TEHRAN (Iran News) – A senior petrochemical official said Iran has plans to launch 23 petrochemical plants in Asaluyeh Petrochemical Zone, southern Iran. The director of projects at the National Petrochemical Company, Ali Mohammad Bossaghzadeh, said various projects are currently under construction in the petrochemical industry of Iran, among which 23 new plants will be […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran’s anti-narcotics police forces have seized 1,270 kilograms of illicit drugs in a single operation in the central province of Yazd, a provincial police commander announced on Sunday. Second Brigadier General Mohammadreza Mir-Heidari said that following comprehensive intelligence activities, the police forces traced the haul of the illicit drugs in a […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Spokesperson for Parliament Presiding Board Asadollah Abbasi revealed the start of closed session of the Parliament in the presence of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, IRGC Chief Major General Hossein Salami. In the closed session, held in the presence of IRGC Chief Major General Salami, recent incidents including assassination of IRGC Quds […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Due to dry surface, twenty percent of areas across Iran are highly prone to flooding, Khosro Shahbazi, head of the Forests, Range, and Watershed Management Organization (FRWMO), has said. “Precipitation in Iran is one-third of the world’s average, as the country is located in a dry and fragile region where we […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif appointed Mehdi Sanaei as his senior advisor, according to Iranian Foreign Ministry. Mehdi Sanaei has been appointed as a senior advisor to Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif. Sanaei was Iran’s former ambassador to the Russian Federation. He was a lawmaker at Iran’s Islamic Parliament from […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani offered his deepest condolences over the deaths of those aboard a doomed Ukrainian airliner and urged relevant organizations to probe into the human error behind downing of the plane near Tehran. “Knowing the outcome of the (initial) probe into the tragic incident of downing the Ukrainian […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran “deeply regrets” the unintentional downing of a Ukrainian plane this week, President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday. “Armed Forces’ internal investigation has concluded that regrettably, missiles fired from Iran, due to human error caused the horrific crash and downing of the Ukrainian plane & death of 176 innocent people. Investigations […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh gave some details about Iran Wednesday missile attack on a US base in Iraq and described the attack as just the beginning of “a major operation”. “Iran missile attack on the most important base of the […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – During an accident, a bus overturned in a road in Iran’s northern province of Mazandaran Province, leaving at least 20 people dead and 24 others injured.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Over 97,000 megawatt (MW) capacity of Iran’s thermal power plants are undergoing a general overhauling program to get ready for next year’s peak period demand, announced a Thermal Power Plants Holding Company (TPPH) official. According to Gholamreza Mehrdad, the manager of generation technical support at Thermal Power Plants Holding Company, the […]