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Italian PM Arrives in Tehran for Key Economic Talks

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Golrokh Askarieh
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Heading a 250-strong business delegation, Matteo Renzi landed in the Iranian capital for an official two-day visit at the invitation of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.

His visit to Tehran is part of efforts to boost bilateral economic cooperation and remove the trade berries in the post-sanctions era.

According to Iranian officials, Iran and Italy are going to sign a new agreement and two memorandums of understanding during Renzi’s visit, while pursuing the implementation of the previous contracts.

Renzi’s visit comes after President Rouhani’s trip to Rome in late January.

Iran and Italy signed deals worth up to 17 billion euros ($18.42 billion) during Rouhani’s 48-hour stay in Italy.

Italy was one of Iran’s leading economic and trade partners before sanctions when annual exchanges amounted to 7 billion euros compared with $1.6 billion euros now.

All nuclear-related sanctions imposed on Iran were lifted after Tehran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) reached a nuclear deal on July 14, 2015 and started implementing it on January 16.

Iranian films line up for Indian festival

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Golrokh Askarieh
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The short films include “Experiment” directed by Mohammadreza Minapur, “Five Senses of Art” by Hesam Dehqani, “Paper Dream” by Zahra Khorshidi, “The Cloud” by Mehdi Heydari, “Changeover” by Mehdi Alibeigi and “Mystery” by Alireza Moqaddam.

The short section also is presenting “Clowns Not Die” by Ako Zandkarimi, “Alleys” by Nasser Nurani, “Withdrawal” by Alireza Mohammadzadeh, “Idiot” by Shaharm Shirzadi, “Coming Week” by Ali Zare’, “Cloudy Children” by Reza Fahimi and “Shoes” by Morteza Asemani.

The feature film section is screening several Iranian movies, including “Story of My Father’s Bike and Me” by Fayyaz Musavi, “Environment Protection” by Hadis Maleki and “The Window” by Rahbar Qanbari.

Films from over 30 countries, including Ireland, Slovakia, Greece, The UK, Taiwan, the U.S., Spain, Canada, Germany, Russia and Luxemburg, are competing in the festival, which will be running until April 15.

Ground Force Commander: 2 ISIL Terrorists Killed in Iran

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Golrokh Askarieh
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“An ISIL-affiliated group entered Iran in February and we confronted them and killed two of them who had come with suicide vests,” Pourdastan told reporters in a press conference in Tehran on Monday.

Stressing that Iran has equipped and prepared its border guards to stand and prevent terrorists’ sneaking into Iran, he said, “Certain regional states want the terrorist grouplets to extend their threats to our borders but we don’t see any threat.”

Late February, a provincial authority announced that a number of terrorists who were planning to strike the capital city following the parliamentary elections were killed after crossing Iran’s Western borders.

“The security and military forces disbanded a terror cell in the Soumar and Naft Shahr region yesterday morning,” Director of Kermanshah Governor-General Office for Security and Law Enforcement Affairs Nosratollah Moradi told reporters.

He said the terrorists were armed with bombs, suicide and explosive vests, grenades, pistols and some US dollars.

“They were planning to carry out terrorist attacks in Tehran,” Moradi added.

His remarks came after Deputy Interior Minister for Security and Law Enforcement Affairs Hossein Zolfaqari said on February 28 that security forces disbanded a terrorist cell in Western Iran.

“This morning two terrorists crossed the Western borders (in Soumar region). They were killed by border guards and security forces on the spot,” Zolfaqari told reporters in Tehran.

He said several other terror plots were also foiled before and during the February 26 elections.

NPC in Talks with European Chemical Heavyweight

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Golrokh Askarieh
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Speaking at a press conference prior to the 10th Iran Plast Exhibition in Tehran, due on April 13-17, Marziyeh Shah-daei said NPC is currently in talks with a major petrochemical company, but nothing has been finalized so far.
She said the visiting Italian delegation to Iran may meet with petrochemical officials during their stay.

The official said Iran Plast exhibition will commence on April 13 with 500 foreign and 400 Iranian exhibiting companies.
The foreign exhibitors are coming from 13 European, 10 Asian and 2 African countries; furthermore, 200 businessmen from countries like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan will visit the fair, she added.

The official further said NPC, under its new structure, is seeking to lure foreign financiers into investing in Iran’s unfinished petrochemical projects and the removal of US-led sanctions on Tehran’s nuclear agenda has facilitated NPC’s interactions with its would-be foreign partners.

Oshtoran Kooh in Lorestan

By
Fatemeh Askarieh
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Oshtoran Kuh is a massive sub-range of the Zagros mountain chain. It is located in Lorestan province, about 500km from Tehran.

 

 

Tehran theater to host “The Yalta Game”

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Golrokh Askarieh
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Friel wrote the play based on Anton Chekhov’s short story “The Lady with the Little Dog”, which the Russian playwright composed in 1899 in Yalta, a resort city on the southern coast of the Crimean Peninsula.

Renowned Iranian painter Aidin Aghdashlu has designed a poster for the play that tells the story of an accountant who vacations alone, leaving his wife and family behind in Moscow.

Vahid Rahbai, Shadi Karamrudi and Mani Monadizadeh are the main members of the cast for the play.

