People in Iran face skyrocketing prices for food and everyday goods, according to text and multimedia submissions sent to Iran International, as the return of UN sanctions slams the economy and deepens anxiety.
Iran’s oil minister announced the discovery of a new oil and gas field in the country's south on Monday, saying it could help ease the country’s growing energy shortages wrought by sanctions and aging infrastructure.
Iran has resumed wheat imports from Caspian Sea countries for the first time in three years, with the arrival of an initial shipment at Amirabad port in northern Mazandaran province, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Monday.
Northern Iran’s once-thriving wetlands are facing severe ecological collapse, with environmental officials warning of an imminent disaster after the absence of hundreds of thousands of migratory birds this autumn, Tasnim reported on Monday.
China is secretly funneling billions of dollars to Iran through a covert payment system that bypasses US sanctions by swapping oil for infrastructure projects, The Wall Street Journal reported, saying the hidden conduit enabled Tehran to receive up to $8.4 billion last year.
Iran has added 11 new aircraft to its civilian fleet as part of an ongoing effort to expand domestic air transport capacity, IRGC media reported on Sunday, citing the head of the Civil Aviation Organization.
Nineteen of Iran’s major dams are on the verge of drying up and three have completely run out of water, state media reported, citing data from the Iran Water Resources Management Company.
The deaths of dozens of Caspian seals along Iran’s northern coast have renewed concern over the fragile state of the Caspian Sea ecosystem, state media reported.
Iran’s parliament on Sunday approved a long-debated plan to remove four zeros from the national currency, the rial, in a bid to simplify financial transactions and improve the efficiency of banknotes.
Iran’s upgraded Do-Namay 1 satellite, described as the country’s first hybrid remote-sensing and communications satellite, is ready for launch and expected to be placed in orbit in December, a senior aerospace official said.
With Russia’s UN Security Council presidency and China’s economic leverage, Tehran is betting Moscow and Beijing can shield it from the impact of UN sanctions through legal maneuvers, committee vetoes, and strategic investments.
As Iran’s factions bicker over whether returning UN sanctions are calamitous or mere “psychological” warfare, ordinary people stare into an economic abyss.
At least four people were killed and about 20 injured when a passenger bus plunged into a valley on the Damavand–Firouzkouh road in the Alborz mountains northeast of Tehran, Red Crescent chief Shahin Fathi said on Friday, according to Iranian media.
With Iran's rial hitting fresh depths daily amid new international sanctions, it's helpful to remember how the Islamic Republic's founder viewed the economy. The late theocrat famously said it's for the donkeys.
Iran’s rial weakened on Thursday to about 1,180,000 per US dollar on Tehran’s unofficial market, roughly a week after the United Nations reimposed snapback sanctions, as President Masoud Pezeshkian urged cost-cutting and efficiency to shield households.
Iran’s Expediency Council has agreed to conditionally join a United Nations convention aimed at preventing and criminalizing the financing of terrorism, the body’s spokesperson said on Wednesday.
Tehran is facing an escalating water crisis as dammed reservoirs drop to critical lows, a senior sanitation official said, with rainfall and dam inflows reduced by nearly half leaving most of the capital’s reservoirs nearly depleted.
Iran’s deepening water emergency is straining both cities and rural communities, with one of Tehran’s key reservoirs taken offline and the once-vast Lake Urmia reduced to a salt desert, forcing migration and sparking deadly disputes over dwindling supplies.
Iran’s pharmaceutical sector is facing delays of four to six months in the allocation of foreign currency for importing raw materials, industry officials said, warning the hold-ups risk disrupting the drug supply chain.
Iran’s anti-narcotics authority warned on Monday that poppy cultivation would face severe punishment, including fines, prison and land confiscation for repeat offenders.
The European Union on Monday reimposed sweeping sanctions on Iran’s nuclear and ballistic programs after the return of United Nations restrictions under the snapback mechanism, reinstating bans on trade, finance, transport and energy first lifted in 2015.
Canada’s food safety watchdog has temporarily banned imports of pistachios and pistachio products from Iran after more than 100 confirmed salmonella cases and several recalls linked to contaminated shipments.