Tehran Times

Iran invites Azerbaijan, Armenia to exercise restraint

TEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has voiced Tehran’s readiness to help soothe the tensions between two of its northern neighbors, namely Azerbaijan and Armenia, which have been caught in a deadly clash.
BY: Ebrahim Fallahi

India sees Iran a vital trade partner, looks for expansion of ties: envoy

TEHRAN- Economic and political relations between Iran and India date back to centuries ago and the two countries have kept their ties throughout many turbulences and ups and downs.
Iraqi PM to visit Iran next week

TEHRAN - Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi plans to visit Iran next week.
Iran to start producing COVID-19 drug remdesivir next week

TEHRAN – Iran will start producing the antiviral agent remdesivir for the treatment of coronavirus patients next week, Health Minister Saeed Namaki said on Wednesday.

Politics

Sherman: Iran now has more operational centrifuges, more nuclear fuel

TEHRAN - Wendy Sherman, the former U.S. nuclear negotiator with Iran, has censured Donald Trump for quitting the 2015 nuclear deal, saying Trump’s decision has led Iran to have now more operational centrifuges and more nuclear fuel.
Iran says U.S. sanctions on Guardian Council run counter to democracy

TEHRAN — Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi has denounced U.S. sanctions on Iran’s Guardian Council, saying sanctions on the election watchdog body are against democracy.
Tehran says gravely concerned over E3’s co-op with U.S. to kill JCPOA

TEHRAN — Tehran has voiced great concerns over any cooperation by the European trio with the U.S. to undermine the nuclear deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

Sirous Pourmousavi named Pars Jonoubi coach

TEHRAN – Sirous Pourmousavi has been named as new head coach of Pars Jonoubi football team.
FIFA ranking: Iran remain second best in Asia

TEHRAN – Iran national football team remained 33rd in world and second in Asia in the latest FIFA ranking released on Thursday.
Wrestler Ghasemi to be awarded 2012 Olympic joint gold

TEHRAN – Iranian freestyle wrestler Komeil Ghasemi will be awarded the 2012 Summer Olympics joint gold medal, the press service of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Tuesday.

Azerbaijani scholar Fariz Akhmedov novelizing poet Shahriar’s life story

TEHRAN – Azerbaijani scholar Fariz Akhmedov has said that he is novelizing the life story of Iranian poet Mohammad-Hossein Behjat Tabrizi, who wrote under the pseudonym Shahriar.
City Theater promoting masks as Tehran sees big rise in COVID-19 cases

TEHRAN – The City Theater Complex joined the national campaign “I Wear a Face Mask” on Wednesday by unveiling a graphic design as Tehran sees a big rise in the COVID-19 cases.
Iranian stunt performers can be groundbreakers in this profession: stuntwoman

TEHRAN – Stuntwoman Atefeh Sahrai, who has collaborated in acclaimed movies such as “A Hairy Tale” and “Murphy’s Law”, has said that Iranian stunt performers can introduce new methods and technics in this profession.

Iranian heavy crude oil price rises 54% in June: OPEC

TEHRAN- Iranian heavy oil price increased $12.71 in June to register a 54-percent rise compared to the previous month, according to OPEC’s latest monthly report published on Tuesday.
‘Govt. can take advantage of capital market for financing development projects’

TEHRAN- The head of Iran’s Securities and Exchange Organization (SEO) said that the government can take advantage of capital market for financing the development projects, IRNA reported.
TPO holds Iran-Austria commodity-country desk meeting

TEHRAN – Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) hosted a meeting of the Iran-Austria commodity-country desk in which the roadmap for economic cooperation between the two countries was discussed, the TPO portal reported on Tuesday.

Fertility rate in Iran drops by 70% in 30 years: AEI

TEHRAN – The fertility rate in Iran has dropped by 70 percent over the past 30 years, which has been the highest decline in human history, Nicholas Eberstadt, the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) wrote in an article.
Open-air museum being set up featuring millennia-old relics in northeast Iran

TEHRAN – A new round of restoration work is due to commence on Tepe Rivi, which has so far yielded magnificent remains of the Bronze Age up to the Sassanid period.
Covid-19 closes museums in Tehran once again

TEHRAN – All museums in Tehran have gone on lockdown again for one more week following the increase in the number of people infected with the coronavirus, IRNA reported.

Trump not caring about human rights in Persian Gulf Arab states: human rights activist

TEHRAN – A former director of the Middle East and North Africa division of Human Rights Watch says the Trump administration does not care about the human rights records of Persian Gulf Arab countries, noting Donlad Trump “cares only about selling weapons and making a profit.”
Any move against Gaza will have significant repercussions on Israel: Palestinian expert

TEHRAN - Analysts believe that Israel's plan to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank could lead to an outbreak of confrontation in the Gaza Strip, especially as the Palestinians have strongly opposed the plan.
Countless Bosnians lost lives as Western powers failed to act fast: Sarajevo University professor

TEHRAN - Joseph J. Kaminski, an assistant professor at the International University of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, tells the Tehran Times that failure of Western powers and the United Nations-led to loss of “countless lives” in the Bosnian War.