Iran government
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Iran Mining Sector Censures New Environmental Tax
EghtesadOnline: The government is set to oblige mine owners pay 1% of their revenues as tax to ameliorate the damage inflicted by their operations on the environment.
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Gov’t Wheat Purchases Top 2 Million Tons
EghtesadOnline: The Government Trading Corporation of Iran has bought more than 2 million tons of wheat from domestic farmers across the country so far this crop year, according to GTC’s new…
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Gov't to Enforce Transparency in State Entities
EghtesadOnline: The two-year-old law requiring economic entities affiliated to non-departmental public bodies to make their financial statements transparent will be put into effect in the current…
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Gov’t Urged to Focus on Less Privileged
EghtesadOnline: A majority of Iranians chose to place their confidence in President Hassan Rouhani once again, as they believed the path his government took over the past four years was the right…
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$5.3 Billion in Loans to Support SMEs
EghtesadOnline: The government plans to allocate 200 trillion rials ($5.3 billion) to prop up 10,000 enterprises in the current Fiscal year (March 2017-18), the chairman of Iran’s Small Industries…
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President: Gov’t doing best to reduce poverty, promote production, employment
EghtesadOnline: Presidnet Hassan Rouhani said that his administration has done its best to alleviate poverty, boost production and employment and he will attempt to give new momentum to his efforts…
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Iranian Gov’t Financial Transactions Going Digital
EghtesadOnline: The Vice Presidency for Information Technology says all financial transactions and payments with the government will soon be digitized as part of the wider e-government project…
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Elimination of extreme poverty on gov't agenda
EghtesadOnline: Head of the Presidential Office Mohammad Nahavandian said the elimination of extreme poverty by 2020 is on government agenda.
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Gov’t Wheat Purchase in Full Swing
EghtesadOnline: More than 1.82 million tons of wheat worth 23 trillion rials (close to $616 million) have been purchased by the government from local farmers in 11 provinces, registering a 3%…
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First Vice President: Meaningful vote empowers gov't
EghtesadOnline: First Vice President described Iran’s 12th presidential election as a historical epic created by people, and said that the “meaningful vote” of Iranian people empowered the government…
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Iranian Gov't Outlines Clean Energy Initiatives
EghtesadOnline: The government has developed several renewable power projects as well as 12 initiatives to produce electricity from fuel cells as part of efforts to raise the trifling share of…
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What Kind of Gov’t Does Iran’s Economy Need?
EghtesadOnline: The achievements of recent years, including the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, macroeconomic stability, Health Overhaul Plan and export of 1 million barrels of oil are all…
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Iran stops carrying out UNESCO 2030 Agenda: Gov't spokesman
EghtesadOnline: Iran has stopped carrying out the UNESCO 2030 Agenda after opposition of Supreme Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and it will not be resumed until removal of certain…
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Iranian Gov’t Buys Tea Leaves From Farmers
EghtesadOnline: The government has bought some 28,000 tons of fresh tea leaves worth 650 billion rials ($17.3 million) from local farmers in northern Iran so far this year (started March 21),…
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Iran Gov't Will Try New Stint With Cell Phone Registration
EghtesadOnline: A spokesman for the Anti-Smuggling Headquarters says the long awaited national scheme to curb the huge and growing market for smuggled smartphones will be launched in June.
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Gov’t Buys 550K Tons of Wheat in 20 Days
EghtesadOnline: The government has purchased about 550,000 tons of wheat from local farmers in eight provinces across the country over the past 20 days, the head of the Government Trading Corporation…
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Gov’t Commended for Salvaging Factories
EghtesadOnline: Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani believes the government of President Hassan Rouhani has made tangible efforts to salvage closed factories.
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Iran Gov't Backing Science-Based Entrepreneurship
EghtesadOnline: Iran's science-based firms have exported goods worth $500 million since 2013, according to one official with knowledge of the subject.
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Iran Government Launches Economic Databank
EghtesadOnline: The Financial-Economic Databank and Iran's Economic Data Monitoring website, which is the first of its kind, were unveiled on Tuesday, with Economy Minister Ali Tayyebnia and…
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Govt. steeply raises cash handouts for Iranians
EghtesadOnline: Impoverished families in Iran will get a raise of up to 50% in monthly allowance, under a program which had been adopted for sometime but will go to force from Saturday night.
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Iranian Gov't Shifting Focus to Housing Sector
EghtesdaOnline: President Hassan Rouhani’s administration is focused on revitalizing the beleaguered housing sector and its intermediate sectors to get them out of their years-long recession,…
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Gov't Repays Social Security Organization Arrears
EghtesadOnline: The Social Security Organization of Iran has thanked President Hassan Rouhani in a letter, thanking him for repaying government arrears to the organization.
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Gov’t Augments CBI Deposits
EghtesadOnline: According to the latest data released by the Central Bank of Iran for the month ending February 18, government deposits with CBI reached 412 trillion rials ($11 billion) and registered…
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Iranian Government Reduces Bank Arrears by $3.5b
EghtesadOnline: The government has cleared 132 trillion rials ($3.5 billion) of its arrears to the banking system while increasing its capital to public-sector banks by 242 trillion rials ($6.4…
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Iranian Gov’t Begins Guaranteed Purchase of Wheat
EghtesdaOnline: The government has kicked off its guaranteed purchase of wheat from local farmers in the new Iranian year (started March 21).
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President Rouhani: Government on right path
EghtesadOnline: The path taken by the government is the right one and we remain to be proud of it, says President Hassan Rouhani.
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Iranian Gov’t Set to Build Resilient Economy
EghtesadOnline: President Hassan Rouhani said his administration has taken “very positive” steps to realize Resistance Economy’s goals, stressing that efforts should be continued until the objectives…
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There's a special political team in IRIB attacking the government; Nobakht
EghtesadOnline: The government spokesman told reporters that a special political team in national media is responsible for attacking the government.
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Iranian Gov't Guarantees Foreign Finance
EghtesadOnline: According to a directive issued by the Cabinet, Economy Minister Ali Tayyebnia has been authorized, on behalf of the government, to guarantee the repayment of the principal amount…
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Iranian Gov't Confirms $3.7b for Debt Clearance of Banks
EghtesadOnline: As part of a new presidential directive approved by the Cabinet, the Planning and Budget Organization of Iran has been permitted to clear a portion of the government's debts to…