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No Link to Spies Held in Saudi Arabia
Iran on Wednesday denied any link to members of a spying ring detained by Saudi Arabia, according to Iranian media. Saudi state media reported on Tuesday that officials had detained 10 people accused of spying for Iran after arresting 18 people in the same case in March. Tehran rejects that charge and has repeatedly denied any involvement in espionage in Saudi Arabia. Iran's Foreign ...
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Iranians Devise New Esophagus Surgery
Iranian scientists have designed a new method to treat surgical thoracoscopy in esophagus atresia and have introduced the method to other countries. "Recently, a new method for esophagus atresia by thoracoscopy was introduced to surgeons across the world after its article was published in the US Pediatric Surgery Journal in March 2013," said a professor at Mashhad Medical ...
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Iran Cigarette Warning Signs Ineffective
Translated by Atefeh Rezvan-Nia Edited by Mohammad Reza M. Karimi Graphic warning labels and images on cigarette packets, currently produced in Iran, are not effective in preventing individuals from tobacco use. Announcing this, Dr. Gholamreza Heydari, the head of Narcotics Research Center in Tehran's Shahid Beheshti Medical University, said the warning signs should be clear and make ...
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Syrians Will Purge Country of Terrorists
Millions of Italians cannot afford to heat their homes properly or eat meat as their country is racked by recession and soaring unemployment, said a report which found the number of people considered seriously deprived had doubled in the past two years. The findings from national statistics institute ISTAT underline the scale of the challenge faced by the new coalition government of Enrico ...
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Amano Iran Has No Atomic Weapons
By Farzam Vanaki & Farzaneh Shokri The areas in which the United Nations (UN) in Iran is primarily focused on are development and providing humanitarian assistance--especially for refugees, said the UN resident coordinator and resident representative of UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Iran. In an interview with Iran Daily, Gary Lewis talked about issues mainly including the scientific ...
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World Needs 31m Jobs Annually
The United Nations Economic Commission of Africa (UNECA) and African Union (AU) recently launched the Economic Report on Africa 2013. "Making the Most of Africa's Commodities" is written jointly by Carlos Lopes, UN undersecretary-general and executive secretary of UNECA, and Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma, Commission Chairperson of AU. One main component of the report is the ...
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China Iran Influential in Settling Syria Crisis
By Farzam Vanaki & Farzaneh Shokri The areas in which the United Nations (UN) in Iran is primarily focused on are development and providing humanitarian assistance--especially for refugees, said the UN resident coordinator and resident representative of UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Iran. In an interview with Iran Daily, Gary Lewis talked about issues mainly including the scientific ...
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Farewell to Iran’s Mother Teresa
Friends, relatives, colleagues and patients paid tribute to Professor Parvaneh Vosough, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Mahak Cancer Hospital, during the funeral ceremony held in Tehran on May 21. Prof. Vosough died on May 19 at the age of 78, Mehr News Agency reported. Everyone in Mozaffar Street loved her green Volkswagen that was a fixture at Ali Asghar Hospital, making evident the ...
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11 Dead in Lebanon’s Tripoli Clashes
At least 11 people have died and more than 100 been wounded in three days of clashes in Lebanon's flashpoint city of Tripoli, a security source said on Wednesday. Fighting between Sunni and Alawite residents of the city was continuing for a fourth day on Wednesday but clashes had become more sporadic, the source said. Large parts of the city of 500,000 people were shut down on Wednesday, ...
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House committee passes Iran sanctions legislation
The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved legislation Wednesday that would impose even tougher economic sanctions against Tehran. The bill seeks to further curb Iran's oil exports, limit Tehran's access to overseas foreign currency reserves, and expand the list of blacklisted Iranian ...
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5 New Military Products Unveiled
Iran unveiled five new military products in a ceremony in the Iranian capital Tehran, the Defense Ministry announced. The ministry said that the new defense products, including weapons and personnel combat equipment, went on display in an inauguration ceremony Wednesday which was attended by Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi and other military officials, Al-Alam reported. On Tuesday, Vahidi said ...
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Ahmadinejad to Pursue GC Decision on Mashaei
Iran on Wednesday denied any link to members of a spying ring detained by Saudi Arabia, according to Iranian media. Saudi state media reported on Tuesday that officials had detained 10 people accused of spying for Iran after arresting 18 people in the same case in March. Tehran rejects that charge and has repeatedly denied any involvement in espionage in Saudi Arabia. Iran's Foreign ...
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Eight Presidential Hopefuls Named
Iran on Wednesday denied any link to members of a spying ring detained by Saudi Arabia, according to Iranian media. Saudi state media reported on Tuesday that officials had detained 10 people accused of spying for Iran after arresting 18 people in the same case in March. Tehran rejects that charge and has repeatedly denied any involvement in espionage in Saudi Arabia. Iran's Foreign ...
