News Archive - 15 September 2020

Biden has more chances of winning in Wisconsin, Arizona

The latest election polls conducted by US media and a number of universities indicate that Democratic nominee Joe Biden has 50.5 and the Republican candidate Donald Trump owns 43.1 percent of the total votes, Real Clear Politics reported. Meanwhile, polls by CBS and another institute show that in...

EU claims it has complied with its JCPOA commitments

In a statement issued at the meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors on Tuesday, Stephen Clement claimed that the EU has complied with its JCPOA commitments and is concerned over the increase in Iran’s uranium stockpile. The statement said that the EU has fully complied with its JCPOA commitments,...

Gas industry mobilized for sustained supply in winter

Having the biggest network in the region, Iran is one of the leading countries in terms of gas accessibility, and in this regard, making sure that this access stays uninterrupted during the pick consumption periods is a top priority for NIGC. To this end, every year NIGC makes the necessary...

Combining theory, practice, a must to localize oil equipment

To materialize this objective, knowledge-based companies have played a noticeable part, especially in indigenizing the products and equipment used in the oil industry, which is the major sector in the country’s national economy. Cooperating with capable domestic knowledge-based companies and startups is one of the very fruitful steps that the...

Qatar not supporter of normalizing ties with Israel

Qatar won’t join Persian Gulf Arab neighbors in establishing diplomatic relations with the Israeli regime until its conflict with the Palestinians is resolved, the Qatari official said. Lolwah Alkhater also suggested in an interview with Bloomberg that there may soon be progress toward ending a three-year-old boycott of her country...

Bomb blasts in east Afghanistan

At least one security officer has lost his life in the event, the spokesman to provincial governor Ata Ullah Khogyani informed. According to Khogyani, the killed individual was an NDS soldier, and the cause for the blast was a roadside improvised explosive device (IED). At least three other security forces...

More countries may normalize ties with Israeli Regime: Trump

The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, represented in Washington by their foreign ministers, are set to become the third and the fourth Arab countries to normalize relations with the Israeli Regime after Egypt did so in 1979 and Jordan in 1994, Sputnik News reported. "We're very far down the road...

Rouhani to hold talks with Azeri counterpart in near future

Mousavi maintained that the Iranian President is scheduled to hold a videoconference with his Azeri counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, in near future. He went on to say that there are about 30 bilateral economic projects in various fields and Iran seeks to implement 14 of them this year. "The President of Azerbaijan...

Dept. tourism min. attending UNWTO Executive Council

Georgia will host the 112th session of the executive council of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) on September 15-17, in Tbilisi. The programme will start with tours of old Tbilisi on September 15. The official opening ceremony will be held on September 16, which will be followed by the executive...

Resistance Iran's approach to enemy's all-out pressure tactic

Speaking in a video conference on the occasion of the National Passive Defense Week, Brigadier General Gholam-Reza Jalali referred to Passive Defence Week coinciding with the 13th of Aban, National Day of Fighting Arrogance. In this regard, Jalali seized the opportunity to say, "The main strategy of the enemy is still...

MP calls for strengthening energy diplomacy in intl. markets

Speaking at the open session of Parliament on Tue. and in the course of reviewing development projects of the Ministry of Oil, Hossein Hosseinzadeh stated, “Unfortunately, we are witnessing the reduced pressure of gas at South Pars and Zagros gas fields, so that effective steps should be taken in order...

Talks between Iran, Azerbaijan kick off on PTA

In this edition of talks, which was held by the representatives of Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPOI) and various divisions of the Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Economy, representatives of the foreign ministries of the two countries of Iran and Azerbaijan and also economic attaché of Iranian Embassy to Baku also...

Iran, Brazil eyeing trade promotion via 3 coop. agreement

Today, Rodrigo de Azeredo Santos,the Brazilian Ambassador in Iran met and held talks with Alimurad Sarafrazi, head of the center for public relations and international affairs of the Iranian Ministry of Agriculture. The meeting was held with the aim of improving the cooperation and interaction between the two countries in...

Effective and timely decisions to keep stock market attractiv

The investors have been rushing to sell their stocks, a situation which seems to be a panic selloff. The market has been experiencing a run on the stocks by the frightened and apprehensive investors. However, with the recent decisions made by the market macro-policy setter, namely, the Securities and Exchange...

Iran ready for any assistance to peace process in Afghanistan

In a telephone conversation with Acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Mohammad Hanif Atmar on Tue. evening, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif expressed his satisfaction with holding inter-Afghan talks and emphasized that Islamic Republic of Iran spares no efforts to offer any assistance to the peace process in Afghanistan. In...

All countries must take all possible measures to save JCPOA

In an interview with RIA Novosti on Tue., he described “JCPOA” as a victory for “Multilateral Diplomacy” and urged countries to take all possible steps to preserve and safeguard this landmark nuclear deal with Iran. He said that the Secretariat of the United Nations would coordinate itself with the...

