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  • Iran’s Petrochemical Sector Needs $24b Investment to Meet 7th Plan Targets 12 Aug 2025

    Iran’s Petrochemical Sector Needs $24b Investment to Meet 7th Plan Targets

    TEHRAN - The Special Assistant to the Deputy Oil Minister for Petrochemical Affairs has announced that Iran’s total nominal petrochemical production capacity must reach 131.5 million tons by the end of the 7th Development Plan. Achieving this goal will require an estimated $24 billion in investment, making innovative financing models essential.

Rouhani calls for resumption of cross-border trade with Iraq 19 May 2020

Rouhani calls for resumption of cross-border trade with Iraq

President Hassan Rouhani on Monday called for the resumption of cross-border trade exchanges with Iraq while observing the health regulations.

COVID-19 Wake-Up Call for All Nations 18 May 2020

COVID-19 Wake-Up Call for All Nations

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday that the COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest challenge of our age and it must be a wake-up call for all nations.

Border Markets Gradually Reopening 17 May 2020

Border Markets Gradually Reopening

The Iran- Pakistan border crossing at Mirjaveh has been open for about two days and other border markets are gradually reopening,” the Vice President of the Iran-Pakistan Joint Chamber Amanullah Shahnavazi said.

Iran Mulls Major Seed Production Increase in 5 Years 17 May 2020

Iran Mulls Major Seed Production Increase in 5 Years

Iran’s deputy agriculture minister said on Sunday that output for wheat seed is expected to increase by nearly a third to reach 200,000 metric tons per year by 2025.

Quds Day rallies, Eid al-Fitr prayers to be held with health protocols 17 May 2020

Quds Day rallies, Eid al-Fitr prayers to be held with health protocols

President Hassan Rouhani said Saturday that Iran will hold Quds Day rallies and Eid al-Fitr prayers in compliance with health protocols.

Trade exchange between Iran , Venezuela has nothing to do with anyone else 16 May 2020

Trade exchange between Iran , Venezuela has nothing to do with anyone else

Iranian Government Spokesman Ali Rabiei said that trade volume exchange between Islamic Republic of Iran and Venezuela, as two independent countries in the world, has nothing to do with anyone else, and the Islamic Republic of Iran will not hesitate to sell its oil.

Zarif main online speaker of intl. Quds Day on May 22 16 May 2020

Zarif main online speaker of intl. Quds Day on May 22

Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif is to deliver an online speech on the International Quds Day on Instagram, when the world chides the cruelties of the Zionist regime on last Friday of Ramadan (this year May 22).

Health Ministry warns of coronavirus cluster spread 16 May 2020

Health Ministry warns of coronavirus cluster spread

Iran’s Health Ministry on Friday warned that three more provinces could reach the level of alert, urging their residents to help contain the novel coronavirus outbreak by observing health protocols.

INSTEX Transactions Unsatisfactory 15 May 2020

INSTEX Transactions Unsatisfactory

Iran’s deputy foreign minister for economic diplomacy expressed dissatisfaction with the volume of transactions that Tehran has been able to carry via a financial mechanism the EU has devised for trade with the Islamic Republic, known as INSTEX.

Iranian-made COVID-19 test kits sent to Turkey 14 May 2020

Iranian-made COVID-19 test kits sent to Turkey

In a tweet on Thursday, Kianoush Jahanpour, spokesman for the Iranian Health Ministry, reiterated that a consignment of 40,000 Iranian-made COVID-19 test kits has been sent to Turkey, although with a delay caused by transportation restrictions amid the pandemic, days after Turkish sources denied that the delivery had been made.