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Top Clerics Urge Hopefuls To Respect Law
Religious figures and senior seminary scholars in the holy city of Qom asked presidential hopefuls to abide by the law when the Guardian Council publishes the list of approved candidates for June 14 election. On Tuesday, Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad-Ali Alavi-Gorgani said those who adhere to the law are actually safeguarding the dignity of the Islamic Republic before the watchful eyes of the ...
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Foreign Ministry Extends Condolences Over US Tornado
Iran unveiled five new military products in a ceremony in the Iranian capital Tehran, the Defense Ministry announced. The ministry said that the new defense products, including weapons and personnel combat equipment, went on display in an inauguration ceremony Wednesday which was attended by Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi and other military officials, Al-Alam reported. On Tuesday, Vahidi said ...
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Quakes Hit Hormuzgan Fars Provinces
Religious figures and senior seminary scholars in the holy city of Qom asked presidential hopefuls to abide by the law when the Guardian Council publishes the list of approved candidates for June 14 election. On Tuesday, Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad-Ali Alavi-Gorgani said those who adhere to the law are actually safeguarding the dignity of the Islamic Republic before the watchful eyes of the ...
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US Fearful of War With Iran
Iran unveiled five new military products in a ceremony in the Iranian capital Tehran, the Defense Ministry announced. The ministry said that the new defense products, including weapons and personnel combat equipment, went on display in an inauguration ceremony Wednesday which was attended by Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi and other military officials, Al-Alam reported. On Tuesday, Vahidi said ...
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Amano Iran Has No...
Iran unveiled five new military products in a ceremony in the Iranian capital Tehran, the Defense Ministry announced. The ministry said that the new defense products, including weapons and personnel combat equipment, went on display in an inauguration ceremony Wednesday which was attended by Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi and other military officials, Al-Alam reported. On Tuesday, Vahidi said ...
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Iran pushes ahead with new nuclear plant that worries West
By Fredrik DahlVIENNA (Reuters) - Iran is pressing ahead with the construction of a research reactor that Western experts say could offer it a second way of producing material for a nuclear bomb if it decides to make one, a U.N. report showed on Wednesday.Iran has transported the reactor vessel to the heavy water plant near the central town of Arak but has not yet installed it, the International ...
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Housing Investment Hits Rls120 Trillion
Domestic Economy Desk Currently, 120 trillion rials worth of investments have been made in the housing sector, said the minister of roads and urban construction in Sirjan, Kerman province, on Tuesday. Ali Nikzad added that according to the March 2012 census, close to 21.2 million households live in 21.6 million housing units. "Over 2.1 million rural houses have been reinforced since ...
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Zanjan Iron Reserves At 12m Tons
Translated by Leila Imani Iran exported 1,038 tons of various fruits, worth $786.7 million, in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2013), said the deputy head of Trade Promotion Organization of Iran. Kioumars Fathollah Kermanshahi noted that the figure shows a 29.8-percent and 25.8-percent increase in terms of value and weight respectively compared with the corresponding figure of the ...
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Electricity Exchange With 7 Neighboring States
Translated by Leila Imani Electricity exports to neighboring countries will exceed 12 billion kilowatt-hours kw/h by the end of the current Iranian year (started March 21), said the deputy energy minister for energy and electricity. Mohammad Behzad said Iran exchanges electricity with Armenia, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iraq and Afghanistan, Fars News Agency reported. He ...
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15000 Tons of Egg Exported
Translated by Leila Imani Iran exported 1,038 tons of various fruits, worth $786.7 million, in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2013), said the deputy head of Trade Promotion Organization of Iran. Kioumars Fathollah Kermanshahi noted that the figure shows a 29.8-percent and 25.8-percent increase in terms of value and weight respectively compared with the corresponding figure of the ...
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Armenia to Continue Energy Cooperation
Bangladesh's Finance Minister Abu Ma'al Abdul Muhith said his country is highly interested in joining the multibillion-dollar project, which will take Iran's gas reserves to Pakistan and probably India. "If Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline is expanded up to India, we can join it," the Bangladeshi minister said in the capital Dhaka on Tuesday, Fars News Agency reported. ...
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Twofold Rise in Potato’s Regional Sales
Translated by Leila Imani Iran exported 654,000 tons of potato to regional countries in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2013), showing a twofold rise compared with the corresponding figure of previous year. Announcing this, Hassan Khadangi, director general of the Vegetable Office of Agricultural Jihad Ministry's Department for Horticultural Production, said about 350,000 tons of ...
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Iran will have men in space within ten years
Iran will have astronauts in space within the next ten years, according to government officials who recently revealed to Iran news media the Iranian Space Agency’s long-term space objectives.
Iran has pursued an ambitious space program in recent years, entering the so-called ‘Asian Space Race’ and launching the country’s first rocket in 2004, followed in 2009 by the launch of an entirely domestically-built satellite, thereby becoming the 9th country in the world to have achieved orbital-launch capability. Read more
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