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Baku Welcomes Iran’s Participation in Karabakh Reconstruction, Aliyev Tells Zarif

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The top Iranian diplomat, who is visiting Baku in the first leg of a tour of the Caucasus and Turkey, held talks with Azeri President Aliyev on Monday morning.

In the meeting, Foreign Minister Zarif congratulated the Republic of Azerbaijan’s people and government on the recent victories, stressing the need for the promotion of cooperation between the two neighbours.

He also welcomed a six-party regional cooperation initiative proposed by the president of the Republic of Azerbaijan, expressing Iran’s readiness for help and cooperation in any field contributing to regional peace, stability and calm.

Zarif then pointed to the successful visits that Azerbaijan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister paid to Iran, saying the mutual cooperation, particularly in the economic fields, is ready to make a leap.

The top diplomat also expressed delight with the results of the 14th meeting of Iran-Azerbaijan Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation, voicing Iran’s readiness for active participation in the process of reconstructing the recently-liberated Azeri lands, particularly in the construction activities, for the export of technical and engineering services, and cooperation in the electricity and energy industries, agriculture, extra-territorial cultivation, mine-sweeping, as well as the reconstruction of mosques and historical sites.

President Aliyev, for his part, praised Iran’s stances on the recent developments in the region, hailed the level of cooperation between the two nations, and said there exists a positive atmosphere for the expansion of relations in all fields, specifically the economic cooperation.

Enumerating the economic projects carried out jointly by the two countries, the Azeri leader welcomed the participation of Iranian companies in reconstruction of areas in the Karabakh region.

Aliyev also expressed satisfaction with Iran’s view on the six-party regional cooperation platform, saying the initiative would benefit peace and common interests in the region.

The Azeri President finally welcomed plans for holding trilateral meetings among the Republic of Azerbaijan, Iran and Russia, as well as among Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkey in future.

The meeting was also attended by Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister and the Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of Azerbaijan.

Iran’s Petrochemical Industry Reaching Self-Sufficiency

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The Sarv Oil and Natural Gas Industries Development Company and the Arian Methanol Company have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on joint cooperation to supply catalysts required in the process of producing synthesis gas at the Methanol Unit.

The MoU was signed on the sidelines of the 25th International Oil, Natural Gas and Petrochemical Event.

“Catalysts are the beating hearts of petrochemical industries,” said Amir Hooman Karimi Vosoogh, the managing director of Sarv Oil and Natural Gas Industries Development Company.

“With holdings and petrochemical industries trusting Iranian-made products and procuring catalysts for a petrochemical complex from a knowledge-based company at very high prices, they will help boost and domestically develop this industry,” he added.

He said the Sarv company has a brilliant background when it comes to producing catalysts and has constantly produced catalysts for the country’s petrochemical, refinery and steel industries for years.

Iran, Armenia to Establish Technology Exchange Centre

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That came in a meeting between Ali Rasoulnia, the CEO of the Iranian Industrial Townships and Small Industries Organization, and Levon Ohanesian, the director of the Armenian Centre for Investment and SME Development.

In the meeting, the two sides introduced activities done and measures adopted to develop SMEs and exchanged views on areas of joint cooperation.

The Iranian official touched upon the close bonds between the people of Iran and Armenia as well as the great potential which exists for mutual cooperation, stressed the need to enhance collaboration between the SMEs stationed in industrial townships and zones.

He also called for holding exhibitions in Tehran and Yerevan with companies from both sides taking part.

He then touched upon the experience of the Iranian Industrial Townships and Small Industries Organization in establishing and developing infrastructure in industrial townships and zones as well as in developing domestic models of SME development.

The official said Iran is ready to offer technical and engineering services to Armenia and share its experience with that country.

He then suggested a permanent technology exchange centre between the two countries be established in Tehran and face-to-face meetings be held between Iranian and Armenian firms in order to exchange technologies.

The Armenian official, in turn, said the Armenian Centre for Investment and SME Development stands ready to be present in Iran, and elaborated on the executive programs and activities of that centre.

In the meeting, the two sides agreed to draw up a memorandum of understanding on joint cooperation.

Iran to Run 3rd Test on Quantum Transmission of Data

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The test will be performed using state-of-the-art equipment by experts and researchers at the AEOI’s Quantum Technologies Centre.

In this transmission method, by establishing a quantum link based on the entanglement principle, messages are encrypted with a safe method and data is transmitted through a specified path between two specific points. Then the message in question is encoded using a quantum key and is sent to the destination where it is decoded, again with the help of the quantum key, which cannot be copied and hacked as it is based on quantum entanglement.

The test is to be conducted on Monday, January 25, 2021.

A host of top officials will be present at the ceremony, including Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi, ICT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, and Defence Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami.
The experiment is part of the infrastructure needed for the development of a quantum satellite, quantum radars/lidars, and quantum networks.

