Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Thursday that Iran will never give in to the demands of the United States, vowing that the country will defeat the enemy by overcoming sanctions.
Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Thursday that Iran will never give in to the demands of the United States, vowing that the country will defeat the enemy by overcoming sanctions.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Iran is prepared to cooperate with Saudi Arabia to build a strong region together and put an end to the US humiliation of regional countries.
President Hassan Rouhani expressed gratitude for the reformist faction's strong support for his administration in a meeting with a group of pro-reform activists in Tehran on Wednesday.
"I have regarded and still regard reformist allies as associates of my administration," he was quoted as saying by the president's official website.
He stressed that under the present critical situation, the country needs to look beyond reformism, fundamentalism and other similar political persuasions because all parties need to join hands to help achieve common goals.
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that Iranian military forces are fighting terrorism in Syria lawfully and at the request of the Syrian government.
The United States is not seeking conflict with Iran, the general overseeing America's military involvement in the Middle East said on Thursday, even as some American officials have stepped up their rhetoric against Tehran.
South Pars Gas Complex accounts for more than 71% of Iran’s total gas production, the managing director of South Pars Gas Complex said.
“Close to 650,000 barrels of gas condensate per day is supplied to the Persian Gulf Star Refinery in Hormozgan Province and Nuri Petrochemical Complex in southern Bushehr Province as feedstock,” Hadi Hashemzadeh Farhang was quoted as saying.
Qatar's energy minister has defended OPEC's oil market strategy, saying a deal between the oil producing group and non-OPEC producers is not aimed at manipulating oil prices.
Iran has the capacity, ability and infrastructure to play a bigger role in regional and global natural gas markets.
Hamidreza Araqi, the head of National Iranian Gas Company, made the statement at the 2018 Energy Efficiency and Energy Development International Forum in Moscow.
"Expanding our footprint in the Middle East energy markets is a major priority," he said, noting that the company wants to diversify its gas exports and Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and Georgia could be among top target markets
Years of drought have left decision-makers with little option but to meet a bigger share of freshwater need for the growing population from seawater, said the deputy for supervising operations at the National Water and Wastewater Engineering Company of Iran on Thursday.
Hamidreza Kashfi was speaking in a meeting with experts on water desalination on the sidelines of the 14th International Water and Wastewater Exhibition at Tehran International Permanent Fairground, October 3-6.
At present, there are 73 desalination plants in different regions with a capacity of processing 420,000 cubic meters of saline water per day, and 148 million cubic meters per annum.
Qatar's energy minister has defended OPEC's oil market strategy, saying a deal between the oil producing group and non-OPEC producers is not aimed at manipulating oil prices.
Indian buyers reduced US crude purchases and loaded up on Iranian oil ahead of the restart of US sanctions next month and as the WTI-Brent differential narrowed, according to traders and shipping intelligence firm Kpler.
Figures from the Central Bank of Iran show that foreign currency revenues from non-oil exports from August 7 to October 3 through Nima–the Integrated Forex Deals System launched by the government after it unified the USD forex rate – reached €2.84 billion.
Currency trade on the secondary forex market on October 3 was close to €46 million.
In addition, foreign currency allocated for imports during the 57-day period totaled €2.4 billion.
Iran and Turkey signed three memoranda of understanding in the fields of horticulture, beekeeping and veterinary affairs.
The MoUs were signed in a meeting held in the Iranian capital between Iran’s Agriculture Minister Mahmoud Hojjati and his Turkish counterpart Bekir Pakdemirli on Wednesday.
Iran’s GDP growth in 2017-18 dropped to 3.8%, as the effect of a large surge in oil revenues in the previous year dissipated.
The overwhelming majority of growth came from the non-oil sectors out of which more than half can be attributed to services growing by 4.4%. Oil, agriculture and services sectors are now back above the levels of activity they were prior to UN sanctions in 2012.
But in the past two years, there has not been a strong bounce back in key sectors such as construction and trade, restaurant and hotel services following their post-2012 stagnation and the overhang from the problems of the banking sector.
The oil and gas sector witnessed a growth of 0.9%, limited by the OPEC+ quota for the agreed period, the World Bank said in a new report. Below is the full text:
More than 14,761 tons of butter worth around €24 million were imported into Iran during the first four months of the current Iranian year (March 21-July 22),
The construction of a factory to manufacture carton, cardboard, spray cans and glue in partnership with Iraqi investors began in Qazvin’s Caspian Industrial Town on Thursday.
The ninth joint meeting of port managers of Caspian countries wrapped up in the port city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday.
Figures from the Central Bank of Iran show that foreign currency revenues from non-oil exports from August 7 to October 3 through Nima–the Integrated Forex Deals System launched by the government after it unified the USD forex rate – reached €2.84 billion.
Currency trade on the secondary forex market on October 3 was close to €46 million.
In addition, foreign currency allocated for imports during the 57-day period totaled €2.4 billion.
During his Moscow tour the CBI boss Abdolnaser Hemmati met his counterpart Elvira Nabiullina to discuss bilateral banking and financial relations, the CBI website reported on Thursday.
Hemmati traveled to Russia for talks with banking authorities and to find ways to bolster cooperation. The trip was a follow-up to President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Tehran for a trilateral summit of the Syrian ceasefire on September 7.
Tehran stock exchange's main gauge, TEDPIX, climbed 4,924 points or 3% to during the week to October 3, despite consecutive losses brought the market into bear territory on the last two trading days.
TSE also saw the value of its share trading rise 21% compared with the week before by closing at 185,559 point.
The First Market Index was up 5068 points or 4% to post 138339 and the Second Market Index surged 2883 points or 1% to reach 361704.
During the 5-day trading week, 87.7 trillion rials ($6.1 billion) worth of shares and securities were traded, marking a 21% growth compared with ...
A digital hub is to be established at the Maku Free Trade Zone in West Azarbaijan Province to boost e-commerce in the area and promote tech firms in the zone.
Generally, a digital hub is referred to a cluster of technology, digital media and Internet companies working together in an effort to build electronic services and ICT infrastructure in a specific area.
The cost of communication services, establishment of public WiFi access points and expansion of the fiber-optic network are some subjects that held center stage at the Iran Telecom 2018.
The 19th round of Exhibition of Telecommunications, Information Technology, and Innovative ICT Solutions (Iran Telecom 2018) opened on Monday, with company bosses addressing public concerns about increasing communications tariffs and infrastructure development plans.
During the inauguration ICT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi took questions about mobile communication tariffs and cellphone prices, the ministry website reported.
The City Development and Innovation Company (CityDI), a subsidiary of the Shahr Bank (City Bank), is to launch a startup accelerator to provide reputable companies financial and technical support.
The number of foreign tourists travelling to Iran jumped by 51% during the first six months of the current fiscal year (March 21-Sept. 22), despite the fact that the reimposition of US sanctions poses a serious threat to the emerging sector, according to a top official.
"In spite of US threats, the entry of foreign tourists to Iran has increased by more than 51% during the first half of the current year," Ali Asghar Mounesan, the head of Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO), was quoted as saying on Thursday.
The official described the growth as "unprecedented during the past few decades", taking into account the meager rise witnessed last year.
Khorasan Razavi Province registered the highest rail passenger throughput in the first six months of the year (March 21-Sept. 22).
"The number of visitors travelling by train to the northeastern city of Mashhad, capital of Khorasan Razavi Province, saw an increase of 16% during H1 compared with the same period of last year to reach 7.45 million," Mohammad-Hadi Ziaei-Mehr,
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