‘Europe’s delay in implementing SPV is unacceptable’

TEHRAN - Kamal Kharrazi, head of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, said on Saturday that the European countries’ delay in implementing the special purpose vehicle (SPV) is “unacceptable”.

“An Inspector Calls” on stage at Tehran theater

TEHRAN – An Iranian troupe is performing English playwright J.B. Priestley’s “An Inspector Calls” at the Mehregan Theater Hall in Tehran.

Ahmad Shamlu’s poems to appear in Arabic 

TEHRAN – Iranian translator Maryam Heidari has recently translated a collection of poems by the Persian blank verse poet, Ahmad Shamlu.

‘Warsaw summit aimed to create consensus against Iran’

TEHRAN – Hamid Aboutalebi, a political advisor to President Hassan Rouhani, said on Saturday the U.S. is trying to revive the Obama era’s global consensus against Iran through the Warsaw summit, after the Trump administration’s unilateral pressure against Iran failed. 

Tehran denounces attack at Colombia Police Academy

TEHRAN – Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi on Saturday voiced regret over the bitter incident of the explosion of a bomb-laden car in front of the Colombian Police Academy in the capital city of Bogota. 

Presidential office doing away with all printers

TEHRAN – All of the printers at the presidential office were removed on Saturday in a move to modernize the government on the occasion of the National Clean Air Day, Mehr reported on Saturday.

Archaeologists, restorers resume work on Manujan fort

TEHRAN – Teams of archaeologists and restorers have commenced a new round of work on the ancient Manujan fort in the southeastern Kerman province.

New eco-lodges come on stream in Yazd

TEHRAN – A total of 18 eco-lodges have been constructed across the central Yazd province from the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2018), CHTN reported.

Iranian province exports $1.25b of wool felt in 5 years 

TEHRAN - Wool felt exports from Iran’s Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari province reached $1.250 billion during the Iranian calendar years 1391-96 (March 2012- March 2017), provincial tourism chief has said.

Gate of All Nations, Hafez Mausoleum sculptures to embellish Iran pavilion at FITUR

TEHRAN – Sculptures of Gate of All Nations and Hafez Mausoleum, two iconic symbols of tourism in Iran, will be showcased at the country’s pavilion at the 39th FITUR tourism trade fair in Madrid, Spain, from January 23 to 27.

Gonbad-e Soltaniyeh: Iran’s magnificent “Taj Mahal” 

TEHRAN - Locally known as Gonbad-e Soltaniyeh, the UNESCO-registered Mausoleum of Oljaytu is a prime tourism destination while traversing Iran.

4 consecutive days of excellent air quality in Tehran 

TEHRAN — In a rare phenomenon Tehraners have breathed excellent air for four consecutive days, Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday.

IME’s worth of trades up 49% in a week

TEHRAN- During weekdays ending up to January 17, while 549,773 million tons (MT) of commodities worth over $547.6 million were traded on Iran Mercantile Exchange (IME), the trading volume and value experienced growth of 36 percent and 49 percent, respectively.

Precious stones, metals export increases 25% in 9 months on year

TEHRAN- Iran’s exports of precious stones and metals during the nine-month period ended on December 21, 2108 rose 25 percent compared to the same period of time in the past year, IRNA reported citing the data released by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Customs Administration (IRICA).

Gas produced in South Pars platform 13B injected to offshore refinery

TEHRAN- Gas produced in platform 13B of Iran’s South Par gas field was injected to the offshore refinery of phase 13 of the gas field development, Payam Motamed, the operator of this phase, announced.

Tehran to host intl. logistics expo in late Jan.

TEHRAN - The 4th International Exhibition of Logistics and Supply Chain related Industries and Equipment is slated to be held during January 23-26 at Tehran International Permanent Fairgrounds, IRIB reported.

Police chief warns of plots to disrupt national unity

TEHRAN – Police Chief Brigadier General Hossein Ashtari on Saturday warned of the enemy’s plots to disrupt national unity ahead of the upcoming rallies marking the 40th anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution.

Air Defense opens new radar site in Sistan-Baluchestan

TEHRAN – Chief of Iran’s Air Defense on Saturday inaugurated a new radar site in the country’s southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, Tasnim reported.

600 kg Europe-bound heroin seized in Iran

TEHRAN – Intelligence Ministry's forces have seized a big cargo of heroin destined to Europe at a southern port, IRNA reported.

576 industrial, mining projects to be inaugurated in early Feb.

TEHRAN- An official from the Iranian ministry of industry, mining and trade informed that some 576 industrial and mining projects will be inaugurated during the Ten-Day Dawn (February 1-10, marking the victory anniversary of the Islamic Revolution), IRNA reported on Saturday.

Persian Gulf Arabs abandoning their homeland

Fed up with social restrictions and political repression, Saudis are leading the way

Canada lies far north of her intended destination, but Rahaf Muhammad is happy to be enduring its harsh winter. The 18-year-old Saudi hoped to end up in Australia after escaping her allegedly violent family. But she was stopped on the way, in Bangkok.

“Dressage”, “Return” win awards at Dhaka film festival

TEHRAN – Two Iranian films won awards at the 17th edition of the Dhaka International Film Festival in Bangladesh, the organizers announced on Friday.

Iranian stuntmen seek domestic film festivals’ recognition 

TEHRAN – Iranian stuntmen came together in a meeting in Tehran on Friday evening to ask the organizers of Iranian film festivals and events to recognize them as a group active in the film industry.

Eslami Nodushan’s “Testimony for Progeny” published in Tehran 

TEHRAN – “Testimony for Progeny”, a book authored by Persian language scholar and expert on Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh Mohammad-Ali Eslami Nodushan, which contains helpful advice for the younger generation, has recently been published in Tehran.

Human rights activists in England voice their protest against Marzieh Hashemi’s detention  

TEHRAN — A group of Human rights activists in England have shown their protest against the illegal detention of the American-born journalist working for Iran’s TV, Marzieh Hashmi, in the United Sates. 

Imam Ali (AS)

He who constantly jests, exposes a part of his intelligence to destruction.

‘Victimized for advocating African Americans’

U.S. District Court confirms Press TV journalist detained as a material witness

TEHRAN –Press TV anchor Marzieh Hashemi was arrested in the U.S. for her advocacy of African Americans, says a petition on change.org under the headline “FREE MARZIEH HASHEMI - American Citizen- Journalist”. crimes. 

Al Shabaab; Nairobi attack, Africa, most breeding ground for Terrorism

 NAIROBI - Wednesday 16th January 2019 a group of militant attacked on a shopping complex horribly in Nairobi and left more than a dozen of citizens dead.

By Martin Love

It behooves largely Muslim lands to avoid becoming like Saudi Arabia

NORTH CAROLINA - A fire broke out in a school building in Makkah back in 2002 from which young female students tried to escape. The Saudi “religious police” allegedly forced some if not all the teen school girls back inside the burning school because they were, in their hasty attempts to escape the fire, not wearing their headscarves and black robes.