TEHRAN (Iran News) – Schools in Tehran were ordered to close on Wednesday after the capital city was cloaked in dangerously high levels of air pollution, authorities said. Governor Anoushiravan Mohseni Bandpey said kindergartens, preschools, and primary schools would be shut in the city and the counties of Gharchak, Pishva, and Varamin. “The air quality […]

TEHRAN (Iran News)- The 3rd gas platform of South Pars phases 22 to 24, was installed in offshore sector after loading and transferring it to the sea. The 2,500-ton platform for the 23rd phase of South Pars field, as the second main platform of phases 22 to 24, was installed by HL-5000 vessel in the […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday said Iran only began scaling back its nuclear commitments a year after the US withdrawal from the 2015 atomic deal to give the other parties time to make up for it. “We waited for a year,” Rouhani told a televised news conference about Iran nuclear cuts. […]

TEHRAN (Iran News)- The Southern province of Bushehr,  3therd top producer of date in Iran, has exported 17,000 tons of the fruit in the past 8.5 months since March 21, a local official said, adding that it is 34 percent rise in Iran’s Date exports, according to corresponding period in the last year. Some 17,000 […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi said on Monday that Iran daily low-enriched uranium productions are soaring, after restarting an underground lab. Salehi told AP journalists in Tehran that the country is now producing at least 5.5 kilograms daily (12 pounds). That’s compared to what […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Secretary-General of Iran’s Anti-Narcotics Headquarters Brigadier General Eskandar Momeni said the country has managed to capture 550 tons of illicit drugs during the first seven months of the current Persian calendar year (March 2019 – March 2020). Speaking to reporters in the southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan, Momeni highlighted the […]

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 […]