TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA) – Head of Iran’s Materials and Energy Center (MERC) announced on Sunday that Iran and Turkey are to jointly start designing, manufacturing and testing of new wind turbine blades. As Alireza Khavandi said, under the framework of Iran-Turkey research projects, titled as TUBITAK-MSRT Joint Call 2020, and out of 164 proposed […]
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA) – Russia’s Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov has strongly criticized the United States’ new stance on restoring UN sanctions against Iran. In a Saturday tweet, Ulyanov wrote, “۱/۲ #US mistakenly believes that para 10&11 of #UNSC res. 2231 allow US to invoke SnapBack to restore #UN #sanctions […]
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA) – According to Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, head of the Islamic Seminaries of Iran, a two-day online international conference will be held on the issue of Palestine. Dubbed ‘International Conference of the Holy Quds’, the event will be held online on May 18-19 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, Iran’s local time, […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – US President Donald Trump voiced hope Friday that a coronavirus vaccine will be available by late 2020, cushioning dire US economic news as parts of Europe re-open despite fears of a second wave of the pandemic. Several nations have eased restrictions to stem the economic damage from lockdowns, as much of the […]
۲ TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said the Trump administration’s blame game against China over the COVID-19 crisis is aimed at deflecting attention from Washington’s incompetency to save lives across the US amid the pandemic. “Iran dismisses the recent American regime’s #COVID19-related blame game & smears against China. The regime’s campaigns aimed at […]
EghtesadOnline: Iran has to prepare for a 30% decline in its export value in the current Iranian year (March 2010-21) compared with last year, due to the impacts of the spread of coronavirus on domestic and foreign trade, a member of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture’s board of directors said. “Under the […]
TEHRAN, May 15 (MNA) – The old and new generation of Palestinians will always remember May 14, 1948, which they refer to as Nakba Day (Day of Misery). Many Palestinians have old keys in their boxes which shows a historical depth and identity. They believe that one day they will return and that the next […]
EghtesadOnline: Head of the Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture has called on the government to revise stringent rules guiding repatriation of overseas earnings by non-oil exporters. Pointing to exporters’ difficulties in repatriating earnings as required by rules of the Central Bank of Iran, Gholamhossein Shafiei warned that “sticking to past methods will […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – As many as 6,000 children around the world could die every day from preventable causes over the next six months due to the impact of coronavirus on routine health services, the UN has warned. Global disruption of essential maternal and child health interventions – such as family planning, birth and postnatal care, […]
EghtesadOnline: There are 4.15 million tons of essential goods at Iranian ports, of which Imam Khomeini Port accounts for more than 3 million tons, according to the managing director of Ports and Maritime Organization. “Corn makes up the lion’s share of these goods with about 2.4 million tons. Wheat, barley, soybeans, rice, sugar, vegetable oils […]