A senior lawmaker says the gains made by Hezbollah and...
A senior lawmaker says the gains made by Hezbollah and...
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and head...
The European Union will remain committed to the continued and full implementation of the nuclear deal, EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini said on Tuesday.
"As we have always said, the nuclear deal is not a bilateral agreement and it is not in the hands of any single country to terminate it unilaterally," Mogherini said following US President Donald Trump's statement on the Iran nuclear deal, official website of the European Union reported.
The Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday Iran’s future commitment to the international nuclear agreement after the US pullout must be subject to “definitive guarantees” from the European countries.
UK-based Dunlop Oil & Marine Ltd has signed a memorandum of understanding ...
The National Iranian Drilling Company, a subsidiary of the National Iranian Oil Company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Polish EXALO Drilling SA to cooperate in oil and gas development projects.
Oil prices rose more than 3% on Wednesday, hitting 3-1/2-year highs, after US President Donald Trump abandoned a nuclear deal with Iran and announced the “highest level” of sanctions against the OPEC member.
West Karoun oilfields in Khuzestan Province will increase its collective oil output by 105,000 barrels a day by the end of the current fiscal year (March 2019), the managing director of Petroleum Engineering and Development Company (PEDEC) said.
Germany's Raschig and Iran's Research Institute of Petroleum Industry have signed a memorandum of understanding on gas sweetening towers.
This is while another German major industrial company, Siemens, signed an MoU with the Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company to forge cooperation in the petrochemical sector.
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The United States will continue its efforts to decrease Iran’s sales...
State-owned National Iranian Oil Company raised the official selling...
More than 1.68 million tons of non-oil products were exported from Bazargan border crossing in West Azarbaijan Province located in northwest Iran in the last Iranian year (March 2017-18),
Turkey will continue its trade with Iran as much as possible and will not be answerable to anyone else, Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci said on Tuesday, after US President Donald Trump said the United States was withdrawing from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. “From now on, we will carry out our trade with Iran, within the possible framework, until the end, and we will not give account to anyone for this,” Zeybekci said in an interview with broadcaster CNN Turk, Reuters reported.
Iran Airports Company registered 36,842 takeoffs and landings during the Iranian month ending April 20, which...
US President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the Iran nuclear deal and reinstate sanctions could cost some of Europe’s biggest companies billions.
The US Treasury Department has promised “wind-down” periods of 90 to 180 days to let firms extricate themselves from agreements with Iran and avoid US sanctions. That will do little to assuage the European companies that have billions on the line in recently cut contracts with the country of 80 million people, Qz.com reported.
MTN Group Ltd. said efforts to repatriate about €200 million ($237 million) from its Iranian unit will become tougher ...
Iran welcomes further Chinese investment despite great uncertainty facing the global economy....
US President Donald Trump finally delivered on his campaign promise to pull out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday night.
It did not come as a surprise to most observers, as he repeatedly teased in his tweets on a US withdrawal every few months.
Tehran Stock Exchange’s main index gained 86.06 points or 0.09% on Wednesday compared to the day before to end trade at 93,691.9.
About 2.03 billion shares valued at $111.03 million changed hands at TSE for the day.
The vice governor of Central Bank of Iran expressed doubts about the possibility of fully recovering the banking resources tied up in non-performing loans that amount to billions of dollars, a thorny issue dragging on the troubled banking sector for nearly a decade...
The Central Bank of Iran announced on Wednesday that foreign exchange resources and expenditures are under full control and the banking system is prepared to meet all the hard currency needs of the country. ...
US President Donald Trump took the harshest stance possible and promised the full return of sanctions when he withdrew from Iran's UN-endorsed nuclear deal with world powers on Tuesday, but many inside Iran have interpreted this as a positive development....
Iran’s minister of industries maintains that prior to triggering public offering of managing shares of Iran Khodro and SAIPA, the number of active automotive firms in the country needs to be increased and competiveness should be boosted....
French carmaker and owner of Peugeot brand PSA Group said on Wednesday that it hoped the European Union would adopt a common position on Iran, following US President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the country out of the nuclear deal with Iran....
The world’s biggest carmaker may have a new diesel ...
Uber has unveiled its “flying car” concept aircraft at its second...
On the sidelines of a conference of the South Asian Telecommunication Regulators' Council (SATRC) in Tehran, Iran's ICT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi met with the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity 's secretary general Areewan Haorangsi to discuss expansion of collaborations.
Held from May 7 to 9, the event's main theme was looking into the technical perspectives of the 5G Internet and the Internet of Things, creating a roadmap for development and application of the technologies and formulating policies for them, the ministry's website reported.
The SATRC is responsible for discussion and coordination of all the regulatory issues related to information and communications technology which are of common interest to the council members.
During his talks with Haorangsi, the ICT minister pointed to the exponential expansion of the ICT sector in the country in recent years and said, "Iran has been a member of the council since its inception and has closely collaborated with other members."
The council currently consists of nine countries namely, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Since its inception three years ago, Innovation Acceleration Center (Technovation) based in the Pardis Technology Park has supported 200 startups, out of which 118 have matured into relatively successful firms.
According to Technovation's director, using one of "the most economical methods", the center has managed to play a key role in creation of jobs, Mehr News Agency reported.
Ali Hezaveh says, "So far, 200 startup teams have been formed with the accelerator's support, leading to the development of 118 [relatively successful] firms, creating jobs for 500 people."
