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Seminar for introducing Indonesian market slated for late Dec.TEHRAN – Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) plans to hold a seminar on December 31, to introduce potentials and capacities of the Indonesian market for Iranian traders and businessmen, the TPO portal announced. Attended by officials, including Indonesian embassy’s commercial attaché and Iran’s former commercial attaché in Indonesia, the seminar aims to provide an opportunity for the Iranian businessmen and traders to get familiar with Indonesia’s potential areas for cooperation, and collect information about the capacities and opportunities in the mentioned market. Indonesia is one of the important counties with which Iran ... ادامه مطلب

ISIPO to revive 1400 idle production units by March 2020TEHRAN – Iran Small Industries and Industrial Parks Organization (ISIPO) plans to revive 1400 idle production units by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 19, 2020), IRNA reported on Monday, quoting a deputy with ISIPO. “Following a program for boosting domestic production, ISIPO managed to revive 529 idle production units in the first six months of the current calendar year and the number is planned to reach 1400 by yearend,” ISIPO Deputy Head Ali Asqar Mosaheb told IRNA on the sidelines of an SME and startups event in ... ادامه مطلب

Iran ranks third in the world in producing Oxygen 18 used in radio medicineTEHRAN - Iran ranks third in the world in terms of producing Oxygen 18 isotope, which is utilized in radio medicine production. Generally, in the radiopharmaceutical industry, enriched water (H2 18 O) is bombarded with hydrogen ions in either a cyclotron or linear accelerator, creating fluorine-18. This is then synthesized into FDG and injected into a patient. Iran is the third country that has managed to produce Oxygen 18,” says MP Mohammad Ebrahim Rezayee, chief of the nuclear sub-committee of the parliament. The nuclear sub-committee is a ... ادامه مطلب

Iran begins registering candidates for parliamentary pollsTEHRAN – Iran has started registering candidates running for the upcoming parliamentary elections, set to be held on February 21, 2020. Candidates have until December 7 to register, Interior Ministry said on Sunday. Registration began on Sunday morning following an order by Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, Mehr reported. The elections will be held in over 200 constituencies across the country’s 31 provinces. The midterm elections of the Assembly of Experts will also be held on the same date in Tehran, Khorsan Razavi, North Khorasan, Fars and Qom provinces. The Guardian Council will vet ... ادامه مطلب

Navy unveils four homegrown military equipmentTEHRAN – The Iranian Navy has unveiled four homegrown military equipment, with the aim of boosting the force’s defense power. In a ceremony on Saturday attended by Navy Chief Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi, the Navy officially unveiled the unmanned aerial vehicle “Pelikan 2” and the naval mine “Sadaf 2”, Mehr reported. The navigation system “Soren” and the precision guided bomb “Balaban” were also unveiled during the ceremony. Pelikan 2 is a sophisticated long-range drone, suitable for naval patrol and reconnaissance missions. Sadaf 2 has been designed and developed for defensive missions against the surface and ... ادامه مطلب

UK expresses concern over attack on Iran’s consulate in Najaf TEHRAN - British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has expressed concern over attack on Iran’s consulate in the Iraqi city of Najaf, Iranian Ambassador to London Hamid Baeidinejad said in tweet on Friday. A group of rioters stormed into the Islamic Republic’s diplomatic mission in Najaf on Wednesday and set it ablaze. They also replaced the Iranian flag with an Iraqi one. Reportedly, the consulate had already been evacuated of its staff. Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammad Ali al-Hakim has apologized to the Islamic Republic. During a phone call on Thursday, Hakim ... ادامه مطلب

Military aide says Leader has foiled U.S.-Israeli evil policiesTEHRAN – The leadership of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the fight against Takfiri terrorists has foiled the evil polices adopted by Israel, the U.S. and their regional servants, says a top military aide. “The victories of nations in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen are the fruits of the Resistance Front,” Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi said on Saturday, Fars reported. He pointed to the decline of the hegemons’ power in the world, saying the world is moving in a path that would lead to the dominance of oppressed nations over the oppressors ... ادامه مطلب

Senior officials study details of next year’s budget TEHRAN - In a session of the Supreme Council of Economic Coordination on Saturday, President Hassan Rouhani, Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani and Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raeisi discussed details of the budget for the next Iranian calendar year. The next Iranian calendar year starts on March 21, 2020. The top officials also exchanged views on sources of income and also the effects of reforming the budget. In a session of the council in November, the heads of three branches of government discussed revising the structure of the tax system. In a session of ... ادامه مطلب

Tehran, Beijing hold enormous potential for tourism co-op: ministerTEHRAN – Iran’s tourism minister Ali-Asghar Mounesan on Thursday called for tapping into Iran-China tourism capacity, which he referred to it as “enormous”, Fars reported on Friday. Mounesan made the remarks in a gathering of international tourism officials, marketers, hoteliers, private investors, and tour operators, which was held in Beijing, China, on the sidelines of the third ministerial meeting of the Ancient Civilizations Forum. Given the [high] rate of economic and political ties between the two countries, tourist exchanges are also expected to further improve, the minister noted. Elsewhere in his remarks, ... ادامه مطلب

Iranian police seize ancient relics from smugglerTEHRAN – A number of ancient relics, estimated to date from prehistoric times to the [early] Islamic era, have recently been confiscated from a smuggler in Nahavand, Hamedan province, west-central Iran. “The accused was traced and lastly arrested in Nahavand after police received reports from cultural heritage aficionados about him [illegally] keeping relics, some of which date back to the first millennium BC,” a senior police official in charge of protecting cultural heritage said on Saturday, Mehr reported. Recovered objects include 13 silver and copper coins, bronze figurines, seven rings made from silver or ... ادامه مطلب