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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

Iran Parliament ’s Think Tank: Forex Subsidy Policy Impractical

EghtesadOnline: The Majlis Research Center, the parliament’s research arm, has taken a dim view of the preferential forex rate policy of the government in the past months and warned about the perpetuation of failed tried and tested policies in the coming year as seen in the proposed 2019-20 budget bill.
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Publish Date:02/January/2019 | 13:32

Iran Parliament 's Think Tank Forecasts Lower Crude Prices

EghtesadOnline: Forecasting the future of the oil market is crucial, especially for countries where oil export is the lifeblood of the economy and budgets are constructed, deconstructed and reconstructed depending on crude price and production.
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Publish Date:30/December/2018 | 11:11

Rouhani to Submit Budget Bill to Parliament Today

EghtesadOnline: President Hassan Rouhani is scheduled to submit the budget bill for the next fiscal (March 2019-20) to the Iranian Parliament on Tuesday.
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Publish Date:25/December/2018 | 10:47

Fitch: Bank Reform Bills Carry Clout

EghtesadOnline: Fitch Ratings, the international ratings agency, has said in a report that Iran's banking supervisory authority will benefit from two bills sent by President Hassan Rouhani to parliament to push banking reforms.
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Publish Date:01/January/2019 | 13:04

Iran's Guardian Council Sends CFT Bill Back to Majlis

EghtesadOnline: The Guardian Council – a watchdog that ensures laws are in line with the Constitution and Sharia–has sent back an anti-terror finance bill known as CFT to the Majlis for reconsideration.
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Publish Date:05/November/2018 | 10:40

Iran Parliament Passes Counter-Terror Finance Legislation

EghtesadOnline: Iranian lawmakers on Sunday approved a measure that allows Iran to formally join the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, clearing a major hurdle to improve Iran's status with the global anti-money laundering body, the Financial Action Task Force.
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Publish Date:08/October/2018 | 08:30

Iran Parliament Approves 2 FATF Bills

EghtesdOnline: Lawmakers on Tuesday approved two bills related to the Iran Action Plan with the intergovernmental Financial Action Task Force. The Guardian Council had earlier found faults with the two bills and sent it back to the legislature for reconsideration.
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Publish Date:26/September/2018 | 06:45