Iran’s natural gas output currently stands at 800 million cubic meters per day, a senior energy official said Saturday. The National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) CEO Hassan Montazer Torbati added that 97% of the country’s urban population and 82% of the citizens in rural areas are now linked to the national gas distribution network which […]
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson quashed rumors about Tehran’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal and about Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s resignation. In an interview with ISNA on Saturday, Bahram Qassemi strongly denied rumors about Zarif’s resignation, disagreement between the foreign minister and President Hassan Rouhani, and Iran’s pullout from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of […]
The Democrats’ refusal to approve US$5.7 billion (RM20.4 billion) demanded by Trump for the wall project has paralyzed Washington, with the president retaliating by refusing to sign off on budgets for swaths of government departments unrelated to the dispute. As a result, workers as diverse as FBI agents, air traffic controllers and museum staff, did […]
China and Iran are great economic partners, and the two nations enjoy growing and durable economic relations, the spokesman for the Chinese ministry of commerce said on Saturday. The two countries remain to be important trade partners and, based on the figures, relations between Beijing and Tehran are satisfactory, Gao Feng said in an exclusive […]
One of Iran’s main economic policies, under the framework of the sixth five-year development plan, is modification of banking system and reformation of monetary policies, moving forward toward which the Rouhani administration put forward the plan to shift the national currency from Rial to Toman earlier in December 2016 by eliminating specific number of zeroes. […]
Iranian First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri said the European Union has not taken any “concrete” and “effective” measures so far to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers, calling on the 28-member bloc to act independently towards Iran. “So far, the EU in general and Germany, France and the UK, in particular, have […]
Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said Wed. that some US authorities claim insanity, but they are in fact “first class idiots”. “Some US leaders pretend to be insane, but I don’t believe it. They are, however, first class idiots,” Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks during a meeting with people from Qom province […]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is visiting China at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, only days after warning he may take an alternative path if the United States does not ease sanctions and pressure on his country. The visit, confirmed by North Korean and Chinese state media, will likely lead to Kim’s […]
Iranian Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani highlighted the futility of enemies’ plots against the country’s Islamic Establishment over the past 40 years and said despite all hostile attempts, the Islamic Republic is “more powerful than ever before”.Addressing a meeting with high-ranking officials of the Judiciary in Tehran on Tuesday, Ayatollah Amoli Larijani referred to […]
The Iran-Pakistan free economic zone is expected to be inaugurated in the city of Mirjaveh in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan Province in the coming days, said the Iranian envoy in Pakistan’s Quetta on Monday. Mohammad Rafiee, Consul General of Iran in the south western Pakistani city, made the remarks during a meeting with the Pakistani Province of […]