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Iran’s Defense Ministry opens electronics factory
Dec 31, 2020 05:11The Iranian Defense Ministry on Thursday inaugurated a factory manufacturing strategic electronics and telecommunication equipment.
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Iran’s pistachio exports double y/y in 3 months to December
Dec 31, 2020 04:01Iranian pistachio exports have doubled year on year in the three months to late December as exporters expect even better earnings next year with better crops and surging international demand for the nut.
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Iraq to release Iranian funds for vaccine purchase: Minister
Dec 29, 2020 15:47Iran’s Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian says he has reached an agreement with the Iraqi government authorities on how Iranian funds blocked in a commercial bank in the neighbouring country could be used by Tehran for purchase of COVID-19 vaccines from a European manufacturer.
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Iran to produce 1.5 million doses of domestic COVID-19 vaccine in 40 days
Dec 28, 2020 10:06Iran will produce one and a half million doses of a homegrown vaccine within the next 30 to 40 days, said the director of Headquarters for Executing the Order of the Imam after meeting with the researchers who produced the vaccine.
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Iran MPs condemn US blacklisting of al-Mustafa University
Dec 27, 2020 10:05Lawmakers in Majlis (parliament) have denounced illegal US sanctions on al-Mustafa International University, a religious studies institution based in the holy city of Qom.
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Over $1bn worth of Iranian petrochemical plants come on line
Dec 25, 2020 02:59The Iranian government has launched three large petrochemical plants with over $1 billion in new investment as the country pushes ahead with plans to diversify the oil and gas sector by manufacturing more valuable products.
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President Rouhani: We’re doing all in our power to neutralize, eliminate illegal US sanctions
Dec 24, 2020 13:29President Hassan Rouhani said the Islamic Republic is doing all in its power to neutralize and eliminate unjust and illegal sanctions imposed on the country by the administration of outgoing US President Donald Trump.
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Thousands volunteer for human trials of homegrown COVID-19 vaccine in Iran
Dec 23, 2020 11:59Just hours into the start of a national enrollment program for volunteers, almost 10,000 Iranians signed up to take part in the first phase of the human trials of the homegrown COVID-19 vaccine.
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225 Iranian lawmakers denounce European Parliament sanctions resolution
Dec 20, 2020 12:27The majority of lawmakers at Majlis (Parliament) have strongly condemned the European Parliament’s recent resolution that censured Iran under the guise of protecting human rights, and threatened to take reciprocal action.
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INSTEX failed to prove its efficiency in past 2 years: Iran
Dec 20, 2020 03:37Iran says the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX), the financial mechanism proposed by Europeans to enable Iran to get round US sanctions, has failed to prove itself effective in the past two years.