Iran and the European aviation giant Airbus signed a contract on Thursday to sell 100 jets to Iran Air, paving the way for deliveries to start next month, a year after sanctions against the country were lifted. The deal took weeks of shuttling between Airbus headquarters in Toulouse, France, and Tehran, complicated by a shortage…
A leopards and her cub were seen today at Parvar Protected Wildlife Area in Semnan province. Parvar protected area in Semnan province is in between two different climate: desert and forest. The area of Parvar is more than 66,000 hectares. Persian leopards are the largest and of all the leopards. Their total body length (including…
NIOC and Malaysia’s PETRONAS (Petroliam Nasional Berhad) will ink an MoU this week on development of Cheshmeh Khosh and South Azadegan oilfields. Following the inking of Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) for conducting developmental studies in Azadegan oil field with France’s Total, Britain’s Royal Dutch Shell and Inpex Corporation of Japan, a cooperation agreement will be…
Iran could become the leading tourism market in the Middle East and North Africa region, says an international market analyst. Nikola Kosutic the respected international analyst and head of research for the Middle East region at Euromonitor believes that “the potential is enormous when you consider where they are now, and what they could achieve…
Iranians are getting prepared to celebrate Yalda Night, the longest night of the year, by getting together one more time and being with their family. Yalda Night or ‘Shab-e Chelleh’ (‘Night of Forty’) is an Iranian festival celebrated on the “longest and darkest night of the year”, for example the night of the winter solstice…
Indonesia says it plans to buy 1 million barrels of crude oil from Iran in the first quarter of the next year. Dwi Soetjipto, the chief executive officer of the state-owned Pertamina oil and gas corporation, was quoted by media as saying that that the projected imports from Iran would be provided to the Cilacap…
Germany‘s Medio Energy Invest and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding worth approximately $104 million for the construction of two power plants — wind and solar — in the south of Iran. According to Mehr News Agency, Mahmoud Dashtbozorg, director general of Khuzestan Regional Electricity Company elaborated on the agreement with Medio Energy and said,…
Iran will finalize a contract with French aircraft manufacturer Airbus on the purchase of jetliners next week, said Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi. He added that the details of the contract with Airbus to purchase brand new aircraft will be made public afterwards, Tasnim News Agency reported. During Iranian President Hassan Rouhani‘s…
Yalda Night, known also as the Chelleh Night, falls on December 20, this year. Considered the longest night of the year when the ancient Iranians celebrated the birth of Mithra, the goddess of light, the Yalda Night was registered on the Iran’s National Heritage List in 2008. “Yalda Night” is a traditional Iranian celebration of…
Wedding ceremony among Turkmen natives of Raz and Jergalan, North Khorasan province, has remained virtually the same as that in distant past; like their variegated attire, the ceremony itself is a sort of enigma; wedding is important in terms of bringing tribal glory and economic improvement. Turkmens cherish larger families, since they believe larger number…
