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The establishment of Iran's High-Tech Export Companies Club (IHTECC) amounts to a giant step towards improving the competitive atmosphere where top knowledge-based companies work, an Iranian official says.

Iranian presidential contenders have set out their election pledges as they hit the campaign trail ahead of the June 18 vote.

Yekta Jamali has claimed Iran's first-ever female weightlifter to win a world medal.

Benjamin Briere, a French man who has been detained in Iran since May 2020, will be tried for espionage and propaganda against the Islamic Republic, according to his lawyer.

Iran’s Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian says the mining of cryptocurrencies must be regulated and punishment should be meted out to illegal miners, as the production of digital currencies consumes a lot of energy.

Abdolnasser Hemmati, the governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), has been sacked from his position as he begins campaigning for the next month's presidential election.

A former Iranian diplomat has expressed hope as negotiations in Vienna bear fruit, the problem with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) inside Iran will be solved too.

Iraq has received the green light to pay $125 million in its debts to Iran for the purchase of 16 million doses of COVAX vaccines, Iran's energy minister said. The money has reportedly been transferred from Iraq's Trade Bank to a Swiss bank.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has felicitated his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad on his re-election as the Arab country’s president.

An Iranian political analyst says the Rouhani administration must make the Parliament endorse any potential deal with world powers now that negotiations in Vienna on the United States’ return to the 2015 nuclear deal seem to be going through their final stages.

An Iranian newspaper has implied that there is a shoo-in among candidates running in the upcoming presidential race, calling on other contenders to unite and rally behind him rather than campaigning against one another.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran has, in a statement, congratulated the Syrian nation and government on the successful elections held in the country and the victory of Bashar al-Assad.

An Iranian-made Paykan presented by the former king of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to Nicolae Ceaușescu, the former president of Romania, in 1974 has been sold at an auction for 95,000 euros.

The Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution has urged citizens to take part in the upcoming presidential election.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with Armenia’s caretaker Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in the country’s capital Yerevan, where they discussed bilateral ties and the regional situation.

The Iranian village of Ista is a rural community where locals have a unique lifestyle.

The first round of bilateral human rights talks between Iran and New Zealand was held on Wednesday through video conference.

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, and picked headlines from 17 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy.

Iran’s Energy Ministry has blamed unlicensed cryptocurrency mining activities in the country for the recent power cuts, which have turned into a crisis for the Rouhani administration ahead of the June votes.

The Iranian president has warned that it will be forbidden to mine digital currencies until the end of summer as it puts a huge burden on the national power grid.

The Guardian Council’s disqualification of key presidential candidates has provoked strong criticisms among politicians and observers in both political camps, warning of a “non-competitive” presidential election in June.

The Iranian Guardian Council says presidential hopefuls whose eligibility has not been approved cannot lodge objections to council’s decision.

Iran's Foreign Minister has, in separate messages, congratulated Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah, and Zeina Akar, the acting foreign minister of Lebanon, on the Eid of resistance and freedom and the anniversary of the victorious liberation of Southern Lebanon from the Israeli occupation forces through the bravery and devotion of resistance fighters.

Iran’s chief negotiator at the Vienna talks says a number of hot-button issues remain to be resolved during discussions by the negotiating teams.

A spokesman for the Iranian Reformist Front says the reformists will not be part of the upcoming presidential elections as none of their candidates has been qualified by the Guardian Council to run for president.