A lawmaker said he believes regional failures have prompted Saudi Arabia to seek the resumption of ties with Tehran, but a sense of pride has caused it to use intermediaries, pointing to the…

The top Iranian and Russian diplomats said the recent Syria peace talks in the Kazakh capital Astana were an “efficient platform” for conducting direct talks between the Syrian government and…

After the new US President Donald Trump signed an executive order barring Iranian travelers along with citizens of six other Muslim-majority countries from entering the US for 90 days, a senior…

The National Iranian South Oil Company and Pasargad Energy Development Company signed a memorandum of understanding and a non-disclosure agreement on Sunday, based on which the latter will study…

US President Donald Trump may have revived prospects for the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines, but the path to their completion still contains hurdles.

Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, is considering as much as $5 billion of investments in renewable energy firms as part of plans to diversify from crude production, according to…

German energy utility EnBW plans this year to install 64 new wind turbines across 16 sites with a total generating capacity of more than 200 megawatts, having doubled its wind power capacity in…

In line with policies to expand liquefied natural gas exports, negotiations are underway with European and Asian gas giants to restart incomplete LNG projects, deputy for engineering and…

 Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company and Parsian Oil and Gas Development Company intend to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the city of Asalouyeh and use it to produce…

A fire broke out at an oil storage facility in south Tehran in the early hours of Sunday. It was put out within hours. 

The fire started after lightning struck an oil storage unit at…

A contract was signed Saturday to build Nahid 2 satellite. Signatories were head of Iran Space Agency Mohsen Bahrami and the head of Iran Space Research Center Hassan Haddadpour.

Under a newly approved law, authorities in Kazakhstan will from this summer have the power to remotely disable mobile telephones that are not registered in a state database.

Officials say…

DigiKala, Iran’s largest e-commerce store, has had its iOS app removed from the Apple Store according to a new report from local technology blog techrasa.com. The blog surmises several reasons why…

Google, Apple and other tech giants expressed dismay over an executive order on immigration from President Donald Trump.

The US tech industry relies on foreign engineers and other technical…

MTN-Irancell, the partly South African owned second largest local mobile network operator, has announced a new service which enables users to have multiple SIM cards all paid from the same account…

Red meat contains numerous vitamins and minerals that are essential for a healthful, balanced diet. In recent years however, studies have suggested that red meat intake can increase the risk of…

Health Minister Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi said on Saturday that over 90% of medicines needed by Iranians are produced in the country.

He made the remarks at the unveiling ceremony of a…

An outbreak of flu has forced the closure of two wards and left 60 patients ill at a leading hospital in the UK. People are being urged to stay away from Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge after…

Iran will participate in ESMO 2017, the premier scientific platform to present oncology research, to be held February 10 -12 in Cape Town, South Africa. The three-day ESMO Africa will put into…

Fifty new health projects will simultaneously be inaugurated during the 10-Day Dawn (Fajr) Festivities to mark the anniversary of the February 11, 1979 Islamic Revolution. “The projects are funded…

According to figures released by Iran’s Legal Medicine Organization, during the first nine months of the current year (ends March 20), 2,361 people lost their lives due to drug abuse, of whom, 2,…

Firefighters who lost their lives in the blaze and the subsequent collapse of the Plasco Building in downtown Tehran last week will be laid to rest on Monday, January 30.

The clean-up operations at the site of the collapsed 17-story Plasco Building in downtown Tehran ended on Friday, January 27, with the debris transferred to the 7-hectare ‘Bagh Chali’ land located…

The ban on US travel for passport-holders of seven Middle Eastern and African states applies to airlines' flight crew, the International Air Transport Association said in an email to carriers…

A bill to support cultural heritage security personnel has been submitted to the parliament, said a senior official at Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization.