Tehran Stock Exchange

October 23, 2024 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Iran’s Economy Braces for Impact of Clash With Israel

Iranians remain on edge as they wait for Israel’s response to Iran’s latest ballistic missile barrage. The Iranian currency reflects local anxiety as the street value of the Iranian rial to the dollar...

August 16, 2021 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

How Biden can escape the self-created nuclear impasse

Despite the Biden administration’s efforts to finalize an agreement before the inauguration of Ebrahim Raisi as Iran’s new president, Tehran has refused to return to the 2015 nuclear deal, also known...

December 2, 2020 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Key Targets Remain for U.S. Sanctions on Iran

The U.S. Department of the Treasury last week sanctioned the Mustazafan Foundation, one of three critical holdings in the business empire of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The Trump administration,...

November 5, 2020 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Designating Tehran Stock Exchange Would Increase Washington’s Leverage

The main index of the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) has plummeted 40 percent from the all-time high it reached in early August, while institutional investors face allegations they exploited government ties...

September 30, 2020 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Is Iran’s supreme leader preparing to surrender?

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, marked the 40th anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war last week by praising his predecessor’s decision to drink a “chalice...

September 11, 2020 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Desperate to Sustain Stock Market Bubble, Tehran Taps Its Sovereign Wealth Fund

Tehran announced on Tuesday that it would use 1 percent of its National Development Fund (NDF) – one Iran’s few remaining sources of hard currency – to stabilize the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). The...

August 18, 2020 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Distortion and Desperation Inflate Tehran’s Stock Bubble

Over the last week, the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) index fell 13 percent after breaking record after record despite the dire situation the Iranian economy has been facing since 2018. In New York, London,...

June 24, 2020 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Cratering Economy Drives Iranian Rial to All-Time Low

The Iranian rial has lost 10 percent of its value over the past two weeks, and more than 30 percent since the start of the calendar year. The regime may still have sufficient hard currency reserves to end...

May 26, 2020 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar

The Impact of Financial Sanctions: The Case of Iran 2011-2016

International Finance Discussion Papers

April 2, 2020 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Washington Targets Tehran’s Petrochemical Trade by Sanctioning Military Pension Fund

The U.S. State Department recently designated a tranche of entities that are tied to, or directly engage in, the sale or supply of Iranian petrochemical products. Iran’s petrochemical sector accounts...

March 26, 2020 | Richard Goldberg, Saeed Ghasseminejad

IMF Should Reject Islamic Republic’s Loan Request

The Islamic Republic of Iran has requested a $5 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as Tehran confronts a perfect economic storm combining President Donald Trump’s maximum pressure...

January 24, 2020 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

U.S. Maximum Pressure Campaign Should Target Tehran Stock Exchange and Khamenei’s Business Empire

The office of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei announced last week that additional entities under its control would go public on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE), enabling them to access capital more effectively....

November 16, 2018 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

For Economic Sanctions to Work, Trump Must Turn up the Heat on Iran

The Trump administration's strategy of maximum pressure on Iran took full effect on Nov. 5. It included the re-imposition of oil sanctions and designation of more than 700 Iranian entities...

November 2, 2018 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Iranian Companies’ Shares Plummeted after Treasury Designations

On October 16, the U.S. Treasury designated 20 Iranian entities. Using the anti-terrorism authorities under Executive Order 13224, Tre...

October 17, 2018 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Annie Fixler

Treasury Expands Pressure on the Iranian Economy

The U.S. Treasury issued a new round of sanctions yesterday against large, publicly traded Ir...

May 21, 2018 | Mark Dubowitz, Richard Goldberg

Iran, Get Ready for the Battle Rial

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday presented the Islamic Republic of Iran with a stark choice: Either change or face “unprecedented financial pressure” in the form of “the...

February 16, 2018 | Saeed Ghasseminejad

Lawmakers Can Defend Iranian Dissidents and Punish the Revolutionary Guards at the Same Time

There is bipartisan consensus in Congress on the need to support the nonviolent protesters in Iran who are calling for an end to corruption and dictatorship. One important way to protect the prot...

September 26, 2017 | Mark Dubowitz |

How Trump Can Improve the Iran Deal

Co-authored by David Albright. Powerful voices at home and abroad are pressuring President Trump to give his blessing to his predecessor’s nuclear agreement with Iran. Mr....

August 1, 2017 | Mark Dubowitz |

Averting a Third Lebanon War

Co-written by Rep. Mike Gallagher. In a rare moment of disagreement between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, Israel’s prime minister last month rejected a U.S.-Russia...

June 16, 2017 | |

FATF Leadership and Iranian Accountability

Read and download "Risks of Doing Business with Iran" The multi...