“134 athletes from 13 foreign teams, including Belarus, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, India, Brunei, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Armenia, Iraq, Singapore, Afghanistan, and Indonesia and 34 athletes from two Iranian teams will compete against each other,” Nabavi said.The competitions will begin in the city of Semnan.9411**2050 www.irna.ir

“Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only countries in the world which are still struggling against polio and due to this we run the vaccination program to their resident citizens in Iran,” said Reza Fadaee, PhD, the director of contagious diseases of Isfahan Health Center.“This year, the first phase was carried …

“There is sum of 439 candidates registration since the beginning of the enlisting process,” said Porali-Motlagh.The youngest and oldest nominees are 18 and 88 and the most of the candidates’ age range is 46-50, he also said.“There are 11 women nominees of the whole candidates,” he further said.The final list …

The proposal was made in a meeting held on Wednesday between Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Darmin Nasution and Secretary of Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council (INIC) Saeed Sarkar.As Nasution reiterated, the working group would follow up the implementation of mutual agreements concerning nanotechnology.In a related development, Sarkar met and …

Talking to IRNA, foreign ministry spokesperson Nafees Zakaria said that it is upto the UN to decide on such matters. He said that Pakistan is party to Chemical Weapons Convention and is against use of these weapons by any side. The spokesperson also called for peaceful solution to the crisis …

'This volume indicates a four-percent growth as compared to that of the previous year and is 16 percent away from what had been scheduled,' Modoudi said on the sidlines of a visit to Khosravi and Parviz-khan border crossings on Wednesday night.“We saw a reduction in exports in Kermanshah Province last …

These tournaments are taking place in different weight classes, including -54, -63, -72, -82, and +82 of eight teams from Iraq, Oman, Pakistan, and Afghanistan as well as three teams from Iran.The competitions are judged by 13 foreign and 12 Iranian referees.9411**2050 www.irna.ir

Raymonde Goudou Coffie, Minister of Health and the Fight against AIDS of Ivory Coast, expressed the appreciation in a meeting held in Abidjan on Wednesday with Head of IRCS Amir-Hossein Ziaei.During the meeting, the two officials reviewed ways to develop bilateral relations.The Ivory Coast minister, too, called for the continuation …

'My first priority is to protect Iran and its agriculture,” he said as his election motto.Hashemitaba was also the former head of the National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran.The final list of the candidates eligible to run for Iran's 12th round of presidential election is expected to …

Ambassador of Iran to Pakistan Mehdi Honardoost in a meeting with Humaira Ahmed, Additional Secretary Ministry of Finance, reviewed the arrangements for the upcoming 20th Joint Economic Commission (JEC) meeting in Tehran.Both sides on the occasion discussed Free Trade Agreement (FTA), resumption of banking channels, joint energy projects and launching …