Afshin-Jam: Baby doesn’t look like me
Nazanin Afshin-Jam says her first-born looks so little like her that she fears people looking at her wonder if the ...
Month: August 2013
Yu plays half good, half bad
DARVISH. . . two games in one Yu Darvish, who is often prone to sloppy starts, got off to a ...
SURGE
The Tehran Stock Exchange index continues its dramatic surge. It passed the 60,000 mark Saturday. The surge began in late ...
New gov’t discovers revenues only cover 2/3rds of budget
Iran faces a revenue shortfall amounting to one-third of this year’s approved budget due to lower-than-expected revenues and President Rohani ...
Neighbors pump nine times as much from shared fields
Iran’s neighbors are extracting nine times as much oil and gas as Iran from fields that straddle Iran’s borders, the ...
Half billion of cellphone money stuck in Iran
Iran’s largest cellphone operator, MTN of South Africa, has more than $550 million stuck in Iran because of US sanctions, ...
HSBC may face criminal trial for helping Iran
The giant HSBC bank, which agreed to pay a huge US fine several months ago for clandestine dealings with Iran ...
The Oil Patch
DOLDRUMS — The daily price isn’t exactly booming (above) but it is up enough that it is pulling the more ...