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Majlis Terminates Compound Interest

EghtesadOnline: Parliament voted for a bill on Tuesday based on which compound interest on bank loans that matured by the end of last fiscal year (March 20, 2019) would be eliminated and debtors given until mid-February 2020 to repay their dues.
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Publish Date:27/July/2019 | 24:31

Iran's Investment Climate Less Secure Last Autumn

EghtesadOnline: Results of a study by the Majlis Research Center, the research arm of the parliament, indicate a decline in the security climate for investment and business last autumn (Sept-Dec 2018) compared to the summer of that year.
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Publish Date:21/July/2019 | 10:00

Iran Parliament 's Think Tank Has Misgivings About Scrapping USD

EghtesadOnline: The Majlis Research Center says a parliamentary bill wanting to scrap the US currency from Iran’s overseas transactions would further add to the already detrimental effects of US sanctions targeting Iran’s economy.
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Publish Date:30/June/2019 | 11:32

Majlis Plans Probe Into Forex Subsidies

EghtesadOnline: The parliament plans to investigate the foreign exchange policy of the Central Bank of Iran during the last fiscal year that ended in March, says head of the Majlis Economic Commission.
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Publish Date:01/June/2019 | 10:25

Citizenship Through Iranian Mother Approved

EghtesadOnline: The Iranian Parliament on Monday overwhelmingly passed a bill that grants citizenship rights to children born to an Iranian mother and a foreign father.
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Publish Date:14/May/2019 | 24:03

Iran Parliament Against Higher Water, Electricity Tariffs

EghtesadOnline: The parliament has rejected a proposal by the Energy Ministry to raise water and electricity tariffs, saying it is “against the law” as it will pile economic pressure on the people in the current dire economic conditions, Barq News reported.
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Publish Date:12/May/2019 | 13:57

Larijani Urges Closer Int’l Parliament ary Coop.

EghtesadOnline: Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has called for closer cooperation between parliaments to cope with the challenges of an increasingly interlinked world.
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Publish Date:08/April/2019 | 14:53

Central Bank of Iran Allowed to Start OMO

EghtesadOnline: The parliament approved the section of next year’s (March 2019-20) budget bill that allows the Central Bank of Iran to launch secondary markets for trading Islamic bonds issued by the government. The measure is aimed at curbing inflation, the parliamentary news website ICANA reported.
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Publish Date:27/February/2019 | 24:12

Iran Parliament Votes to Augment Transparency

EghtesadOnline: To help inculcate transparency in statecraft, the parliament ratified one amendment to the next year’s (March 2019-20) budget bill on Monday obliging government-affiliated firms to log their activities in an online system.
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Publish Date:26/February/2019 | 24:07

Iran Parliament Allows Gov’t to Borrow $30b Overseas

EghtesadOnline: While debating the March 2019-20 budget bill on Monday, lawmakers allowed the government to borrow $30 billion in foreign finance in the next fiscal (March 2019-20).
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Publish Date:19/February/2019 | 11:49

Iran Parliament Approves 2m Barrels Oil Offer via IRENEX

EghtesadOnline: Lawmakers on Sunday approved an amendment to next year's (March 2019-20) budget bill obliging the Oil Ministry to offer on a monthly basis 2 million barrels of light crude on the Iran Energy Exchange.
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Publish Date:18/February/2019 | 14:12

Iran Parliament OKs Budget Bill Outlines

EghtesadOnline: Iranian lawmakers approved the outlines of the next fiscal year's (March 2019-20) budget bill in an open session of the parliament on Saturday.
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Publish Date:17/February/2019 | 24:25

Iran Parliament Sends CFT Bill to Expediency Council

EghtesadOnline: With lawmakers insisting on their own version of anti-terror finance (known as CFT) bill, the legislation on Sunday was sent to the arbitration Expediency Council for a final decision.
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Publish Date:21/January/2019 | 13:20

Iran Parliament Commission Okays Outlines of Budget Bill

EghtesadOnline: The parliamentary body responsible for reviewing the budget bill, Majlis Joint Commission, approved the outlines of the government-proposed budget for the next Iranian year (March 2019-20) on Sunday.
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Publish Date:14/January/2019 | 24:46