Photo: A poster for “The Yalta Game” by Aidin Aghdashlu

President Rouhani: Muslim world voices of unity and cooperation should be heard everywhere

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Golrokh Askarieh
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He made the remarks in a meeting here on Monday with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev in reference to the forthcoming OIC summit in Istanbul.
Rouhani said that since the independence of Kazakhstan in 1991, the two countries have expanded and developed their bilateral ties.
The Kazakh government has always been a friend of Iran during the sanctions era and nuclear negotiations with the G5+1 two rounds of which were held in Kazakhstan and during the implementation of JCPOA Kazakhstan by dispatching 60 tons of yellow cake was of great help in the implementation of program.
President Rouhani said that totally 66 documents on cooperation between the two countries were signed by both public and private sectors, which is a turning point in bilateral relations.
Cooperation between Iranian and Kazakh central banks, banking exchanges, issuing visas to Iranian businessmen and support of both governments for private sectors would be an important step towards development of bilateral economic relations.
He added that in private and public meetings with President Nazarbayev agreements were made on development of cooperation in scientific, cultural, technology and communication fields between the two countries and on expansion of agriculture and trade ties.
The two countries also had agreements in such fields as oil, gas, petrochemical, crude oil swap and oil products, he added.
In the sector of transport and communication, railways companies of both countries would establish connection between Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and China.
Rouhani added that cooperation in the field of Caspian Sea environment, maritime transport, tourism and Caspian Sea legal regime were among other issues discussed by the two sides.
The two countries also shared similar stance on regional issues such as extremism, terrorism and disputes between various sects and their danger threatening the Islamic world, and the need to find a political solution to Yemen crisis and establish stability in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, President Rouhani said.

German Companies Seek Bilateral Agricultural Ties

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IFP Media Wire
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Mohsen jalalpour the head of Iran chamber of commerce, industries, mines and agriculture in a meeting with Christian Schmidt the minister of food and agriculture of Germany who is heading a high ranking delegation from agriculture organizations, highlighted the bilateral works and investment in water management projects, conservation of water resources in agricultural process, updating the planting methods to produce organic products.

Jalalpour emphasized the number of meetings with German delegations after JCPOA in Iran chamber of commerce comparison with other EU delegations and said: these missions show the eagerness of German politicians to expand economic ties with Iran.

Head of Iran Chamber highlighted the environmental crisis and shortage of water in next decades for country and region and added: we believe due to mismanagement of water resources in agriculture and industry not only in our country but also in our neighboring countries, we would face obstacles and there are lots of rooms to do research and updating the technologies to avoid side and effects.

Jalalpour mentioned the obstacles of exporting Iranian products like dried fruits and nuts during the sanctions by ministry of food and agriculture of Germany and said: Persian production benefits the high ranking qualities which are approved with consumer feedbacks by requesting our goods, but some restraints avoided to introduce our goods to the chain stores and EU markets. We anticipate being in equal competition with others producers.

For his part German Minister of Food and agriculture Christian Schmidt highlighted the good atmosphere and opening new chapter in economical relations with Iran after JCPOA and said: Some German agricultural activist are in this mission to find their counterparts and fact finding the market to expand their bilateral work with Iranian private sector.

He mentioned the COP21 conference of Paris and said: due to the climate changes of the globe, all participants of conference agreed to control the water resources and in this regards we are ready to transfer the technology to provide the food of 9 billion population of the world.

Considering the scientific ranking of Iran in the world, Schmidt quoted that: in research center of agriculture ministry approximately one thousand scientists and professors are studding in various projects and they are ready to connect with Persian scientific and educational centers to exchange their experiences in agrochemicals, seeds and veterinary.

Official: President Rouhani to visit Turkey this week

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Golrokh Askarieh
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Iran Rejects Russia's Mediation, Says Has No Plans for Direct Talks with US

He made the remarks here on Monday on the sidelines of his meeting with Estonian Foreign Minister Marina Kaljvrand.
Vaezi told reporters that in the 25th meeting of Iran-Turkey joint economic commission held a few days ago in Ankara, it was agreed that President Rouhani during his Turkey visit would allocate a time for reviewing bilateral economic issues.

Iran’s Centrifuges Can Improve Oil and Gas Industries in the Region

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Golrokh Askarieh
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In an interview with al-Alam News Network on Sunday, Kamalvandi said neighbouring countries need to immediately set aside the Western-inspired notion of a threat posed by Iran, and called for the expansion of cooperation to the field of peaceful nuclear energy.

 

“Iran has plans to promote cooperation with regional countries, particularly Persian Gulf neighbours, on the employment of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.”

 

Abundant opportunities exist for cooperation with neighbours, especially in the Persian Gulf region, he added.

Kamalvandi also highlighted a series of plans for closer regional cooperation on the nuclear industry, saying they will be unveiled in future.

More reciprocal visits between Iran and regional countries will prepare the ground for cooperation in various nuclear fields, such as medicine and agriculture, he explained.

The spokesman further noted that Iran’s centrifuge machines can help development of the region’s oil and gas industries at a reasonable price.

Global enthusiasm for nuclear cooperation with Iran has grown after the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a lasting nuclear agreement between Tehran and G5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany).

The deal has enabled Iran to enter the international nuclear market, leaving it with the option to work with many nuclear countries.

According to Mehr, France, Spain, South Korea and many other countries have expressed willingness to work with Iran in the nuclear industry.

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