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Iranian startup offers saffron farmers opportunity to sell directly to consumer
9 June 2018 - Coming from a saffron farming background, three young entrepreneurs based in South Khorasan Province have launched a startup named Keshmoon ['sowing'] which seeks to provide customers with the chance to purchase quality saffron from experienced growers directly. The startup is gradually gaining traction with Iranians. (more)

Keeping the competition out: Iran startups thrive despite sanctions
6 October 2017 - Their [Iran's technology entrepreneurs'] startups and e-commerce apps are flourishing, driven by government infrastructure support and young Iranians educated both in the country and abroad. Some are even drawing foreign investment in a way that Iran's dominant oil industry has yet to achieve since most international sanctions were lifted early last year under a nuclear deal with world powers. (more)

Iran: TM says will support organic food producers
18 September 2017 - Demand for organic food in Iran has been growing in recent years. Consumers in increasing numbers are looking for organic food ... To address the demand, head of Tehran Municipality's Fruit and Vegetables Markets Management Organization, Abdolhossein Rahimi has said that the number of organic food stalls in the municipality-run vegetable and fruit markets will increase. It has been reported that only 45,000 hectares of the cultivated area in the country is used for producing organic crops, Rahimi said, calling it 'meager' compared with growing demand. To encourage organic farming, the official said the TM organization is willing to allocate market space at lower prices ... (more)

Norway's Scatec Solar in talks to boost Iran's solar power
15 September 2017 - Norway's Scatec Solar is in talks to build its first solar power plants in Iran, its chief executive told Reuters, joining a wave of foreign energy firms looking to invest in the oil major. The Oslo-listed firm, which builds and operates solar power plants worldwide ... Iran's firms and 80 million inhabitants are heavily reliant on natural gas and oil to generate power. However, air pollution is helping drive Iranian interest in expanding renewable energy capacity. (more)

Isolation by the West fuels a tech startup boom in Iran
5 June 2017 - The Islamic Republic remains in many ways cut off economically from the rest of the world. Big-name Western brands shun the market for fear of violating sanctions that remain in place even after the country's landmark 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. In their place, a surprisingly active tech startup scene has sprung up. It's driven by a growing number of Iranian millennials who see their country of 80 million people not as an isolated outcast but as a market ripe with opportunity. (more)

Iran: UN chief hails Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action as 'historic achievement'
21 July 2016 - In a statement on Wednesday, the UN chief congratulated Iran and the participants in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the first anniversary of the 'historic achievement' and commended progress made so far. On 20 July last year, the Council adopted resolution 2231 (2015), endorsing the JCPOA under which Iran pledged that it would not seek, develop, or acquire nuclear weapons. (more)

Iran says good commercial relations with Britain can resume
4 February 2016 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday that good economic and commercial relations could resume with Britain. 'Iran and Britain have had traditionally good commercial and economic relations and I think those can resume,' Zarif said at Chatham House in London. 'We need to work together on moving the political relations forward.' (more)

British Airways to resume flights to Iran
3 February 2016 - British Airways will resume direct flights from London to Tehran from July, renewing links with the Iranian capital after sanctions were lifted. The British airline followed Air France-KLM in confirming its intention to restart flights to Tehran after Iran curbed its nuclear program in return for the lifting of U.S., EU and United Nations sanctions in January. British Airways said it had a long history of flying to Tehran and offered its first scheduled flights to the city in 1946. (more)

Deals and warm words flow as Iran President visits Europe
26 January 2016 - Italy and Iran signed billions of dollars of business deals on Monday at the start of a visit to Europe by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani aimed at rebuilding his nation's ties with the West after years of economic sanctions. Heading a 120-strong delegation of business leaders and ministers, Rouhani will spend two days in Rome before flying to France on Wednesday, looking to polish Tehran's diplomatic credentials at a time of turmoil in the Middle East. A pragmatist elected in 2013, Rouhani championed the 2015 accord under which Iran curbed its nuclear program in return for the end of U.N., EU, and some U.S. sanctions this month. (more)

Iranian leader gives Pope rug, wants Pope Francis to pray for him
26 January 2016 - Iran's President and Pope Francis have exchanged gifts and wishes for hope and prayers after they met privately at the Vatican. Pope Francis shook hands warmly with President Hassan Rouhani, who is trying to shape a role as regional conflict solver for Iran after the recent nuclear accord led the West to lift sanctions. (more)


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Weapons do not make Iran invincible: A surprising method to reduce conflict
23 October 2012 - Invincibility is a commendable goal--but can powerful weapons really provide an invincible defense shield? writes Dr David Leffler, executive director of the Center for Advanced Military Science, in Iranian.com. 'Invincible' means 'incapable of being defeated', he says. Military strategists everywhere acknowledge that conventional means of defense are powerless to protect the nation completely against modern destructive technologies. Iran's leaders today have the option to consider and adopt a new, surprising, and scientifically verified method--Invincible Defense Technology (IDT), which has absolutely nothing to do with high-tech defense systems, bullets, bombs, or killing. In fact, it has the potential to diminish the role of these approaches in the provision of national and international security. . . . IDT is the best way for Iran to counter its daunting challenges of internal and external security. (more)

