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India leads Asian cuts in imports of Iranian oil ahead of waiver review
India has cut Iranian oil imports by almost one-fifth since December, the sharpest cut among Asian buyers, in a move that should increase its chances of winning a new US waiver next month on sanctions targeting oil trade with Iran.Sanctions imposed by the US and Europe to force a halt to a controversial nuclear program that Tehran says is for peaceful purposes saw Iran's oil exports more ...
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47 Dossiers Presented to UNESCO
Translated by Leila Imani The dossiers of 26 and 21 cultural and natural heritages have been presented to UNESCO respectively, said director of Parseh and Pasargad Foundation. Mohammad Hassan Talebian added that Iran joined the Convention on the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritages in 1975. He noted that 190 countries are members of World Heritage Committee, 157 of which have ...
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Sony Classics Wins Rights to ‘The Past’
'Romain Rolland the Man and His Work', a book written by Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig, has been translated into Persian by Mohammad Majlesi. The book has been released by 'Donya-e No' Publications in 335 pages. Rolland was a French novelist, dramatist, essayist, mystic, and pacifist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915. He had a strong sense of social ...
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Poll Most Iranians Will Vote
A car bomb exploded near a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims north of Baghdad on Monday, killing eight people, Iraqi police and a local official said. The explosion also wounded at least 15 people, they said, AFP reported. The pilgrims were on their way to a Shiite shrine in Samarra, which was bombed in February 2006, unleashing a wave of sectarian bloodletting in which tens of thousands of people ...
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Ahmadinejad Inaugurates Coke-Producing Plant Projects
Ahmadinejad Inaugurates Coke-Producing Plant, Projects President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated a coke-producing plant in the southeastern province of Kerman on Tuesday. The construction of Kerman's Kouhbanan coke-producing plant cost EUR5mln plus $12 million (300 billion rials), Fars News Agency reported. The annual output of Kouhbanan plant is 500,000 tons of coke for use in ...
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Syria Confab Aimed At Political Solution
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will take part in ceremonies to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, later this month, a spokesman said on Tuesday. The announced was made by Foreign Ministry spokesman Seyed Abbas Araqchi during his weekly press briefing in Tehran on Tuesday. The spokesman noted that Iran has ...
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Final Presidential List Today
Final Presidential List Today Interior Ministry's Elections Headquarters says the final list of candidates for the 11th presidential election of the Islamic Republic will be announced on May 22. Secretary of Iran's Elections Headquarters and Deputy Interior Minister Seyyed Solat Mortazavi said on Monday that the Interior Ministry would announce the names of the candidates on ...
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Pentagon Requests $79bn for Afghan War
Pentagon Requests $79bn for Afghan War The Pentagon has asked Congress for nearly $80 billion to cover the cost of the war in Afghanistan in 2014. The request for $79.4 billion in fiscal year 2014 is slightly lower than the war funding of $87.2 billion for the current fiscal year, Pentagon press secretary George Little told reporters, APP reported. The proposed funding for Afghanistan ...
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Queiroz Lauds Ferguson Calls Him ‘Exceptional’
From Page 1 The Iranian team's boss also lauded Ferguson's dignity and commitment. Meanwhile, Queiroz said that he will never invite Mehdi Rahmati and Hadi Aqili to the team. In January Mehdi Rahmati, in a surprise move withdrew from the national team citing some personal problems, Mehr News Agency wrote. Aqili also left the national team's camp on the night before the match ...
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New Hepatitis B Vaccine Uses Polymeric Nanoparticles
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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Sudden Weight Loss Harmful
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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Oil Demand Hike Forecast
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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Myanmar Urged to Stop Violence Against Muslims
Oil Demand Hike Forecast The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will need to pump slightly more oil than it thought in 2013 and expects global consumption to be much higher in the rest of the year. This indicates a stronger market that argues against any calls for supply restraint when the group meets on May 31. OPEC in a monthly report forecast 2013 demand for its ...
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Iraq Blasts Kill 8 Pilgrims
From Page 1 Several international human rights organizations have accused the foreign-sponsored insurgents of committing war crimes. Iran has repeatedly rejected foreign intervention in Syria's internal affairs, calling for national dialog as the only way out of the country's prolonged impasse. Iran-IAEA Talks Referring to the latest talks between Iran and the IAEA, Araqchi ...
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President to Attend OAU Anniversary in Ethiopia
In the run-up to Iran's presidential and city and village council elections, media outlets have been conducting polls to gauge public opinion ahead of the upcoming vote. According to a new opinion poll carried out by Iranian media outlets, the majority of respondents in the capital, Tehran, said they will definitely take part in the elections, Press TV reported on Tuesday. A total of ...
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Deputy FM UN Envoy Review Afghan Developments
From Page 1 Several international human rights organizations have accused the foreign-sponsored insurgents of committing war crimes. Iran has repeatedly rejected foreign intervention in Syria's internal affairs, calling for national dialog as the only way out of the country's prolonged impasse. Iran-IAEA Talks Referring to the latest talks between Iran and the IAEA, Araqchi ...
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Envoy West Cannot Stem Scientific Progress
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will take part in ceremonies to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, later this month, a spokesman said on Tuesday. The announced was made by Foreign Ministry spokesman Seyed Abbas Araqchi during his weekly press briefing in Tehran on Tuesday. The spokesman noted that Iran has ...
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Inhumane Sanctions Target People
From Page 1 Several international human rights organizations have accused the foreign-sponsored insurgents of committing war crimes. Iran has repeatedly rejected foreign intervention in Syria's internal affairs, calling for national dialog as the only way out of the country's prolonged impasse. Iran-IAEA Talks Referring to the latest talks between Iran and the IAEA, Araqchi ...
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5 New Military Products
From Page 1 Several international human rights organizations have accused the foreign-sponsored insurgents of committing war crimes. Iran has repeatedly rejected foreign intervention in Syria's internal affairs, calling for national dialog as the only way out of the country's prolonged impasse. Iran-IAEA Talks Referring to the latest talks between Iran and the IAEA, Araqchi ...
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Armed Forces Will Be Equipped With Range of Missiles
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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Ex-UK IAEA Envoy Slams US Deception
Former British ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency Peter Jenkins has criticized the US top nuclear negotiator in Iran-P5+1 group talks for her misleading briefing on Iran to the US Congress. Jenkins wrote in an analysis for IPS news's foreign policy section LobeLog that the US diplomat Wendy Sherman started her Congress briefing on Wednesday without any reference to the US ...
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West at Impasse Over Illegal Sanctions
Former British ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency Peter Jenkins has criticized the US top nuclear negotiator in Iran-P5+1 group talks for her misleading briefing on Iran to the US Congress. Jenkins wrote in an analysis for IPS news's foreign policy section LobeLog that the US diplomat Wendy Sherman started her Congress briefing on Wednesday without any reference to the US ...
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Two Terrorist Groups Broken Up
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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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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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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