Palestine not to give up resistance against Israeli occupiers

“The Resistance Movement will not put aside its weapon,” Ziyad al-Nakhalah was also quoted as saying by Palestine’s Al-Quds Arabic-language daily, while reacting to the US and Zionists' struggles to push back Palestinians’ battle against the occupiers. "Not only will we not abandon the weapon of resistance, but we will also...

UAE, Bahrain pact with Zionists means accepting humiliation

The pact is a betrayal of interests and lack of commitment to the Muslim Ummah and its leaders, Azizi added. "Unfortunately, Bahrain and the UAE have sacrificed the goals and aspirations of the Palestinian people to the oppressive demands of the United States and its rulers," he said. "The United...

Iran must turn enemies’ threat into an opportunity: Speaker

He made the remarks in the open session of Parliament on Tue. after hearing the Iranian oil minister’s report on the performance and activities of his ministry and added, “In the current situation that the country is under tough and unjust US sanctions, we cannot settle existing problems with the...

Iran oil export doing well despite US economic war

Speaking in Iranian Parliament’s open session on Tuesday, Bijan Zangane gave a report over the performance of the Ministry of Oil and its development programs, stating, “Increasing the production capacity of the joint oil and gas fields, avoiding crude sales, expanding gas supply, increasing gas exports, supporting domestic manufacturing and knowledge-based...

West Asia under influence of Iran-Iraq brotherly relations

On Tuesday morning, Nouri al-Maliki, the former Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party met and held talks with Ali Akbar Velayati, the top advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran. In the sidelines of this meeting and among reporters, Velayati called Nouri...

Iranian, Russian diplomats discus Syria’s developments

In a meeting in Moscow, Jalali and Bogdanov discussed the ongoing developments in the region as well as the bilateral relations between Iran and Russia. They also exchanged views on the Astana Peace Process on Syria, as well as the developments regarding Palestine, and Iran’s nuclear deal. Jalali and Bogdanov...

Trump threatens Iran with attack using false media report

Pointing to the report by Politico, Trump tweeted “Any attack by Iran, in any form, against the United States will be met with an attack on Iran that will be 1,000 times greater in magnitude!” Citing unnamed US officials, the US outlet claimed that Iran was weighing to assassinate...

Iran reiterates concern on Saudis’ secret nuclear activities

Mohsen Baharvand, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for International and Legal Affairs, met and held talks with Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Mariano Grossi in Vienna on Tuesday. Baharvand called on the IAEA to investigate Saudi Arabia’s secret nuclear activities, saying that the agency should carry out its...

Iran update: COVID-19 claims 140 lives in 24 hours

According to the Ministry’s spokesperson Sima Lari, the total death toll of the disease has hit 23,453 in the country as of Tuesday noon.  She also said that 2,705 new infections have been confirmed since Monday which puts the total number of confirmed cases at 407,353. Lari added that...

Iranian drama goes to Busan filmfest.

Directed by Navid Mahmoudi, the film is on societal concepts and it specifically goes over the issues two young Afghan immigrants who decide to immigrate to Europe but they have to make a big decision to make it happen. Mahmoudi brothers have already created a number of successful hits that...

US intelligence agencies' worn-out policy has no buyer

In a tweet on Tuesday, Iranian Embassy in South Africa wrote, "World not forgotten the #lies of #US_intelligence_agencies to initiate Iraq war." "This worn-out policy no longer has a buyer," it added. "Especially, while the head of #Trump's foreign policy team is also one of those liars and even...

Iran will give appropriate response to any US mistake

He made the remarks on Tuesday, noting that the US president made his remarks not based on the information provided by the intelligence of foreign policy organizations but according to false reports. “We are sorry to see that US officials make their remarks based on distorted reports that even led...

“Shabab al-Moqawama” International Conference in Qom

QOM, Sep. 16 (MNA) – The 7th International Conference of the “Shabab al-Moqawama” with the topic of the strategies for confronting Zionism was held in the conference hall of the Dar al-Shifa seminary in Qom, Iran on Monday.

Govt. spox holds presser

TEHRAN, Sep. 15 (MNA) – Iranian Government Spokesman Ali Rabeie held a press conference on Tuesday afternoon.      ...

Closing ceremony of 10th Imam al-Sajjad (PBUH) Congress

Head of Headquarters to Coordinate Artistic-Cultural Offices of Mosques Hojjatoleslam Habib Reza Arzani, Secretary General of Ahl al-Bayt World Assembly Hojjatoleslam Reza Ramezani, provisional Friday Prayers Leader Hojjatoleslam Mohammad-Javad Haj Ali-Akbari were also attended the ceremony.

Al-Maliki holding talks with Velayati in Tehran

TEHRAN, Sep. 15 (MNA) – Iranian men’s junior handball team is holding a camp in Tehran to prepare for the Asian Championship slated to be held in March 2021, in Shiraz. The required health protocols are being observed in training sessions.    ...