Brig. Gen. Jalali: TEHRAN, Apr. 24 (MNA) – Referring to the successful launch of the first military satellite by IRGC, Head of Iran’s Passive Defense Organization Brigadier General Gholamreza Jalali said that the presence of IRGC in space will improve the country’s deterrence. This successful launch has several important and strategic messages, said Jalali, adding […]
TEHRAN, Apr. 22 (MNA) – Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries cannot solely handle the current market issues, urging other producers’ commitment in this regard. “The coronavirus outbreak has caused fuel demand to drop drastically, which has also led to the slump of prices this year,” Zanganeh […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Since Iran’s dependence on the oil incomes has been reduced, its economy would suffer less harms than other oil producers in the wake of the recent plunge in the crude prices, President Hassan Rouhani said. Addressing a weekly cabinet session on Wednesday, Rouhani said the coronavirus pandemic and the unprecedented plunge in […]
TEHRAN, Apr. 22 (MNA) – German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said that Berlin is not against IMF’s $5 billion emergency loan to Iran amid the pandemic. Iran has asked the International Monetary Fund for a $5 billion in emergency funding to contain the outbreak and mitigate its consequences. The international body has not yet answered […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Former White House official Richard Nephew said sanctions relief will not be enough to help Iran import the goods it needs to fight the novel coronavirus. At a video conference hosted by the CATO Institute on Monday, Nephew, who ran the Iran desk at the National Security Council from 2011 to 2013, […]
Tehran (ISNA) – Referring to the difficult conditions in the world due to the outbreak of coronavirus, Iran’s president said, “We hope that these difficult conditions make some realize that they need to reconsider their mistakes and base their actions on human interactions.” In a telephone conversation with the Emir of Kuwait, Iran’s President Hassan […]
TEHRAN, Apr. 21 (MNA) – American columnist Stephen Lendman believes that the federal system in the US is on the path to breakdown. “The US is its own worst enemy. Its rage to dominate is self-destructive,” Lendman tells the Tehran Times. Andrew Gawthorpe, a historian of the United States at Leiden University in the Netherlands, […]
TEHRAN, Apr. 20 (MNA) – Since the first case of coronavirus was identified in Iran, the country has taken extensive measures to curb the spread of the disease, so that daily death toll has been declining over the past few days, unlike some other countries around the world which are still grappling with high casualties […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Oil plunged below $15 a barrel in New York, a fresh 21-year low, as inventories soar because of the supply-demand mismatch that’s been created by the coronavirus. The most immediate West Texas Intermediate contract fell as much as 22% to $14.19 a barrel. While a major part of the slump is because […]
Tehran (ISNA) – Iran’s vice president for science and technology, Sorena Sattari announced that the country is ready to export medical equipment required in fighting coronavirus. “By the ever-increasing production of Iranian knowledge-based companies in the field of coronavirus test kits, ventilators and etc., we are getting prepared to export such products to the world,” […]