TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced that the government will push through the second phase of its sweeping subsidy reforms as early as next week. Addressing a gathering of Iranian Law Enforcement Police commanders here in Tehran on Saturday, President Hassan Rouhani said everybody should help to implement the second phase ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Sunday and picked headlines from 16 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. An Expediency Council decision to ban the military from getting involved in electoral campaigns dominated the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Sunday. Also on the covers ...

PHASE two of the Iranian targeted subsidy plan is as clunky in Persian as it is in English, but it rolls off every Iranians tongue. On April 28th President Hassan Rohani raised petrol prices by 75%, from 4,000 to 7,000 rials ($0.16 to $0.28) per litre. Increases in the price of staples are imminent, too. This second round of cuts to the subsidies ...

Experts from Iran and the 5+1 Powers willmeet in New York from May 5-9, ahead of the next high-level negotiations on a comprehensive nuclear deal. Discussions are expected on technical and financial aspects of an agreement, including Irans enrichment of uranium, the status of Tehrans nuclear facilities, inspection and supervision arrangements, and ...

Tehran, April 15, IRNA - The government is determined to provide health insurance to all people by March 2016 said Anoushirvan Mohseni Bandpei, managing director of Iran Health Insurance Organization. Bandpei made the remarks in an interview with IRNA on Monday. He added $266.66m, which will be obtained from the implementation of the second phase ...

TEHRAN In a bid to cut spending, the Iranian government has ended a massive cash assistance program and launched a celebrity-driven campaign to convince millions of Iranians that they do not need the help. Its unlikely to be a popular message. As of last month, more than 90percent of Iranians were receiving monthly direct deposits from the government ...

Tehran, April 7, IRNA Deputy Foreign Minister for Euro-American Affairs, Majid Takht-e Ravanchi, said on Monday that subsidiary issues have not the least effect on nuclear talks with the G5+1. Takht-e Ravanchi told IRNA that the nuclear talks revolve around the pivot of the Iranian nuclear program. Asked to what extent can approval of anti-Iran ...

Tehran, March 27, IRNA - President Hassan Rouhani has said that the second phase of subsidy regulation scheme is starting in April. President Rouhani told his ministers and deputies that the subsidy reform plan will take effect in May, according to the petroenergy news network SHANA. Rouhani said his administration has significant projects for ...

TEHRAN Mar 17 (Shana): The director of public relations of Irans Petroleum Ministry has said this ministry is only tasked with implementing the subsidy regulation plan. Akbar Nematollahi said the ministry does not take any decision about the subsidization plan. When there is any word about fuel, everyones mind is set on the Petroleum Ministry and ...

The Iranian regime, amid ongoing nuclear negotiations with the 5+1 Powers, is maintaining its proclamation of strength the resistance economy can overcome any US-led sanctions, even if there is no comprehensive deal. Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami (pictured)led the declarationson Friday in his Tehran Prayer sermon: The resistance economy will render all ...

Under his slogan resistance economy, theSupreme Leader has calledon the heads of the three branches of Government to co-operate for a quick solution of Irans economic difficulties. Ayatollah Khamenei met President Rouhani, Speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani, and head of judiciary Sadegh Amoli Larijani on Tuesday. He told the men: If the comprehensive ...

Irans Minister of the Economy has announced the family cash benefits, which so far have been sent to all households to cushion the removal of government subsidies on energy and food staples, will only be provided for families that demonstrate their financial need for such supplements, starting in the New Year. ISNA reports that Ali Tayyebnia told ...

TEHRAN, Feb. 5 (MNA) Iran will start implementing the second phase of the subsidy reform plan on June 22. The Iranian parliament (Majlis) approved a bill on Tuesday that obliges the administration to take all the necessary measures by the end of spring and start the second phase of the plan in the first month of summer. The subsidy reform plan ...

Under former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, almost all of Irans 77 million people started receiving monthly cash payments to offset rising energy and food costs. Rouhanis government has indicated it wants to introduce eligibility requirements in a bid to help revive an economy battered by sanctions over Iran??s nuclear program and 40 percent inflation....

TEHRAN (FNA)- Two subsidiaries of the oil ministry, the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company (NIOPDC) and the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), will no longer be able to provide fund for payment of subsidies as of the next Iranian year (starting in March, 2014), a senior oil ministry official said. Deputy Oil Minister for Planning ...

TEHRAN Oct 26 (Shana): The head of Economic Subcommittee of the Majlis Planning and Budgeting Committee has said that the monthly payment of cash handouts poses serious challenge to holding companies of Petroleum Ministry. Jaafar Qaderi said the withdrawal of sums from the resources of National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), National Iranian Oil Refining ...

Irans cash-strapped government is looking to slash monthly handouts given to almost all Iranians in a move that could provoke popular anger as the country struggles with high inflation and unemployment. When the government of Hassan Rouhani, the president, took office in August he promised to easeeconomic hardship. But a priority, officials say, is ...

Irans subsidy reforms have been among the most significant, but also most controversialsocioeconomic initiatives in recent years. Now that Iran is preparing for the post-Ahmadinejad era, it is appropriate to examine how the planned continuation of this program will be affected by the emergence of a new administration in the second half of 2013. The ...

The Iranian parliament (Majlis) integration committee has approved increases on the prices of gasoline, fuel oil, and CNG for this Iranian calendar year, which began on March 21, Fars news agency reported. Prices of other energy carriers will remain constant. According to the approval, semi-subsidized gasoline, which is currently sold at 4,000 ...

Iranian presidentMahmoud Ahmadinejadasked the countrys parliament to unify in the face of enemy pressure and to support the extension of a subsidy- reduction plan that started three years ago. Ahmadinejad has sought to implement a second phase of the plan, including a further rise in energy prices, before he steps down later this year, while parliament ...