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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. -
August 05,2020The diet of Iranians is changing. Results of a survey conducted by the Iranian Students Polling Agency this year (started in March) shows 4.3% of Iranian household ate red meat on a daily basis... -
August 05,2020Turkey has suspended all flights to Iran and Afghanistan until Sept 1 despite its previous announcement that flights between the two countries for passengers who hold Turkish citizenship or... -
August 05,2020Over 271 million people in the world do not live in the country in which they were born. These people, called international migrants, represented 3.52% of the world’s population in 2019. There were... -
August 01,2020Air pollution monitoring stations of the capital city Tehran have recorded more days with ground-level ozone in July, posing a serious risk to citizens’ health and the environment. According to... -
July 25,2020Tehran Municipality has recently issued participatory bonds worth 15 trillion rials ($68.1 million) to help expand the capital’s public transportation system, the head of Tehran City Council’s... -
July 20,2020Turkey has suspended flights to and from Iran and Afghanistan on Sunday morning amid the resurgenge of coronavirus, Reza Jafarzadeh, the spokesperson of Iran Civil Aviation Organization, told Fars... -
July 20,2020The unfinished subway network in the capital city of Tehran needs 2 quadrillion rials ($8.1 billion) of budget for the construction of unfinished lines, purchase of train cars and standardization... -
July 19,2020After four months of closure due to Covid-19 curbs, both Iranian and foreign airlines are resuming flights to and from destinations in Iran. -
July 18,2020With the onset of summer, air pollution control stations around the capital city of Tehran are recording more days with high-density ozone pollution, which have a harmful impact on citizens’ health... -
July 15,2020The number of Covid-19 infections in the capital city of Tehran has hit an emergency level in the past several days, while a large number of residents commute to work using public means of... -
July 14,2020The aircraft of Iran's flag carrier airline, IranAir, will fly short of full capacity to ensure social distancing, says Masoud Mohammadi, an official with the Iranian airline. -
July 13,2020Municipal bodies in Tehran metropolis are becoming more socially responsible and upgrading urban infrastructure to meet the needs of physically-impaired people. Ali Asghar Eynolqozat, an official... -
July 12,2020Having obtained a permit from the Turkish civil aviation authority, IranAir will resume flights between Tehran and Istanbul as of July 13. -
July 12,2020Iran Airports Company registered a total of 44,918 takeoffs and landings during the first quarter of the current Iranian year (March 20-June 20) to register a 51% decline compared with the similar... -
July 08,2020The coronavirus pandemic is spreading rapidly across continents inflicting death, destroying livelihoods and bankrupting economics. As governments big and small push ahead with reopening plans,... -
July 06,2020The new Iranian Parliament seemingly has no interest in working on government bills for controlling air pollution, an environmental expert says. Speaking with IRNA, Rouhollah Baqeri added that the... -
July 06,2020Direct flights between the southern Iranian city of Shiraz and the Emirati city of Sharjah have resumed after a four-month gap due to the coronavirus pandemic. -
July 01,2020The residents of Iranian capital inhaled less polluted air in June compared with the same period of last year, although ground ozone still persists among the buoyant particles in the air, Tehran... -
June 22,2020A deal backed by the government worth 10 trillion rials ($51 million) has been signed by Tehran Municipality and Iran Khodro (IKCO) to add 230 buses and minibuses to the capital city’s public... -
June 21,2020The first full day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere brought with it one of nature's spectacular sky shows: an annular solar eclipse. On Sunday, the new moon orbited between the sun and Earth... -
June 20,2020The resumption of traffic schemes in the capital city of Tehran since June 6 has had close to zero effect on air pollution so far, an official with the Department of Environment said. Mohammad... -
June 15,2020Tehran Municipality is pushing forward the expansion of the capital’s subway system, with officials saying that economic headwinds and Covid-19 should not be a pretext for halting the initiative....
