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Iran Inaugurates 6 Projects in ICT Field

mahla — Tue, 14 May 2024 21:15:41 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) –They were inaugurated in a ceremony attended by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.

Concluding 11 contracts for purchasing network equipment from domestic knowledge-based companies by telecommunications operators with the aim of supporting the production of high-tech telecommunications equipment, indigenizing National Information Network equipment in the year named “Production Jump with the People’s Participation” by Leader of the Islamic Revolution, inaugurating fiber optic project and startups in 20 cities of the country, starting the construction operation of the telecommunication project in 50 new cities, connecting 7,500 villages to the nationwide telecommunications network in the current administration with the aim of developing the communications justice in all parts of the country, inaugurating the national IP network development project and also the 1,800^th site of the 5-G mobile phones were the main projects inaugurated in the field of ICT on Tuesday.

The World Telecommunication Day (WTD) is celebrated annually on May 17.

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Iran expands irrigation to 14,000 hectares of lands

mahla — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 08:47:38 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Nearly 14,000 hectares of agricultural lands in arid plains in Iran’s Sistan region have started using irrigation thanks to a government project which seeks to eliminate poverty and boost jobs in the underprivileged region.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ordered the rollout of the project on Thursday using a video conference call from his office in Tehran.

The lands located near the border with Pakistan in southeastern Iran are spread across 729 villages mostly in Zabol County in the province of Sistan and Baluchestan.

Agriculture minister Kazem Khavazi said that irrigation project would boost food security in Iran’s largest but poorest province.

Rouhani ordered the launch of over 4,600 agricultural projects on Thursday as part of his weekly inauguration campaigns.

His website said the projects had cost over 81 trillion rials (over $338 million) in spending, adding that they would create a total of 42,300 new jobs across the country.

The projects included nearly 4,000 drip irrigation systems, some 571 livestock and poultry units as well as a total of 150 fishery and aquaculture projects.

Khavazi said drip irrigation systems is now installed at nearly 2.5 million hectares of farming lands across Iran, almost double the area reported in 2013.

He said Iran had also reached a point of full self-sufficiency in manufacturing parts and components of irrigation systems inside the country.

On fisheries and aquaculture, the minister said output in the sector had seen a four-fold increase in eight years to 49,000 metric tons a year, adding that Iran is currently earning nearly $0.5 billion a year from fisheries exports.

Khavazi said Iran is now a net exporter of butter, a product for which the country used to spend big for 50,000 tons of imports each year.

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Over $2.6b of mining projects operational by March 2019

reporter 1222 — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 07:30:26 +0000

Some 110 trillion rials (nearly $2.6 billion) worth of mining projects are scheduled to be inaugurated by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2019).

The Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization (IMIDRO) has already completed $2.2 billion worth of mining projects during the previous Iranian calendar year (March 2017-March 2018), IRIB reported.

Last month, the Ministry of Industry, Mining and Trade announced that projects in the field of mining and related industries worth $5.5 billion are planned to become operational by March 2019.

Iran is one of the top 10 mineral-rich countries where 68 types of minerals have been identified so far, including the world’s largest deposits of copper, zinc and iron ore, which are tempting international investors.

The value of Iran’s minerals and mining exports stood at $9 billion in the previous Iranian calendar year, according to Mehdi Karbasian, the head of IMIDRO.

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Iran, India to launch 12 joint research projects

reporter 1222 — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 10:15:50 +0000

Iran and India have agreed to launch 12 joint research projects, said Mohammad Kafi, the president of Iran’s Ferdowsi University of Mashhad.

Based on previous Memoranda of Understanding inked by the two countries to promote academic cooperation, 12 different joint research projects in the fields of biotechnology and water management will be carried out, he added.

He went on to say that during a 45-day period of call for proposals (between Jan. 1 to Feb. 15, 2018) 73 research proposals were received by secretariat of Iran-India academic ties in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad.

After exchanging these proposals with a related secretariat in India, the process of reviewing started independently in both countries, Kafi added.

Finally, he continued, a joint committee was held in New Delhi in July and 8 projects related to biotechnology and 4 projects related to water management were chosen by the officials of the two countries.

Sharif University of Technology, Tarbiat Modarres University, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, University of Maragheh, University of Tabriz, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz University, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology and National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology are Iranian universities which host the research projects, Kafi said, adding that Ferdowsi University of Mashhad will coordinate, support and supervise projects’ implementation .

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Austria’s energy company vows to stand by Iran project

reporter 1222 — Wed, 23 May 2018 09:10:21 +0000

The Austrian energy group OMV has announced to continue with its previously announced energy project in Iran despite US withdrawal from the JCPOA.

According to Reuters news agency, the Austrian energy group OMV is continuing with planned Iranian energy projects despite the United States’ withdrawal from a nuclear pact with Tehran. The company added, however, that it had made no investments there yet.

