BY: Ebrahim Fallahi

A review on govt. plan to barter oil for dues to private sector

TEHRAN – The regulatory body of the government has been recently preparing the draft for a bartering system which is set to settle the government dues to the private power plant owners and electricity contractors.

By Hanif Ghaffari 

Europe's return to the twentieth century!

The three countries of Britain, Germany and France are not in good shape: Berlin faces a crisis of leadership and there is no prospect of the end of the Angela Merkel Chancellery.

By Setareh Behroozi

‘Better Future’ lies in prosperity of startups

TEHRAN -- With the slogan of ‘Better Future’, the 25th edition of Iran International Exhibition of Electronics, Computer & E-commerce (ELECOMP 2019) is currently underway at Tehran Permanent International Fairground.

By Mahnaz Abdi

Forex market stabilized, rial soaring

Forex market in Iran has been experiencing many ups and downs after the U.S. withdrew from Iran’s nuclear deal (known as JCPOA) in May 2018.

Hanif Ghaffari

The rule of Anarchism in Washington

The United States is not in a decent position. Donald Trump's political management has led to the creation of a kind of pomegranate in the country. The presence of people like John Bolton at the White House has strengthened this trend.

By Samaneh Aboutalebi

“The Warden” in search of justice

Young Iranian director Nima Javidi’s second film “The Warden”, also known as “The Indian”, is currently on screens at Iranian theaters, five years after the release of his debut movie “Melbourne”. 

By Afshin Majlesi

Iran travel sector: Ups and downs since U.S. reimposed sanctions

TEHRAN – Last November, the Trump administration reinstated sanctions on Iran, mainly the ones that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal, in order to batter Iran’s economy, however, according to official data, they have so far failed to lessen foreign arrivals to the Islamic Republic.

By Mahnaz Abdi

IME strengthening link between agricultural, financial markets

TEHRAN- Expanding the links between financial markets and commodity markets and strengthening the existing links between these markets is an approach Iran’s capital market has taken in recent years which has resulted in significant achievements in both commodity and exchange transactions in the country.

By Ebrahim Fallahi

Iran’s ‘oil for execution’ plan: old ideas in a new wrapping

TEHRAN – This week Iranian Oil Ministry is going to officially start a new plan that is aimed to be a new way for selling oil and tackling the pressures imposed by U.S. sanctions on the country’s oil industry.

By Mahnaz Abdi

Ports’ vital role in combatting sanctions

While Iran is combatting the U.S. unilateral sanctions on its economy, the country’s ports as the major gates of exports and imports play some significant role in this combat. This role makes all-out support to ports and more development of them serious and vital.

Do-nothing strategy, the FIVB’s best strategy

TEHRAN – The U.S. authorities violated the rules after they detained Iranian volleyball team at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, however the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) chose to do nothing but saying sorry to the Iranians.

By Afshin Majlesi

Is Iran safe for Americans to visit?

TEHRAN – The matter of security in Iran is essentially considered as a complex question for any U.S. citizen willing to visit the Islamic Republic.

By Mahnaz Abdi

Sanctions, an opportunity to benefit from tax potential

Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. unilaterally from the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and the world’s major powers (known as Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA) in last May and re-imposed sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

By Mohammad Ghaderi

UAE evil plots against neighboring countries and the Arab world 

TEHRAN - United Arab Emirates (UAE) is the name of a country that didn’t exist before 1971 when the area was called Emirates of Motesalehe or the Emirates of the Coast of Oman. 

BY: Ebrahim Fallahi

EU may be a sweet-talker, but it’s full of empty promises

It was more than a year ago when U.S. President Donald Trump formally pulled the United States out of the nuclear deal that was struck between Iran and world powers in July 2015.

By Mahnaz Abdi

‘Productive Financing’, CBI’s new plan for supporting production units

Like the other economic bodies of the country, Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has defined supporting production as its major plan in the current Iranian calendar year, which is named the Year of Pickup in Production, and in this regard CBI Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati has several times stressed that supporting production units to flourish production is the priority of the country’s banking system in current year.

