Daily production of Euro-5 quality gasoline in Iran’s Persian Gulf Star Refinery will reach 40 million liters by the next month, according to the managing director of the refinery. Mohammad-Ali Dadvar put the current output of the refinery at 30 million liters per day, Mehr news agency reported on Saturday. The managing director of refinery […]

 Iran’s Persian Gulf Star Refinery (PGSR)’s daily gasoline output will reach 40 million liters by the end of current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2019) once the third phase of the refinery is complete, according to Soroush Ziglari, the operation director of the refinery. Last December, Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said: “Iran will reach […]

Iranian researchers at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad have discovered three new species in the Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman. According to Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, the discovery was part of a research conducted by an Iranian university student of animal biosystematics, Fatemeh Nazari, under supervision of Dr. Omid Mirshamsi and adviser Dr. Pedro Martínez […]

Chief Executive of Persian Gulf Star Refinery Mohammad-Ali Dadvar said, “required documents have been provided for receiving the first installments, amounting to 40 million euro, but at least €100 million will be injected to the refinery before the termination of the current Iranian calendar year in 1396 (to end March 20, 2018).” Allocation of financial […]

TEHRAN – Mohammad-Kazem Sajjadpour, director of the Center for Political and International Studies at the Foreign Ministry, has said that destiny and security of the Persian Gulf littoral states are intertwined. “Some states assume that they can protect their security at the cost of undermining security of others which is a wrong assumption that causes […]

TEHRAN – The forces of the Iranian Navy managed to save an Indian sailor from drowning near the Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf, a local commander of the Navy announced. A cargo barge was separated from its tow vessel and faced a crisis on Saturday evening due to bad weather conditions while sailing in […]

TEHRAN – Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces said the strategy of close interaction between the naval forces of the Army and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has thwarted the plots of “arrogant powers and adventurists” in the Persian Gulf region. Iran’s deterrence and defense power in the sea is the outome […]

TEHRAN – The Art Bureau plans to organize a cultural competition on the theme of the Persian Gulf in response to U.S. President Donald Trump who distorted the name of the ancient gulf in his recent speech. The competition will be held in various categories, including cartoon, caricature, poetry, short story and short screenplay.

Iran’s ambassador to London said the Foreign Ministry of UK has issued an official instruction set on using the term “Persian Gulf” in a confidential document. Hamid Baeedinejad, Iran’s envoy to London wrote in his telegram channel “Majid Tafreshi, a prominent researcher of Iran’s historical document, particularly confidential documents in the archives of British Foreign […]

Iran has detained seven crew members of a fishing boat in the Persian Gulf for illegally entering the country’s territorial waters. The coastguard commander for Iran’s southern Kish Island, Colonel Rahim Jahanbakhsh, said on Saturday that the dhow, belonging to an Arab littoral state of the Persian Gulf, was seized after trespassing on the Islamic […]