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Rouhani orders labor min. to immediately determine fate of oil tanker crew 13 Jan 2018

Rouhani orders labor min. to immediately determine fate of oil tanker crew

TEHRAN– The Iranian president insisted on determining the fate of Iranian oil tanker crew in a call with labor minister, who is in China tasked with the related investigation into oil tanker incident. Iran’s Minister of Labor, Ali Rabiei, who was appointed by President Rouhani as the head of the committee to follow-up the Sanchi […]

More Bodies, Black Box Recovered from Burning Iranian Oil Tanker: Report 13 Jan 2018

More Bodies, Black Box Recovered from Burning Iranian Oil Tanker: Report

The four members of the salvage team wore respirators to board the “Sanchi”, where they found the two bodies on the deck, state news agency Xinhua reported. They tried to get to the living quarters but were driven back by temperatures on the burning ship of around 89 Celsius (192 Fahrenheit). The body of a […]

Intl. Conf. of Asian Cultural Dialogues kicks off in Tehran 13 Jan 2018

Intl. Conf. of Asian Cultural Dialogues kicks off in Tehran

TEHRAN – The 1st Conference of Asian Cultural Dialogues has opened Sat. in Tehran with 70 cultural and scientific figures from over 20 Asian countries in attendance. Following the regional meetings of the Asian Cultural Dialogues which were held previously in India, Malaysia, and Kazakhstan, the first international edition of the conference has kicked off […]

Tehran to host 13th PUIC Conf. today 13 Jan 2018

Tehran to host 13th PUIC Conf. today

TEHRAN – The Islamic Republic of Iran will host the 13th edition of the Parliamentary Union of Islamic Cooperation Conference. The 13th PUIC Conference will start as of today, Saturday, January 13, 2018 with specialized and expert meetings and executive committees in session. According the conference schedule, the permanent and specialized committees and the public […]

AEOI to realize Pres. Rouhani’s order on N-propulsion project 13 Jan 2018

AEOI to realize Pres. Rouhani’s order on N-propulsion project

Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi announced the order of Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani to implement nuclear propulsion project. Speaking in a local ceremony on Friday, Salehi announced that President Rouhani has asked AEOI to implement the nuclear propulsion project. “Production of necessary radiopharmaceuticals and the implementation of a nuclear […]

Over 50 earthquakes hit Iranian city on Thursday 13 Jan 2018

Over 50 earthquakes hit Iranian city on Thursday

TEHRAN – More than 50 consecutive tremors, with different levels of severity, shook the city of Sumar in the western province of Kermanshah on Thursday. The chain of earthquakes began at 10:29 a.m. (local time) with a magnitude 5.6 tremor. Till the end of the day, consecutive tremors kept hitting the region, five of them […]

Nazanin Zaghari serving sentence, no talk of release 13 Jan 2018

Nazanin Zaghari serving sentence, no talk of release

Tehran’s judiciary chief said that Nazani Zagahri is serving her sentence and there is no talk of her release. Tehran’s Judiciary Chief Gholamhosein Esmaili discussed the latest conditions of Nazani Zagahri’s case and said “Nazanin Zaghari is at present serving her prison sentence handed down by the court and there is no talk of her […]

Zarif, Lavrov hold phone talk on Syria 13 Jan 2018

Zarif, Lavrov hold phone talk on Syria

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov held a phone call about Syria. In a phone talk with Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif exchanged his opinion on Syria with Lavrov and discussed issues of mutual concern. Sergey Lavrov has also had a phone conversation with Turkish […]

Any move to undermine JCPOA unacceptable: Zarif 12 Jan 2018

Any move to undermine JCPOA unacceptable: Zarif

After meeting with his British, French, German counterpart at a desk shared with EU foreign policy Chief Federica Mogherini, FM Zarif tweeted that Iran will comply with JCPOA provided that US stay in agreement. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, posted a message on his Twitter account hailing the strong consensus share at Brussels meeting […]

US, Israel, Saudi triangle after creating crisis in region 12 Jan 2018

US, Israel, Saudi triangle after creating crisis in region

Alaeddin Boroujerdi met with Hezbollah Spokesperson Hassan Ezzedin and stated that the US, Zionist Regime and Saudi Arabia are after creating crises in the region. Chairman of Iran’s Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi met with the head of Arab-African Relations of Hezbollah political Council Sheikh Hassan Ezzedin and his delegation where […]