TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met on Wednesday morning with Swiss State Secretary Pascale Baeriswyl in Geneva to discuss a range of issues, including the latest developments in the Middle East.

TEHRAN – Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (TCCIMA) is planning to hold an Iran-Armenia business forum on November 25 in Tehran, TCCIMA portal announced.

یزد - رئیس هیئت مدیره مجمع خیران مدرسه ساز استان یزد گفت: در حال حاضر ۱۰ هزار کلاس درس در استان یزد نیازمند تخریب و بازسازی است.

فرودگاه بین المللی بجنورد با برقراری پرواز به مقصد نجف اشرف اولین پرواز بین المللی را تجربه می کند.

TEHRAN_ The Director of the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) Intelligence Service, Hojjatoleslam Hossein Taeb said that the terror plot against Chief Commander of IRGC Quds brigade, General Soleimani was thwarted.

TEHRAN - Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami launched on Saturday production line for advanced military batteries.

Tehran hosts conference on boosting production via reviving small minesTEHRAN- A national conference on boosting production through reviving and developing small mines was held at Eram Hotel in Tehran on Tuesday, IRIB reported.
The conference was attended by Deputy Industry, Mining and Trade Minister Jafar Sarqini, Head of Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization (IMIDRO) Khodadad Gharibpour, a number of directors and experts in mining sector, entrepreneurs active in projects related to the small mines, and some economists who offered their suggested strategies for reviving the small mines in the country.
Attracting the government’s aids for operating small mines, and recognizing investors and investees for reviving these mines in line with materializing “Resistance Economy” were some objectives of the event.
Establishment of high-capacity industrial units recently in Iran indicates the need for the supply of more minerals as feedstock for these uni..

Over $6b of loans paid to SMEs, semi-finished projects in 3 monthsTEHRAN – Iran’s Ministry of Industry, Mining and Trade announced that in the first three months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-June 21), some 256.17 trillion rials (nearly $6.1 billion) worth of bank loans have been offered to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and semi-finished industrial projects with an over 60 percent physical progress.
Over 37500 projects and production units received bank loans in the mentioned time span, IRNA reported on Monday.
Last week, the industry ministry released a report which indicated that banks and credit institutions provided both industrial and mining sectors with 300 trillion rials (about $7.14 billion) worth of loans in the first two months of the current Iranian year (March 21-May 21), registering a 41.5 percent rise year on year.
According to the data released by the Ministry of Industry, Mining and Trade, the total amount of loans offered to the country’s..

Zarif: Europeans should be concerned over failure to ‘assert’ themselvesTEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that European countries’ failure to establish an effective financial channel to trade with Iran is a “source of concern” since “they have not been able to assert themselves” despite having a larger collective economy than the United States.
Zarif made the remarks in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria broadcast on Sunday, as he was asked by Zakaria “Are you surprised by how week the Europeans have been? They talk about providing an alternative payment system. They sort of set one up. But, let’s face it. It’s not working.”
Zarif answered, “Well, it hasn’t started to work. It should. It is a source of concern, I think, more for the Europeans than for us, that they have not been able to basically assert themselves.”
“Europe is, together, a larger economy than the United States. Certainly if all European oil companies, plus the Chinese and Indians an..

بجنورد- سرپرست دفتر نظارت و بازرسی انتخابات خراسان شمالی گفت: فعالیت های انتخاباتی کاندیداها در استان رصد می شود.
به گزارش خبرنگار مهر، ملک محمد حسن زاده پیش از ظهر سه شنبه در نشست با اصحاب رسانه خراسان شمالی اظهار کرد: با توجه به اینکه هنوز ثبت نام کاندیداهای انتخاباتی آغاز نشده نمی توانیم برخی از اقدامات تبلیغاتی زود هنگام کاندیداها را تخلف محسوب کنیم اما تمام کارهای آنها مورد رصد قرار می گیرد.
حسن زاده با بیان اینکه دو انتخابات مهم مجلس شورای اسلامی و میان دوره ای مجلس خبرگان رهبری را پیش رو داریم، افزود: هیات های نظارت بر انتخابات در استان به زودی تشکیل می شود.
وی در ادامه بیان کرد: ۸۸۶ شعبه اخذ رای برای انتخابات مجلس شورای اسلامی و میاندوره ای خبرگان خراسان شمالی در دوم اسفندماه امسال برای این استان در نظر گرفته شده است.
سرپرست دفتر نظارت و بازرسی انتخابات خراسان شمالی ضمن اشاره به دوره های آموزشی برای بازرسان انتخابات مجلس شورای اسلامی، گفت: دفتر نظارت و بازرسی انتخابات خراسان شمالی چهار هزار و ۴۶۹ نفر ناظر دارد که هم اکنون دوره های آموزش را سپری می کنند.
حسن زاده با اشاره به..