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The deputy transportation minister has said that given Japan's experience in launching high-speed trains, Tehran is interested in cooperation with Tokyo.
The vice-president for science and technology has said that Iran and Russia are to sign a deal to boost mutual cooperation in various areas of science and technology.
In a written warning, the Civil Aviation Organization cautioned Greece's Aegean Airline to remove the fake name of Tel Aviv from its online sales system, said Rahimi.
The pilot’s performance, malfunctioning of the engines' control system, and breaching the maximum takeoff weight were the main reasons behind the crash of an Iran-140 airplane.
France’s ADPI Group is in talks with Iranian officials over the expansion of Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport as well as the development of Mashhad and Shiraz airports, said a CAO official.
The security problems railroad travel is exposed to in Turkey are far from settled, the managing director of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways said.
Iran cancelled all trains heading for Turkey on Thursday and said it will not dispatch any train there until Turkish authorities make official comments on a bomb attack on Tehran-Ankara train.
After a hiatus of over three decades, Iran is now looking into the possibility of launching direct flights to the United States in light of the removal of sanctions that have prohibited the country from doing so.
A French delegation will come to Iran soon to discuss the number of direct flights between Tehran and Paris, said the deputy head of Iran's Civil Aviation Organization.
Officials in Tehran say the country has serious plans to use the opportunities that the last week’s breakthrough in nuclear talks with P5+1 has provided to promote its domestic airline industry.
Some 14 Airbus and Boeing passenger planes have been overhauled inside the country and will join the civil fleet before the end of year, said Hamid Habibi.
A multi-purpose port Iran is building near the Strait of Hormuz has absorbed 700 million euros in foreign investment. Officials say the new port can turn into one of the biggest and most discussed international ports in the world.
Abbas Akhundi said that due to sanctions during the past decades Iran has just managed to buy second-hand planes, noting the renovation of the national air fleet is an absolute necessity.
The minister of roads and urbanization says Iran attaches special importance to development of its civil aviation fleet and that of airports and passenger terminals.
The head of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization said that the US did not have the right to block the planes on international trips but Iran had to get ready for any eventuality.
German budget airlines Germania will have twice-a-week direct flights from Berlin and Dusseldorf to Tehran, in addition to a once-a-week direct flight from Hamburg to Mashhad.
President Hassan Rouhani says that the entire region will benefit from the Iran-Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan railway, adding it marks a new beginning for better interaction among regional nations.
