Iranian Oil Terminals Company (IOTC) has completed the strategic project of renovation and overhaul of Kharg Oil Terminal in the Persian Gulf with the aim of boosting oil export capacity, managing…

Iran expects to announce the first tender for its oil and gas development projects in the first quarter of next year, heating up the race for its multibillion-dollar energy market among…

Negotiations are underway between National Iranian Drilling Company and three Italian companies, namely Agip, Saipem and Drillmec to finalize a memorandum of understanding on cooperation between…

Russia will start supplying natural gas to Crimea in cthe oming days, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. "In the next two or three days we will announce the completion of works and that the…

Based on the latest report by the Central Bank of Iran, the economy experienced a 7.4% growth during the first half of the current fiscal year (started March 20) compared with the corresponding…

Tariff rates on flat steel imports will be cut down by half to 10% in a bid to balance the domestic steel market, Deputy Industries, Mining and Trade Minister Jafar Sarqeyni announced during a…

Europe's Airbus signed a firm contract on Thursday to sell 100 jets to Iran Air, completing a return by western plane giants and paving the way for deliveries to start next month, a year after…

Tehran Stock Exchange’s main index shed 434 points or 0.5% during the week that ended December 21 to end at 80,250.

IFX, Iran Fara Bourse’s benchmark, added 5.9 points or 0.7% to end the…

Chairman of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri said Iran has mastered the skills for handling warfare in cyberspace.

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari discussed bilateral relations and regional developments with Lebanon’s newly-elected Prime Minister Saad Hariri on…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday the regaining of full control of the northern city of Aleppo was a victory for his Russian and Iranian allies as much as his own country.

A vice president said there is consensus among reformists and moderates to field President Hassan Rouhani for reelection in the May 2017 vote.

President Hassan Rouhani said Iran is determined to expand relations with the Eurasian Economic Union and engage in preferential trade with its member states.

The president made the…

Iran denounced a UN resolution to establish a panel on war crimes cases in Syria, stating that the measure could frustrate attempts to produce a political solution to the six-year-old conflict.

European governments are quietly warning the incoming Trump administration that the US will get the blame if any new economic sanctions on Iran lead to the collapse of the 2015 nuclear deal.

Researchers from the Harvard University Chan School of Public Health found that women physicians tending to hospitalized patients over 65 had fewer patients die under their care than their male…

Stricter controls have been imposed on the use of pesticides and wastewater in irrigation in the past two years by the Health Ministry’s Environment Health and Safety Office.

Unmethodical…

Gender selection procedures in the country are offered since 2004 to couples who want to choose the sex of their child before birth for different reasons including dreams of raising a son or…

Psychological disorders comprise an urgent health problem in today’s world, said head of State Welfare Organization Anoushiravan Mohseni Bandpei. “About 25% of the Iranian population are grappling…

Children make up almost a third of all human trafficking victims worldwide, while women and girls comprise 71%, according to a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report.

Research conducted by the Iran Drug Control Headquarters (IDCH) recently, shows that 28% of Iranians aged 15 to 64 showed an inclination for illegal drugs as they believed that “drugs such as…

The Disaster Mitigation and Management Organization of Iran has allocated $2.5 million (100 billion rials) to fight avian influenza in seven provinces.

The announcement was made by Esmail…

Freezing temperatures and frost have cost saffron and pomegranates farmers in Khorasan Razavi Province an estimated $216.5 million (8,660 billion rials) in losses, said Mojtaba Mazrouei, head of…

A comprehensive database on breast cancer was launched on Thursday in Shiraz, Fars Province in the presence of deputy health minister for research and technology Reza Malekzadeh. The database will…

With plans to develop Hendurabi’s tourism infrastructure, the Persian Gulf island is expected to become ready to host travelers during the upcoming Iranian New Year holidays known as Norouz (…