He is of the opinion that job creation by supporting startups and through expansion of startup accelerators is much more economical compared to old-school methods of state-backed support systems.
Furthermore, Technovation has sponsored 209 entrepreneurship events, in which a total number of 17,000 people have participated. According to Hezaveh, the events were held in 28 provinces, covering more than 50 cities.
Head of Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization Ali Asghar Mounesan inaugurated a project to build 25 ecolodges and four tourist complexes on Thursday during a trip to Golestan Province.
"I hope that tourism will find its rightful place in the province, so it becomes one of the country's top tourism destinations as it is rich in natural and historical potential," CHTN quoted Mounesan as telling the unveiling ceremony via video conference.
"Luckily, ecolodges have provided a good source of employment for villagers and added to the country's tourist accommodation capacity. Some 2,000 ecolodges will hopefully be launched by the end of the current government's tenure [2020]," he added.
Director of Golestan Province's ICHHTO office Ebrahim Karimi also addressed the event where he hailed the promising tourism prospects in Golestan Province.
The National Museum of Iran has been visited by over 270,000 people since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 21), registering a remarkable record in the museum's history.
According to the stats, the figure exceeds the total number of people visiting the museum during the whole last year (started March 21, 2017). Jebre'il Nokandeh, head of NMI, attributed the unprecedented hike in the number of visitors to the ongoing 'Louvre in Tehran' event, launched in early February at the museum, so far receiving close to 180,000 visitors alone.
Iran will host the final evaluation ceremony of World Craft Council's Award of Excellence for Handicrafts in the Asia Pacific region in early August for the third time. Iran has participated in the contest with a collection of 70 top works of art selected from the 356 items awarded at the 2017 National Quality Award for handicrafts, ILNA reported. Slated for August 1 to September 15, the competing artworks will be judged by a jury composed of representatives from Iran, Oman and Kuwait. More members are expected to join the team. Established by UNESCO in 2001, the event aims to encourage artisans to produce handicrafts using traditional skills, patterns and themes in an innovative way in order to ensure the continuity and sustainability of these traditions and skills. WCC since 2014 is continuing the program under patronage of UNESCO within the Asia Pacific region, including Kuwait, Oman, Jordan, Bahrain, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Yemen and Iran, under management of Ghada Hijjawi Qaddumi.
The scheme to introduce a two-week winter holiday in the academic calendar does not have much support among lawmakers who believe it would cause a chaos in the nationwide school schedule.
The plan has been proposed by government bodies which cite various reasons. Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization is in favor of the plan on the ground that it would provide an opportunity for families to take a trip to the southern cities that enjoy warmer climates in the winter, thus promoting domestic tourism. It would also help distribute travel time throughout the year to avoid mass tourism in high seasons.
Israel has revoked the work permit for Omar Shakir, the Human Rights Watch ...
Malaysians voted on Wednesday in a cliffhanger election pitting Prime Minister ...
Gunmen set off at least three explosions in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday...
America’s top diplomat Mike Pompeo arrived in Pyongyang on Wednesday, landing at the center of a whirlwind of diplomacy ahead of a planned US-North Korea summit.
Pompeo was dispatched on an unannounced visit—his second in weeks, but first as secretary of state—to lay the groundwork for US President Donald Trump’s unprecedented meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, AFP reported.
His visit comes as rumors fly over three US citizens being held in the North, with suggestions they may have been moved in preparation for a release.
A massive military parade was held in Moscow on Wednesday on the 73rd ...
Two new cases of Ebola Virus Disease have been confirmed in the Democratic...
An exhibition of artworks by veteran Japanese artist Chiba Myamato is underway at Farzaneh Ceramic House in north Tehran until Thursday. The event is a selection of Myamato’s tile works, ceramic dishes and paintings, Iranart.ir reported on its Persian website. The ...
The 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival opened Tuesday night with the world premiere of two-time Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi’s familial kidnapping mystery drama “Everybody Knows”....
Portugal’s unemployment rate fell to 7.9% in the first quarter from 8.1%...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has revised up economic forecasts for 2018 as a broad-based recovery continues across its regions, bolstered by stronger investment activity and higher exports.
After suffering acutely during the global financial crisis, countries where the EBRD invests initially struggled to get back on a path to growth. But recovery took hold in earnest during 2017, Emerging Europe reported.
Turkey’s economy will grow 4.7% in 2018 and 4.4% in 2019, according to the World Bank. ...
A United Nations agency said on Tuesday an “unjust” US financial and trade embargo on Cuba had cost the country’s economy $130 billion over nearly six decades, coming up with the same estimate as the island’s communist government.
China is implementing more than 460 billion yuan ($72.2 billion) in tax cuts annually, potentially to ease the impact...
The Philippine trade deficit expanded to $2.61 billion in March as imports continued to outpace exports, the Philippine...
Sub-Saharan African nations are at growing risk of debt distress because of heavy borrowing ...
The Trump administration on Tuesday began trying to convince US lawmakers to...
A board member of South Korea's central bank said Wednesday that the country's ...
Argentina opened talks with the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday to seek ...
Beginning his new term in office, Russian President Vladimir Putin has made disengaging ...
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has agreed to pay $25 million to settle charges....
World merchandise trade growth is expected to remain strong in 2018 and 2019 after ...
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