TEHRAN – Foolad Sirjan qualified for the 2021 Asian Men’s Club Volleyball Championship final match. The Iranian team overpowered Thailand’s Nakhon Ratchasima QminC 3-0 (25-19, 25-23, 25-22) on Thursday. Foolad will play Al Arabi of Qatar in the final match on Friday. Nakhon Ratchasima QminC and Kazakhstan’s Burevestnik Almaty ply in the bronze medal match. […]

TEHRAN – President Ebrahim Raisi in a decree appointed Mehdi Ghazanfari as the new head of the National Development Fund (NDF), Tasnim news agency reported on Wednesday. Ghazanfari has previously served as the Minister of Industry, Mining, and Trade. He is also a faculty member at the Iran University of Science and Technology. He also […]

TEHRAN – Five agritourism farms will come on stream in the lush and fertile regions of East Azarbaijan province, northwest Iran. “They would be the first-ever agritourism farms to be inaugurated near the cities of Tabriz, Maragheh, Marand, and Jolfa,” the deputy provincial tourism chief said on Tuesday. “East Azarbaijan enjoys diverse agricultural products which […]

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian has held a phone call with Jordan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi to discuss issues of mutual interest, including economic opportunities in the region. In the telephone conversation, Amir Abdollahian explained that Iran is in favor of friendly and brotherly relations based on mutual respect with […]

NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan — As the 6th ministerial meeting of the CICA (Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia) kicked off on Monday in Nur-Sultan, the ministers emphasized the need for stronger multilateralism amid the increased challenges, including the pandemic and the destabilizing situation in Afghanistan. The one-day event in the Kazakh capital gathered […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s National Paralympic Committee (NPC) will mark the 14th National Paralympic Day on Oct. 16. Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, the NPC will symbolically celebrate the Day in Tehran’s Olympic and Paralympic Academy. The main goals of the National Paralympic Committee are to introduce the Paralympic Movement to the Iranian society, contribute to […]

TEHRAN – MENA Program Director at the International Crisis Group says that double standard on human rights has turned to a norm and no longer is an exception as great states in the world sponsor futile wars, especially in Yemen. “Double standards on human rights are the norm, not the exception or only limited to […]

TEHRAN – Head of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Dispatching Department has said the company has managed to store four billion cubic meters of natural gas in the country’s Sarajeh and Shourijeh storages to be fully prepared for sustainable gas supply during the cold season. According to Mohammadreza Jolaei, NIGC has made the necessary […]

TEHRAN – A total of 2007 beds is expected to be added to the hospitality sector of West Azarbaijan province, the provincial tourism chief has said. Currently, 41 tourism-related projects including hotels, apartment hotels, eco-lodges, and tourist complexes are underway across the northwestern province, Jalil Jabbari announced on Sunday. The province will increase its accommodation […]

TEHRAN – The head of Iran’s Planning and Budget Organization (PBO) has said the national budget bill for the next Iranian calendar year (starts in March 2022) has been prepared in a way that it will not face any deficits, IRIB reported. According to Masoud Mirkazemi, the circular of the bill has been finalized and […]

TEHRAN – “Syria is on the path of development and progress and the Islamic Republic of Iran in this direction, as during the terrorist war against Syria, will support Damascus with all its might,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian told reporters upon his arrival in Syria on Saturday. Amir Abdollahian visited Damascus after concluding […]

TEHRAN –  The art of weaving kilims, which had been fallen into oblivion, is planned to be revived in the village of Shabjareh in the southern province of Kerman, the deputy provincial tourism chief has announced. A budget of two billion rials ($47,600 at the official exchange rate of 42,000 rials per dollar) is required […]