European firms doing business in Iran face US sanctions after President Donald Trump withdrew from a deal between the US, France, Germany, Britain, Russia, China and Iran, which lifted sanctions in exchange for Tehran limiting its nuclear program.

Europe has announced that it will protect its firms doing business in Iran after US pullout of the Iran nuclear deal. The Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete said on a trip to Iran that European countries still wish to continue their economic cooperation with Iran under the implementation of the JCPOA.

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3,000 semi-finished projects ready to be transferred

reporter 1222 — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 11:25:34 +0000

TEHRAN- Some 3,000 semi-finished governmental projects are ready to be offered to the private sector, an official announced.

As IRNA quoted Ali Abdolalizadeh, the chairman of task force for transferring semi-finished governmental projects to the private sector, completion of these projects requires five quadrillion rials (about $111.11 billion) of finance.

In addition to the named 3,000 projects there are 15,000 semi-finished ones in various Iranian provinces, he added.

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17 maritime, port projects to be inaugurated by Feb. 11

reporter 1222 — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 13:10:49 +0000

TEHRAN – Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) of Iran plans to inaugurate 17 projects worth 4.305 trillion rials (about $94.8 million) by February 11.

Conducting dredging works at the second phase of Shahid Rajaie Port (in south of the country) and overhauling the port’s railway lines are two of the most important projects which are going to be inaugurated on the occasion of the victory anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.

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Iran, India to cooperate on joint research projects

reporter 1222 — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 13:30:17 +0000

TEHRAN – Iran and India are after expanding scientific and technological cooperation through announcing a call for proposals with the intention of presenting joint research projects.

Through an agreement between the Center for International Scientific Cooperation of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Department of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Indian Republic, the call for proposals on joint research projects between Iran and India is open from January 1 to February 15, 2018.

This joint research endeavor is carried out in order to strengthen and to expand relations between both scientific communities, making possible the exchanges between Indian and Iranian research groups.

Biotechnology and Human Health (with a focus on the improvement of crop productivity), transgenic crops, microbial biotechnology with emphasis on cellulosic biofuel and microbial diversity and bioprospecting, Molecular Medicine focused research on stem cell, cancer, tropical and infectious diseases, Animal Biotechnology (reproductive and nutrition) and resource management are the priority areas for the proposals.

Applications can be made up to the 15th of February, 2018.

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$12b in finance to be finalized for transport projects

reporter 1222 — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 12:15:55 +0000

TEHRAN- Iranian Deputy Transport Minister Asghar Fakhrieh Kashan announced that allocation of $12 billion of finance is to be finalized for being used in transport and urban development projects, ILNA quoted the official as saying on Sunday.

Explaining that no ceiling has been predicted for allocation of the approved $55 billion of finances in Iran’s budget, he added that by the time, $30 billion of the said amount has been specified for different projects proposed by various ministries and the share of transport ministry stands at $10 billion to $12 billion.

Elaborating some of the transport ministry’s projects, Fakhrieh Kashan said that Iran is finalizing a €1.2-billion agreement with Russians for financing electrification of Garmsar-Inche Boroun railway project.

As he added, negotiations are underway for finalizing $500-million-loan from Azerbaijan to finance Rasht-Astara railway project.

Talks with China’s Exim Bank on electrifying Tehran-Mashhad railway have also been finished, he added.

Iranian transport ministry is mulling over receiving an €8-billion finance from South Korea for establishing the electrified double-track Isfahan-Ahwaz railway and construction of Chabahar-Zahedan railway, the official said.

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Iran ready to join 2 intl. space projects

reporter 1222 — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 06:54:18 +0000

TEHRAN– Iran’s ICT Minister Azari Jahromi announced the country’s readiness to join two international space projects which include “optical space observation” and “Data Sharing Service Platform”.

Announcing Iran’s readiness to cooperate with Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO) on space projects, Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said “since the foundation of this international organization, Iran has been an active member of the organization and we plan to continue on the same path.”

“APSCO’s efforts to share information and train different groups in various countries is very valuable and has an influential role in scientific and educational undertakings of member countries,” he added, pointing to APSCO’s activities in sharing space information and data.

Jahromi stated that sharing information and exchanging services help reduce costs and increase the country’s awareness about its surroundings.

ICT Minister emphasized that Iran is ready to increase their space security and monitoring satellites and space bodies by joining the Asia-Pacific ground-based Satellite Observation System (APOSOS) project.

He also referred to Data Sharing Service Platform (DSSP) as the other project in which Iran will cooperate and said “this project is an advanced program which can help save financial resources and improve the quality of life during natural disasters like earthquake and flood which is particularly important for APSCO members as these countries are more prone such natural phenomena compared to the rest of the world.”

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