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Iran Strongly Opposed To Nuclear Weapons
The defense minister announced on Tuesday that it will supply large numbers of different types of missiles to the Armed Forces while unveiling various defense projects in the coming days. Speaking in Tehran on Tuesday, Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi said that different types of missiles will be supplied to the military units this week on the occasion of the anniversary of the liberation of ...
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Navy Ready to Counter Threats
The Intelligence Ministry said it has smashed two terrorist groups involved in smuggling weapons into the country. In a statement on Monday, the ministry said, "The enemies of the nation have intensified sabotage activities and [are] making arrangements to conduct different types of seditious acts ahead of the upcoming election." The ministry has managed to 'identify and foil a ...
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FM Spokesman Duein Turkey
The Foreign Ministry said its spokesman Abbas Araqchi will travel to Turkey to discuss bilateral ties as well as regional and international issues with Turkish officials. Araqchi is due to leave Tehran for Ankara on Thursday for a one-day visit at the invitation of his Turkish counterpart Zeki Levent Gumrukcu, ISNA reported on Tuesday. Araqchi , who is also Iran's deputy foreign minister ...
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Tractor Spare Parts Enter Foreign Markets
Domestic Economy Desk With the stoppage of spare part imports, Iran Tractor Manufacturing Company (ITMC) achieved self-sufficiency in the current Iranian year (started March 21), said the managing director of the company. Abolfath Ebrahimi also said on Monday that high quality spare parts of the company have entered both foreign and domestic markets. He listed increasing production, ...
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Iran to Boost Pak Oil Gas Ties
Domestic Economy Desk With the stoppage of spare part imports, Iran Tractor Manufacturing Company (ITMC) achieved self-sufficiency in the current Iranian year (started March 21), said the managing director of the company. Abolfath Ebrahimi also said on Monday that high quality spare parts of the company have entered both foreign and domestic markets. He listed increasing production, ...
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Bangladesh Keen on Expanding Cooperation
Iran is ready to increase bilateral cooperation with Pakistan in all fields, particularly in oil and gas sectors, said the first vice president. In a telephone conversation on Monday with the leader of Pakistan's Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Nawaz Sharif, Mohammad Reza Rahimi expressed hope Tehran and Islamabad will further improve relations during the new Pakistani government's ...
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Largest Aloe Vera Gel Factory Ready for Launch
Domestic Economy Desk With the stoppage of spare part imports, Iran Tractor Manufacturing Company (ITMC) achieved self-sufficiency in the current Iranian year (started March 21), said the managing director of the company. Abolfath Ebrahimi also said on Monday that high quality spare parts of the company have entered both foreign and domestic markets. He listed increasing production, ...
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Barakat Institute Creates 98000 Jobs
Domestic Economy Desk Barakat Foundation Institute (BFI), affiliated to Imam Khomeini Decree Headquarters, has created 98,000 direct and indirect jobs through participation in 130 projects in deprived regions. Hussein Shirzad, the institute's deputy head for investment and economic affairs, announced that the institute has ceded the stocks of eight implemented projects to its partners. ...
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30000 Units Operating In Industrial Townships
Domestic Economy Desk Close to 30,000 industrial units operate across 910 industrial townships, said the deputy head of the Organization of Small Industries and Industrial Townships of Iran. Iraj Movaffaq added that these industrial units have generated 670,000 direct jobs. He referred to unemployment as one of the main problems of the country, adding that the organization generates jobs by ...
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Rice Self-Sufficiency in 3 Years
Domestic Economy Desk With the stoppage of spare part imports, Iran Tractor Manufacturing Company (ITMC) achieved self-sufficiency in the current Iranian year (started March 21), said the managing director of the company. Abolfath Ebrahimi also said on Monday that high quality spare parts of the company have entered both foreign and domestic markets. He listed increasing production, ...
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Gold Silver in Volatile Trading
The price of silver on Monday tumbled to its lowest in more than two and a half years as the negative sentiment that has hit the gold market spread, before recovering late in the New York day. Nicknamed the devil's metal for its volatility, silver fell sharply in early Asian trading, triggering technical selling. The early price fall was exacerbated by low trading volumes in Asian hours, ...
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Japan April Revenues Up
From Page 1 On production issues, demand is expected to pick up, so most likely another rollover, said an OPEC delegate of the outcome of the group's meeting in Vienna. OPEC for now is pumping more oil than its 30 mbpd official target. Output rose by 280,000 bpd in April to 30.46 mbpd, according to secondary sources cited by the report, led by higher output in Saudi Arabia and Iraq. ...
