The United states announced sanction on September 17 targeting individuals who help the Lebanese Hezbollah in its funding activities and Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
Iran can substantially boost its petrochemical production in the next six years with investments. The same is true about its oil sector, but a shift in its foreign policy is a prerequisit.
Iran's foreign policy, as the main cause of crippling sanctions, has remained largely out of the public election debate, with hardliners controlling the election process.
Iran's energy sector has suffered from lack of sufficient domestic and foreign investments in the past four decades, and the lifting of sanctions will not change the landscape much.
Bahrain has announced that it has unearthed further unlawful prcatices carried out by Future (Mustaqbal) Bank and associated Iranian banks between 2008 and 2012.
More than 200 Iranian lawmakers have issued a statement demanding the full removal of all sanctions and rejecting any new agreement with the West that does not lift economic pressure.
The US State Department spokesman Ned Price avoided a question about Iran's ballistic missiles but said that the US can use sanctions on non-nuclear issues.
Iran's Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that lifting US sanctions and accepting financial reforms demanded by international warchdog FATF are necessary for the econmy.
The United States has unilaterally announced that all UN international sanctions against Iran have been restored, after other members of the Security...