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2021-04-09 21:14
Inside JCPOA Friday talks
TEHRAN – The negotiating teams of Iran and the U.S. are present in the Austrian capital to discuss ways to get the 2015 Iran nuclear deal back on track, a move that requires Washington to articulate its measures in that regard.
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2021-04-09 21:13
Salehi says has no intention to run for president
TEHRAN – Ali Akbar Salehi, the vice president and chief of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), has dismissed speculation that he intends to contest the June 18 presidential elections.
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2021-04-09 21:11
U.S. measures to bring Iran to its knees failed, Rouhani says
TEHRAN – President Hassan Rouhani has denounced U.S. sanctions on Iran as “economic terrorism,” underlining that these measures failed to bring the Iranian people to their knees.
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2021-04-09 21:10
Iran highlights ‘special importance’ of strategic relations with China
TEHRAN – Establishing strategic relations with China has been of special importance for Iran, spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry Saeed Khatibzadeh has said as Tehran and Beijing concluded a 25-cooperation plan on March 27.
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2021-04-09 20:00
70 historical petroglyphs discovered in central Iran
TEHRAN – A total of 70 historical rock-carved petroglyphs, which experts believe date back to the Sassanid era, have recently been discovered in Mahallat county of Markazi province in central Iran.
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2021-04-09 19:14
Ten-day lockdown begins tomorrow to curb pandemic
TEHRAN – The National Headquarters for Coronavirus Control has announced a new lockdown for ten days from tomorrow as the country continues to battle a fourth wave of the coronavirus.
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2021-04-09 19:13
National subway train unveiled
TEHRAN – The first domestically-manufactured subway train was unveiled on Thursday with President Hassan Rouhni in attendance, IRIB reported.
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2021-04-09 19:09
Iranian military says to ‘definitely’ respond to attack on merchant ship in Red Sea
TEHRAN - Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi, a senior spokesman of the Iranian Armed Forces, said on Thursday that Iran will “definitely” respond to a recent attack on one of its merchant ships in the strategic Red Sea.
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2021-04-09 18:55
‘Sympathetic Iran’ to begin helping deprived affected by pandemic
TEHRAN – The third phase of Iran-e Hamdel (literally meaning sympathetic Iran) national campaign will kick off by the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan (April 13) to help the financially struggling families affected by the coronavirus.
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2021-04-09 18:53
12 Iranian MPs visit four nuclear sites to monitor nuclear law implementation
TEHRAN - A spokesman for the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee has explained about the details of a visit by a number of MPs to the country's four nuclear sites.
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2021-04-09 18:44
15 newly-found petroglyph sites documented in northwest Iran
TEHRAN – Iranian archaeologists and cultural heritage experts have completed the documentation process of the fifteen sites of petroglyph, which were discovered last year in the plains of Meshginshahr county, northwest of the country.
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2021-04-09 18:43
Archaeological survey to probe Sassanid relics in Sirvan
TEHRAN – Iranian archaeologists are to commence a survey in Sirvan, a western Iranian town in modern Ilam province estimated to date from the Sassanid era (224–651).
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2021-04-09 18:43
Coronavirus: outbound travels slump by 85% during Iranian New Year holiday
TEHRAN – Iran’s outbound travels fell by 85 percent during the New Year (Noruz) holiday (March 21-April 4) compared with two years earlier, according to the head of the Association of Iranian Travel Agencies.
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2021-04-09 18:23
Iranian fans outraged by AFC’s decision to choose Bahrain as host of World Cup qualifiers
TEHRAN - The Asian Football Confederation’s decision to award the hosting rights of the last eight matches of the joint FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 / AFC Asian Cup China 2023 in Group C to Bahrain has outraged Iranian football fans.
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2021-04-09 18:04
South Korean PM to visit Iran on April 11-12
TEHRAN- Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman confirmed on Friday that South Korea’s Prime Minister, Chung Sye-kyun, will pay a visit to Tehran on April 11-12.
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2021-04-09 17:37
Zarif: Logical path is that U.S. ‘should return to full compliance first’
TEHRAN- In a Twitter message on Friday, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran is proposing a “logical path” to bring the 2015 nuclear deal fully to life.
