Iran’s Proposed Budget Cannot Meet Fiscal Targets, Economists Warn
By Roshanak Astaraki
Several prominent economists are warning that the government’s 2020-21 budget will not meet its revenue projections or cover its fiscal spending.
Former Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Heidar Mostakhdemin Hosseini is...
ANALYSIS: Behind Iran’s Biggest-Ever Teachers’ Strike
By Roshanak Astaraki
Last week saw the largest ever nationwide strike by teachers in Iran. Tens of thousands of teachers marched in some 100 cities across Iran, demanding their rights as articulated by the Iranian...
Iran’s Guardian Council Approves New Funding for Qods Force After Soleimani’s Death
By Roshanak Astaraki
On January 7, the Guardian Council fast-tracked into law the emergency-3 “Reciprocal Amendment Bill in Response to the U.S. Designating the IRGC a Terrorist Organization” which the Majlis (Iranian Parliament) had...
EXCLUSIVE: Kayhan Life Interviews Iran’s Striking Oil Workers
By Roshanak Astaraki
A nationwide strike by Iranian oil workers on fixed-term contracts -- which started a day after the June 18 Iranian presidential elections -- has spread to 80 oil, gas, and petrochemical companies...
Wheat Flour Used in Iranian Bakeries Contains Dirt and Sand, Head of Food Agency...
By Roshanak Astaraki
Some 700,000 tons of wheat flour used by bakeries in the country every year, with an estimated retail value of $237 million, consists mostly of dirt, sand, gravel and bran (husk), according...
Iran and Azerbaijan’s Joint Carmaking Venture Kicks Off
By Roshanak Astaraki
Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan have started the joint production of a new passenger car, “Khazar,” according to Bunyad Huseynov, the Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Tehran.
Ambassador Huseynov announced the news on...
Iran’s Pharmaceutical Industry Suffers From Rial-Dollar Exchange Rates, Official Says
By Roshanak Astaraki
Iranian pharmaceutical companies have increased their production capacities in recent years and performed well during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Mahmoud Najaf-Arab, the chairman of the Health Economic Committee of the Tehran...
Iran Must Explore Trade Opportunities with Neighboring Countries, Experts Say
By Roshanak Astaraki
Iran has exported, respectively, $1.1 billion and $24 billion worth of goods to the 28 member states of the European Union and to 13 neighboring nations plus Egypt in the past year....
Protests in Iran Continue Over Water Shortage in the South
By Roshanak Astaraki
A protest over severe water shortage and power cuts that started on July 15 in Hamidiyeh in the southwestern province of Khuzestan has now spread to 15 other cities in the province.
Antiriot...
COVID-19 Has Bankrupted Event Venues in Iran, Affected Wedding Planners, DJs
By Roshanak Astaraki
Half of the events venues in Iran have gone bankrupt since the start of the coronavirus lockdown a few months ago, causing massive job losses, according to Khosrow Ebrahimnia, the head of...
