Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi announced on Tuesday that Covid-19 restrictive measures are to remain in place until concerns over the sixth wave of the pandemic are alleviated.
Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi announced on Tuesday that Covid-19 restrictive measures are to remain in place until concerns over the sixth wave of the pandemic are alleviated.
Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations said global nuclear disarmament could be materialized on a global scale if the necessary political determination existed for its realization.
The remaining parties to the 2015 nuclear deal should be ready for negotiations on the revival of the agreement “based on mutual interests and rights,” Iran’s foreign minister said on Tuesday.
Zayandehrud Dam in Isfahan Province currently has 178 million cubic meters of water, which means the dam is only about 13% full, deputy director for protection and exploitation of Isfahan Regional Water Company said.
Despite the low level of water in the dam, “the hydroelectric power plant that is adjacent to the dam has not been shut down yet. However, if the water level decreases by another three meters, the power station will halt operations,” Mahmoud Chitian was quoted as saying by Mehr News Agency.
With a nominal capacity of 1.45 billion cubic meters, Zayandehrud Dam is one of the main dam reservoirs in central Iran.
Tehran wastewater network development plan, dubbed Tehran Water Ring System, has registered 70% progress and will be launched in 2022, a deputy of Tehran Province Water and Wastewater Company said.
“Close to 7,200 kilometers of pipelines have been laid in and around Tehran to connect the network to wastewater plants under construction in the south and west of the city,” the Energy Ministry’s news service also quoted Morteza Ehteshami as saying.
“Expansion of wastewater network has been a priority, but lack of funds and rapid expansion of urban areas have slowed the process. So far, 58% of the residents are connected to the sewage network, and as soon as it is fully operational, close to 11 million will be covered by the grid.”
Following a cyberattack that severely disrupted the sale of subsidized gasoline in Iran last Tuesday, the sale of compressed natural gas has experienced a 50% jump per day, a member of the board of directors at Iran's CNG Association said.
“CNG demand has risen by 10 million cubic meters a day since last week as many car owners are not willing to fill up their tank with expensive, unsubsidized fuel,” the Energy Today website also quoted Mohsen Johari as saying.
Before the cyber assault, CNG sales peaked at 25 mcm/d and it has now reached 35 million cubic meters per day, he added.
The cyberattack forced the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company, a subsidiary of the National Iranian Oil Company, to reboot systems in 4,300 gas stations all over the country.
A total of 4.99 quadrillion rials ($18.12 billion) worth of investments were made in industrial units with establishment permits issued by the Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade, while projects with operating licenses are estimated to have received close to 1.06 trillion rials ($3.85 billion) of investment during the current Iranian year’s first five months (March 21-Aug. 22).
The above figures show a respective growth rate of 187.4% and 511.4% compared with the similar period of last year, the latest report released by the Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade shows...
The growth in Consumer Price Index in the seventh month of the current Iranian year (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) was the highest (5.8%) for Gilan and Kerman provinces compared with the month before.
According to data released by the Statistical Center of Iran, Sistan-Baluchestan Province posted the lowest month-on-month inflation of 2.2% last month.
The overall CPI, using the Iranian year to March 2017 as the base year, stood at 364.1 in the same month, indicating a 3.7% rise compared with the previous month.
Kohgilouyeh-Boyerahmad Province’s goods and services consumer inflation registered a rise of 48.5% during the month ending Oct. 22 compared with the similar month of the year before, the highest among all provinces...
The average Producer Price Inflation for the services sector in the four-quarter period ending Sept. 22, which marks the end of the second quarter of the current Iranian year, increased by 45.1% compared with the same period of the year before.
According to the Statistical Center of Iran, this marks the highest annual inflation since winter 2013 (the earliest available data on services producers' inflation on SCI’s website).
The overall PPI for the services sector stood at 358.7 in Q2 of the current fiscal year (June 22-Sept. 22), indicating an 11.1% increase compared with the preceding quarter.
The index indicates a 47.8% increase compared with the same quarter of the year before.
Mehrabad International Airport registered a 28% year-on-year growth in takeoffs and landings that reached 58,504 in the first six months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Sept. 22), according to the airport’s managing director.
Lawmakers on Tuesday approved a proposal from the Majlis Economic Commission to investigate the historic stock market decline plus the performance of its regulator, the Securities and Exchange Organization.
Investigators will look into developments in the Tehran Stock Exchange early in the last fiscal year that led to the unprecedented hike in share prices in five months followed by the historic plunge that has almost continued until today.
MPs also want to investigate the relevant authorities approach to the issue as well as the frequent changes in SEO management, which, some lawmakers say, at times failed to uphold administrative formalities, the parliamentary news website, ICANA, reported.
The Central Bank of Iran is not capable of regulating cryptocurrencies, says the head of the Iran Blockchain Association, calling for creating an independent council to get the job done.
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Tehran’s share market ended the session on Tuesday in positive territory after making reasonable gains a day earlier as hopes about market recovery lifted morale and sentiments.
The main gauge of Tehran Stock Exchange, TEDPIX, gained 14,680.13 points or 1.08% to close at 1,376,094.41.
Unlike most recent sessions, demand was high for majority of small caps pushing up the TSE’s equal-weighted index by close to 1%.
As in the previous session, institutional investors were the main buyers as capital outflow by retail investors continued for the 12th consecutive session, reaching 2.2 trillion rials ($8 million).
Financial statements of listed companies show their sales increased an average 57% in the month to Oct.22 compared with the corresponding month a year before.
The companies sold goods and services worth 1,563 trillion rials ($5.7 billion) in one month, which was 966.6 trillion rials ($3.5b) above the same period last year, the Securities and Exchange News Agency reported, citing companies’ data published on codal.ir.
Codal is an information platform on which listed companies publish financial statements and present data to shareholders.
Topping the list were petrochemical companies, posting 85% increase in sales compared to the corresponding period last year. They reported 369.17 trillion rials ($1.39b) in sales in the month.
Mobile network penetration rate in the country reached 156.64% in the first half of the current fiscal year (March 21-Sept. 22), according to Iran's Communications Regulatory Authority.
According to a periodic report published on CRA's website, Cra.ir, the total number of active SIM cards in the country reached 133.09 million on Sept. 22, up 0.96% from the first quarter (March 21-June 21) figure.
SIM cards are provided by three domestic mobile operators, namely Mobile Telecommunications Company of Iran (MCI, or Hamrah-e Avval in Persian), Irancell and RighTel.
During the period under review, MCI held the lion's share of the market, accounting for 71.26 million SIM cards, followed by Irancell with 56.68 million and RighTel with 5.14 million.
Germany asked Iran on Monday to meet its pledge to return later this month to the nuclear talks in Vienna.
Russia fully supports the idea of returning to the Iran nuclear deal in the form it was signed, without any additions or exemptions, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome on Sunday.
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