Defense Minister Amir Hatami attended the inauguration ceremony of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, which was held outside the Supreme Court building in Caracas on Thursday.
Defense Minister Amir Hatami attended the inauguration ceremony of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, which was held outside the Supreme Court building in Caracas on Thursday.
President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday that the Iranian government will continue on the path set by the late influential statesman Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani who helped enhance the country’s status internationally.
“We will keep working toward Hashemi’s biggest goal, which was to see a proud establishment in the Islamic Republic and a prosperous Iran,” Rouhani said during a commemoration for the former president and chairman of Expediency Council in Tehran, the presidential website reported.
He added that ill-wishers spared no effort to tarnish Rafsanjani’s image and reputation, but he remained a popular figure among Iranians due to his honest and faithful services to the country.
India and Russia reiterated common approaches toward global and regional problems, including the implementation of the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers.
The United Nations would not be able to contribute to Afghanistan’s peace process without support from Iran and other regional countries, a UN official said.
“We support Iran's role in resolving Afghanistan's issues and hope to achieve positive results by continuing such engagement,” Hideo Ikebe, the head of Tehran Liaison Office of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, said.
He made the statement in a recent meeting with Kourosh Karampour, the head of Iran-Afghanistan Parliamentary Friendship Group, ICANA reported.
The world body, according to Ikebe, is against military methods to address Afghan issues and is looking for political solutions that would not work without the involvement of the Afghan government and support of regional countries.
Iran government intends to transfer 80% shares of state-owned power plants to the private sector by 2022, the director general of the planning office of Iran Power Generation, Distribution and Transmission Company (Tavanir) said.
Speaking at a meeting with the electricity officials in Yazd Province on Wednesday, Fereydoun Fayazmanesh said, “As per law, investment, ownership and management on the supply side, including production and import of electricity for domestic consumption and export, can and will be delegated to non-government organizations, cooperatives and private companies.”
Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia plans to lower its shipments further in February as it follows through on a global deal to cut output to prevent a build-up in supplies.
Deputy Energy Minister Homayoun Haeri on Thursday broke ground for a 50 megawatt wind farm in Mil-e- Nader zone in Zabol in Sistan-Baluchestan Province.
The farm will have 20 wind turbines and cost an estimated €60 million.
The power output that will be sold to the Energy Ministry is expected to be synchronized with the national grid early next year.
With abundance of wind, Sistan-Baluchestan Province has great potential for producing electricity with wind turbines, Haeri said.
Iraq and Iran are exploring ways to develop two shared oilfields despite US efforts to isolate Tehran from global oil markets.
Thamir Ghadhban, Iraq’s oil minister, made the statement in Baghdad on Thursday in a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Bijan Namdar Zanganeh.
"The two sides are conducting surveys of the oilfields. No contract has been signed yet as more negotiations are needed to reach a comprehensive agreement on financial and technical matters," Ghadhban added.
Going into 2019, China's gasoline demand growth will be capped by a slowing economy, falling car sales, growing fuel efficiency and the inevitable electrification of road transport.
India would like to trade with Iran without violating any international laws, Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu said on Thursday.
Iran exported 12,600 tons of tea to 34 countries since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2018).
Based on the H1 tea export prices, this amount of export is estimated to be worth around $16.8 million.
According to Habibollah Jahansaz, the head of Iran Tea Organization, India, Iraq, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Russia, Uzbekistan, Australia, France, Canada, Spain, Turkey, Czech Republic, Azerbaijan and Georgia were the main export destinations for Iranian tea over the nine-month period, ILNA reported on Friday.
Latest World Bank projections show Iran's gross domestic product will continue to contract in 2019, before reversing gear in 2020.
Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture plans to set up a management assessment center for private sector entities.
The Central Bank of Iran has sent a directive to banks and credit institutions obliging agent banks to accept Islamic bonds as collateral from contractors of development projects.
The measure had been proposed in the budget law of the current fiscal (March 2017-18) which also tasks the CBI with drafting regulations to implement the law.
It refers to earlier CBI directives and emphasizes that accepting Islamic bonds as collateral follows a similar process as other securities traded on the stock market.
Blockchain technology is set to decentralize mechanisms governing the world’s financial systems and the Central Bank of Iran has focused efforts on studying ways to benefit from that technology, says the secretary general of Central Bank of Iran.
Pointing to the blockchain potential to change centralized structures as the most salient feature of blockchain, Mohammad Talebi says financial systems need to undergo a major overhaul by the emergent technology.
“Financial systems across continents operate in a centralized framework which is monitored by a central mechanism,” he was quoted as saying on the website of the Monetary and Banking Research Institute.
The research arm of the Majlis in a new assessment of next year's proposed budget, says government revenues predicted for fiscal 2019-20 are unlikely to materialize.
The Majlis Research Center warns that if MPs approve the budget bill in its current form and shape, "problems in the functioning of executive agencies, people's livelihoods and fiscal discipline would be inevitable."
In order to give a better picture of the budgetary constraints next year, the MRC pores over some of the key figures related to revenues as forecast in the budget bill.
Iran's trade of mineral products recorded a $4.74 billion surplus for the nine months ending Dec. 21.
The country exported 44.72 million tons of mineral products worth over $7.28 billion during the period, down 10% in tonnage and up 1% in value compared with last year's corresponding period.
Imports stood at 2.83 million tons worth $2.53 billion, down 38% in tonnage and 31% in value year-on-year, the latest report released by the Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization shows.
Major Iranian lead and zinc producers extracted 884,478 tons of ores during the nine months to Dec. 21, which indicates a 24% rise in production compared with last year’s similar period, the Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization’s latest report shows.
By March 2018, more than 72% of households in Iran had access to the Internet, the Statistical Center of Iran reported.
According to a survey conducted by the Information Technology Organization and the Statistical Center of Iran, by the beginning of the current fiscal that ends in March, from 24 million households, 17.9 million or 72.8% had access to broadband Internet services.
The results published on ito.gov.ir indicate a 10.5% year-on-year increase in Internet penetration rate in Iran.
Furthermore, by March 2018, there was at least one computer (laptop/desktop) in 69.7% of Iranian households -- almost 17.2 million families. The figure has grown 8.4% compared to the March 2017-18 fiscal.
Iranian Android market Cafe Bazaar in its latest report has said why apps mostly get rejected by it for distribution. Poor interface, low-quality content, and security flaws are among the main reasons listed by the company.
In its Q3 Android Market report for the Iranian season that ended in December, Cafe Bazaar refers to poor user interface, lack of valuable content, being copycats of another app, flouting user privacy, poor performance and technical flaws plus copyright infringement.
Poor user interface tops the rejection chart accounting for 27.3% of publication refusal messages issued by the firm.
Bazaar says if an application’s interface is hard to navigate, the Android market place will not accept it for publication. It notes that two main factors are considered in this regard: whether the text displayed on the interface is illegible and the font is easy-to-read; the resolution of pictures and icons used on the interface.
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