By Hanif Ghaffari

A conspiracy that will fail

TEHRAN- While based on evidence the U.S. and its allies have a direct and significant role in creating chronic security crises in Africa, Western media outlets, in coordination with U.S .intelligence agencies, plan to bring accusations against Iran. Such a policy is being followed by the Daily Telegraph as well.

By Mohammad Ghaderi 

Seizing Grace 1 tanker: An outright theft with no legal justification

TEHRAN - Seizing the oil tanker Grace 1 is a new event that has heated up the tension between Iran and the United States, but it can also be related to the current disagreements between United Kingdom and the European Union. 

British envoy in Tehran summoned over “illegal” tanker seizure

Piracy in Gibraltar

TEHRAN – An Iranian oil tanker was seized by Gibraltar police, aided by a detachment of British Royal Marines, on Thursday.

By Masoud Hossein

Iranian clubs forced to meet adequate standards

TEHRAN - Iran football federation considers shutting down the Iran Professional League over lack of adequate standard.

By Faranak Bakhtiari

Does economic growth worth degrading the environment?

TEHRAN – Although environmental consequences of economic growth bring about numerous reactions of economists and environmentalists, there is still doubt that environment protection rules and regulations hinder economic growth, or future development has dire consequences on the environment which does not worth it.

By Afshin Majlesi

Worldwide Armenians to reunite at St. Thaddeus

TEHRAN – Hundreds of Christian worshippers are getting prepared to head for St. Thaddeus to observe a religious ceremony passed down from generation to generation.

By Mohammad Ghaderi - Twitter: @ghaderi62 - Email: m.ghaderi62@gmail.com

The messages hidden in a meeting

The leaders of the United States and North Korea met at the demilitarized zone (DMZ) in the borders that divide North and South Korea. The meeting was about 50 minutes long. The two sides were inside North Korea’s borders only for the initial greetings and handshakes and after taking some pictures they had their talks inside the territory of South Korea.

BY: Ebrahim Fallahi

INSTEX, OPEC meeting and oil market

TEHRAN – In the past few days, oil traders around the world have been eyeing three major events closely in order to catch a glance at the direction in which the oil prices would be heading.

By Hanif Ghaffari

The deception game of Elysee Palace

News released secretly from the recent G20 summit in Japan shows that US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron have made deals on Iran. Of course, this is not so much new! American and French officials have long been interacting with each other. In particular, the U.S. and French foreign ministers have had a lot of contacts in this regard.

By Mohammad Homaeefar

Riyadh and Washington’s abject failure at G20 summit

TEHRAN – The meeting between the president of the United States of America and Saudi Arabia’s crown prince on the sidelines of the G20 summit demonstrated Riyadh and Washington’s failure to provoke hostility toward Iran.

By Hanif Ghaffari

Why Pompeo is travelling to Middle East? 

TEHRAN - American Secretary of States Mike Pompeo announced on Sunday that he will travel to Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (UAE) to discuss the issues of western Asia. 

By Mohammad Ghaderi - Twitter: @ghaderi62 - Email: m.ghaderi62@gmail.com

Pompeo knows the real meaning of “disinformation”

TEHRAN - Mike Pompeo, United States Secretary of State has turned into a symbol of the failure of U.S. foreign policy and in particular, that of Trump’s administration. 

BY: Ebrahim Fallahi

Iran’s cryptocurrency energy crisis: the issue and solutions

These days with the summer heat arriving in Iran, once again the issue of electricity consumption and balancing the country’s power supply and demand has come under spotlight.

By Farhad Daneshvar

U.S. sanctions on Iran kill off faint hopes of diplomatic solution 

The latest U.S. sanctions on Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the announcement on plans to sanction Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif have apparently been interpreted as President Donald Trump’s bad will by many in Iran.