TEHRAN (Iran News)– Imam Khomeini International Airport is scheduled to operate 676 extra flights in order to make the best use of air traffic during Arbaeen pilgrimage. In close cooperation with Iran Civil Aviation Organization, the IKIA have received permits for 676 extra flights for Arbaeen, which will be operated from October 9 to November […]

Tehran (Iran News) – Ali Akbar Salehi announced on Monday that the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) will start launching the second part of the Arak heavy-water nuclear reactor “within one or two weeks”. Salehi, the vice president and the AEOI chief, broke the story of launching the second part of the Arak reactor […]

Iran-Iraq inseparable Government spokesman Ali Rabiei on Monday expressed deep concern about loss of life in Iraq over the past few days in Iraqi unrest, saying that it is deplorable that at a time when the Iraqis were preparing for Arbaeen congregation, such a tragedy took place in Iraq. The Iraqi government has said that […]

Tehran (Iran News) – Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said the country plans to construct an LNG park with an annual capacity to produce three million tons of liquefied natural gas. “We are planning to enter the LNG industry tapping into domestic capabilities and with the help of Iranian companies to build an LNG […]

Tehran (Iran News) – Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Major General Hossein Salami highlighted Iran’s military and political achievements over the past decades and said the Islamic Revolution is advancing while the enemy is retreating from its position. Addressing a conference on media and the soft war in Tehran on Sunday, Major General Salami […]

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that the Europeans are not legally in a position to quit the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. “From the legal point of view, they have no right to do so,” he told ICANA in an interview published on […]

Tehren (Iran News) – Governor of Kermanshah Province Hooshang Bazvand said on Sunday that Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (Hashd al-Shaabi) will ensure the security of Arbaeen pilgrims at Khosravi border. “Khosravi is the only Iran-Iraq joint border which leads passengers directly to Baghdad,” Bazvand said, according to Mehr. “This is an advantage … but due […]

Tehran (Iran News) – Senior Iranian lawmakers have described President Hassan Rouhani’s Hormuz Peace initiative (HOPE) as a strategic roadmap to ensure regional dialogue and non-military settlement of issues among the Persian Gulf nations. In separate exclusive interviews with Iran Daily, Iranian lawmakers Seyyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini, spokesman for the Parliament’s National Security and Foreign […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Civil Aviation Organization of Iran is ready to permit a rise in the number of flights to Iraq for this year’s Arbaeen season at the request of Iranian airlines, an official said. Speaking to Iran reporters on Saturday, head of the public relations office of the Civil Aviation Organization of […]

Iran’s Rial Rebounds Iran’s currency has appreciated 40% in the past year, the country’s central bank governor said, recovering from historic lows reached after the U.S. abandoned the 2015 nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions. The prices of the US dollar against the Iranian Rial saw a decline of around 10 percent from the closing hours […]