Persian Gulf Needs Dialogue, Cooperation: Iran’s Zarif

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“We have always welcomed our neighbours in that regard, and will do so in the future,” Zarif told reporters upon arrival in Baku.

He also touched upon his tour of the Caucasus region, which will later take him to Russia, Armenia, Georgia, and Turkey.

Zarif said the trip had been delayed, and that he is very happy to see he has been able to make this visit.

“In addition to Azerbaijan, I will travel to Russia, Armenia and Georgia in the coming days, and probably to Turkey in the middle of next week,” he added.

He underlined the key issue on the agenda of the talks during these visits will be regional cooperation “which is very important to us.”

“Holding consultations on regional cooperation with these countries which have very good and close bilateral ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran is among the most important objectives of this trip,” he said.

The top Iranian diplomat added he will sit down for talks with officials of the Azerbaijan Republic on January 25, 2021 to discuss the reconstruction of the Karabakh region, the status of Karabakh and cooperation in order to preserve the stability of that region.

He said he will also discuss transport issues as well as the completion of the South-North and South-West Transport Corridors during his trip.
Zarif is scheduled to leave Baku for Moscow on the next leg of his whistle-stop regional tour.

Iran’s Government to Facilitate Visit of Foreign Entrepreneurs

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The issue was discussed in a Sunday meeting between Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary, and Expatriates’ Affairs Seyyed Kazem Sajjadi and Vice-President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari.

In the meeting, the two sides also conferred on further cooperation between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Science and Technology Department of the President’s Office in order to facilitate the participation of Iranian elites living abroad in high-tech plans and projects to develop the country’s knowledge-based industries.

Sajjadi and Sattari also highlighted the significance and enormous capacity of Iranian expatriates, and underlined the necessity of activating the New Sciences and Technologies Working Group of the Supreme Council of Iranian Expatriates’ Affairs, and holding webinars with the Iranian diplomatic missions abroad and the Iranians interested in order to present the plans and projects of the Science and Technology Department of the President’s Office.

Iran’s Energy Achievements Prove Failure of US Sanctions: VP

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Jahangiri made the remarks on Sunday after a visit to the 25th International Oil, Gas, Refining and Petrochemical Exhibition.

“The achievements of this exhibition indicate that Iran is moving towards development and progress,” he said on the sidelines of the visit.

Jahangiri praised the country’s “great achievements” in the fields of oil, gas, refining, and petrochemical, and said the exhibition is a proof of the “long strides” the country has taken to make products that can be released both inside and outside the country.

The vice-president referred to the recent inauguration of Bidboland Gas Refinery in southwestern Iran, and said, “No one could imagine the country can implement such projects under the harshest and toughest US sanctions in the past three years.”

He said the refinery is a symbol of the projects whose construction started and finished at the time the country was under the US sanctions.

Jahangiri said even in the past few months when Donald Trump was still in office in the US, Iran set considerable records in the export of crude oil and oil condensates.

“At a time when they wished to zero out Iran’s oil sales, we achieved the biggest record in crude oil export in December 2020-January 2021,” he added, vowing that the country will see brighter days in spring.

Earlier this week, the Iranian president inaugurated Bidboland natural gas refinery in the south of the country as one of the largest projects in the Middle East.

The project has come with a price tag of $3.4 billion.

On Thursday, the deputy chief of staff of the Iranian President’s Office for communications and information affairs lauded the inauguration of Bidboland megaproject as the symbol of the Islamic Republic’s struggle with sanctions and economic war.

In a post on his Twitter account on Thursday, Alireza Moezzi said the opening of Persian Gulf Bidboland Gas Refinery marks a “historic day” for Iran’s oil and gas industry.

“The Persian Gulf Bidboland megaproject is the homeland’s huge stride in production, in seizing the opportunities, and in standing against the sanctions. The old wish to turn the flare gas into refinery input came true under the 12th administration,” he added.

Moezzi noted that 82 percent of the Persian Gulf Bidboland Gas Refinery was completed during President Hassan Rouhani’s tenure.

He said the opportunity provided by the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was taken to finance the environmental-friendly project and supply its basic equipment, noting that the megaproject never came to a halt under the pressure of sanctions.

Known as the symbol of resistance to the economic war, the gas refining complex was chosen as the world’s third biggest megaproject in 2020, Moezzi added.

Iran Constructing Sci-Tech Park at iLand City

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Iranian Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari visited the site of the park to see for himself the process of its construction.

“The potential created to build a sci-tech park has given fresh impetus to the trend of the formation of a smart city,” he said.

He added the Science and Technology Department of the President’s Office supports the development of knowledge-based infrastructure in the country.

“The purpose of this visit was to offer support to the development of innovation and technology ecosystem for companies and individuals who take steps towards solving problems of society through innovative services and solutions,” he noted.

