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Industry

Global Companies Looking to Invest in Iran’s Petchem Projects: PCCI

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A senior official with Iran’s Petrochemical Commercial Company International (PCCI) said it has started talks with international enterprises over investments in the country’s petrochemical sector.
Media Wire

Tehran Resumes Oil and Gas Exports to Egypt

IFP Media Wire -
Parviz Sahafzadeh, an official with the Iran’s Petrochemical Employers Association, while describing new oil talks with the Egyptians, reported on the resumption of Iran’s liquefied gas exports to the North African country.
Government

Politics Must Be ‘A Tool for Common Good’: Rouhani

IFP Media Wire -
President Rouhani told a meeting of political figures that all political parties should respect the 'rules of the game' in terms of their political activities.
Economy

Inflation Rate in Iran Down to Less than 10%

IFP Editorial Staff -
Spokesman for the Iranian Administration Mohammad Baqer Nobakht announced on Tuesday, June 21, that the country’s annual inflation rate has fallen below 10% for the first time in several years.
Foreign Policy

Iran Censures Bahrain’s Move to Strip Sheikh Qassim’s Citizenship

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Iran’s Foreign Ministry denounces Bahrain’s move to strip the citizenship of the country’s most senior Shia cleric, Sheikh Isa Qassim.
Media Wire

IAF Plans ‘$130 Art Sale’

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The Institute for Promotion of Contemporary Visual Art will soon hold a ‘$130 Art Sale’ in mid-September at the Iranian Artists’ Forum (IAF) in Tehran.
Media Wire

Museum of Tajmir Village

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A room in a house in Tajmir Village in Sarbisheh, eastern province of South Khorasan, has been turned into a museum of local handicrafts and ancients items related to the rural populace.
Media Wire

Kharg Terminal Steps up Loading Capacity

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The managing director of the Iranian Oil Terminals Company (IOTC) says Kharg Oil Terminal has increased its export capacity and can now load 8 oil tankers at the same time.
Media Wire

Excavation Uncovers Ilkanid-Era Pottery

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Archaeological excavations in Isfahan’s Feizabad archaeological site have uncovered pottery objects dating back to the Ilkhanid era.
Media Wire

Iran’s SCO Inclusion to Bolster Strategic Ties: Russian Professor

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Iran's membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is going to improve strategic ties between Tehran and Moscow, says an associate member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
IFP Exclusive

Zibakalam’s Editorial: Proving One’s Political Existence by Denigrating Others

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In a recent editorial published in Iran newspaper, Sadegh Zibakalam, a professor of political sciences at University of Tehran and a senior analyst, discussed how anti-government elements try to taint the image of President Hassan Rouhani’s administration even by ignoring national interests.
Selected

Iran Completes Conceptual Design Phase of Manned Spacecraft

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Iranian space scientists have concluded research on the conceptual design of a home-grown manned spacecraft together with its carrier rocket, or launch vehicle.
Media Wire

Lending Rate Cuts Imminent

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Banks will lower lending rates in the coming days, said Central Bank of Iran governor, Valiollah Seif on Sunday June 19. The announcement comes after private lenders’ recent move to voluntarily lower their one-year deposit rates from 18% to 15%.
Media Wire

Iranian MPs Propose Motion to Fight Dust Pollution

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A group of Iranian lawmakers put forward a motion to oblige President Hassan Rouhani’s administration to address the issue of dust pollution in the country’s western provinces, a parliamentarian said.
Media Wire

Mahan Air’s First Flight to Paris

IFP Media Wire -
After the implementation of the JCPOA, European airports have one again granted access to EU airspace for Iranian airplanes.
Science and Technology

ISA to Put Geosynchronous Satellite into Orbit by 2025

Emad Askarieh -
The deputy director of the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) has announced Iran’s ultimate goal as building indigenous satellites parallel to foreign models and placing them into geosynchronous equatorial orbit (GEO) within ten years.
Healthcare

Growing Trend of Abortions in Iran

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Statistics indicate that the number of people who visit medical centres for abortions has tripled within the past 10 years. Here’s IFP’s translation of a recent report on the subject by Khabar Online:
Media Wire

Iran and Afghanistan Stress Anti-Narcotic Collaboration

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Iranian and Afghan officials underlined the need for cooperation in fighting drug trafficking.
Europe

Tehran and Kiev Want Closer Trade Links

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Deputy Industry Minister, at a meeting with Ukraine’s ambassador to Iran, called for an expansion of trade exchange between Tehran and Kiev.
Environment

Street-Cleaning Canine in Khalkhal

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A trained dog in the city of Khalkhal, north-western Iran, cleans the streets by collecting trash bags left by the side of the road. The...
Media Wire

Iran’s LPG Exports Soar

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An official has announced that exports volume of Iranian Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) hit 80,000 tons in the first two months of the current Iranian year (began March 20).
Europe

Iran Settles €500m Debt to Germany’s Hermes Firm: Envoy

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Iranian Ambassador to Berlin Ali Majedi said the Islamic Republic has cleared its debt to Germany’s Hermes insurance company.
Media Wire

Indian Journalist: Iran’s SCO Membership Will Enhance Regional Security

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A senior Indian journalist believes that Iran’s full membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will enhance the security and stability in the region.
Media Wire

MP Calls for Strong Sentences against Saudi Embassy Attackers

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An MP has said he hopes that severe sentences will be given out to attackers on the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, which would help prevent a repetition of such unacceptable incidents in the future. Heshmatollah Falahatpishe, a principalist legislator, made the statement referring to a recent announcement by the judiciary that the case of the January attack on the Saudi Embassy in Tehran will be heard in court next month.
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Iran Registers Original Pomegranates, Dates, and Carpets at WIPO

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Iran has registered a number of its strategic domestic products at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
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