EghtesadOnline: Capital Intelligence Ratings (CI Ratings or CI), the international credit rating agency, on Friday announced that it has affirmed Iran’s long-term foreign and local currency sovereign ratings at ‘BB-’ and its short-term foreign and local currency sovereign ratings at ‘B’.

EghtesadOnline: Securities and Exchange Organization of Iran, the country's stock market regulator, has for the first time issued permits for two Iranian private rating agencies.

EghtesadOnline: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development will upgrade Iran's rating in the country risk classification of the Participants to the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits by two points in the next fiscal year that begins in March, a deputy economy minister predicted.