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Category: Latest News
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Iran has reduced investment in oil sector
Iran’s Minister of Oil says investment in the oil and petroleum sector in the past four years has fallen from $40 billion to less…
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Residents, groups pitch in to fight Lorestan forest fires
The Romeshgan Forests in Lorestan Province have been on fire since Sunday and continue to burn amid unsuccessful attempts to put them out. Winds…
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Government pulls financial aid from high-income households
The Rohani administration announced that it has stopped paying government financial aid to two million households. The benefit payments were set up after government…
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Migrants push past police to enter Macedonia
Migrants held behind barriers at the Macedonian border managed to jostle their way through on Saturday night and break the police barrier. The Associated…
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UK foreign minister reopens Tehran embassy
British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond took part in the reopening of the British Embassy in Tehran on Sunday August 23. Hammond announced that the…
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New British charge d’affaires to reside in Iran
A spokesman for the Iranian foreign ministry said on Saturday August 31 that following the reopening of the British Embassy in Iran, diplomatic relations…
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Water issues force Fars to end rice production
Rice cultivation in Fars Province has been banned due to a water shortage, Iran’s Agriculture Organization reports. A spokesman for the organization told Tasnim…
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Turkish parliamentary elections set for November
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced that parliamentary elections will take place in Turkey on November 1. The German News Agency reports that…
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Fires destroy forest areas in two provinces
Forty-five hectares of forest in Kermanshah Province and five hectares of the Sardasht Forest in Western Azerbaijan have been destroyed by fire. IRNA reports…
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New Iranian reformist party elects leader
ILNA reports that a former member of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, Mr. Ali Shakourirad, has been elected as chairperson of the Union of…
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Britain to reopen Tehran embassy this weekend
The British Embassy in Tehran will open on August 23, Al-Arabi Al-Jadid reports, quoting informed British sources. The report indicates that only 10 countries…
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National broadcaster makes appeal for more money
The head of Iran’s Seda va Sima has called on the Rohani administration to increase the national broadcaster’s budget. The Fars news agency reports…