According to Tasnim News Agency, the Deputy Agriculture Minister said that exporting caviar to the United States and Canada will be resumed this year. There is no obstacle for such exports, and negotiations with relevant traders have already been conducted.
Mr. Salehi said that, in addition to major importers of Iranian caviar and shrimp in Europe and Southeast Asia, this year Canada, Russia and America will be added to the list of Iranian customers for such products.
Nearly 200 competitors will run 42 km between the main gate of Shiraz and the historical site of Persepolis. The participants come from the following countries: Germany, Austria, Australia, China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Hungary, Greece, Iran, Italy, Ireland, Lebanon, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Iceland, Pakistan, Poland, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, England and the UAE. Attending this marathon is both endurance as well as entertainment.
Alireza Qajar, the manager of a tourist company, organized this marathon in Shiraz in partnership with a Dutch tourist company. He talked to an ISNA journalist about the details of this event, saying, “This marathon is a reminder of King Darius I and the Battle of Marathon during the first Persian invasion of Greece. This event is organized as a symbol of peace and unity among people from different nations. It is not merely a competition – the foreign competitors from Asia, Africa and Europe who make up about one hundred of the runners will also be introduced to Iranian culture, history and cuisine.
He highlighted the fact that the marathon will be officiated according to international standards, and said, “We have chosen a historical route for this marathon. In determining the path, we considered the protection of the historical sites, so the competitors will not run through or enter any of the sites. They will run 42km and 190m in total, both in the city and on the road. The ceremony for giving the awards will also be held in a location close to Darius’ castle.
Amir-Hossein Fallah, the director for investment affairs of the National Petrochemical Company (NPC), has been quoted by the media as saying that a top-level delegation from Total will visit Tehran in late April to finalize the text of a deal over the project to construct a petrochemical plant in the country.
Total and NPC signed a basic agreement over the project last March to jointly build a petrochemical complex in south Iran. Based on the agreement, the petrochemical complex will include a steam cracker unit in the coastal area with global scale and based on a combination of feed comprising of ethane, naphtha, LPG as well as other available feed.
In addition to steam cracker unit, the complex will include relevant downstream units for supplying its products to domestic and international markets.
The complex will be built “by private sector’s contribution”, Fallah said at the time, without giving details.
Last month, Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zangeneh announced that talks are underway with Total over the development of Iran’s South Azadegan oil field which the Islamic Republic shares with Iraq.
Zangeneh added that Iran and Total would soon sign a confidentiality agreement over the project through which the technical details over the project will be provided to the French energy giant to help it with a final investment decision.
South Azadegan was discovered in 1999 and was described as Iran’s biggest oil find in decades. It is projected to have a yield of 110,000 barrels per day (bpd) in its first phase of development and a final output of 320,000 bpd.
Speaking to reporters on Saturday, Nematzadeh described all obstacles to way of that membership as ‘political’.
After removal of political issues in the post sanctions era, Iran is hopeful about WTO membership, he added.
At present, activities under the WTO mechanism for Iran’s membership in that global body continue, he stressed.
Asked about the situation of cooperation between Iran and United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the minister said he has made his deputy responsible for doing activities needed for resumption of that cooperation being halted for seven or eight years.
As reported by Mohammadreza Mohammadi, head of the Hamedan Provinical Environmental Office, declared that there will be legal action taken against the principal of the high school in which the rabbit was dissected. He continued, saying, “Legal action will also be taken against the teacher who performed this experiment in the classroom.”
He went to say that they are investigating the reasons behind these actions, and said, “The authorities of the province’s Educational Office should also take appropriate actions against those responsible.”
The head of the Environmental Office also stated that “This harmful practice caused me to return early from an unfinished project out of the state as soon as I heard about it, so I could investigate it with all due speed and accuracy.”
“I returned to the state to investigate with all due speed”
He added, “We have requested the head of the Education Office of the province to not only punish the teacher, but also dismiss the principal of the school. Hopefully, we will not witness such inhumane actions in our society any more.”
In recent days, with spring arriving in full force, the Beautification Department of Tehran’s Municipality has displayed “trees of happiness” in the capital’s main street, Vali Asr.
According to Honaronline website, Ms. Nasrin Sarmadi, the creator of these works, said, “I have called my work “Happy Trees,” and have used cotton rope for making them.
Rope is wound round around the tree trunks, then painted with colours. By using cotton rope to cover the trunks up to a height of 2 metres, we do no harm to them, said the artist.
She added that designs used on Kilims, a type of Iranian handmade rug, were used in attractive shapes, bringing beauty and happiness to the streets of our capital.
The project brings beauty and happiness to the streets of Tehran
This annual event is called the spring festival, and this year is taking place at Vali Asr Crossroads, and in nearby Daneshjoo Park. The festival started on the eve of the Iranian New Year (Nourooz), and will conclude at the end of the first month of the Iranian calendar year, Farvardin.
The performance is the Globe’s two-year tour, which will help introduce and endear millions of people to Shakespeare, to classical literature and the performing arts in general, and notably to Hamlet.
Health Minister Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi, Director and Representative of the UNESCO Tehran Cluster Office Esther Kuisch Laroche and several foreign ambassadors, as well as eminent theatrical figures including Ali Nasirian, Pari Saberi, Marzieh Borumand, Siamak Ehsai, Behzad Farahani and Dariush Modabian watched the performance.
Shakespeare’s Globe is a charity and continues to operate under the leadership of Artistic Director Dominic Dromgoole. The Globe Theatre season plays in repertory from April to October annually, and has gained an international reputation for performance excellence, welcoming more than one million visitors annually.
He said the project is chiefly aimed at boosting the refinery’s gasoline output and raising the quality of its gasoline and gasoil production.
5 companies from Japan and the UK and several companies from other countries have indicated their readiness to carry out projects to add to the refinery’s output, the official said.
The foreign ministers of Iran, Russia, and Azerbaijan at the end of their meeting in Baku issued a statement highlighting the major areas of agreements made in the meeting.
According to the statement agreed upon by Mohammad Javad Zarif, Sergey Lavrov, and Elmar Mammadyarov, the trilateral meeting is valued as measure to deepen dialogue, interaction, and cooperation between the three countries in the region and the globe.
Also the statement stresses on the commitment of the three countries to the charter of the United Nations and all other international regulations.
The three FMs also underline the importance of staging collaborative measures against new-born threats, like terrorism, extremism, organized crimes, and drug trafficking, against the peace and stability of the region and the whole world and voiced readiness to have closer interactions in fight with them.
Agreement upon developing trilateral cooperation in areas of energy, economy, transit, infrastructures, culture, tourism, trade, costume, and consular affairs is another article of the statement.
The statement also stresses on the necessity of developing economic and trade interactions based on the principles of equality and reciprocal benefit.
Continuing efforts for keeping the Caspian Sea as a sea of friendship and peace is also stressed upon in the statement added by cal for defining a legal regime for the shared closed water.
Also the three top diplomats agreed to facilitate the way for having trilateral meeting of the presidents of the three countries.
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