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  • Relief Foundation provides marriage counseling to 222,000 youths 2021-07-19 17:58

    Relief Foundation provides marriage counseling to 222,000 youths

    TEHRAN – Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation has provided free marriage counseling services to 222,000 individuals over the past [Iranian calendar] year (March 2020- March 2021), Ali Jafari, Deputy head of the Foundation for cultural affairs has announced.

  • Wetlands’ volume detected for first time nationwide 2021-07-19 17:57

    Wetlands’ volume detected for first time nationwide

    TEHRAN – The Department of Environment (DOE) in cooperation with knowledge-based companies detected the volume of wetlands across the country through a combination of aerial photography and satellite images.

  • Iranian knowledge-based products enter Russian market 2021-07-19 17:53

    Iranian knowledge-based products enter Russian market

    TEHRAN – Iran inaugurated a house of innovation and technology in Russia on Tuesday to find new markets for domestic knowledge-based products in the region, ISNA reported.

  • UN provides humanitarian aid to help fight COVID-19 in Iran 2021-07-18 16:58

    UN provides humanitarian aid to help fight COVID-19 in Iran

    TEHRAN – With the contribution of the EU Humanitarian Aid, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) procured 1,000 ventilators to help Iran fight against the pandemic.

  • Over 140 national macro technology projects launched 2021-07-18 16:56

    Over 140 national macro technology projects launched

    TEHRAN – Some 141 national macro technology projects have been launched across the country until June 21, according to the Center for National Macro Technology Projects.

  • COVIRAN vaccine beats Delta variant 2021-07-18 16:54

    COVIRAN vaccine beats Delta variant

    TEHRAN – COVIRAN BAREKAT coronavirus vaccine proved effective against Indian strain, Hojjat Niki-Maleki head of the information center of Headquarters for Executing the Order of the Imam twitted on Saturday.

  • Persian Gulf water transfer project on pipe-laying phase 2021-07-17 17:35

    Persian Gulf water transfer project in pipe-laying phase

    TEHRAN – A project for transferring water from the Persian Gulf to the southern Fars province is in its pipe-laying phase, IRNA reported on Saturday.

  • 1,100 villages with no unemployed 2021-07-17 17:31

    1,100 villages with no unemployed

    TEHRAN – By the end of the current [Iranian calendar] year (March 2022), the number of villages with no unemployed residents will reach 1,100 across the country.

  • A father with 42 daughters in Tehran 2021-07-17 17:11

    A father with 42 daughters in Tehran

    TEHRAN – Akbar Karimi is a married man living in Tehran. He wanted to have a child for 14 years, but his wife could not conceive. The man vowed that God would give him a child so that he could take care of the orphaned girls. Days passed and finally, the wait was over and his vow was fulfilled.

  • Social Security Organization 2021-07-16 22:01

    By Faranak Bakhtiari

    Social Security Law: a new reform in health system

    TEHRAN – The Social Security Organization (SSO) began its work in 1975, when the Social Security Law was approved, as a new transformation in the country's social and health system, providing coverage of wage-earners, salaried workers, homeless, the unemployed, the disabled, and the sick.

  • Pastu Covac neutralizes new COVID-19 strains 2021-07-16 21:53

    Pastu Covac neutralizes new COVID-19 strains

    TEHRAN – Preliminary results of studies show that the Pastu Covac coronavirus vaccine, developed by the Pasteur Institute of Iran, fights very well against new variants of South Africa and India, and in other words, neutralizes them, Alireza Biglari, head of the Pasteur Institute, has said.

  • Hope raises for precious biosphere reserves to survive 2021-07-16 21:47

    By Faranak Bakhtiari

    Hope raises for precious biosphere reserves to survive

    TEHRAN – Gorgan Bay and Golestan National Park are two precious biosphere reserves in the northern Golestan province, that have been endangered, however, the implementation of conservation plans in recent years raises hope for their revival.

  • Lake Urmia level declines by 30cm in Q1 2021-07-14 18:30

    Lake Urmia level declines by 30cm in Q1

    TEHRAN – The water level of Lake Urmia has decreased by 30 centimeters in the first three months of the current [Iranian calendar] year (March 21-June 21) compared to the same period last year.

  • Wind erosion incurs annual loss of $714m 2021-07-14 18:28

    Wind erosion incurs annual loss of $714m

    TEHRAN – Wind erosion brings an annual economic and environmental damage of 30 trillion rials (nearly $714 million at the official rate of 42,000 rials) to the country, according to the latest studies in 2019.

  • Ayatollah Araki: Islamic society’s power depends on returning to divine identity 2021-07-14 18:26

    Ayatollah Araki: Islamic society’s power depends on returning to divine identity

    TEHRAN - Ayatollah Mohsen Araki, a member of the Assembly of Experts, has said if the Islamic society wants to be strong, it must return to its faith and divine identity.