Iran: The First International Congress on Meditation
13 July 2006 - During an historic conference in Iran, entitled First International Congress on Meditation, Dr Hussain Khan presented the benefits of the Transcendental Meditation Programme. (more)


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Iran: Dozens of schoolgirls taken to hospital after new gas poisonings
1 March 2023 - Dozens of girls from 26 schools in Iran are reportedly being treated for poisoning at hospitals after another wave of apparent toxic gas attacks. More than 1,000 students have been affected since November. They have suffered respiratory problems, nausea, dizziness, and fatigue. Many Iranians suspect the poisonings are a deliberate attempt to force girls' schools to close. (more)

False belief poison cures virus kills over 700 in Iran
27 April 2020 - The false belief that toxic methanol cures the coronavirus has seen over 700 people killed in Iran, an official said Monday [27 April]. ... Alcohol poisoning has skyrocketed by ten times over in Iran in the past year, according to a government report released earlier in April, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (more)

Iran designates as terrorists all U.S. troops in Middle East
30 April 2019 - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani signed a bill into law on Tuesday declaring all U.S. forces in the Middle East terrorists and calling the U.S. government a sponsor of terrorism. The bill was passed by parliament last week in retaliation for President Donald Trump's decision this month to designate Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards a foreign terrorist organization. It was not clear what the impact of the new Iranian law might have on U.S. forces or their Middle East operations. (more)

Iran reports massive flood damage to farms
4 April 2019 - Flooding has caused hundreds of millions of dollars of damage to Iranian agriculture, an official said on Thursday (April 4), as the parliament speaker questioned whether government funds would be adequate to compensate communities and farmers. About 1,900 cities and villages have been affected by floods and exceptionally heavy rains since March 19. (more)

Schools close under blanket of smog in Iranian capital
19 December 2015 - Schools across Tehran will be closed on Sunday (20 December) and residents have been warned to stay at home as a thick smog of pollution hangs in the air, officials said on Saturday. Outdated vehicles and inconsistent enforcement of emissions regulations are the main drivers of pollution in Iranian cities, which officials have blamed for thousands of deaths from respiratory illnesses. (more)

Iran says sentences Washington Post reporter and bureau chief Rezaian to prison
22 November 2015 - An Iranian court has sentenced Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian to a prison term, the state news agency said on Sunday quoting the judiciary spokesman, a case that is a sensitive issue in contentious U.S.-Iranian relations. Jason Rezaian, 39, is the paper's Tehran bureau chief and has both U.S. and Iranian citizenship. The Washington Post said last month that the verdict, issued soon after Iran raised hopes of a thaw in its relations with the West by striking a nuclear deal with world powers including Washington, was 'vague and puzzling'. In the indictment, Iranian authorities said Rezaian had written to U.S. President Barack Obama and called it an example of contacting a 'hostile government', the Post said. (more)

Iran's supreme leader bans negotiations with the United States
7 October 2015 - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday banned any further negotiations between Iran and the United States, putting the brakes on moderates hoping to end Iran's isolation after reaching a nuclear deal with world powers in July. His statements directly contradict those of moderate Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who says his government is ready to hold talks with the United States on how to resolve the conflict in Syria, where the two countries back opposing sides. Khamenei often invokes an unspecified 'enemy' when talking about Western powers, particularly the United States and Israel, which he suspects of plotting to overthrow the Islamic Republic. (more)

Drug abuse in Iran rising despite executions, police raids
12 February 2015 - Officials say methamphetamine production and abuse of hard drugs are skyrocketing in Iran despite potentially lethal criminal penalties for users if they are caught. The increase is partly because Iran is the main gateway for the region's top drug exporter, Afghanistan -- and partly because Iranian dealers are profiting so handsomely. Anti-narcotics and medical officials say more than 2.2 million of Iran's 80 million citizens already are addicted to illegal drugs, including 1.3 million on registered treatment programmes. They say the numbers keep rising annually, even though use of the death penalty against convicted smugglers has increased, too, and now accounts for more than nine of every 10 executions. (more)

Methamphetamine use soars in Iran as lifestyles speed up
8 December 2014 - Women in headscarves and men in tatty clothes puff on a glass pipe as smoke swirls around their faces. The pictures published by Iranian media and blogs in recent months are a sign of a new drug epidemic: shishe, or methamphetamine. In less than a decade, methamphetamine use has skyrocketed in Iran to the point where now about 345,000 Iranians are considered addicts, according to official statistics. Struggling university students have begun abusing it to stay up longer and try to boost their performance in school. Women have been sold the drug in beauty salons with the promise that it will help them lose weight, according to local media reports. (more)

Acid attacks in Iran sharpen row over Islamic dress and vigilantism
5 November 2014 - It is a question all Iranians are asking: who is stalking the streets of Isfahan, throwing acid into women's faces? The crimes coincided with the passage of a new parliamentary bill that allows private citizens to enforce 'morality' laws. The bill has sparked a clash between hardline politicians, who overwhelmingly support it, and moderates including President Hassan Rouhani. The split is an illustration of the wider political challenges Rouhani faces from his hardline opponents. cid attacks are rare in Iran and authorities, including conservative clerics, were quick to condemn them. Suspicions have fallen on religious vigilante groups. (more)

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