Iran

BMI View: We are forecasting annual real GDP growth of 4.1% by 2012, and 3.3% by 2017, on the back of slowing oil production growth, a long-term easing in oil prices and economic... 2008-07-08

BMI View: With the Iranian government recently stepping up its efforts to control media freedoms, we expect the press to remain tightly controlled over the coming years, especially... 2008-07-02

Iranian police have launched a more extensive crackdown on 'social corruption' according to the Farhang-e Ashti newspaper, confronting individuals who appear in public dressed in... 2008-06-20

Recent months has seen some extraordinary moves in the Iranian Rial, as the government looked to have intervened to halt the unit's long-held depreciatory crawl, and instead support... 2008-06-20

We continue to see accelerating inflation as the Iran's key macroeconomic challenge, after recent figures released by the Central Bank of Iran noted that consumer price inflation... 2008-06-09

Iran and Venezuela have said that they will launch a joint bank to fund development projects in both countries, in a move that highlights the growing economic and political ties between... 2008-05-29

Real GDP growth will continue to slow slightly over 2008 and 2009, coming in around 5.0% and 4.6% respectively, on the back of a fall in oil export revenues