iran To Keep Politically Sensitive $8 Billion Import Subsidy
Iran's parliament on Sunday delayed a bill that would eliminate a huge government subsidy for essential goods which weighs heavily on Iran’s depleted reserves.

Iran's parliament on Sunday delayed a bill that would eliminate a huge government subsidy for essential goods which weighs heavily on Iran’s depleted reserves.

The chairmen of Iraq and Korea joint chambers of commerce say news about $3.5 billion of Iran’s frozen funds being freed is not related to the two countries.

In a recent meeting with economists, President Ebrahim Raisi asked basic questions about the sorrow state of Iran's economy, showing a lack of prior planning.

An expert witness testified at the Iran Atrocities Tribunal in London Saturday that a crime against humanity was committed during protests in November 2019.

Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of a British-Iranian woman held in Iran, ended his 21-day hunger strike outside the UK Foreign Office and was admitted to hospital.

After a winter weather front passed from central Iran on Friday, the Iranian meteorological agency announced a “yellow” pollution alert for five major cities.

Norwegian police have charged a former Iranian diplomat for his alleged role in the 1993 assassination attempt on the publisher of Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses.

After a claim Friday that $3.5 billion of Iran's frozen funds had been freed, an IRGC newspaper bumped the figure to $4 billion, as a sign of Tehran's victory.

Exploratory talks with Iran have been cordial but not substantive, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has told France-24 in an interview published on Saturday.

The Iran Atrocities Tribunal in London, quoting unnamed “European sources”, says Iran’s nuclear negotiator demanded that Britain stop the work of the Tribunal.

US President Joe Biden said in a memo to his officials on Friday that there were sufficient supplies of oil so other countries can reduce purchases from Iran.

Hundreds of residents of Esfahan joined farmers protesting against water shortage and the drying up of the river, Zayandeh Roud, that flows through the city.

In the third day of the Iran Atrocities Tribunal in London the brother of a victim who was killed by security forces in the November 2019 protests testified.

Scores of Iranian Kurds have been arrested in two regions in the Iranian Kurdistan province, two human rights monitoring groups reported on Friday.

A former parliamentary leader in Iran says that refusing to directly negotiate with the United States is an “obvious mistake” and against national interests.

Ahead of new talks with world powers in Vienna, Iran’s top nuclear negotiator has reiterated that lifting of US sanctions will be the focus of the negotiations.

The FBI has warned US companies that Iranian hackers are searching cybercriminal websites to obtain stolen information to use in their future activities.

A major shift in a reformist party in Iran is likely to change the Islamic Republic's political landscape and help restore the reformists' status in the system.

The CEO of Iran's government official news agency IRNA has tweeted that $3.5 billion of Tehran's frozen funds were released, without providing any details.

Britain on Thursday said that officials had pressed Iran's deputy foreign minister Ali Bagheri-Kani to release detained dual nationals and rejoin nuclear talks.

The second day of the ‘Iran Atrocities Tribunal’ continued Thursday with oral testimonies from anonymous witnesses, including a former police officer and two protesters.