TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran is expanding its farming for sturgeon and other fishes that lay eggs known as the caviar, the country’s fishery chief says, despite a decision by five littoral states of the Caspian Sea to renew a ban on caviar hunting in the enclosed body of water. Head of Iran Fisheries Organization […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran has launched a truck manufacturing plant that will employ 5,000 people at full production, official news agency IRNA reported on Wednesday. The first phase of the plant for the production of Chapar (Carrier) trucks came online during a ceremony attended by President Hassan Rouhani in Meshginshahr in northwest Iran. Iran […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Head of Iran’s Drug Control Headquarters (DCH) Eskandar Momeni said that Iran is spending a significant amount of budget on fighting against trafficking drugs. “It is estimated that 11% of GDP is spent directly and indirectly on the fighting against drugs,” he told YJC News Agency on Wednesday. Direct costs include […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arrived in Ardabil, the main city of Ardabil province, on Wednesday morning to inaugurate a host of various projects. Upon arrival at Ardabil Airport, Rouhani was welcomed by the officials of the northwestern Iranian province. During this one-day trip, the Iranian President will inaugurate 93 civil projects […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran exported $31.9 billion worth of goods during the nine months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Dec. 21), said the chairman of Trade Promotion Organization of Iran, which compared with imported goods we see a surplus. Hamid Zadboum said on Monday that $31.8 billion of goods were also imported into […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami said his ministry has plans to add some 1,500 kilometers of the railroad to the Iran rail network by the end of the current administration’s term (August 2021). Speaking at a ceremony to launch a new subway station in Hashtgerd in the […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Imam Khomeini International Airport is ready to operate domestic flights, said the IKIA deputy director for airport operations. “Passengers will have more options to choose once some of the domestic flights are transferred to IKIA,” Hassan Khoshkhoo said on Tuesday. The decision is expected to considerably reduce traffic at Tehran’s International […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) seized a ship near Iran’s Bu Musa Island in the Persian Gulf, which its cargo was filled by 1.312 million liters of smuggled fuel. The IRGC, on Monday, seized a ship of smuggled fuel cargo with 16 Malaysians on board, near Bu Musa Island in […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Judiciary Spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaeili said that Shabnam Nematzadeh has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for economic corruption. In a Tuesday press conference, the spokesman said that the court has also sentenced Nematzadeh to 74 lashes and fined with some $345,000 on charges of creating ‘major disruption in the distribution of […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Public Relations Department of Khatam-al Anbiya Construction Headquarters, in a statement on Tuesday, denied the recent news reporting blasts in its HQ. All the sites and bases of Khatam-al Anbiya across the country are safe and in full peace, it said and the report of blasts and explosion are false. […]