South Khorasan Police busts 3.600 tons of drugs
TEHRAN (Iran News) – South Khorasan anti-narcotics police of, the southeastern Iranian province linking the country to Afghanistan and Pakistan, seized 3,600 kilograms of different illicit drugs in the last week. Police Chief of South Khorasan province Second Brigadier General Majid Shoja made the announcement on Monday, saying that 3.600 tons of illegal drugs have […]
Frozen embryo born after 13 years storing
TEHRAN (Iran News) – An embryo frozen for thirteen years in the Iranian central city of Isfahan has been born as a baby girl becoming the longest known frozen human embryo to result in a successful birth in the West Asia region. The baby delivered on Monday was conceived back in 2006 when the scientists […]
Religious minority lawmakers censured Anti-Iran human rights resolution
TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Religious minority lawmakers in Majlis censured on Sunday an anti-Iran resolution by the United Nations General Assembly, calling the move a “politically-motivated” stance. In their statement, the Religious minority lawmakers said the Canada-drafted UN resolution against Iran, although seemingly about human rights, is inherently a political statement and serves as […]
Air quality in major cities is unhealthy; Iran
TEHRAN (Iran News) – Head of Air Pollution Monitoring Group of Iran’s Department of the Environment Shahram Sepehrnia said on Saturday that air quality in the country’s six cities has exceeded the maximum polluted level and is unhealthy. According to the index, the air quality in major cities like the capital Tehran, Karaj, Tabriz, Arak […]
Payam, First Digital Special Trade Zone
TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran is planning to turn Payam Special Trade Zone into the country’s first digital economic region, an official has declared that on Sunday. “Establishment of an IT and ICT town and an export and import hub will turn Payam into the first digital special trade zone,” Managing-Director of Payam special trade […]
CBI Poses against ‘Islamic Banking Plan’
TEHRAN (Iran News) – In an open Parliament session, Abdolnaser Hemmati, the Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) announced his disagreement about the Islamic Banking Plan, generalities of which was ratified by the Iranian Parliament members on Tuesday. “Under the conditions that the CBI is sanctioned, its structure must not be changed via […]
Iran Telecom 2019 Holds in Tehran
TEHRAN (Iran News) – The 20th edition of Exhibition of Telecommunications, Information Technology, and Innovative ICT Solutions, Iran Telecom Plus 2019, opened at Tehran Permanent International Fairgrounds on Tuesday. The inaugural ceremony was attended by the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace Abolhassan Firouzabadi, Deputy Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (ICT) for Innovation […]
NITC overhaul 10 oil tankers this year
TEHRAN (Iran News) – National Iranian Tanker Company, NITC, has undertaken to overhaul 10 oil tankers since the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21), the company’s managing director told Mehr news agency. Nasrollah Sardashti also announced that two tankers have been already dry-docked for overhaul and as scheduled seven or eight more […]
Budget bill for 1399 approved
TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Iranian parliament (Majlis)’s Planning and Budgeting Committee on Monday approved the 1.988 quadrillion rials (about $473.5 billion) national budget bill for 1399, the next Iranian calendar year, starting March 20, Shana reported, quoting a member of the committee as saying. According to Shahbaz Hassanpour, the committee will start assessing the […]
IKAC’s development gets Iranian investors
TEHRAN (Iran News) – Managing director of Imam Khomeini Airport City said over 50 Iranian companies have registered to invest in the IKAC’s development as a free zone. Speaking on the sidelines of the 4th International Exhibition of Transportation, Logistics and Related Industries at Tehran’s Grand Mosalla on Monday, Rostami said, “There are many investment […]