No Oil Exports from Persian Gulf If US Blocks Iran’s: Rouhani
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani shrugged off the US’ plans to cut the Islamic Republic’s oil exports down to zero and said Washington is not able to do so but if that were going to happen, no oil would be exported from the Persian Gulf. “The US should be aware that we are selling our oil […]
Army’s Air Force jets stage in-flight refueling
Iranian Army’s Air Force fighters successfully conducted a low-altitude air refueling mission over the Persian Gulf waters on Wednesday, during the 9th edition of Iran Air Show. On the third day of the exhibition, which is underway on Kish Island, air force fighters carried out an air refueling mission using two F-14 Tomcat fighters, three F-4 […]
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 […]
Iran International Air Show Kicks off
The 9th edition of Iran International Air Show has kicked off in the Persian Gulf Island of Kish. Several high-ranking Iranian officials including minister of defense, commander of Air Force, vice president for science and technology, head of Civil Aviation Organization, CEO of Kish Free Zone Organization, head of Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization, secretary […]
Iran to host IFCPF Asia-Oceania Championships
Iran will host the 2018 IFCPF (International Federation of Cerebral Palsy Football) Asia-Oceania Championships in late November. The prestigious competition will be held in the Iran’s southern Kish Island, located in the Persian Gulf, from Nov. 22 to 30. Iran (host), Australia, South Korea, Jordan and Thailand will compete at the eight-day competition. Iran will […]
Persian Gulf Star Refinery’s daily gasoline output to hit 40m liters in a month
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 […]
Persian Gulf Star Refinery’s daily output to reach 40m liters by March 2019
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 […]
3 new species discovered in Persian Gulf, Sea of Oman
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 […]
€100mn to be injected into Persian Gulf Star Refinery by year-end
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 […]
Security of Persian Gulf states intertwined: Iranian diplomat
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 […]