Al-Monitor - The long arm of the Iranian law seems to be reaching individuals accused of misusing political connections for personal profit at a time when the economy is under severe strain due to mismanagement at home and reimposed US sanctions. The latest in a series of "special trials" opened in the past year was that of Hossein Hedayati, also ...

Radio Farda - The prosecutor in the corruption trial of a super-rich sponsor of major Iranian football (soccer) clubs, says one of the suspects in the case had opened 242 bank accounts within a day in his 8-year-old sons name, Iranian news agencies reported. At a court session on Sunday March 10, the prosecutors described the act as tantamount to ...

MNA Stating that Iranians are revolutionary, standing by each other in a great country, President Rouhani said, we are a big family and it is natural to have problems. We should be proud of fighting corruption step by step." Speaking at the regular weekly cabinet session on Wednesday, President Hassan Rouhani said, we should leave the issues to ...

Reuters - Iranian authorities have arrested 67 people in a drive against financial crime, the judiciary said on Sunday, as the country faces renewed U.S. sanctions and a public outcry against profiteering and corruption. Special Islamic revolutionary courts were being set up to try suspects quickly after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called ...

RFERL - Iran on March 13 jailed Hamid Baghai, a vice president under former hard-liner Mahmud Ahmadinejad, following his conviction for corruption, Iranian media reports said. "Police officers apprehended and transferred the convict to prison," the Tehran prosecutor's office said, cited by the Fars news agency. Baghai was sentenced in December ...

MNA Head of the Economic Committee of Iranian Parliament announced Sunday the lawmakers have collected 100 signatures to question the president once more over the performances of financial institutions. Mohammadreza Pourebrahimi, the Chairman of Irans Parliament Economic Committee, announced that Economic Committee will meet with and talk with ...

IFP - A political analyst says Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is said to be the one behind the recent purge of top Saudi officials, is himself among key individuals charged with embezzlement. Iranian political commentator Mohammad Masjed-Jamei has, in an interview with the Persian-language Khabar Online news agency, weighed ...

Reuters - Iran's former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, faces sentences on seven verdicts of misusing billions of dollars in government funds while in office, the public prosecutor at Irans Supreme Audit Court said in a newspaper interview published on Sunday. In one case, dating back to Ahmadinejads second term in office between 2009 and 2013, the ...

Al Monitor|Navid Kalhor: One of the key underlying economic challenges of Iran is the current underfunding of its pension system. Make no mistake: Pension reform must be a priority for the country. Figures posted by the Ministry of Cooperative, Labor and Social Welfare show that "a major portion of pension funds have either gone completely bust or ...

Mashhad, Razavi Khorassan Prov., July 18, IRNA Minister of Intelligence Hojjatoleslam Mahmoud Alavi said on Monday that the government adopted stricter measures to thwart financial corruption and President Hassan Rouhani assigned the intelligence ministry to carry out the mission. Hojjatoleslam Alavi told leadership representative in Razavi Khorassan ...

Tehran, July 8, IRNA -- First Vice-President Es'haq Jahangiri announced on Friday that executive measures were taken to enforce president's nine-point directives and guidelines of the Supreme Leader to uproot financial corruption from the executive branch of government. Jahangiri presented a report on executive measures to prevent corruption in administrative ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of Iran's General Inspectorate Organization Nasser Seraj and China's Public Prosecutor Cao Jianming in a meeting in Beijing on Wednesday discussed broadening of relations, specially in campaign against financial corruption. Seraj is heading a high-ranking delegation in China to attend the 9th annual meeting of the General Assembly ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) High-ranking officials from Iran and neighboring Iraq plan to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in the near future to boost mutual cooperation in fighting against financial corruption. In coming days, the General Inspection Office of Iran will host the head of the Iraqi Commission of Integrity, Head of the General Inspection ...

Tehran, Oct 11, IRNA An informed source has recently disclosed new aspects of the case of the Iranian oil billionaire Babak Zanjani who is standing trial for charges of corruption and money laundering. Prosecution in the criminal proceeding on financial corruption in Irans crude oil revenues opened in Tehran on October 3 with Zanjani as its main ...

[caption id="attachment_131181" align="alignright" width="172"] Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati[/caption] Tehran, Jan 30, IRNA Tehran Interim Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati called for further efforts to fight widespread corruption in the country. Addressing congregational prayers on Friday, Jannati recommended 'If you want to fight corruption,...

Senior Iranian lawmaker Mohammad Dehqan says the recent widespread financial corruption and the biggest embezzlement in the countys banking history has taken place with the support of a powerful faction in the government. Expressing gratitude for the firm reaction of Iran's Judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadeqi Amoli Larijani and Prosecutor General Gholam-...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEI Critical Threats Project Iran Analyst Mehrdad Moarefian, with contributors Chris Rawlins, Marie Donovan, Warren Marshall, and Dianna Timmerman. To receive this daily newsletter, please subscribe online. Key takeaway:President Rouhaniunderscored ...

Tehran, Dec 8, IRNA Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh on Monday sketched out policies to prevent corruption in the field of oil activities. Addressing a local seminar on ways to promote healthy administrative strategies, Zanganeh said implementation of financial and executive disciplines have been the key in fight against corruption. Touching upon ...

[caption id="attachment_38208" align="alignright" width="210"] More than half of respondents think bribery has worsened over the past two years, according to a global survey.[/caption] A global corruption survey has shown that more than half of respondents think that graft has worsened over the past two years and that police, the courts and political ...

Iranian presidential candidate Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has partly blamed the financial and administrative corruption in the country on its outdated administrative system. Part of the financial and administrative corruption is blamed on this outmoded and dilapidated administrative system, Qalibaf said in a stump speech in the central Iranian province ...