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EghtesadOnline: President Hassan Rouhani cast his hardline clerical opponents as power-hungry pawns of Iran's security forces on Friday, going far beyond the traditional bounds of Iranian political discourse in a blistering final TV debate a week before an election.

EghtesadOnline: Iran’s May 19 election is seen as a referendum on the policies of President Hassan Rouhani , the moderate cleric who accepted limits on his nation’s nuclear work in exchange for relief from international sanctions.

EghtesadOnline: Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh said on Saturday that during the years of President Rouhani's government Iran has turned into an exporter of gas oil.

EghtesadOnline: President Hassan Rouhani said elections would foster hope and national confidence in the country, urging broad participation of people in the landmark political event on May 19.

EghtesadOnline: Iran is in the midst of an intense presidential election campaign with six candidates pledging how they would address the country’s economic issues through their respective policies. While incumbent Hassan Rouhani and First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri are focused on justifying a continuation of their government’s economic policies, the other four candidates are presenting economic remedies that need to be scrutinized, especially through the lens of whether they would actually be feasible and also whether they present real solutions to the country’s complex economic issues

EghtesadOnline: When Iran last year cemented a landmark nuclear agreement with six world powers to remove many of the sanctions against it, Hassan Rouhani , the country’s moderate president, said it would aim to attract at least $30 billion a year of foreign investment.

EghtesadOnline: President Hassan Rouhani on Monday congratulated national team for winning the third rank in the 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Nassau, the Bahamas.

EghtesadOnline: Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has inaugurated a crucial link to a national rail project which connects the east with the west once fully developed.

EghtesadOnline: Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi, who is running in the forthcoming Iranian presidential election, has hit back after another contender, Hassan Rouhani , filed a complaint with the country’s Election Campaign Monitoring Committee about allegations leveled against him during a recent live TV debate.

EghtesadOnline: Iran will hold a presidential election in less than three weeks. The six candidates approved on April 20 by the country’s Guardians Council will likely center their campaigns on what matters most to voters: the Iranian economy.

EghtesadOnline: Iran’s trade with China has seen a 70% growth under the current Iranian government compared to the previous one, rising from $45 billion during the four years in office of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s administration to over $76 billion since incumbent President Hassan Rouhani took office in August 2013.

EghtesadOnline: Ebrahim Raisi, the conservative cleric seeking to unseat Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in this month’s election, said the country’s historic nuclear accord with the West is legitimate and should be respected.

EghtesadOnline: Aryan, a 26-year-old with a master’s degree in engineering, showed impeccable timing when he returned home to Tehran from Canada. It was early 2016, and a decade of economic sanctions was drawing to an end, boosting Iran’s economy and kicking off a scramble for the country’s small pool of white-collar professionals. The job offers piled up. “Abroad, you’re a small fish in a big pond,” says Aryan as he unwinds in a garden cafe after a day spent drafting investment strategies for clients of the European consulting firm he works for. (He asked that his last name and the name of his employer be withheld.) “Here, each person can be the first to launch something or become a leader in their field.”

EghtesadOnline: The six candidates in the 12th Iranian presidential election have outlined their programs, with President Hassan Rouhani pledging to put his focus on creating jobs, “not in words but in practice.”

EghtesadOnline: Incumbent Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani , who is running for a second term, has lashed out at the internal critics of the historic nuclear deal signed under his administration between Tehran and the six world powers, saying "some people" are ignorant of the regulations governing election campaigns.

EghtesadOnline: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has defended his administration's performance in creating new jobs.

EghtesadOnline: Close to 540 billion rials ($14.3 million) worth of investments have been made in Nowshahr Port in the northern province of Mazandaran since President Hassan Rouhani took office in August 2013, the head of Mazandaran Ports and Maritime Organization said.

EghtesadOnline: President Hassan Rouhani said as many as 100,000 jobs have been created in cyberspace in recent years.

EghtesadOnline: President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday officially launched the production line of Peugeot 2008 and the locally designed IKCO Dena+. Peugeot 2008 is the first car to be produced through the joint venture between Iran Khodro and Peugeot — better known as IKAP in 2016.

EghtesadOnline: Iran’s misery index has had a 40% improvement since President Hassan Rouhani took office in Aug. 2013, as it went down from 48.8 in 2013 to 29.3 in 2016, according to data released by Cato Institute.