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  • China Named a Strategic Partner in Iran’s Tourism Projects, Says Culture Minister 09 Apr 2025

    China Named a Strategic Partner in Iran’s Tourism Projects, Says Culture Minister

    TEHRAN - Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts has emphasized the importance of non-Western cultural investment and named China as one of Iran’s key strategic partners in tourism and heritage projects. In an interview with China’s Phoenix TV, Seyyed Reza Salehi Amiri highlighted the historical and ongoing collaboration between Iran and China, particularly under the framework of the ancient Silk Road and the contemporary 25-year cooperation plan between the two nations.

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 […]

Iranian nation to thwart Trump’s plans: Larijani 05 Nov 2018

Iranian nation to thwart Trump’s plans: Larijani

 Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said in an open session of the parliament on Sunday that the U.S. has been interfering in Iran’s internal affairs for more than 80 years, however the Iranian nation has always defused conspiracies, the Mehr news agency reported. “Yesterday, the great leader of Islamic Revolution referred to three important events whose […]

Iran always focuses on missile power as top priority: Hatami 04 Nov 2018

Iran always focuses on missile power as top priority: Hatami

Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami said that Iran’s permanent priority is its missile power and detailed plans have been developed in this regard. Making the remarks in an IRINN program aired on Saturday night, he added, “we know that ensuring the security of the country and our friends in the region depends on our missile […]