Home / 2018 / July / 07 (page 2)

Daily Archives: July 7, 2018

World’s highest polo festival kicks off in Pakistan

World’s highest polo festival kicks off in Pakistan

For the past couple of years, the annual event could not be held on its regular dates in early July since it fell in the holy month of Ramadan.Riders from across the country have gathered in Shandur for the annual polo festival. The annual festival brings a great sense of …

Read More »

Finland ready for environmental cooperation with Iran

Finland ready for environmental cooperation with Iran

Keijo Norvanto made the remarks Saturday in a ceremony held in Arak to welcome an expert group dispatched to Markazi province from Finland embassy.Two Finnish companies have so far expressed readiness for developing ties with Iran, Norvanto said.Finland enjoys good potentials in clean energies, water treatment and improving environmental conditions, …

Read More »

Oil sanctions against Tehran to weaken OPEC: Iran official

Oil sanctions against Tehran to weaken OPEC: Iran official

There will remain no such Organization in future after continuation of the sanctions, Moayyed Hosseini Sadr told Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).The US imagines that it can compensate the oil shortage through Saudi Arabia, but it should know that its measure will disrupt OPEC plans because Iran produces five percent …

Read More »

Analyst: EU response to Trump too late

Analyst: EU response to Trump too late

The European Union had assumed that by giving concessions, either on Iran's part or on its own, it could convince Trump to give up opposing the nuclear deal, he said in an exclusive interview with the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) on Friday.'It took too long for the EU to …

Read More »

Account of flame still burning after over 1,500 years

Account of flame still burning after over 1,500 years

The holy place is among the most visited sites by tourists to Yazd. Although the building of the fire temple is not older than 85 years, the fire that was kindled more than 1,500 years ago is still burning and, since then, has never died down.There is an interesting story …

Read More »

Heads of Iran trio branches discuss new econ conditions

Heads of Iran trio branches discuss new econ conditions

President Hassan Rouhani, Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani and Judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani discussed issued like transparency in banking, fighting money laundering, investment in production and employment, supporting the stock market, and selling the shares of public enterprises, and self-sufficiency in producing gasoline.After the US illegally quit the internationally …

Read More »

Car bomb blast kills 18 in eastern Syria

Car bomb blast kills 18 in eastern Syria

Eleven members of Syrian Democratic Forces were among the dead, Head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Rami Abdul Rahman was quoted by France news agency ‘AFP’ as saying.The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are a multi-ethnic and multi-religious alliance of predominantly Kurdish, but also Arab and Assyrian/Syriac militias, as …

Read More »

Funeral ceremony for martyred border guard held in northeastern Iran

Funeral ceremony for martyred border guard held in northeastern Iran

Ali Dost Zadeh was martyred in clashes with armed bandits on July 3 in Saravan border point in Sistan-Baluchestan Province, southeastern Iran.Recently, the police commander of Sistan-Baluchestan province said that a terrorist group was dismantled in Saravan city.A large number of weapons, suicide vests and some explosive booby traps were …

Read More »

UNHRC appoints rapporteur on Iran affairs

UNHRC appoints rapporteur on Iran affairs

Rehman, a Pakistani by nationality, is a professor of Islamic law and Muslim constitutionalism at Brunel Law School.He is replacing Ms. Asma Jilani Jahangir who was a Pakistani human rights lawyer and social activist.Jahangir suffered from a stroke leading to brain hemorrhage in Lahore on 11 February 2018 and later …

Read More »

Mogherini: G4+1 agree to maintain Iran oil & gas exports

Mogherini: G4+1 agree to maintain Iran oil & gas exports

“In Vienna, we confirmed our political determination to keep implementing the deal, which is a strategic security interest for the European Union and the world,” Mogherini wrote on her blog on Friday.“And beyond that, we agreed on actions to maintain Iran’s oil and gas exports, to keep financial channels and …

Read More »