On Sept. 7, the first issue of the Financial Tribune, a new English-language daily, hit Tehran's newsstands. At 12 pages, the paper costs 2,000 tomans (about 60 cents) — almost twice as much as privately owned Persian-language newspapers. The newspaper mostly covers economic and financial issues, but also news related to the nuclear negotiations.
Some see the publication of a new English-language Reformist financial newspaper as signaling a relative increase in press freedom under President Hassan Rouhani. However, inside Iran, it also means that some are hopeful on reaching a comprehensive nuclear deal with the West, securing the removal of sanctions and witnessing a revival of Iran’s economic relations with both its neighbors and the West.
