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October 19,2020Tehran’s ailing public transportation will soon get a boost with hundreds of new buses and minibuses joining the fleet, Tehran Municipality’s deputy director for traffic and transportation affairs... -
October 17,2020Economic constraints and Covid-19 have taken a toll on Tehran public transportation, as they push the sector to the verge of bankruptcy, the head of Tehran City Council’s Transportation Commission... -
October 14,2020There are over 100,000 dilapidated passenger cars in Tehran, spewing poison into air and endangering the citizens’ health, the head of Tehran Air Quality Control Company said. Hossein Shahidzadeh... -
October 12,2020With costs of infrastructure development soaring, Tehran City Council has ratified a motion allowing Tehran Municipality to raise 40 trillion rials ($133.30 million) through the issuance of... -
October 05,2020Iraqi Airways’ flying permit to Iran was cancelled as of Oct. 4 until further notice for violation of permit conditions, the head of the Civil Aviation Organization of Iran said on Sunday. -
October 03,2020Air quality monitoring stations in the capital city of Tehran showed that its residents were breathing fresh air in September compared to the year-ago month. According to charts regularly... -
October 03,2020All flights between Iran and Turkey will be called off as of Oct. 4, based on a decision by Turkish civil aviation authority, Maqsoud Asadi-Samani, secretary of the Association of Iranian Airlines... -
September 28,2020Plans for development and expansion of subway networks in Iranian cities of Ahvaz and Shiraz are gaining momentum. The municipality of Ahvaz, the provincial center of Khuzestan, has forged an... -
September 26,2020Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Iran in February, the country’s public transportation system has incurred a massive loss of over 20 trillion rials ($68.6 million), an official with... -
September 23,2020Amid the third wave of Covid-19 infections in Iran, the number of subway passengers has recently risen by 10% and made the bad situation worse, Tehran Metro’s CEO said. -
September 16,2020Tehran Municipality has urged the government to pay 40 trillion rials ($148.15 million) for the renewal of public transportation in the capital by the end of the current Iranian year (March 2021... -
September 14,2020The development of public transportation has been high on Tehran urban managers’ agenda, for which the capital launched the construction of the subway’s Line 10 last week. According to Tehran... -
September 11,2020Raja Passenger Train Company has launched a five-star train called “Zendegi (Life)” between Rasht, the capital city of Gilan Province, and Mashhad, the capital of Khorasan Razavi Province, with the... -
September 07,2020The early reopening of schools this year on Saturday amid the spread of the novel coronavirus has brought with it heavy traffic jams in the capital city of Tehran. -
September 07,2020A 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck the northeastern province of Golestan in the early hours of Monday, injuring 34 and damaging several houses in nearby villages. -
September 05,2020Providing people with decent public transportation services is of high importance worldwide and there is much room for improvement in Iranian cities. Plans are on track in cities like Ahvaz,... -
September 02,2020With temperature falling from 40 degrees Celsius in late July to around 30 in early September, ozone pollution in the capital city of Tehran has also declined. According to Tehran Air Quality... -
August 26,2020Above-average rainfall in the last few years notwithstanding, water levels in underground tables have been falling due to overconsumption, a researcher at the Water Policy Research Institution said... -
August 22,2020Traffic schemes were reinstated in Tehran as of Saturday, despite concerns that the restrictions might push people to use public transportation services and worsen the spread of the Covid-19.... -
August 18,2020International flights to and from Iran are resuming after more airlines reactivate routes that were cancelled after the new coronavirus spread. -
August 14,2020IranAir, the country’s flag carrier airline, will resume roundtrip Tehran-Vienna flights as of August 15. -
August 12,2020Dilapidated vehicles are blamed for over 40% of Tehran’s worsening air pollution, which problem has not been resolved yet, the head of Tehran Vehicle Technical Inspection Bureau said. Hossein... -
August 10,2020Iranian urban managers’ struggle to upgrade public transport fleet has been delayed by the country’s sanction-induced and Covid-19 enhanced economic problems. To address the thorny issue,... -
August 08,2020The new round of traffic rule waiver in the capital city of Tehran has failed to curb the jostling crowd in the subway, contrary to expectations, Tehran Metro’s CEO said. According to Farnoush... -
August 05,2020The global death toll from the coronavirus surpassed 700,000 on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, with the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico leading the rise in fatalities.