He said the department is seriously making efforts to establish knowledge-based companies, technological units and creative industries at the sci-tech park.

“By supporting this complex, we try to help further develop the potential of smart cities and set the stage for the development of advanced technologies in this atmosphere,” the vice president said.

Located 35 km southwest of Tehran, the iLand commercial and entertainment township covering 1,400 hectares of land includes resort, residential and technological facilities. Part of the complex is allotted to the Iranians’ Sci-Tech Park.

Iran Says Has Lost All Its Trust in US, Europe

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Mark Dubowitz’s Delight over Coronavirus in Iran ‘Shameful’: Araqchi

Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyyed Abbas Araqchi said Tehran fulfilled its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal, but the US and the Europeans failed to keep their side of the bargain.

“The Europeans either were unable to or did not want to deliver on their commitments. Of course, the result of both will practically be the same,” he noted.

Araqchi further reiterated Tehran’s demand that Washington lift its sanctions against Iran and rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

“Iran’s demand is a realistic one, and that is, the US should lift the sanctions and return to the JCPOA,” he said in an interview with the Italian newspaper la Repubblica.

“We held talks in good faith, and implemented the JCPOA in good faith. Now, it is the new US administration’s turn to make up for the mistakes of the previous administration,” Araqchi said.

“It was the US that withdrew from the JCPOA, so it should return to the agreement itself. And in order to rejoin the nuclear deal, the US should [first] lift all sanctions,” he added.

“We stand ready to live up to all of our commitments under the JCOPA provided that the Americans make good on their obligations and lift the sanctions,” the top diplomat said.

Araqchi added Iran has not made any contacts with the new US administration and has no intention to.

“Naturally, we are waiting for them to be installed in their posts and begin work,” he said.

As for whether or not Tehran will be ready to enter into talks with new US President Joe Biden’s envoys, Araqchi said any such negotiations should be within the framework of the JCPOA.

“I think there is still an efficient framework, which is the same framework envisaged in the JCPOA. It was they that left that framework, and can now return to it and resume talks,” he said.

“At the moment, we are not interested in making any direct contacts and we believe the JCPOA is an appropriate framework and that negotiations should take place within the same framework,” the top Iranian official said.

“Even before returning to the JCPOA, the US can return to the framework of talks under the JCPOA in order to restart negotiations,” he said.

Araqchi reiterated that Iran scaled down its commitments under the JCPOA after Europe failed to deliver on its commitments.

“We did not destroy the JCPOA. We saved it by scaling down our obligations and maintaining a balance between signatories to the deal,” the top diplomat noted.

Meanwhile, Araqchi underscored that the JCPOA will not be renegotiated.

“The JCPOA should be implemented to the letter. There is no such thing as ‘The JCPOA Plus’ or any other agreement or any new talks on the deal.,” he said.

Araqchi also noted that Iran’s missile program is not negotiable, either.

However, he explained, security in the Persian Gulf is an issue which could be a subject of talks among regional countries.

Tehran, Yerevan Set to Boost Industrial Cooperation

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Iranian Minister of Industry, Mines and Trade Alireza Razmhosseini said Iran’s industry and service sectors stand ready enhance their cooperation with Armenia.

“Iran enjoys good potential for the production of steel products, household appliances, automobiles and foodstuff,” said Razmhosseini in a meeting with Armenian Economy Minister Vahan Kerobyan.

“The [Iranian] Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade seeks to support both countries’ private sector and facilitate their moves,” the Iranian minister added.

Razmhosseini pinpointed that conditions should be eased for businessmen from both countries.

“Armenian businessmen are interested to see an increase in transactions between Iran and Armenia, and the representative of Armenians at the Iranian Parliament has emphasized this point, too,” said the Iranian minister.

Also present at the meeting was Bahman Abdollahi, the president of the Iran Cooperatives Chamber, who said Iran is ready not only to supply the market, but also to export commodities to Russia via Armenia.

He also called on the Armenian side to provide the required infrastructure and make the necessary arrangements in that regard. 

Another Iranian official present at the meeting was Mohsen Salehinia, the chairman of the Managing Board of the Industrial Development & Renovation Organization of Iran (IDRO), which is a major shareholder to two Iranian auto giants.

He said IDRO is keen on joint investment with Armenia in the auto sector.

For his part, the Armenian minister said Iran-Armenia economic cooperation is not proportionate to the potentialities and capabilities of the two countries at the moment.

With joint production of goods in Armenia, he explained, it is possible to increase mutual trade from the current $400 million to $1 billion in six months.

He made it clear that Armenia economic players stand ready to help Iran export its commodities to Russia in six months. Of course, he added, infrastructure for transport should be prepared first. 

At the end of the meeting, the Iranian minister of industry, mines and trade and the Armenian economy minister signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on mutual cooperation.

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