Domestic media outlets in Iran have announced the resumption of operations at the Tehran Stock Exchange after an 80-day shutdown, a suspension that official sources stated was triggered by wartime conditions and damage sustained by certain industrial infrastructure.
According to these reports, the first stock market transactions of the year 2026 commenced at 9:00 AM on Tuesday, May 19, on the trading floor of the Tehran Stock Exchange.
Nevertheless, the newspaper Donya-e-Eqtesad reported that more than 40 trading tickers remain frozen. Some of these companies suffered infrastructural damage during the U.S. and Israeli airstrikes. These tickers primarily belong to the chemical and basic metals sectors and are currently unable to return to trading due to shutdowns or disruptions in the operations of petrochemical and steel plants.
Among the reactivated tickers, only select banking and automotive companies have been permitted to return to the trading board. Additionally, a number of leveraged funds, whose reopening had previously been shrouded in ambiguity, entered the market today subject to a strict sale limit of 100,000 units.
The Asr Iran news website noted in a report that on the first day of the reopening, the value of buy orders reached approximately 1,575 billion tomans, while the volume of the sell queue hit 10.3 trillion tomans.
