Iran’s Oil Ministry has announced that it will resume supplying fuel to the country’s airliners so long as the Aviation Organization begins payment on its seven-trillion-rial debt to the ministry within one week.
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Police announce more arrests around currency crisis
The Tehran Police force has announced that 88 “gold and foreign currency brokers” have been arrested, as disputes have intensified between the Iranian government and the Central Bank over handling the crisis in the currency and gold markets.
Iran’s rial tumbles once again
The Iranian currency has plunged against the dollar once more, reaching 33,500 rials to the dollar. That constitutes a fall of 3,000 rials since last Monday.
Top Iranian university among new sanction targets
The EU has imposed sanctions on Iran’s top institution of technology, Sanati Sharif University in Tehran.
Iran fighting ‘smart economic war’: Ahmadinejad
Iran is engaged in a “smart economic war” with Western powers whose sanctions against its nuclear programme are hurting some Iranians, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday.
Iran’s Minister: With all fees and costs counted, people pay 70 percent of salary for medical expenses
If we count all the hidden fees and expenses, people in Iran pay around 70 percent of their salaries for medical expenses, Iranian Health Minister Marziyeh Vahid Dastjerdi said, ILNA reported.
Iranian Health Minister calls for medication money
The Iranian Health Minister has called on the Central Bank to provide the necessary foreign currency to import urgently needed medical drugs and equipment into the country.
Big drop in Iranian oil exports: Reuters
Iranian oil exports in December will fall by one quarter compared to November of 2012, Reuters reports.
Iran faces shortages of medical supplies, infant formula
The head of the Iranian Association of Pharmacists says the price of medical products has risen by 245 percent, and infant formula and medical drugs for special diseases are in short supply at Iranian pharmacies.
Iran postpones second round of subsidy cuts
An Iranian lawmaker says the country’s parliament has postponed the implementation of a second round of subsidy cuts until 2013 over fears of stoking already rampant inflation.