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France Changes Tone on Iran Over Syria
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has stressed the Islamic Republic's key role in the region, saying regional crises cannot be settled without Iran's cooperation. Salehi made the remarks in an interview with Al-Mayadeen TV in reference to the ongoing crisis in Syria. The unrest in Syria began over two years ago and many people, including large numbers of Syrian soldiers and security ...
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Austrian Award for ‘Facing Mirrors’
Iranian filmmaker Negar Azarbaijani's acclaimed movie 'Facing Mirrors' has been awarded at the 2013 Identities Queer Film Festival in Austria. 'Facing Mirrors' picked up the audience award of this year's festival held in the Austrian capital, Vienna. Produced by Fereshteh Taerpour, the movie weaves together the lives of two women with different social and cultural ...
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Iran Willing to Expand Ties With Italy
Russian President Vladimir Putin in a message congratulated the election of Hassan Rohani as Iran's new president, describing him as a very experienced man. "The trend of future talks with Tehran officials depends on the current Iranian leaders, including the country's president-elect who is a highly experienced person and a former negotiating party to the talks on Iran's ...
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Iranian Doctors Train Iraqi Colleagues
Russian President Vladimir Putin in a message congratulated the election of Hassan Rohani as Iran's new president, describing him as a very experienced man. "The trend of future talks with Tehran officials depends on the current Iranian leaders, including the country's president-elect who is a highly experienced person and a former negotiating party to the talks on Iran's ...
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Top British Court Quashes...
Russian President Vladimir Putin in a message congratulated the election of Hassan Rohani as Iran's new president, describing him as a very experienced man. "The trend of future talks with Tehran officials depends on the current Iranian leaders, including the country's president-elect who is a highly experienced person and a former negotiating party to the talks on Iran's ...
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New Chapter in Ties
Russian President Vladimir Putin in a message congratulated the election of Hassan Rohani as Iran's new president, describing him as a very experienced man. "The trend of future talks with Tehran officials depends on the current Iranian leaders, including the country's president-elect who is a highly experienced person and a former negotiating party to the talks on Iran's ...
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Tehran Instrumental in Settling Mideast Crises
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has stressed the Islamic Republic's key role in the region, saying regional crises cannot be settled without Iran's cooperation. Salehi made the remarks in an interview with Al-Mayadeen TV in reference to the ongoing crisis in Syria. The unrest in Syria began over two years ago and many people, including large numbers of Syrian soldiers and security ...
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China Calls for Fresh Nuclear Talks
China has called on Iran and the group of six major world powers of the P5+1 to hold another round of negotiations as soon as possible following the Islamic Republic's presidential election. During her weekly press conference on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Beijing expects Iran and the P5+1 (Britain, China, France, Russia, and the US plus Germany) to ...
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Iran Interaction Will Improve Regional Situation
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has stressed the Islamic Republic's key role in the region, saying regional crises cannot be settled without Iran's cooperation. Salehi made the remarks in an interview with Al-Mayadeen TV in reference to the ongoing crisis in Syria. The unrest in Syria began over two years ago and many people, including large numbers of Syrian soldiers and security ...
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Syria No-Fly Zone Against Int’l Law
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has stressed the Islamic Republic's key role in the region, saying regional crises cannot be settled without Iran's cooperation. Salehi made the remarks in an interview with Al-Mayadeen TV in reference to the ongoing crisis in Syria. The unrest in Syria began over two years ago and many people, including large numbers of Syrian soldiers and security ...
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AEOI Chief Invited to Russia Forum
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has stressed the Islamic Republic's key role in the region, saying regional crises cannot be settled without Iran's cooperation. Salehi made the remarks in an interview with Al-Mayadeen TV in reference to the ongoing crisis in Syria. The unrest in Syria began over two years ago and many people, including large numbers of Syrian soldiers and security ...
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Narcotics to Be Set on Fire
Over 1 ton of narcotics will be set on fire in the northern Mazandaran province to mark the start of the National Week of Anti-drug Campaign on June 26, officials said on ...
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Mazandaran Fruit Output At 200000 Tons
Domestic Economy Desk Production of stone fruits will cross 200,000 tons across Mazandaran province, said managing director of Mazandaran Horticulturists Association. Mohammad Reza Sha'bani put the area under stone fruit cultivation at 14,000 hectares. He explained that the harvest of stone fruits has begun in Mazandaran and will continue until Aug. 22. Sha'bani said ...
