Economy

Radiofarda – A labor strike at the Haft-Tappeh Sugarcane Mill in southeastern Iran is entering its fourth consecutive week, with workers demanding overdue wages and a return of the mill to public ownership.

Radiofarda – Tehran’s stock exchange plunged on November 25 and 26 trading sessions in what could be the indirect result of U.S. sanctions, particularly on the country’s oil exports. It slightly recovered on Tuesday, but the outlook remains uncertain.

Al-Monitor – Iranian social media users attacked a meme by government-run media quoting Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif saying that Iran will “survive” the US sanctions reimposed after President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the nuclear deal.

bourseandbazaar.com – Do sanctions reduce the military spending in Iran? This is the question we sought to answer by modeling the effects of sanctions on military spending in Iran to investigate the impact of unilateral sanctions (where only the United States sanctions Iran) and multilateral sanctions (where the United States acts in conjunction with other countries to sanction Iran). The …

Radiofarda – According to the latest information provided by the U.S. Bureau of International Labor Affairs, there have been reports of children working in brick production and carpet weaving around the world. Children also work on family farms illegally and are forced by traffickers to work as street vendors or to beg.

Al-Arabia – The European initiative known as the “special purpose vehicle” aiming to facilitate financial transactions between the Green Continent and Iran’s regime – read bypass US sanctions – is very shaky and unstable.

PayvandNews – Iran has begun to issue electronic visa for foreign tourists as part of a larger initiative to cope with the restrictions imposed by the US administration on those traveling to the country.

Reuters – China’s state-owned CNPC has replaced France’s Total in Iran’s multibillion-dollar South Pars gas project, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said, according to the semi-official news agency ICANA on Sunday.

iran-hrm – Following days of protests by workers of Iran National Steel Group southwest Iran, the anti riot police attacked the demonstration.

radiofarda – The CEO of the Iranian car company Azimkhodro (Great Car) and another suspect are detained for failing to deliver 4,000 pre-sold automobiles, Tehran’s Prosecutor-General has disclosed.