Heads of the three branches of power met Saturday to find solutions to the economic problems, in particular ...
Heads of the three branches of power met Saturday to find solutions to the economic problems, in particular ...
Iran’s missile program is peaceful in nature and does not pose a threat to any other country.
“Missile activities are not against any country and are only for defense purposes,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi told ISNA in remarks published on Friday, in response to claims by France about the country’s defense program.
Turkey has warned the United States that the embargo imposed on Iran is a “mistake” and Washington “does not have the right” to force other countries to implement its unilateral decision, the Turkish foreign minister has said. “The United States may take a decision, but it’s not right to impose this decision on other countries. We will continue our principled attitude,” Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told state-run Anadolu Agency on Friday.
Commitments made by the five remaining signatories to the nuclear deal would not go far enough unless coupled with action, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Friday, adding that Tehran's stance on potential reciprocal measures should not be interpreted as some sort of a threat.
Speaking to reporters after meeting with his counterparts from Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia in Vienna, Zarif said the non-US parties do have the political will to keep the 2015 agreement alive, ISNA reported.
UK Deputy Foreign Minister Alistair Burt expressed satisfaction with his country being assigned to the joint presidency in the Arak modernization project after five world powers agreed with Iran on Friday to forge ahead with negotiations over the 2015 nuclear deal without the US.
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Tabriz Petrochemical Company's output shot up by 7,000 tons between March 21 and June 21compared to last year's corresponding period when production reached 217,000 tons.
Households are using record amounts of electricity pushing consumption growth rates 3.5 times higher than the global average, an energy expert said.
The state-owned National Iranian Drilling Company carried out 1,916 operations for domestic firms, including a wide range of oil-related services in the first quarter of the current Iranian fiscal (started March 21), the deputy managing director said.
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As per a memorandum of understanding signed with Keshavarzi Bank, the government allocated 15 trillion rials ($357 million) in credits for improving agricultural mechanization in the county in the current fiscal (March 2018-19), says deputy agriculture minister in agronomy affairs Abbas Keshavarz.
The Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act (FIPPA) requires major procedural revision, according to a new study carried out on the order of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mining, and Agriculture.
FIPPA was ratified in 2002 by Parliament with the aim of enhancing and facilitating foreign investment in Iran.
Out of 700 inspections carried out by Tehran Province Institute of Standards last year (March 2017-18), the elevator safety of only five buildings complied with standard requirements, says the head of the institute, Mahmoud-Reza Taheri.
Around 379,000 tons of rice worth $375 million were imported during the first three months of the current year (March 21-June 21), showing 7.9% and 1.3% decrease in volume and value respectively compared with the corresponding period last year, latest figures released by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration show.
Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture will hold a one-day forum titled “US Withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and its Implications for Iran” in cooperation with Algorithm Capital Company on July 18.
Sadad Informatics Corporation, affiliated with Bank Melli Iran, the nation's biggest bank,...
The Central Insurance of Iran, the industry's regulator and one of its few reinsurers, has disclosed the latest risk retention and inward reinsurance capacity allowed for insurance companies. According to the latest list calculated based on the latest approved balance sheets of insurance companies published by IBENA on Saturday, Iran Insurance Company, the only fully state-run insurer and a major market force, once again kept it prominence and holds the highest allowed risk retention capacity at more than 17.75 trillion rials ($413.46 million).
Bank Maskan plans to expand a national mortgage scheme in the coming months to cover 700,000 potential applicants, the bank's CEO Abolqasem Rahimi said.
"We supplied funds, in the form of property purchase and construction loans, for 540,000 residential units last year [ending March 20]. We intend to increase the number of homes covered by the bank's facilities to 700,000 in the current year," Rahimi was quoted by IBENA as saying on Thursday.
Governor of the Central Bank of Iran says the monetary regulator is still actively pursuing bilateral currency swap ...
Three key lawmakers have asked President Hassan Rouhani to significantly limit the multi-tier foreign exchange system based on which a big portion of imported goods receive their hard currency at the preferential rate of 42,000 rials to the US dollar.
In a letter sent to the president on Saturday, Chairman of Majlis Economic Commission Mohammad Reza Pour-Ebrahimi, Chairman of Budget and Planning Commission Gholamreza Tajgardoon and Head of the Monetary and Banking Committee Mohammad Hossein Hosseinzadeh Bahraini have demanded that the government expand the list of goods whose currency can be traded at negotiated rates by including petrochemicals, steel products and metallic minerals.
Iran is planning on filling a portion of estimated 25 million job vacancies that will be created in Germany in the next decade, as the population ages and the nation will not be able to find the workforce domestically, IRNA quoted deputy minister of industries, mining, and trade, Soleiman Pakseresht, as saying. In a recent visit to Germany, Pakseresht, who is also head of the Technical and Vocational Organization of Iran, prepared the ground for training and procuring skilled Iranian workers for Europe’s largest economy following a visit to an applied sciences center in Germany and discussing the plan with its authorities.
The second edition of the competition known as ‘League of Stock Market Stars’, held by the Securities and Exchange Organization of Iran, opened on 7 July. Saeed Fallahpour, the SEO deputy for supervision of financial institutions, and Mostafa Razavi, deputy for executive affairs attended.
The event was organized with the aim of helping elevate financial literacy, groom financial managers, promote entrepreneurship and connect academia to the stock markets.
Withholding products from the market is a punishable offense and it is the duty of supervisory bodies to monitor producers and distributors, and prevent violations, ISNA quoted the president of the Chamber of Guilds, Ali Fazeli, as saying.
Non-oil trade with the BRICS nations during the last fiscal (ended March 20) declined 8.68% in volume but increased 7.4% in value compared to the year before to stand at 53.82 million tons worth $29.08 billion, Financial Tribune’s data analysis based on the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration’s statistics show.
BRICS is the acronym for an association of five major emerging national economies, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
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A musical comedy based on Moliere’s “Scapin the Schemer” is on stage at Sangelaj Theater until July 16.
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The upcoming meeting at Book City Institute on Tuesday will be on “Prolegomena to a Theory of Language,” the magnum opus of great Danish linguist Louis Hjelmslev (1899-1965).
In 1943, the book came out to represent a breakthrough in linguistics and formed an entirely new branch in the field. The author begins by ascertaining that language is an inexhaustible wealth of manifold values; language is the tool with which man moulds thought and feeling, mood, hope, will and action, the tool with which he influences and is influenced, the last and deepest condition of human society.
A documentary on a young disabled painter will compete at the 4th Whatashort Independent International Film Festival in New Delhi, India, July 14-15.
The movie “Foot Writing” by Sa’adat Ali Saeedpour is the life story of Rahim Azimi, a 23 year old artist from Tabriz, East Azarbaijan Province, who paints delicate Persian miniature paintings with his foot, Mehr News Agency reported on its Persian website.
Azimi, who lost both hands in an accident, succeeds in becoming an inspiring artist in miniature painting and ‘Tazhib’ (gliding). Despite lack of financial support, he continues untiringly selling his art works on his Instagram account.
British activist Leo Murray has got permission from London Mayor Sadiq Khan to fly a giant inflatable balloon portraying Donald Trump as a diaper-clad, orange-toned baby over parliament on July 13, during the controversial US president’s official visit.
In an editorial published in London’s Metro, Murray said, initially, the mayor’s office was “not super pumped about our application to fly an unflattering effigy of the US president over parliament.” He said they called Trump Baby mere “art” and said that “inflatables did not qualify as legitimate protest.” But eventually Murray convinced them.
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