TEHRAN – Iran has allocated 100 trillion rials (about $2.577 billion) for creation of job opportunities in the rural areas, Tasnim news agency reported quoting a labor official as saying on Saturday. According to Mohammad Kalantari, the deputy labor, cooperatives and social welfare minister, the allocated budget will be used to create 65,000 jobs in […]

TEHRAN – An Iranian official says that interactions with a representative of South Africa at Iran’s Chamber of Cooperatives yielded in the deal to export Iran’s honey to the African country. “The export of the honey produced by Iranian beekeepers cooperatives to South Africa is one of the results of having the commerce attaché of […]

TEHRAN  – Iran’s Marjan Petrochemical Company has clinched a contract with a major German firm over sales of methanol produced at a petrochemical plant which will come on stream soon, an official said. “Marjan is the first petrochemical company to have sealed a contract for sales of products with European companies,” Hassan Beigi, the managing […]

TEHRAN- Iran’s crude oil exports reached 2.135 million barrels per day (bpd) in August, a 9.3 rise from its previous month, Oilprice.com reported citing energy data provider Kpler. According to the report, Iranian crude oil exports rose by 182,000 bpd in August from July. The increases came at a time when most of the OPEC […]

TEHRAN- Loading and unloading of goods at ports of Iran rose three percent in the fifth Iranian calendar month Mordad (July 23-August 22) from its previous month, according to the Ports and Maritime Organization of Iran (PMO). The PMO announced that more than 13.022 million tons of goods were loaded and unloaded at Iranian ports […]

TEHRAN- The nominal electrify generation capacity has increased 610 megawatts (MW) to 77,038 MW in Iran since the beginning of current Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2017). Iran’s nominal electricity generation capacity will reach 80,000 MW by summer 2018, according to Iranian Deputy Energy Minister Houshang Falahatian. The country increased its electricity generation capacity by […]

TEHRAN – Regarding his efforts to solve the connection issues of online games, ICT minister has announced the start of negotiations with international game companies to transfer their servers to Iran. In an Instagram post on Friday, Iran’s ICT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said that he would pursue the demands of Iranian netizens to improve […]

TEHRAN — Iran is taking initiatives to classify internet censorship under ‘age’ and ‘occupation’ within the next two to three months. Currently, all users ranging from students to university professors, and journalists to doctors, are subjected to the same internet access restrictions, IRIB quoted Information and Communications Technology Minister Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi as saying. It […]