The subsidiaries of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) signed 9 contracts with local contractors on maintaining and enhancing the production capacity of a number of Iranian oil and gas fields. The deals were signed in a ceremony attended by Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh on Tuesday. The 9 deals cover a total of 33 maintenance […]

 Iran’s nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi says that Iran has been injecting uranium hexafluoride into IR-8 centrifuges since 3 years ago, adding that the country has the capability of mass production of the machines. Speaking to Iranian state TV-IRIB 4 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Ali Akbar […]

Fatimah Should Be Defined as Fatimah By: Hamid Reza Naghashian Nowadays we are in Fatimiyya (days when Muslims mourn owing to Hazrat Fatimah al-Zahra’s martyrdom). Hazrat-e Fatimah is the daughter of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and there is difference of view regarding the date of her martyrdom. Talking about her and her life is not a […]

Iran iconic goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand says he has saved Oman’s penalty while he was only thinking about the people of his country. The 26-year-old goalie saved Al Mahaijri’s penalty in the third minutes of the match. Alireza Jahanbakhsh and Ashkan Dejagah were on target for Team Melli in the first half to send Iran to […]

Germany, France and the UK are scrambling to win EU backing for a dual-pronged approach on Iran that would seek further sanctions against Tehran while shoring up the landmark nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic. The three powers want to agree on a common EU position ahead of a February 13-14 meeting against Iran that […]

A Polish deputy foreign minister arrived in Tehran on Monday after Iran’s strong protest at an anti-Iran conference that Poland is going to co-organize with the US in Warsaw next month. Poland’s Undersecretary of State for Economic Diplomacy, Development Cooperation, Asia, Africa and the Middle East Policy Maciej Lang held a meeting with Iranian Deputy Foreign […]

Iran national football team booked a place in the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 quarter-finals on Sunday thanks to a 2-0 win over Oman at the Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi. Alireza Jahanbakhsh’s smart finish and an Ashkan Dejagah spot-kick – both in the first half – helped secure Iran’s passage through to […]

Head of Central Insurance of Iran (CII) Gholamreza Soleymani said that foreign companies have expressed their readiness to do reinsurance operations in Iran’s insurance industry. He made the above remark at 5th Insurance and Risk Management Conference this morning Jan. 20 and said, “relationship of insurance companies with the risk management is of the important […]

Chairman of National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iranian Parliament Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, stressing that the Iranian government will not accept anything that is contrary to the Islamic Republic’s norms and principles, said the Expediency Council will decide on Palermo and CFT conventions within a month. Addressing reporters on the sidelines of Parliament’s open session on […]

 Chief of Iran’s Air Defense on Saturday inaugurated a new radar site in the country’s southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, Tasnim reported. Accompanied by a group of top commanders, Brigadier General Alireza Sabahifard launched the new radar site, dubbed Vahdat-e-Birak, in the city of Zahedan, the province’s capital. He also unveiled the site’s homegrown radar as […]