An Iranian diplomat called on Syria and Turkey to exercise restraint, as tensions rose between the two countries over the situation in Syria’s northwest Idlib region.
An Iranian diplomat called on Syria and Turkey to exercise restraint, as tensions rose between the two countries over the situation in Syria’s northwest Idlib region.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is in Germany to attend the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 14-16.
The US Senate passed legislation on Thursday to limit the president’s ability to wage war against Iran, rebuking him weeks after a strike against an Iranian top military commander and Tehran’s retaliation raised fears of broader regional conflict.
Power consumption in Yazd Province with a population of around 1.2 million has risen 57 times over the last four decades, managing director of Yazd Regional Electricity Company said.
“Consumption in the province reached 9.5 billion kilowatt hours in 2018 – up 5,000% compared to 1979 when it was 168 million kWh,” ISNA quoted Mohammad Hassan Sabbaghzadegan as saying.
The load in summer barely reached 45 megawatts during peak hours in 1979 when the population was about 400,000. It surpassed 1,700 MW in 2019, up 3,700%, he noted.
The United States has granted Iraq a 45-day sanctions waiver enabling the country to continue importing vital Iranian gas and electricity supplies.
Tehran Province Gas Company (TPGC) has produced the first portable city gate station (a kind of pressure reducing station) in collaboration with Petro Gas Parsa Company, head of the provincial company said.
“The station has the added advantage of being lighter and smaller. It is equipped with shut off valves, can be transported to remote areas and installed swiftly,” Ahmad Darabi was quoted as saying by Energy Today website.
Portable CGS helps stabilize gas supply in regions where fixed CGSs need repairs after being struck by natural disasters like earthquakes and floods, he added.
The project to connect Tabriz Petrochemical Company to the West Ethylene Pipeline was officially inaugurated on Thursday in the last and final phase of the major pipeline.
This pipeline is 1,200 kilometers long and runs from the port city of Asalouyeh off the Persian Gulf in the south to the northwest. It will supply ethylene as feedstock to 12 petrochemical factories along the way. The northernmost plant on the pipeline route that was supplied before the Tabriz unit was Miandoab Petrochemical Company in West Azarbaijan Province.
With completion of the 165-km pipeline to carry ethylene from Miandoab company to Tabriz Petrochemical Plant in East Azarbaijan Province, the pipeline has reached its final destination so far (Tabriz is 165 km north of Miandoab), the Oil Ministry news agency Shana reported.
Iran accounts for less than 1% of the global trade of halal products, according to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution's representative in the Agriculture Ministry.
“The global halal market turnover amounts to around $4 trillion per year, yet Iran’s share in this market is meager. Iranians account for 4-5% of the world’s Muslim population and we are neighboring more than 350 million Muslims in the region,” Reza Taqavi was also quoted as saying by Mehr News Agency.
The official added that Iran has the capacity to increase its share and provide halal products for this huge and expanding market.
Iran is the world’s biggest producer of damask rose, accounting for 70% of the global production, according to the executive manager of the Agriculture Ministry's National Medicinal Plants Project.
Purchasing Managers Index in the 10th month of the current fiscal year (Dec. 22, 2019-Jan. 20) settled at 44.26, indicating that Iran’s economy remains in recession, according to the Statistics and Economic Analysis Center of the Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture.
The center has measured PMI, known by its Farsi acronym Shamekh, for the country’s economy as a whole over the last three months.
The overall PMI for the economy improved from 42.27 in the month ending Nov. 21, 2019, to 48.22 in the month ending Dec. 21, 2019, but slid to 44.26 in the month leading to Jan. 20.
The National Iranian Copper Industries Company sold 183 trillion rials ($1.35 billion) worth of products during the 10 months to Jan. 20.
Liquidity in Iran crossed 22,623 trillion rials ($165 billion, calculated as per 137,000 rials to a dollar) at the end of the third Iranian quarter (Dec 21), the Central Bank of Iran reported.
The figure shows 28.2% growth compared to the corresponding month last year. Liquidity grew 20.2% since of the end of last fiscal year in March 2019.
While the monetary base has remained unchanged compared to the earlier month, juxtaposing monthly CBI reports reveals a steady increase in the unprecedented pace of liquidity growth.
CBI had stopped publishing monthly data on money supply and other economic indices in August 2019 before publishing several monthly reports in separate reports on Thursday.
Several Italian banks have closed or imposed restrictions on accounts held by Iranians citing the US sanctions, and in the process creating financial difficulties for those affected.
The main index of Tehran Stock Exchange, TEDPIX, rose 280,420 points, or 156.9%, since the beginning of the current fiscal year that ends in March until the end of last trading session on Wednesday (Feb 12).
Technologies Ministry to give subscribers the opportunity to assess operators.
Launched on Thursday, the system called Netsanj Plus is available on Netsanjplus.ir. It presents a detailed analysis and ranking of internet service providers and their services based on the user's location, Peivast reported.
To use the system, subscribers are required to spot a certain location on the interactive map on the website's homepage and then select the type of internet service (namely mobile data, ADSL and TD-LTE), the quality of which they intend to know.
As soon as the two factors are selected, a quick analysis will appear on the screen, showing the quality of internet connection offered by ISPs both on the map and comparative bar charts.
A total of 5,220 domestic flights were operated by 16 airlines at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport during the month to Jan. 20, 2020.
Samsung Electronics’ board chairman, Lee Sang-hoon, who was convicted and jailed for sabotaging union activities, has resigned from the South Korean company, it said on Friday.
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