Construction work on Hengam Combine Cycle Power Plant in southern Hormozgan Province is halfway through and its gas unit will come on stream next summer, director of the project Alireza…
Hardly 30% of the cars made in the country can be placed in the acceptable safety category, the Traffic Police chief said in a blunt criticism of local automotive companies that are almost…
As part of a project of the Road Maintenance and Transportation Organization (RMTO), intercity roads will be equipped with 4,000 new surveillance cameras. The project, which is financed by the…
No 1207
European members of the UN Security Council reaffirmed their commitment and support for the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers despite US pressures.
Relations between Iran and Turkey have been growing in recent years and the two countries need to work to further expand ties, Iran’s presidential chief of staff said. “The current…
A slim majority of senators voted Thursday to end US support for a Saudi Arabian military campaign in Yemen that has been blamed for tens of thousands of deaths and mass starvation. The vote…
Iran’s Foreign Ministry voiced approval of the agreements that the Yemeni warring parties reached during the United Nations-sponsored peace talks in Sweden, describing them as good grounds to…
Drawing on EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Iran’s ICT Ministry has prepared a bill it calls ‘User Data Protection’ that will soon be sent to the Majlis for ratification and…
Mobile Telecommunication Company of Iran (MCI) has invested 200 billion rials ($1.9 million) in cargo transportation startup Ubaar and Achareh that offer repair and home services in return for a…
Major mobile operators started sharing infrastructure on Thursday as part of efforts to help improve mobile coverage in rural areas. The two main operators, Mobile Telecommunications Company of…
Future contracts (also known as futures) will be launched officially on the Tehran Stock Exchange TSE on Sunday, the TSE director said. Ali Sahraee said such futures are traded…
Independence of the Central Bank of Iran lies at the heart of a new set of regulations known as Central Bank Bill, says the head of the Majlis Economic Commission. The bill is part of…
Major Iranian home builders operating in rundown urban districts can now receive up to 1.1 billion rials ($10,000) in loans from the state-run Bank Maskan, also known as the Housing Bank, as per…
Iran-Finland relations vis-a-vis US sanctions regime, cooperation between the Iranian and European small- and medium-sized enterprises, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and a planned…
Following the slump in currency rates, the gold coin has also dropped in value in recent weeks to reach the lowest point in the past four months. According to Mohammad Kashti-Aray,…
Oman will cut oil output by 2% from January for an initial period of six months, according to a letter sent to customers of Omani oil by the country’s oil and gas ministry. The output…
Plans to build large dams have been removed from the Energy Ministry agenda, the head of Iran Water and Power Resources Development Company said.
Iran produced 29.64 million tons of iron ore concentrate in the first eight months of the current fiscal year (March 21-Nov. 21), to register a 19% growth compared with last year's corresponding…
Japanese refiners will start buying Iranian crude oil in January, but will only continue buying until March to make sure they don’t get on the bad side of Washington in case the 180-day sanction…
While the program to again use fuel cards is due to be launched soon, Bijan Haj-Mohammadreza, head of the Filling Stations Union, says almost half the pumps at the gas stations are not equipped…
No 1206
The Cabinet voted on Wednesday to approve Anoushirvan Mohseni Bandpey as the governor general of Tehran Province. The top officials also endorsed the appointment of new governors general…
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres underlined the significance of Iran's nuclear accord for international security, urging the global community to make efforts to uphold the hard-earned deal…
Foreign exchange rates in Tehran were again of the declining order on Wednesday as several factors prompt the rial to pare much of its unprecedented losses since the beginning of the current…