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2021-04-09 17:05
New cultural heritage elements in southeast Iran added to national list
TEHRAN –A total of eight new cultural elements, which are practiced in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, have been added to the National Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
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2021-04-09 17:05
Qajar-era ice storage to undergo restoration
TEHRAN –A Qajar-era Yakhchal (ice storage), which stands tall in Mamuniyeh, the central province of Markazi, is scheduled to undergo some rehabilitation works within a month, a local tourism official has announced.
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2021-04-09 17:02
What’s in Tehran art galleries
An exhibition of miniatures by Hadith Fakhr is currently underway at Aran Gallery. Entitled “The Infinite World”, the exhibition will run until May 7 at the gallery located at 5 Lolagar St., Neauphle-le-Chateau St.
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2021-04-09 17:02
“Humankind: A Hopeful History” at Iranian bookstores
TEHRAN – Dutch popular historian and author Rutger Bregman’s book “Humankind: A Hopeful History” has recently been published by the Logos Publications in Tehran.
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2021-04-09 17:01
By Mohammad Araghi
‘Read and fight for what's right’, Danish-Lebanese artist tells the youth
Now at 29 years of age, the Danish-Lebanese artist is now a father of two, and as a Muslim artist, he is dealing with the reality of today’s lifestyle in the pandemic. Having experienced a journey of self-realization in his early twenties, Ali Al Hadi says Islamic artists have a big responsibility to fulfill.
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2021-04-09 16:09
CBI to allocate 50% of bank deposits in free zones to production units
TEHRAN – Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has agreed to a plan for allocating 50 percent of the bank deposits of the country’s free zones to the production units based in these zones, an official with Iran’s Free Zones High Council announced.
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2021-04-09 16:04
Europe is late but crucial in reviving the nuclear deal: Carnegie Europe
TEHRAN- Vienna, here we come—again. Six years after world powers concluded their negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program in the Austrian capital, diplomats are talking again in the stucco-clad ballrooms of otherwise mostly deserted five-star hotels. Yet despite the genteel setting, the talks will be no waltz in the park.
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2021-04-09 15:33
Iranian wrestlers secure two more Olympics Greco berths
TEHRAN – Iranian Greco-Roman wrestlers Mohammadreza Geraei and Mohammadhadi Saravi secured two Olympics spots at the Asian Olympic Qualifiers in Almaty, Kazakhstan on Friday.
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2021-04-09 15:07
By Mohammad Mazhari
Saudi Arabia behind coup attempt in Jordan: Palestinian analyst
TEHRAN – A Palestinian author believes that Saudi Arabia and the UAE had a key role in the coup attempt in Jordan.
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2021-04-09 15:05
By Mohammad Mazhari
The strategic partnership with China will improve Iran’s regional status: Texas University professor
TEHRAN - An American professor from the University of Texas says the strategic partnership between Iran and China has raised concerns in Washington as it improves Iran’s regional position.
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2021-04-09 14:47
Iranian wrestler Ehsanpour announces retirement
TEHRAN – Iranian freestyle wrestler Behnam Ehsanpour announce his retirement on Friday.
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2021-04-09 14:22
Sanctions, coronavirus pandemic not to hinder Iran’s development projects
TEHRAN- The spokesman of the Economic Committee of the Iranian parliament (Majlis) said that the U.S. sanctions and the coronavirus pandemic could not stop the country’s development projects.
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2021-04-09 14:17
South Pars annual production goals realized: POGC
TEHRAN – Managing Director of Iran’s South Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC), which is in charge of developing the country’s giant South Pars gas field, has announced that the production goals set by the Oil Ministry for the field in the previous Iranian calendar year (ended on March 20) have been completely realized.
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2021-04-09 13:51
Funeral held for environmental defenders
TEHRAN – A funeral ceremony was held in the city of Zanjan on Wednesday for two environmental defenders who were martyred on Monday. Mikaeel Hashemi, 42, and Mehdi Mojallal, 34, were martyred by illegal hunters while protecting the environment.
