TEHRAN – Iranian Energy Minister Ali-Akbar Mehrabian has said the country is currently able to exchange electricity with Afghanistan, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Armenia, and Turkey, IRNA reported. As reported, developing energy diplomacy and exchange of electricity with the neighboring countries has been among the top priorities of the energy minister and in this regard, Mehrabian […]
TEHRAN – Like the past years farmers are preparing to cultivate water-intensive crops that are mostly fed by ground waters. This is mostly noticeable in lands used to grow rice and onion. It has been proven over the last three decades that farmers mostly don’t care about the gradual depletion of underground waters. They are […]
TEHRAN — President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday it is Iran’s strategy to break sanctions. Raisi made the remarks in a meeting with ambassadors and heads of missions of Iran to 15 neighboring countries. He added, “The enemy’s strategy is that the shadow of these sanctions to always remain and grow on the Iranian […]
TEHRAN – Olympique Lyon have reportedly agreed personal terms with Zenit St Petersburg striker Sardar Azmoun, but will need to convince the Russian club to let go of the Iranian six months before the end of his contract. The 26-year-old, who is manager Peter Bosz’s priority for January, almost joined over the summer before his […]
TEHRAN – Car manufacturing in Iran has risen 4.7 percent during the first eight months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-November 21), as compared to the same period of time in the past year. According to the data released by the Industry, Mining, and Trade Ministry, Iranian carmakers manufactured 651,408 vehicles in the […]
TEHRAN- Iran exported 137,000 tons of dates in the first seven months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-October 22), which was 14 percent more than the exported amount in the same period of time in the past year, an official with Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) announced. Mahmoud Bazari, director-general of TPO’s Coordination Office […]
TEHRAN — A number of CEOs of large holdings and Turkish investors in Iran met with Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, speaker of the Iranian parliament, on Thursday night on the sidelines of a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul, Turkey. At the beginning of the meeting, the CEOs […]
TEHRAN – Rome’s ambassador to Tehran Giuseppe Perrone has paid a visit to the UNESCO-registered Persepolis when he admired sets of glazed bricks recently unearthed by a team of Iranian and Iranian experts. Accompanied by several diplomates and embassy staff, the envoy visited Tall-e Ajori, a ruined royal gateway in the vicinity of Persepolis, where […]
TEHRAN – The results of a new poll show most Americans no longer maintain strong confidence in their country’s own armed forces. According to the national defense survey by the Ronald Reagan Institute; the lack of confidence in the military has jumped since President Joe Biden took over as commander-in-chief. Reagan Institute’s annual poll asked […]
TEHRAN – An Azeri delegation headed by the Managing Director of State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) Rovnag Ibrahim Abdullayev visited Tehran to meet with the Iranian Oil Minister Javad Oji and discuss expansion of cooperation, Shana reported. As reported, the two sides discussed the development of gas cooperation in the Caspian Sea region, […]
TEHRAN – In a commentary on December 7, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists proposed two steps to revitalize and of course “sustain” the 2015 nuclear deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). It says first, all parties “should uphold their JCPOA obligations” and second “the UN Security Council should adopt a new […]
TEHRAN – Iran national women’s handball team failed to register their first win in Spain, losing to Uzbekistan 37-32 in International Handball Federation (IHF) President’s Cup Group I on Thursday. It was Uzbekistan’s first win the world championship. Elnaz Ghasemi from Iran was named the Player of the Match. She scored nine goals from 10 […]
