By saeed sobhani

Sanders challenges Biden over Iraq war

The troubled mistake of the former vice president of U.S.

Former US Vice President Joe Biden's support for the Iraq war has become a big trouble for him. Many analysts believe that this could create a major crisis for Biden during the first phase of the Democratic primaries.

By Martin Love

Demand that the Mideast become a nuclear-weapon-free zone!

NORTH CAROLINA - Petty and small-minded is the sole way to describe the restrictions on Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif’s movements to a six-block area around the United Nations complex while he is in New York to address a UN group. This kind of action and mentality is the stuff of petty tyrants, not befitting the alleged leader or government of an “empire” that has any serious, responsible sense of itself or of others overseas or internally who don’t happen to be “Caucasian”. Or “Western” or whatever.

Bill on protection of animals and wildlife still awaiting consideration

TEHRAN – While it has been over 3 years that a bill on protection of animals and wildlife has been proposed, it is still waiting to be discussed by the Majlis (Iranian Parliament), Khabaronline reported on Thursday.

IRCS rescues over 3,800 from death in month

TEHRAN – The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) has saved some 3,878 individuals from June 21 to July 20 within the framework of a national rescue and relief scheme, IRCS director has said.

Distracted driving main cause of road accidents last month

TEHRAN – Distracted driving was the main cause of traffic-related accidents being responsible for 34 percent of the crashes happened during the Iranian calendar month of Khordad (May 22-June 21), Nader Rahmani, a senior traffic police official has said. With a share of 20.8 percent, driving at an unsafe speed was the second major cause of road accidents happened in the country during the last month of spring, he explained.

Russia’s Putin welcomes any detente between Iran, U.S.

TEHRAN – Russian President Vladimir Putin has said his country would welcome any detente between the United States and Iran.

Launching integrated forex market in last stages: CBI

TEHRAN- Central Bank of Iran (CBI) announced that launching integrated forex market in the country is in the last stages, IRIB reported.

Tehran experiences clean, healthy air for 102 days

TEHRAN – According to the Air Quality Control Company, 102 days of clean and good air quality have been reported in the capital since the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21).

CIOFC to boost oil production in Sa’adat Abad oil field

TEHRAN – The executive operation of a development project for maintaining and enhancing oil production at Sa’adat Abad oil field in central Iran commenced on July 17, Shana reported.

‘300 companies omitted from privatization plan for current year’

TEHRAN- Head of Iranian Privatization Organization (IPO) announced that the organization deleted 300 state-run companies from the list of companies that their shares were planned to be transferred to the private sector in the current Iranian calendar year (ends on March 19, 2020).

Iran dismisses rumors Fordow nuclear site is closed

TEHRAN – Behrooz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), has dismissed reports of closure of Iran’s Fordow nuclear site, saying the facility is being used for research on vacuum systems used to enrich uranium.

Iran's refining capacity grows nearly 40% since March 2017

TEHRAN – Head of National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC) said Iran’s crude oil and gas condensate refining capacity has increased by 38.8 percent since 2017.

‘Over 6,500 stone processing units operating across Iran’

TEHRAN - Director General of Mineral Industries Office of the Ministry of Industry, Mining and Trade Seifollah Amiri said over 6500 stone processing units are currently active across the country, 500 of which are exporting to global markets.

Iran to save €85m in a year by indigenizing auto parts

TERHAN - Iranian Deputy Industry, Mining and Trade Minister for Industrial Affairs Farshad Moqimi said the country’s car makers will soon sign deals worth $7.4 trillion rials (about €157.4 million) with domestic spare parts manufacturers, which will save the country €85 million in a year.

Iran’s spring foreign tourist arrivals surge 40.66 percent

TEHRAN - The number of foreign visitors arriving in Iran surged 40.66 percent during spring, which corresponds to the first three months of the current Iranian calendar year, compared with the same period last year, data from the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Organization showed on Saturday.

Iran is becoming a drone superpower: The Hill

TEHRAN – Iran is quietly building up an arsenal of locally-produced drones that it is exporting to its allies in the region, The Hill argued in a piece published on Friday.

22% of classrooms nationwide made smart

TEHRAN – Smart classrooms constitute 22 percent of the total classrooms across the country, head of the department for information technology at the Ministry of Education has announced.

Nationwide crafts exhibit underway in Kermanshah

TEHRAN – A nationwide sales exhibition has brought together tens of Iranian craftspeople in Kermanshah, western Iran.

Scorching summertime: festival of ice-cream, cold drinks opens in Tehran

TEHRAN – A festival of ice-cream and cold drinks opened to the public on Thursday at the Eshraq Cultural Center, northeast Tehran.

Europeans are all talk and no action, MP says

TEHRAN – Alaeddin Boroujerdi, a member of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, has criticized European countries for failing to fulfil their obligations under the 2015 nuclear agreement, saying the Europeans are all talk and their inaction is unacceptable.

Montazeri urges Nigeria to send Sheikh Zakzaky to Iran for treatment

TEHRAN – Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, Iran’s prosecutor general, has urged the Nigerian judiciary to release Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky, the top Shiite cleric and leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), and send him to Iran for medical treatment.

Zarif says capture of British tanker should be pursued through legal procedures

TEHRAN – On Saturday, British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt telephoned Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif about a British oil taker seized by the IRGC in Strait of Hormuz on Friday night.

‘Cuba, Iran culturally resistant to economic pressure’

TEHRAN – Simon Rodriguez Pedro, Cuban co-chairman of Iran-Cuba parliamentary friendship group, has called for expansion of ties between Iran and Cuba.

Zarif says engagement is losing credibility

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that engagement with the international community “is losing credibility”.

Bolton’s nuclear enrichment remarks lack legal validity: Shamkhani

TEHRAN - Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, has said that U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton’s remarks that Iran should not be allowed to enrich uranium “have no legal credibility”.

By Negar Asadi

Zarif says U.S. has ‘shot itself in the foot’ by leaving JCPOA

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that the U.S. has “shot itself in the foot” by withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the JCPOA.

Iranian athletes win three gold medals at Asian AKF Championship

TEHRAN – Iranian athletes claimed three gold medals at the 2019 Asian Karate Federation Senior Championship on Saturday.

IIDCYA to entertain children with traditional puppet show “Mobarak and the Flying Carpet”

TEHRAN – A traditional Iranian puppet show titled “Mobarak and the Flying Carpet” will be staged by Iranian director Hamed Zahmatkesh at the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA) tomorrow. 

Four cineastes to receive lifetime awards at Iran Cinema Celebration

TEHRAN – The organizers of the 21st Iran Cinema Celebration announced on Saturday that four veteran cineastes will receive lifetime achievement awards during the gala.

Leader meets Iranian satirists

TEHRAN – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei met a number of Iranian satirists in his office on Thursday evening.