TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Oil Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said the newly-discovered oilfield in Khuzestan, named Namavaran, has an estimated 53 billion barrels of in-place oil. Addressing reporters on Monday, the minister said the new discovery had added 22 billion barrels of crude oil to previous estimates of newly-discovered Namavaran oilfield, which stood at 31 […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – President Hassan Rouhani arrives in Rafsanjan, Kerman Province, on Monday morning in the course of his provincial tour after his Sunday visit to Yazd. During his two-day visit to Rafsanjan, as many as 20 projects valued at 150,000 billion rials will come on stream. This amount is going to create some […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi announced on Sunday that Iran nuclear electricity generation will increase up to 3,000 megawatts by 2027, which will avert emission of 21 million tons of pollutant gases. Making the remarks during the ceremony to start laying the concrete foundations of […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Yazd said the country has discovered a new oil field with an estimated 53 billion barrels of crude, noting also that Iran’s non-oil exports have been growing despite the mounting pressure of the US sanctions. In an address to a gathering of people in Iran’s central […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mousavi said Iran has no intention yet to leave the Non-Proliferation Treaty, adding the country would have many options to choose from if the ‘snapback mechanism’ was ever activated. Mousavi made the remarks during a press conference on Sunday, adding “we keep the door to diplomacy and dialogue […]

TEHRAN (Iran News)- Iran on Saturday unveiled a new home-made tank transporter named ‘Kian 700’ in a ceremony participated by Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri. Iranian tank transporter has been manufactured by the Army’s Ground Force experts and enjoys 700/hp engine power and 200 tons of tensile […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Relief and rescue operations are underway in northwest Iran following a 5.9-magnitude earthquake that killed five and wounded over 350 people in East Azarbaijan province. The moderate but deadly Tabriz quake, struck the Tark country at 2:17 a.m. (2247 GMT) Friday and was followed by more than 60 aftershocks, causing panic […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran’s Army shot down an unidentified drone that was violating the country’s airspace near the port city of Mahshahr in the southwestern province of Khuzestan on the Persian Gulf coast. According to the news that Iran shot foreign drone intruding coastal limits, Commander of the Iranian Army’s Air Defense Force Brigadier […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani emphasized that Iran’s legitimate rights and people’s interests would not be subject to bargaining by any means. “Iran’s legitimate rights and interests of people of Iran are not bargainable,” Shamkhani said in a meeting of Iranian prosecutors in the northeastern city of […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) reminded the enemies of the inevitable failure of their pressures and threats against the Islamic Republic, saying Iran turns every single threat into an opportunity. In comments on Thursday, Major General Hossein Salami, IRGC Chief, made it clear that any threat against […]