First day of the 32nd Fajr International Music Festival hosted Rembrandt Frerichs Trio from the Netherlands and Iranian kamancheh virtuoso Hesam Inanlu at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on January 13. Djivan Gasparyan performs at 32nd Fajr Intl. Music Festival Armenian musician and composer Djivan Gasparyan performed at Milad Tower Conference Center on Friday during the first…
Iranian weightlifting champion Kianoush Rostami has been nominated by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) for Best Lifter of the Year 2016. Rostami, who is a world and Olympic champion, has been placed among the candidates for the ‘Jenő Boskovics Lifter of the Year Trophies for 2016’ by IWF. International Weightlifting Federation has announced names of…
Iran’s deputy energy minister said an international tender will be soon invited over improving the efficiency of power plants’ generation capacity from 33 to 40 per cent. Houshang Falahatian, while stating that the average efficiency rate in the country’s power stations are expected to climb from the current 38 to over 40 per cent in…
Greece’s Olympiakos signed Panionios’s Iranian striker Karim Ansarifard in the January transfer window on Thursday. The Iranian international striker joined the top Greek team with a contract reportedly worth €400,000, Tasnim News Agency reported. Ansarifard had already caught the eye of a number of European top-flight clubs such as the Netherland’s Feyenoord Rotterdam, France’s Olympique…
India‘s annual oil imports from Iran surged to a record high in 2016 as some refiners resumed purchases after the lifting of sanctions against Tehran, according to ship tracking data and a report compiled by Thomson Reuters Oil Research and Forecasts. The sharp increase propelled Iran into fourth place among India’s suppliers in 2016, up…
Bulgarian volleyball club Shumen W completed the signing of Iranian international player Maedeh Borhani. Borhani, 29, is the first Iranian woman player who joins a European volleyball team. The opposite spiker joined Shumen W from Iranian volleyball club Bank Sarmayeh. “We agree with the transfer but we have to find a replacement for our player….
The operator of phases 20 and 21 of the super giant South Pars Gas Field says phase 21’s platform is currently recovering 27 million cubic meters of natural gas per day, saying the platform is faced with no restrictions in supplying gas to onshore refining facilities. Alireza Ebadi said one third of the gas recovered…
Iran says it will need at least 55 billion dollars in investment in its petrochemical sector to bring its annual output to 150 million tons from the current 60 mt/y production capacity within the next 10 years. Managing Director of the National Petrochemical Company (NPC) Marziyeh Shahdaei has said Iran will need $20b in fresh…
A delegation of government have attended Mehrabad Airport to celebrate landing of the first Airbus A321, as part of the lucrative deal President Rouhani had signed with European giant of the air industry. The government encourage had notably Minister of Roads and Urban Planning Abbas Akhundi, Head of AEOI Ali Akbar Salehi, a number of…
A delegation, comprising senior officials of Poland’s largest oil company, is scheduled to visit Tehran in coming days aiming to ink a contract for developmental of Iranian oilfields. Poland has begun new cooperation with Iran in the post-JCPOA era over development of oil trade as well as collaborations for investment in upstream sector of Iranian…
