Iran’s policymakers have set increasingly ambitious targets for expanding the country’s foreign trade, including a 23% rise in exports under the Seventh Development Plan. Yet the country’s…
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Hamid Mollazadeh
Iran’s equity market has entered one of its strongest phases of retail liquidity inflow in recent years, marking a decisive shift after months of persistent capital flight.
Iran’s latest national accounts data show an economy that continues to hover around zero growth, with both demand-side and supply-side weaknesses preventing any meaningful rebound.
Hamid Mollazadeh
For more than a decade, Iran’s refining sector has operated under a structural paradox: rising domestic fuel demand against an industry that has added virtually no new large…
Iran’s trade with its northern neighbors has expanded in recent years, but structural frictions, shifting geopolitics and persistent domestic policy failures continue to limit the scale of this…
Iranian manufacturers are increasingly turning to exports of raw and semi-processed goods as domestic demand falters, creating a structural shift in the country’s production chains.
Iran’s trade with the European Union has continued to contract, underscoring the depth of structural and geopolitical pressures shaping one of Iran’s most important external economic corridors.…
Iran’s debate over energy-price restructuring has intensified after the recent gasoline increase revived expectations that diesel could be next.
Iran’s recent adjustment to gasoline prices has reopened a long-running policy debate: can fuel reforms succeed without a parallel effort to curb government overspending?
Iran’s saffron sector—producer of over 90% of global supply—is entering a period of heightened instability as smuggling, weak regulation, and outdated processing capacities erode its competitive…
Iran’s capital market is preparing for a major shift as new regulations finalize the long-awaited framework for crypto-based investment funds.
With the Central Bank’s supervisory rules…
Hamid Mollazadeh
After more than two decades of continuous production, Iran’s South Pars gas field—the country’s most vital source of energy—has reached a critical juncture.
Mohammad Hashemi
Iran’s manufacturing sector is once again bracing for winter electricity shortages, despite repeated official assurances that supply will remain stable.
After months of summer outages…
A growing wave of entrepreneur migration is emerging as one of Iran’s most alarming economic trends, signaling a deeper erosion of the country’s productive capacity.
Hamid Mollazadeh
Iran’s energy system has reached a breaking point—one fundamentally different from the pressures of past decades. A combination of long-ignored structural flaws, mounting…
Iran’s liquidity growth is once again edging toward a historical high, driven largely by the government’s mounting reliance on central bank financing.
The latest annual report of the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (EAG) for 2024–2025 indicates a notable shift in the organization’s engagement with Iran,…
The return of UN sanctions under snapback mechanism in October 2025 has pushed Iran’s trade environment into what officials describe as a “high-risk mode,” reviving financial and maritime…
Iran’s economy recorded a mild setback in spring 2025, as GDP dipped 0.4% and private final consumption—the largest driver of national output—fell by 1.1%. New data from the Statistical Center of…
Hamid Mollazadeh
Iran’s nature loss is increasingly becoming a tourism loss. Once a land of shimmering lakes and four-season landscapes, the country now faces vanishing waters, intensifying…
Iran’s free trade zones (FTZs) today deliver only a fraction of their intended economic role, contributing barely 1% to national GDP—far below expectations and dramatically weaker than regional…
After several years of implementing Iran’s fixed-rate foreign exchange subsidy, a widening gap has emerged between the preferential and market exchange rates, reigniting concerns about fiscal…
Hamid Mollazadeh
