Governors of the central banks of Iran and Iraq signed an agreement to develop a payment mechanism aimed at facilitating banking ties between the two neighboring countries.
News ID: 3589 Publish Date : 2019/02/07
Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Abdonnaser Hemmati said Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi has voiced “his firm support” for the banking deal reached between the two countries on Tuesday night and called for its rapid implementation.
News ID: 3588 Publish Date : 2019/02/07
Oil prices edged higher for the first time in three sessions on Wednesday, although concerns over the outlook for the global economy capped gains.
News ID: 3585 Publish Date : 2019/02/07
Secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council (EC) Mohsen Rezaei decried the European Union’s move to link the implementation of INSTEX –a financial channel for trade with Iran- to Tehran’s accession to Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) and the Palermo Convention.
News ID: 3575 Publish Date : 2019/02/06
Iranian Deputy Energy Minister for Electricity Homayoun Haeri said on Tuesday that an Iraqi delegation is slated to visit Tehran on Wednesday for talks on increasing bilateral cooperation on electrical energy.
News ID: 3560 Publish Date : 2019/02/05
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is slated to attend a meeting of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission on Monday to brief its members of the European Union’s special financial mechanism for trade with Iran known as INSTEX.
News ID: 3559 Publish Date : 2019/02/05
Iranian Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani said the country would never accept the “humiliating conditions” of the European Union’s financial mechanism for trade with Iran known as INSTEX, including Iran’s accession to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
News ID: 3558 Publish Date : 2019/02/05
A senior fellow with the Transatlantic Program of the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) hailed the creation of INSTEX as the first “tangible sign” by Europe to uphold the JCPOA, adding, however, that it is “still months away from being fully operational”.
News ID: 3543 Publish Date : 2019/02/04
Iran’s ambassador to Britain said while the European Union’s special financial mechanism for trade with Iran known as INSTEX has not become operational yet, extremists in the region and those close to US President Donald Trump are mocking the payment channel.
News ID: 3542 Publish Date : 2019/02/04
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu hailed the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX), the European Union’s special financial mechanism for trade with Iran, as a positive step.
News ID: 3534 Publish Date : 2019/02/03
China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang hailed a recent decision by European countries to create a new trading system with Iran and uphold the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) following the US withdrawal from the nuclear agreement.
News ID: 3533 Publish Date : 2019/02/03
January’s copper price rally came to a screeching halt on Friday after a key gauge showed Chinese factory output shrinking at the fastest pace in almost three years.
News ID: 3528 Publish Date : 2019/02/02
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said that his country has been able to decrease dependence on oil revenues, stressing the US inability to reduce Iran's crude sales.
News ID: 3527 Publish Date : 2019/02/02
Representatives from Iraq’s telecommunication ombudsman and mobile and landline operators are to visit Tehran Feb 2-5.
News ID: 3521 Publish Date : 2019/02/02
A senior official at Chabahar Free Trade Zone (FTZ) Organization announced on Thursday that foreign banks face no restriction for inaugurating their branches in Chabahar in Southeastern Iran.
News ID: 3508 Publish Date : 2019/01/31
Tehran and Damascus signed a document to finalize previous agreements between the two countries for establishing a joint bank.
News ID: 3497 Publish Date : 2019/01/30
Former Iranian defense minister General Ahmad Vahidi, who is a member of the Expediency Council, warned against joining the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), saying the FATF aims to undermine the Islamic Republic’s “scientific nuclear power”.
News ID: 3466 Publish Date : 2019/01/29
Iran traded $312 million worth of commodities with Turkmenistan during the 10 months to Jan. 20, according to Iran's commercial attaché to Turkmenistan.
News ID: 3462 Publish Date : 2019/01/29
The Iranian foreign ministry announced on Monday that the financial channel launched by Switzerland to further develop relations with Tehran is not related to the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) which was due to facilitate trade between Iran and the EU.
News ID: 3456 Publish Date : 2019/01/28
Tehran and Canberra are determined to further increase industrial cooperation as representatives from the two countries signed an agreement in Tehran.
News ID: 3444 Publish Date : 2019/01/27
