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Leader’s post-2009 election statements published 30 Dec 2018

Leader’s post-2009 election statements published

 Unpublished statements by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after the events surrounding the 2009 election have been made public in a new book, ISNA reported on Saturday. Following the 2009 presidential elections, which resulted in incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad winning re-election with 62% of the votes cast, candidates Mehdi Karroubi and Mir […]

Domestic production a focal point in next year’s budget bill 30 Dec 2018

Domestic production a focal point in next year’s budget bill

 Iranian deputy industry minister announced that in the budget bill for the next Iranian calendar year 1398 (starting on March 21, 2019) specific attention has been paid to domestic production and renovation of domestic industries, IRNA reported on Saturday. “In comparison with the budget bill of 1397, that of the next year allocates more credit […]

Saffron exports up 44% in 8 months on year 30 Dec 2018

Saffron exports up 44% in 8 months on year

 Iran exported $252 million of saffron during the first eight months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-Novemebr 21), showing 44 percent growth from the figure of the same period of time in the preceding year, according to the director general of Exports Development Department of Ministry of Agriculture. Shahrokh Shajari put the weight […]

U.S. policies in the region have failed: general 30 Dec 2018

U.S. policies in the region have failed: general

Brigadier General Hossein Salami, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps second-in-command, said on Saturday that the U.S. policies and strategies in the Middle East region have ended in failure. “The U.S. spent a lot and at the end left Syria. The U.S. signed the JCPOA [the 2015 nuclear deal] and then pulled out of it. The […]

Iran’s capacity of installed alternative energies hits 670MW 30 Dec 2018

Iran’s capacity of installed alternative energies hits 670MW

Currently, 445 megawatts of renewable power plants are under construction in Iran, and the capacity of installed alternative energies has reached 670 megawatts, according to Ministry of Energy. According to the Ministry of Energy, 2.673 billion kilowatt-hours of renewable energy have been produced form June 2009 to 21 December 2018, leading to the reduction of […]

Number of Iranian tourists visiting Turkey drops 29 Dec 2018

Number of Iranian tourists visiting Turkey drops

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey announced on Friday that the number of Iranian tourists visiting the country has dropped by 18.17 percent in January – November 2018, compared to same period last year. In January-November 2018, 1.894 million Iranian tourists visited Turkey, which is 18.17 percent less than in the same period […]

Iranian Parl. speaker has no account on Twitter: official 29 Dec 2018

Iranian Parl. speaker has no account on Twitter: official

 Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has no account on Twitter, said the director of the Parliament’s Cultural and Public Relations Office. Mehdi Kiaei tweeted on Friday that Larijani has no account on this social media. He went on to mention that the Parliament speaker only has an account on Instagram [@larijani_ir] and an official website […]

Trump’s sneaky visit to Iraq disrespect for national sovereignty: Tehran 29 Dec 2018

Trump’s sneaky visit to Iraq disrespect for national sovereignty: Tehran

 The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Friday lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump for his unannounced and secret trip Iraq, describing it as an undiplomatic move that demonstrated disrespect for Iraq’s national sovereignty. “As Mr. Trump himself said in his address to the U.S. military in Iraq’s Ein al-Asad … he is now forced to […]

Advisor compares Shamkhani, Trump’s visit to Afghanistan, Iraq 29 Dec 2018

Advisor compares Shamkhani, Trump’s visit to Afghanistan, Iraq

 Hossein Amir Abdollahian, a senior foreign policy advisor to the parliament speaker, on Thursday compared the recent “public” visit by Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani to Afghanistan with Trump’s “secret” visit to Iraq, saying the two trips show the reality of the U.S. and Iran. “Admiral Shamkhani, Iran’s top security chief, paid preannounced […]

Ex-diplomat calls U.S. military presence in Syria a failure 29 Dec 2018

Ex-diplomat calls U.S. military presence in Syria a failure

Hossein Sheikholeslam, a former Iranian ambassador to Damascus, has said the U.S. military presence in Syria was a failure and called Washington’s move in removing forces from Syria a “wise” act. Talking to ISNA in interview published on Friday, the former ambassador said the U.S. has played no role in resolving the problems faced by […]