  • Japan, UNDP promote waste management in Tehran 2021-07-14 02:12

    Japan, UNDP promote waste management in Tehran

    TEHRAN – The Municipality of Tehran in cooperation with Japan and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) unveiled reverse vending machines (RVMs) on Tuesday to promote waste management in the capital.

  • Import of coronavirus vaccine to reach 13m doses 2021-07-14 02:10

    Import of coronavirus vaccine to reach 13m doses

    TEHRAN – Twenty shipments of COVID-19 vaccine have so far been imported into the country, and the volume will soon reach 13 million doses.

  • EU allocates €15m for humanitarian projects in Iran 2021-07-14 02:08

    EU allocates €15m for humanitarian projects in Iran

    TEHRAN – The European Union (EU) has allotted €15 million in humanitarian aid to support those most affected by man-made crises, the COVID-19 pandemic, climate-induced, and other natural disasters in Iran.

  • DOE plans post-coronavirus environmental training 2021-07-12 17:07

    DOE plans post-coronavirus environmental training

    TEHRAN – The Department of Environment (DOE) has developed public programs for post-coronavirus environmental education, with the cooperation of non-governmental organizations and environmental activists.

  • Microplastics reach Lut desert 2021-07-12 17:06

    Microplastics reach Lut desert

    TEHRAN – Recent studies by Iranian researchers have revealed the microplastic contamination in the soil of Kalout Shahdad and Lut deserts.

  • Charity allots $2.6m to free inmates of unintentional crimes 2021-07-12 17:05

    Charity allots $2.6m to free inmates of unintentional crimes

    TEHRAN – The Ehsan Foundation, affiliated to the Headquarters for Executing the Order of the Imam, allocated 110 billion rials (nearly $2.6 million at the official rate of 42,000 rials) to release prisoners of unintentional crimes.

  • Iran to mark national marriage week 2021-07-11 16:32

    Iran to mark national marriage week

    TEHRAN – National marriage week is celebrated across the country on July 12-18.

  • Intl. innovation center opens to attract foreign students 2021-07-11 16:30

    Intl. innovation center opens to attract foreign students

    TEHRAN – The first international innovation center of Iran inaugurated in Tehran to attract foreign students to participate in domestic knowledge-based companies and startups, IRNA reported.

  • Thank you! I don’t need a plastic bag 2021-07-11 16:25

    By Faranak Bakhtiari

    Thank you! I don’t need a plastic bag

    TEHRAN – Plastic pollution is getting the whole world in hot water. In Iran, plastic bags have the highest share in the total 4 million plastic waste generated annually, so that, it is time to say no to plastic bags.

  • Tehran-Havana strategic cooperation on coronavirus vaccine production 2021-07-10 17:08

    Tehran-Havana strategic cooperation on coronavirus vaccine production

    TEHRAN – The long history of cooperation between Iran and Cuba in biotechnology has led to a strategic relationship to develop a COVID-19 vaccine to fight against the global pandemic.

  • Maryam Mirzakhani festival honors 25 women scientists 2021-07-10 17:06

    Maryam Mirzakhani festival honors 25 women scientists

    TEHRAN – Twenty-five female scientists received an award by the fourth National Festival of Women and Science, which kicked off earlier in June.

  • Over 27,000 soldiers receive vocational training in 3 months 2021-07-09 17:18

    Over 27,000 soldiers receive vocational training in 3 months

    TEHRAN – Over 27,000 soldiers have received vocational training in the first three months of the current [Iranian calendar] year (March 21-June 21), Habib Erfanmanesh, director of education management at the Technical and Vocational Training Organization, has said.

  • Iranian scientists produce first COVID-19 kit to detect both genes, mutants 2021-07-09 17:17

    Iranian scientists produce first COVID-19 kit to detect both genes, mutants

    TEHRAN – Iranian scientists succeeded in designing and producing the new generation of coronavirus test kit which is able to simultaneously detect the genome and mutation, for the first time in West Asia. With the outbreak of the pandemic, Iran surged its production to meet the country’s need for self-protective equipment along with medical and pharmaceutical items to fight against the virus.

  • Foreign students in Iran to get coronavirus vaccine 2021-07-09 17:11

    Foreign students in Iran to get coronavirus vaccine

    TEHRAN – Foreign students who are studying at Iranian universities will be vaccinated against the virus along with Iranian students, Afshin Akhoundzadeh, an official at the Organization of Student Affairs has said.

  • Philanthropists donate $1.4b to construct schools nationwide 2021-07-07 18:41

    Philanthropists donate $1.4b to construct schools nationwide

    TEHRAN – School building benefactors have allocated a total of 60 trillion rials (nearly $1.4 billion at the official rate of 42,000 rials) to construct educational spaces over the past four years, IRNA reported on Wednesday.