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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
International Finance Discussion Papers
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...
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...
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....
U.S. State Adversaries Seeking Blockchain Sanctions Resistance
Spreading disinformation is one of the tools that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has used to eliminate rivals since it first entered Iran’s economic arena. Disinformation campaigns are...
hen Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was formed shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution,[note][1] Mohsen Sazegara, “The Revolutionary Guard and the Three Perversions,” Personal...
Iran’s military spending will significantly decrease while its domestic security expenditures will modestly increase, according to a draft of the 2019-2020...
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...
The United States on Monday sanctioned more than 700 Iranian entities and individuals for enabling Tehran’s malign conduct, but it o...
On October 16, the U.S. Treasury designated 20 Iranian entities. Using the anti-terrorism authorities under Executive Order 13224, Tre...