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Turkmenistan’s president to visit Tehran on Tuesday

Turkmenistan’s president is going to visit Iran at the head of a high-ranking political and economic delegation on Tuesday. IRNA said Serdar Berdimuhamedow is travelling to Tehran at the invitation of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.

Saudi Arabia refuses to accept pilgrims inoculated with Iranian Covid vaccines

Saudi Arabia is sticking to its guns about the rejection of Hajj pilgrims from Iran who got inoculated with Iranian-made Covid vaccines.

Official: 18,000 Iranians die each year in car accidents

The head of Iran’s Emergency Organization has said nearly 18,000 people die in car accidents in the country each year.

MP to Iranians: JCPOA talks get nowhere

A member of the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign policy commission says the Vienna talks will get nowhere.

Expert: US needs oil, Biden sinking

The high inflation and the soaring fuel prices in the US are gnawing away at President Joe Biden’s popularity, so he is going back on his election campaign promises to find new financial resources, a political expert says.

Video shows motorcyclist tried to infiltrate Maudo’s convoy in Tehran

A video has gone viral on social media showing a motorcyclist trying to infiltrate a motorcade of the Venezuelan president moving along a street in Tehran.

Covid kills only 2 people in Iran in 24 hours

Iran has registered another single-digit daily death toll. On Monday, Iranian Health Ministry figures showed that 2 people had died from the virus over the past 24 hours.

Iranian minister: West’s stance on children’s rights ‘major disgrace’

Iran’s interior minister has slammed the West for its indifference towards the plight of children in war-weary nations while claiming to be defenders of human rights.

Khatibzadeh: IAEA director general can visit Iran but as a tourist

The spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry has dismissed the comments by the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency on visiting the country for technical talks, saying he can visit but as a tourist.

Paper: Iran on verge of importing gasoline

The current trend of fuel consumption in Iran will leave the government with no choice but to import gasoline to meet domestic needs, an Iranian newspaper says.

Report: Brain Drain from Iran has expanded to include school-aged students

Reports say the rate of migration of the elite in Iran has expanded to cover even talents in their school years. That’s what a report by Resalat Daily, affiliated with Iran’s ruling principalists, says about the problem of brain drain in Iran.

Iran president orders facilitating export of science-based firms’ products

President Ebrahim Raisi said on Sunday that regional and other overseas countries are eager to use products of Iran's science-based companies, calling on concerned officials to arrange for the export of these items.

Two IRGC aerospace staff killed

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has announced two members of its Aerospace Unit have been martyred in separate incidents.

Iranian official says visas to be probably lifted for Russian businessmen

The Iranian foreign ministry’s deputy for economic diplomacy has described relations with Russia as strategic calling for a focus on energy, trade and transit sectors to build on a surge in ties which he says saw a jump over the past months.

Congo fever cases rise to 18 in Iran

The Iranian health ministry has warned of an increase in the number of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever cases in the country compared to the previous year.

Report: Iranian minister of labor to be removed

An Iranian news outlet claims that Hojjat Abdolmaleki, Minister of Labor, Cooperation and Social Welfare of Iran, is going to be the first cabinet member of President Ebrahim Raisi’s administration to leave office.

Iranian pilgrims start travelling to Saudi Arabia for Hajj

The first group of Iranian Hajj pilgrims has headed to Saudi Arabia to perform the Islamic rituals.

Business owners in Tehran, Arak rally against tax rise plan

A group of home appliance shop owners hold a protest in downtown Tehran against a plan by the Iranian Ministry of Finance to levy tax on their banking transactions.

Direct Iran-Venezuela flights to begin from June 18

Tehran’s ambassador to Caracas says direct flights between Iran and Venezuela will start next weekend, as the two countries work to facilitate bilateral trade ties.

Analyst: IAEA Israel-backed resolution aims to put maximum pressure on Iran

A political analyst highlights Israel’s “overt interference” in the affairs of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), saying the latest Western-drafted resolution passed at the IAEA, following Israeli lobbying, is designed to exert more pressure on Iran.

Iran parliament speaker says West not serious about lifting sanctions

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has said the recent IAEA resolution against Iran showed that Western governments are not serious about removing sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

Iranian FM says Tehran to resist excessive demands in nuclear talks

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has said Iran will stand up against any excessive demand by its adversaries during talks over the nuclear issue with full force.

Iranian MPs: IAEA, its chief have lost technical legitimacy

Iranian lawmakers have signed a statement, condemning the recent IAEA resolution against Iran over its nuclear energy program, and reitrating the agency and its cheif lack technical legitimacy. The statement was signed by 260 MPs.

Iran tourism: Wonders of Khajou Bridge in Isfahan

Khajou Bridge is one of the rare beauties of the Iranian city of Isfahan that passes over the Zayandehroud, Iran’s largest and most water-rich river.

Iranian economists warn about consequences of government policies

Dozens of Iranian economists, in an open letter addressed to the government, have expressed concern about the current social and economic situation in the country saying public worries about their livelihoods and businesses have reached a point of explosion.

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