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IKCO to Export 50000 Cars
Japan's exports are expected to have risen in April from a year earlier for a second straight month led by US-bound shipments of cars and Asian demand for electronics parts in a sign a weak yen and global recovery are helping the export-reliant economy. However, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) data is also likely to highlight the costs associated with a weak currency, with the country ...
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Capannori 1st European Zero Waste Town
Capannori, a rural town in the Italian province of Lucca, in Tuscany, boasts a proud history. Six years ago, it became a trendsetter and leader, not just in Italy but throughout all of Europe, as the continent's first Zero Waste town. Today, about 3.5 million Italian citizens carefully separate their waste into colored bags before leaving them on their doorsteps for collection. The ...
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Brazil Human Trafficking Invisible Unpunished
In contravention of international law, in Brazil, human trafficking remains invisible and unpunished, which encourages the practice of trafficking for sexual exploitation, forced labor, illegal adoption and trade in human organs, according to experts. Local laws punish drug trafficking more severely than human trafficking. The sale of drugs carries penalties of between 5 and 15 years, while ...
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Gandhi’s Blood Up for Auction
Society Desk A sudden weight loss is as dangerous as obesity and can adversely damage the liver, warned an Iranian nutritionist over the growing tendency to lose weight in a short time among citizens. Mehdi Zobeiri added that taking measures to slim in a short time can cause fatty liver disease. "Fatty liver disease can occur both due to obesity and rapid weight loss," he said, ...
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China to Build World’s Tallest Dam
Chinese environmental authorities have approved construction plans for what could become the world's tallest dam, while acknowledging that the project would affect endangered plants and rare fish species. The 314-meter-high dam (1,030ft) will serve the Shuangjiangkou hydropower project along the Dadu River in southwestern Sichuan province, according to China's state news agency, ...
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Mining Gold With Corn Starch
In the gold-mining process, the precious metal is often extracted from low-grade ore in a technique known as gold cyanidation. As its name suggests, the process utilizes highly-poisonous cyanide, some of which ends up entering the environment in the mines' tailings, IdeaConnection wrote. That's not so good. Scientists at Illinois' Northwestern University, however, recently ...
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Sunshine Vitamin Helps Treat Asthma
The amount of time asthma patients spend soaking up the sun may have an impact on the illness, researchers have suggested. A team at King's College London said low levels of vitamin D, which is made by the body in sunlight, was linked to a worsening of symptoms, BBC said. Its latest research shows the vitamin calms an over-active part of the immune system in asthma. However, treating ...
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Technology for Editing 3-D Photos Developed
Taking pictures with 3D cameras may start catching on, thanks to an innovation by Brigham Young University computer scientists and developers at Adobe. BYU Professor Bryan Morse and grad student Joel Howard developed methods to remove unwanted objects from 3D photos, PhysOrg wrote. For two-dimensional photos, object removal became possible a few years ago through Adobe Photoshop's ...
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Iran Opens Solar Power Plant
Iran opened a 20-KW solar station in the northeastern city of Birjand, South Khorasan province, on Monday. According to ISNA, 15 KW of the solar power plant's capacity have been connected to the network and the rest has been separated from the network. The solar power plant costs $70,000. The project is aimed at developing renewable energies and solar energies technology. The plant will ...
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Iranians Build Antimicrobial Textiles
Iranian researchers at the Islamic Azad University in Fars province in southern Iran have made antimicrobial textiles, identifying new microorganisms with the capability of producing silver and gold nanoparticles. Nanoparticles produced in a biological method possess vast functions in the industry, since they are economic and do not produce toxic material in the environment, ISNA reported. ...
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More Killed in Iraq Violence
Several bomb blasts killed at least 12 people in Iraq on Tuesday, police said, a day after more than 70 died in attacks on majority Shiites, stoking fears of all-out sectarian war with minority Sunnis. More than 200 people have been killed in the past week as Sunni-Shiite tensions threaten to plunge Iraq back into communal bloodletting, Reuters reported. In Tuesday's violence, three ...
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6 Afghan Policemen Killed
A powerful roadside bomb killed six policemen in western Afghanistan on Tuesday when their vehicle hit the explosives buried in the road, an Afghan official said. Insurgents often use makeshift land mines to target both Afghan government officials and international forces in Afghanistan. The explosives often kill civilians as well, accounting for a large percentage of Afghan civilian casualties ...
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Pakistan’s Sharif Supports Taliban Peace Talks
A powerful roadside bomb killed six policemen in western Afghanistan on Tuesday when their vehicle hit the explosives buried in the road, an Afghan official said. Insurgents often use makeshift land mines to target both Afghan government officials and international forces in Afghanistan. The explosives often kill civilians as well, accounting for a large percentage of Afghan civilian casualties ...
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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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