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Iran, EU hold high-level political talks in Brussels 27 Nov 2018

Iran, EU hold high-level political talks in Brussels

The fourth round of Iran-EU high-level political talks were held Mon. in Brussels, where the two sides conferred on a wide variety of issues, including bilateral cooperation and regional developments. The fourth round of Iran-EU high-level political talks were chaired by Secretary General of the European External Action Service (EEAS) Helga Schmid and Iranian Deputy […]

OPCW reviews probe into terrorists’ toxic gas attack on Aleppo 27 Nov 2018

OPCW reviews probe into terrorists’ toxic gas attack on Aleppo

 The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) announced that it is reviewing an investigation into terrorist groups’ attack with toxic gases on Aleppo city. Agence France-Presse quoted the OPCW director-general, Fernando Arias, as saying that The OPCW Secretariat has been monitoring the situation. It has contacted the UN’s security department “in order to […]

Qatar Airways to increase flights to Iran despite US threats 27 Nov 2018

Qatar Airways to increase flights to Iran despite US threats

Qatar Airways will add more flights to Iran from January, the state-owned Persian Gulf airline announced on Monday just weeks after the United States reimposed sanctions on Tehran. Qatar Airways will add two weekly flights to its existing Doha-Tehran route and add three weekly flights on its Shiraz service in January. It will also launch […]

14 days of clean air quality for Tehran 26 Nov 2018

14 days of clean air quality for Tehran

Tehraners have breathed clean air for 14 days over the current year (Starting on March 21), Fars news agency reported on Sunday. According to the Tehran Air Quality Control Company the amount shows a two-day increase compared to the last year (March 2017-March 2018). So far since the beginning of the current year Tehraners have […]

Does Noah’s Ark stranded in Iran? 24 Nov 2018

Does Noah’s Ark stranded in Iran?

Over ten years ago researchers from the Bible Archaeology, Search & Exploration (BASE) Institute raised possibility of Noah’s Ark may be landing in Iran. Now, news by several media outlets broke that the institute has found strong evidence in a mountainous area in northern Iran, which may be remnants of the famed ark. “The BASE […]

Mashhad to host intl. gastronomy festival 24 Nov 2018

Mashhad to host intl. gastronomy festival

 Mashhad will host an international culinary festival from November 28 to 30. Exhibitors from various countries including Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, Qatar, Iraq, Kuwait, Malaysia and Georgia will be attending the event, ISNA reported on Tuesday. Some 50 stalls will be set up for the gastronomy festival, which will be held at Homa Hotel. […]

Zarif to Trump: Perhaps Iran is also responsible for California wildfires 24 Nov 2018

Zarif to Trump: Perhaps Iran is also responsible for California wildfires

 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday mocked U.S. President Donald Trump, saying that “perhaps we’re also responsible for the California fires” after Trump earlier in the day attacked Iran in a statement reaffirming his support for Saudi Arabia. In a tweet, Zarif also called Trump’s statement on Saudi Arabia “shameful”. In the statement, […]

Taiwan hopes for Iran oil sanction waiver 05 Nov 2018

Taiwan hopes for Iran oil sanction waiver

Taiwan was waiting to see whether it was one of the ‘eight jurisdictions’ expected to receive waivers to continue buy oil from Iran despite sanctions from the United States. Donald Trump is scheduled to reimpose measures against Iran’s energy, shipping, shipbuilding and financial sectors on November 5, but eight countries were expected to be left […]

Iran lashes out at Bahraini court’s verdict against Sheikh Ali Salman 05 Nov 2018

Iran lashes out at Bahraini court’s verdict against Sheikh Ali Salman

 The Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi issued a statement Sun. condemning the life sentence verdict issued by a Bahraini appeal court against prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Ali Salman. “This verdict will leave no room for any doubt in the public opinion and the international community that the Bahraini government does not intend to improve […]

Iran Air in negotiations with non-European airplane manufacturers 05 Nov 2018

Iran Air in negotiations with non-European airplane manufacturers

Iran Air, Iran’s national flag carrier, has started negotiations with the non-European manufacturers of airplanes in line with renovation of its fleet, Farzaneh Sharafbafi, the managing director of the airline, announced on Sunday. “We will negotiate with any manufacturer which can supply airplanes for us without requiring permits from the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign […]