TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Energy Minister Ali-Akbar Mehrabian inaugurated the country’s first solar cell factory in Khomein county, in central Markazi province, in a ceremony on Thursday.
The pilot 150-megawatt (MW) plant has been set up…
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Iran planning to launch 3 satellites into space – Iran News Daily
TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran is going ahead with the launch of three satellites into orbit in line with a national plan to develop the space industry over the last 10 years.
In the first meeting of the Supreme Council of Space on Friday,…
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Some $4b allocated to support knowledge-based firms – Iran News Daily
TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Innovation and Prosperity Fund affiliated with the Vice Presidency of Science and Technology has earmarked a sum of 170 trillion rials (nearly $4 billion at the official rate of 42,000 rials) to support knowledge-based…
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Polish Travelers Continue Their Expedition Through Iran – Iran News Daily
TEHRAN (Iran News) – On Tuesday, the Embassy of Poland held an exhibition “The History of Polish Mountaineering” on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first expedition of Polish mountaineers by Jelcz to the high mountains and the…
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Iran Struggles with COVID-19 in 2020
Iran reported its first deaths from the new COVID-19 virus on February 19, 2020. It soon became one of the world’s early epicenters. The Health Ministry claimed that the disease had been spread by travelers between Iran’s holy city of Qom and…
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Part 1: Leading Iran Nuclear Scientist Killed
On November 27, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a prominent nuclear scientist, was assassinated in a roadside attack about 40 miles east of Tehran. Western and Israeli intelligence had long suspected that Fakhrizadeh was the father of Iran’s covert nuclear…
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Dubai, Bandar Lengeh Ferry Resumes Operation – %
TEHRAN (Iran News) – The ferry route between Bandar Lengeh, a port in the southern Iranian province of Hormuzgan, and Dubai has resumed operation after eight months of closure due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
According to the…
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First UAE Passenger Flight to Tel Aviv Landed – % %
TEHRAN (Iran News) – The first passenger flight from the United Arab Emirates to occupied Palestine landed near Tel Aviv on Monday, a month after the UAE and Israel signed an agreement normalizing ties.
Etihad Airways flight EY 9607 from Abu…
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IranAir to Resume Flights to Cologne – Iran News Daily
TEHRAN (Iran News) – National flag carrier IranAir announced it will resume flights to Germany’s Cologne as of October 30.
The airline announced the issue on Thursday, Mehr News Agency reported.
The flight, No. 729, leaves Imam Khomeini…
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Three-day Travel Restrictions Imposed in 5 Iranian Cities –
TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Iranian president has approved a proposal to impose three-day travel restrictions in five cities hit hardest by the coronavirus outbreak, the health minister said.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet…
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