The government on Wednesday wrote a letter to the Guardians Council about its concerns over a parliamentary bill on countering sanctions, which requires Iran to curb cooperation with the United Nations nuclear watchdog.
The government on Wednesday wrote a letter to the Guardians Council about its concerns over a parliamentary bill on countering sanctions, which requires Iran to curb cooperation with the United Nations nuclear watchdog.
The National Coronavirus Taskforce moved 96 cities across the country, including the capital Tehran, from the alert level “red” to “orange”, as restrictive measures introduced since last month began to reduce infections.
Large swathes in South Khorasan Province are affected by different levels of drought, head of the provincial Metrological Organization said.
“Water paucity poses a serious threat to the livelihood of farming communities and the economy in the arid region and adaptation to water shortages is and will be key to survival,” Alireza Khandan was quoted as saying by IRNA.
On the severity and intensity of drought in the eastern region, Khandan said 20% of the land has moderate drought, which means damage to crops, pastures, streams, reservoirs and voluntary limits on water use.
“Almost 40% of the area has severe drought causing crop and pasture losses as water shortages become commonplace. Thus, water restrictions have been put in place.”
Iranian engineers have set up and manage the refrigeration compressor at the 10th refinery of South Pars Gas Field Phase 19 for the first time in Pars Special Economic Energy Zone on the northern shores of the Persian Gulf, managing director of Petropars Company said.
Hamidreza Masoudi said the compressor was purchased from a foreign company, though he did not name it, and the company’s technicians were in charge of installation.
“Due to the US economic siege, the foreign company refused to send its engineers to install and set up the safety systems,” ILNA quoted him as saying.
Large cap stocks had a lukewarm performance in the last day of trading week Wednesday pulling down the market-cap weighted benchmark of Tehran Stock Exchange slightly below the flatline.
A total of 109,000 tons of commodities worth $209 million were exported from Jolfa Customs Terminal in East Azarbaijan Province during the first eight months of the current Iranian year (March 20-Nov. 20), showing a 13% and 35% rise in weight and value respectively, according to the director general of the county’s Customs Office.
The production of apple in Iran is estimated to reach 4.12 million tons during the current Iranian year (March 2020-21), marking a 3% increase compared with the previous year, according to an official with the Agriculture Ministry.
Iran and Turkey exchanged $316.55 million worth of goods and commodities in October 2020, to register an increase in monthly trade after experiencing negative growth for several months.
According to the latest data released by Turkish Statistical Institute, the neighboring country's October trade with Iran was 1.93% higher than in October 2019.
Exports to Turkey accounted for $101.14 million of the figure, down 6.83% YOY, while Turkey’s exports to Iran stood at $205.411 million, up 6.64% year-on-year.
Iran’s tissue production capacity is twice as much as the country’s demand and the surplus production is being exported, says the head of Tissue Producers Association, Abbas Khoshgard.
The Statistical Center of Iran has published a report based on the International Classification of Activities for Time Use Statistics (ICATUS 2016), illustrating a classification of all the activities an Iranian person spent time on during the 24 hours of a day during the second quarter of the current year (June 21-Sept. 21).
Its purpose is to serve as a standard framework for time-use statistics based on activities grouped in a meaningful way.
The Education and Human Resources Institute, affiliated with the Tehran Chamber of Commerce Industries, Mines and Agriculture, is scheduled to hold a specialized course on customs regulations starting Jan. 10.
Vice President for Parliamentary Affairs Hosseinali Amiri submitted the budget bill for the next fiscal year (March 2021-22) to the parliament on Wednesday.
Unlike previous years, President Hassan Rouhani did not show up at the parliament for the budget day upon the advice of the National Coronavirus Headquarters.
In the next fiscal year (starting March 21, 2021), the operating budget (including revenues derived mainly from taxation and exports at the disposal of the government) has been projected to stand at 8,413 trillion rials ($33.65 billion at the market exchange rate of 250,000 rials per US dollar).
Add to this, 884 trillion rials ($3.53 billion) were earmarked for ministries and governmental institutions, which take the total sum of the general budget to 9,298 trillion rials ($37.19 billion).
Over 8.59 million tons of animal feed were discharged from customs terminals in the eight months to Nov. 20, according to Rouhollah Latifi, the spokesman of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration.
The average goods and services Consumer Price Index of “clothing and shoes” in the 12-month period ending Nov. 20, which marks the end of the eighth Iranian month, increased by 33% compared with last year’s corresponding period.
The government sold bonds worth 19.5 trillion rials ($78 million) at the weekly auction on Tuesday -- apparently higher compared with the nine months’ average but way lower than the previous week.
The government has put an end to subsidized currency rates ($1=42,000 rials) in the proposed 2021-22 fiscal budget, the spokeswoman for Plan and Budget Organization said.
The cheap currency has been sourced from oil export revenue and used only for importing basic goods, pharmaceuticals and machinery to avoid unaffordable price hikes in food and raw materials.
"The government hopes to sell crude oil at $40 per barrel with exchange the rate of 115,000 rials per USD. The dollar at 42,000 rials is omitted in the next budget", Mozhgan Khanloo was quoted as saying by IRIB news. The budget bill was submitted to parliament on Wednesday.
Germany, France and Britain urged the Trump administration in late October to reconsider broad, new sanctions against Iran’s banks, arguing that the move would deter legitimate humanitarian trade and hurt the allies’ common interests, diplomatic correspondence shows.
Gold prices and foreign exchange rates retreated on Wednesday after rallying for two consecutive sessions.
The dollar lost 3.14% or 8,000 rials, and was quoted at 255,000 rials in Iran’s open markets. The UAE dirham was down 3.4% while the euro and UK pound sterling lost 0.61% and 1.12%, respectively.
The greenback had gained 5% in two straight sessions triggered by the Majlis decision to suspend all commitments stipulated in the Iran nuclear deal with six world powers in 2015 officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
The Statistical Center of Iran has published its latest report on home and land prices as well as rent levels in the capital city Tehran during the second quarter of the current Iranian year (June 21-Sept. 21), the summer season of the fiscal 2020-21.
According to the report published on SCI’s website, the average price of each square meter of land or land of a rundown residential property (residential units that are considered old to a degree that only the underlying land is useful for construction) in Tehran went up by 86.5% in Q2 compared with the corresponding period of last year.
Prices increased by 36.4% compared with the preceding quarter (Q1 of the current Iranian year.)
Air quality monitoring stations around the capital city show residents took an easier breath in November compared with the corresponding month of 2019.
Based on data published by Tehran Air Quality Control Company on its website, Airnow.tehran.ir, the capital experienced fewer polluted days in November compared to a year earlier.
During the month, the air quality chart was dominated by ‘moderate’ status, with Air Quality Index hovering between 51 and 100 on 22 days.
The index categorizes air conditions according to a measure of polluting matters into good (0-50), moderate (51-100), unhealthy for sensitive groups (101-150), unhealthy (151-200), very unhealthy (201-300) and hazardous (301-500).
Charts published by TAQCC show that sensitive groups in Tehran were advised to limit their outdoor activities on eight days, since AQI hovered between 101 and 150, marking an unhealthy status for the group.
Children, the elderly, pregnant women and those with respiratory and cardiovascular problems, all of whom fall in the sensitive group, are classed as sensitive.
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