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Raisi calls for speedy vaccination drive 18 Jul 2021

Raisi calls for speedy vaccination drive

President-elect Ebrahim Raeisi held a meeting on Saturday with authorities and experts engaged in producing and distributing vaccines for the Covid-19 pandemic, urging an immediate action to vaccinate the citizens against the highly contagious virus.

A father with 42 daughters in Tehran 17 Jul 2021

A father with 42 daughters in Tehran

Akbar Karimi is a married man living in Tehran. He wanted to have a child for 14 years, but his wife could not conceive. The man vowed that God would give him a child so that he could take care of the orphaned girls. Days passed and finally, the wait was over and his vow was fulfilled.

Social Security Law: a new reform in health system 17 Jul 2021

Social Security Law: a new reform in health system

The Social Security Organization (SSO) began its work in 1975, when the Social Security Law was approved, as a new transformation in the country's social and health system, providing coverage of wage-earners, salaried workers, homeless, the unemployed, the disabled, and the sick.

Pastu Covac neutralizes new COVID-19 strains 17 Jul 2021

Pastu Covac neutralizes new COVID-19 strains

Preliminary results of studies show that the Pastu Covac coronavirus vaccine, developed by the Pasteur Institute of Iran, fights very well against new variants of South Africa and India, and in other words, neutralizes them, Alireza Biglari, head of the Pasteur Institute, has said.

Wind erosion incurs annual loss of $714m 15 Jul 2021

Wind erosion incurs annual loss of $714m

Wind erosion brings an annual economic and environmental damage of 30 trillion rials (nearly $714 million at the official rate of 42,000 rials) to the country, according to the latest studies in 2019.

Ayatollah Araki: Islamic society’s power depends on returning to divine identity 15 Jul 2021

Ayatollah Araki: Islamic society’s power depends on returning to divine identity

  Ayatollah Mohsen Araki, a member of the Assembly of Experts, has said if the Islamic society wants to be strong, it must return to its faith and divine identity.

Import of coronavirus vaccine to reach 13m doses 14 Jul 2021

Import of coronavirus vaccine to reach 13m doses

Twenty shipments of COVID-19 vaccine have so far been imported into the country, and the volume will soon reach 13 million doses.

Japan, UNDP promote waste management in Tehran 14 Jul 2021

Japan, UNDP promote waste management in Tehran

The Municipality of Tehran in cooperation with Japan and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) unveiled reverse vending machines (RVMs) on Tuesday to promote waste management in the capital.

Microplastics reach Lut desert 13 Jul 2021

Microplastics reach Lut desert

Recent studies by Iranian researchers have revealed the microplastic contamination in the soil of Kalout Shahdad and Lut deserts.

DOE plans post-coronavirus environmental training 12 Jul 2021

DOE plans post-coronavirus environmental training

The Department of Environment (DOE) has developed public programs for post-coronavirus environmental education, with the cooperation of non-governmental organizations and environmental activists.