TEHRAN – Shahrdari Gorgan won the Iranian Basketball Super League (IBSL) for the first time ever on Saturday. Shahrdari Gorgan defeated most-decorated team Mahram 110-103 in the fourth match. They had already defeated Mahram twice and lost one time in their last four matches. The Iranian Basketball Super League (IBSL) is a professional men’s basketball […]
TEHRAN – Palestinians from all walks of life took to the streets last night in the occupied Jerusalem (al-Quds) for the 11th night in a row to protest against Israeli police and settlers’ provocations against the city’s Palestinians. More than 100 Palestinians have been wounded after Israeli police moved to attack and arrest protesters. Armed […]
TEHRAN – Some 500,000 foreign nationals have so far left the country during the coronavirus pandemic, Mohsen Ebrahimi, deputy labor minister has said. There are currently 3.5 million foreign nationals working in the country, he stated, IRNA reported on Saturday. The impact of the pandemic on livelihoods has been particularly severe for refugees, who usually […]
TEHRAN – A comprehensive system will be launched in the country for coronavirus vaccination of the whole population, Alireza Raeisi, spokesman for the National Headquarters for Coronavirus Control, announced on Saturday. People can express their occupation and illness on this website and be informed about the time of their vaccination, he explained. He went on […]
TEHRAN – Head of Iran-Oman Joint Chamber of Commerce said the two countries have the potential to raise their trade level to $5 billion per year. “Given the favorable conditions for diversifying Iranian exports to Oman and the existing infrastructure for re-export in Oman, there is a capacity to increase the volume of trade between […]
TEHRAN – The electricity generated by Iran’s combined cycle power plants increased by 20 percent in the previous Iranian calendar year (ended on March 20) compared to the preceding year, reaching over 158 million megawatt-hours (MWh), IRNA reported. Iran has been turning its thermal power plans into combined cycle plants in order to reduce greenhouse […]
TEHRAN- National Iranian Drilling Company (NIDC) dug and completed digging operation of nine oil and gas wells during the first month of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-April 20), according to the deputy managing director of the company for digging operation. Ahmad Tamadon said the drilled wells consisted of one development well, one appraisal […]
TEHRAN – Sohrab Moradi seized a silver medal at the 2021 Asian Weightlifting Championships on Friday in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The 96kg weightlifter, who has had serious shoulder and spinal injuries over the past years, lifted the 174kg in the snatch and 210kg in the clean and jerk. He won the silver medal, making total of […]
Note: Some of the following art exhibitions are being organized online in order to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus. Painting * An exhibition of paintings by Hani Najm is currently underway at Negar Gallery. Entitled “From Far Away TO Nearby”, the exhibit will be running until April 28 at the gallery located at 33 […]
Hassan Ebrahimi said to IRNA on Friday that three Persian fallow deer were born in wildlife refuge in Arsanjan in southern Iran. The Head of Kazerun County Department of Environment Jamal Khodaparast also confirmed on Friday that two Persian fallow deer were born in wildlife refuge in Kazerun in recent days. The Persian fallow deer is a […]
Ahmad Mousa al-Abadi told state Iraqi television that the main axis of the agenda of the Iraqi electricity minister Majid Mahdi Hantoush is to supply gas to Iraq’s power plants. He pointed out that the Iraqi Minister of Electricity will confer with the Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran on exporting gas to Iraq and […]
22,904 new cases of infection with the COVID-19 were found over the past 24 hours, 3,423 of whom were hospitalized, the ministry said. It added that with the 380 new deaths, the country’s total COVID-19 deaths mounted to 68,746. The ministry also noted that 1,850,791 patients out of a total of 2,358,809 infected people have recovered or been discharged […]