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2nd Phase of Kavian Complex Underway
Domestic Economy Desk The second phase of Kavian Petrochemical Complex in Bushehr province, which is currently underway at full speed, will be completed in the current Iranian year (started March 21). Announcing this, Ali Mohammad Bosaqzadeh, supervision manager of National Petrochemical Company (NPC), said the implementation of the project is in its final stages. Bosaqzadeh said the plan ...
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Gov’t Approves Foreign Investment Projects
Domestic Economy Desk The government has approved foreign investment projects valued at $54 billion, said the deputy economic affairs and finance minister. Behrouz Alishiri said in the 176th meeting on foreign investment that eight foreign investment projects have been approved. Alishiri noted that the projects are aimed at increasing the production of copper ore and concentrate, float ...
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No Oil Swap Deal With Russia
Oil Ministry Spokesman Alireza Nikzad Rahbar dismissed speculation about a crude oil swap deal with Russia. He made the remark in reaction to media and press speculation that Iran swaps crude oil with Russia, taking delivery of crude oil from Russia in the North and supplying in kind in the South, IRNA reported. Nikzad stressed that the Oil Ministry has undertaken no talk or coordination to ...
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453 Companies in Mashhad Construction Expo
Domestic Economy Desk The 16th International Exhibition of Construction Industry and Air-Conditioning Systems opened on Tuesday at Mashhad's International Fairground with 453 domestic and foreign companies in attendance. Announcing the above, Seyyed Mohammad Seyyedi, the head of Iran's International Exhibitions Association, said the domestic companies are mainly from Tehran, East ...
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Most Imports From 5 Countries
Domestic Economy Desk Production of stone fruits will cross 200,000 tons across Mazandaran province, said managing director of Mazandaran Horticulturists Association. Mohammad Reza Sha'bani put the area under stone fruit cultivation at 14,000 hectares. He explained that the harvest of stone fruits has begun in Mazandaran and will continue until Aug. 22. Sha'bani said ...
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Climate Change Threatens Trouble in Near Future
From Page 1 "The revolution the book began isn't over," she said, with a large portion of this activity still left out of GDP calculations and policy decisions. Youngest Woman "When you don't have all of that in front of you, you just make really bad policy, she said. "You make very bad policy about the next generation, about the environment." Elected ...
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Foreign Transactions Exceed $11b
Egyptian Investment Minister Yehya Hamed said on Tuesday his country's economy grew by 2.2 percent during the fiscal year 2012-13, citing it as a proof of Egyptian economy's capabilities to stand despite its intense political conditions. Hamed said the government targets to boost economic growth rate to 3.5 to 4 percent in the coming fiscal year, official news agency MENA reported. ...
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Iran-Oman Trade Reaches $250m
Japan's trade deficit rose nearly 10 percent in May to 993.9 billion yen (nearly $10.5 billion) as rising costs for imports due to the cheaper yen matched a rebound in exports, the Ministry of Finance reported on Wednesday. Exports rose 10.1 percent in May over a year earlier to 5.77 trillion yen ($60.7 billion) while imports also surged 10 percent, to 6.76 trillion yen ($71.1 billion), ...
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Fars to Renovate 34 Edifices
Translated by Leila Imani About 34 historical edifices of Fars province will be renovated in the current Iranian year (started March 21), said the head of the province's cultural heritage, handicrafts and tourism department. Qodratollah Tajbakhsh also referred to the plans drawn up for the current year and said the renovation of Parseh-Pasargad Complex, the mausoleums of Sa'di and ...
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Health Tourism on Agenda
The practice of medicine in Persia has a long and prolific history. Iranian academic centers like Jundishapur University in 3rd century AD were a breeding ground for eminent scientists from different civilizations. These centers successfully followed their predecessors' theories and greatly extended their scientific research through history, Wikipedia reported. In recent years, some ...
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Diamond Mining Endangers Angola’s Antelope
Environmental campaigners are urging the Angolan government to halt plans to mine diamonds inside a national reserve that is home to the world's last wild population of a rare antelope, the Giant Sable. There are believed to be fewer than 100 purebred animals left and the species is listed as "critically endangered" on the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of ...
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Husband Travelling to Find Kidney for Wife
Larry Swilling has been on a months-long quest: He's searching for a kidney for his wife. The 78-year-old, who has been looking for a compatible kidney donor for 76-year-old Jimmie Sue since last September, has caught the attention of the Web, CBS reported. But almost a year later, and despite lots of goodwill and plenty of offers from around the globe, he still does not have a match. It ...
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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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