Iranians are feeling the pinch as the rial hits a record low./ Iranian rial loses close to half its value on free market between September and last week/ Currency exchange shops in Vancouver haven't been doing any transfers with Iran for the past few days because the Iranian government has ...
Chaos is still rampant in Iran’s foreign exchange market a week after the Iranian Government artificially set the currency exchange rate at 42,000 rials to the US dollar. This move, which Paris-based economist Fereidoun Khavand as “a very dangerous game”, was an attempt by the Hassan Rouhani ...
Iran will start reporting foreign currency amounts in euros rather than U.S. dollars, state media said on Wednesday as part of the country’s effort to reduce its reliance on the U.S. currency due to political tension with Washington./ U.S. Dollar and Euro notes are seen in this June 22, 2017 ...
A close up shot shows Iran's various Rial banknotes, bearing a portrait of Iran's late founder of Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, next to United States one-Dollar bills bearing a portrait of first U.S. President, George Washington at a currency exchange office in a shopping centre ...
LONDON, April 18 (Reuters) - Iranian government institutions will start reporting foreign currency amounts in euros rather than U.S. dollars, state media said on Wednesday as part of the country’s effort to reduce its reliance on the American currency. The decision was made at a cabinet meeting, ...
LONDON, April 17 (Reuters) - Iran will let its currency move in a range of only 5 or 6 percent against the U.S. dollar each year, its central bank governor said, a week after the government unified official and free-market exchange rates to support the plunging rial. “The rate of 42,000 rials ...
One week after the Rouhani administration announced the government-imposed rate of 42,000 rials against every US dollar, chaos and ambiguity in Iran's foreign exchange market continue. In an attempt to control the free fall, the Rouhani administration announced an imposed rate of 42,000 rials to ...
The Iranian cabinet on Wednesday ordered all state-run organizations and companies to replace U.S. dollar with euro in reporting their financial statements, IRNA reported. The government also put the central bank in charge of managing and announcing rial-to-euro exchange rate continually. The ...
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces arrest if he travels to the UK, after an international arrest warrant was issued for him, Downing Street has indicated. A No 10 spokesman refused to ...
Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Mohammed Deif/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned as "antisemitic" a decision by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for war crimes against him and ex-Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. He said the ICC was "falsely" ...
for Israel’s current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has triggered a furious response from leading Israelis across the political spectrum. By contrast it has been welcomed by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and ordinary citizens in Gaza. Leading ...
Benjamin Netanyahu (L), Yoav Gallant (C) and Mohammed Deif (R)/ Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have issued arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and former defence minister, as well as the military commander of Hamas. A statement said a pre-trial chamber had rejected ...
At least 22 people were reportedly killed in a strike in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City/ Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in overnight Israeli air strikes in northern Gaza. Paramedics and Hamas-affiliated media said at least 66 were killed, including women and ...
Amos Hochstein (L) held talks with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (R) for a second day in Beirut/ A US envoy has arrived in Israel to continue negotiations on a ceasefire with Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, after reporting “additional progress” during a second day of talks in Beirut. ...
The US has blocked a Gaza ceasefire draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council - the fourth time it has used its veto power during the conflict to shield its ally, Israel. Fourteen of the 15 Council members voted in favour of the draft, which demanded that the war in Gaza "must end ...
Israel’s military says its offensive in Beit Lahia and other areas of northern Gaza targets regrouping Hamas fighters/ Palestinians are "facing diminishing conditions for survival" in parts of northern Gaza under siege by Israeli forces because virtually no aid has been delivered in 40 days, the ...
based monitoring group posted a video that it said showed the aftermath of the strikes in Palmyria/ At least 36 people have been killed and 50 others injured in Israeli air strikes on residential buildings and an industrial area in the central Syrian town of Palmyra, Syrian state media report. ...
Hanan Abu Salameh, 59, was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier while she harvested olives/ On a Thursday afternoon towards the end of last month, a 59-year-old Palestinian woman set out to gather olives on her family’s land near the village of Faqqua, in the north of the occupied West Bank. It ...