Donya-ye Eghtesad

Donya-ye Eghtesad (translating as "World of Economics") is Iran's leading independent business and financial daily newspaper, headquartered in Tehran. It is one of the few Iranian media outlets that regularly publishes economic impact figures that diverge from official government statistics, giving its reporting unusual weight among analysts and foreign correspondents tracking the Iranian economy's wartime performance.

The newspaper became a key source in the current Iran conflict coverage after compiling the $5.2 billion cumulative economic damage figure attributed to the rolling blackout and internet-shutdown campaign imposed since the conflict's escalation. Its willingness to quantify civilian economic harm in a climate of censorship and wartime information control makes it a rare primary source for Western analysts and international financial institutions.

Donya-ye Eghtesad operates under significant state pressure but has maintained editorial space for economic criticism by framing coverage in market terms rather than political opposition. It is widely read by Iran's business class, technocrats, and sanctions-tracking analysts at institutions including The Atlantic Council and Carnegie Endowment.