Chancellor of Sharif University of Technology Mahmoud Fotouhi Firouzabad announced the university’s plans to expand cooperation with Iraq and Afghanistan.
According to Indian media, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to make a visit to Iran later this month to expand ties with the country, particularly in the energy sector.
Addressing a ceremony to mark International Workers’ Day (which coincides with national Teachers’ Day), President Hassan Rouhani congratulated Iranian workers, and said the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was solving many national problems.
Iranian Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh said Iran and South Korea can cooperate in various energy sectors including petrochemical industry, liquefied natural gas and investment of Korean companies in Iranian projects.
The 1st Tehran International Silent Film Festival is underway in the Iranian capital, and runs from April 30 to May 5 in two sections: National and International Cinema.
German Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel is scheduled to visit Tehran on May 2 to attend the Iran-Germany Joint Economic Commission meeting.
Despite the fact that forests across the globe are shrinking at a rate of 0.09% annually, Iran’s forests expanded 0.98% on average per year over the past 15 years, according to a report by the World Bank entitled “World Development Indicators: Rural Environment and Land Use”.
NIORDC’s managing director said the volume of Iran’s gasoline exports has increased twofold since the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year [20 Mar 2016].
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani on Wednesday hailed as “very constructive and positive” the talks he had with a high-ranking parliamentary delegation from Belgium.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the US has resorted to “deception” to obstruct international trade with Iran despite a nuclear agreement.
In an attack carried out by armed drug smugglers on a checkpoint in Iran’s southeastern border city of Khash in Sistan and Balouchestan Province, three law enforcement officers were killed, the provincial police chief announced on Wednesday.
Ranking diplomats from Iran and China asserted that Syrian people alone have the right to decide their country’s fate, with both stressing the need for a serious fight against terrorist groups in the Arab country.
First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri said that the Rouhani Administration is planning to invest $200bn dollars in oil sector in a push to develop the industry by employing new technologies.
A Finnish translation of a selection from Ferdowsi’s epic masterpiece Shahnameh, by Jaakko Hameen-Anttila, a professor at the University of Helsinki, was unveiled during a ceremony in Tehran on Saturday.
