by Amir Taheri | Dec 12, 2014 | Opinion
What do you do when your ambitions are bigger than the resources you have to pursue them? The Tehran leadership must have asked itself this question when drafting the national budget for the next year (according to the Iranian calendar), which starts on March 21....
by Ali M. Pedram | Oct 17, 2014 | Business
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The future potential of the Iranian market after international sanctions are lifted dominated the first Europe-Iran Forum held at a central London hotel on October 15 and 16, just yards away from the US embassy. The forum was organized by a...
by Saeed Laylaz | Apr 9, 2014 | Opinion
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani’s apparently firm determination to convince at least a third of Iranians to voluntarily decline the monthly cash payouts that replaced certain subsidies from March 20—the first day of the new Persian year—clearly stems from economic...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 18, 2014 | Business
Moscow, Reuters—Russia could build a second reactor at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant in exchange for Iranian oil, the Iranian ambassador to Moscow said in remarks published on Monday. Russia could also supply Iran with trucks, railroad tracks,...
by Ali M. Pedram | Feb 16, 2014 | Business
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a report on Wednesday describing the Iranian economy as “weak” but said it was growing, at a time when signs of progress towards an agreement between Iran and the US and its allies over the...
