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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) President Mehdi Taj said that Branko Ivankovic is one of the nominees to coach and take charge of the Iran team. Marc Wilmots left his role in early December as coach of the Iran national team, just seven months after replacing Carlos Queiroz at […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The spokesman for the Guardian Council said on Sunday that reviewing and amending the constitution is possible provided that the constitution itself, including its Article 59 of the constitution, could not help the country get rid of a probable problem. Article 59 states: In considering vital economic, political, social, and cultural […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Unilateral US sanctions imposed on Iran’s oil sector will fail to impact the domestic economy if the country completes the implementation of its major refinery projects and reduces its exports of crude oil through increasing production of petrochemicals, said an Iranian MP. Speaking to Iran Daily in an exclusive interview, Ali […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Head of handicrafts, carpet and tourism committee of Iran Chamber of Cooperatives Mr. Abdollah Bahrami believes by a good and wise planning, carpets and handicrafts can replace oil sales revenues in the country and reduce reliance on oil revenues. Bahrami in a joint press conference with the managing director of Talfigh-e […]