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Iran foreign trade booming as sanctions lifted
Iran�s recent nuclear agreement has made the country�s market lucrative to foreign competitors and opened new horizons in front of Iran foreign trade.

 
Bicycle bomber in Pakistan kills nine
Nine people were killed and more than 35 injured Saturday when a bomber on a bicycle blew himself up near a security forces truck in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, officials said.

 
ISES head: Iran to compile renewable energy roadmap
The First National Conference & Exhibition of Iranian Solar Energy Society on Renewable Energy will be held in Iran during May 4-5, 2016, Said the head of the Iranian Solar Energy Scientific Society (ISES).

 
13 dead after powerful Taiwan quake fells buildings
Relatives of missing residents from a 16-storey apartment complex felled by a powerful earthquake in Taiwan that killed 13 people were praying for miracles Saturday as rescuers scoured the rubble for survivors.

 
President launches new Mashhad-Tehran railway
President Hassan Rouhani launched an electrified Mashhad-Tehran railway on Saturday. The president said two billion dollars has been invested in the project. In January, Iranian and Chinese officials finalized a deal to electrify the railroad.

 
Damascus, Tehran, Moscow slam proposed troop deployment to Syria
Damascus, Tehran and Moscow condemned any deployment of ground forces by foreign countries to Syria.

 
Envoy hails future perspective of Iran-Britain ties
Britain�s Charg� d�Affaires in Iran Nicholas Hopton referred to Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif�s visit to London as a �positive step� toward the normalization of ties between Iran and Britain.

 
Iran: Peugeot would pay compensation for withdrawal during sanctions
The French carmaker Peugeot would pay compensation to Iran according to a new contract signed with Tehran last month, for the losses inflicted through its sudden withdrawal from the Iranian market during sanctions, Iran�s minister of industries, mines and trade said on Saturday.

 
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Tehran secures 300,000 bpd oil sale to Europe
Iran will finalize deals soon with France�s Total, Italy�s Eni and Saras, securing the sale of 300,000 barrels of oil per day to the three European buyers, Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said.

 
Rouhani: National JCPOA has set scene for full-blown development
President Hassan Rouhani who had travelled to Mashhad on Saturday to inaugurate key projects in the city said time is ripe for a shift of focus to a national version of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) which he dubbed JCPOA2, IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.

 
51% of hopefuls cleared to run for Majlis
The elections monitoring team qualified 1,500 more hopefuls of this month�s parliamentary elections. The 1,500 comprised 15 percent of the total hopefuls who had pled against their disqualification, according to Siamak Rahpeykar, spokesman of the elections monitoring team.

 
Vinci eyeing highspeed train station deals in Iran
France�s Vinci SA, which is the largest construction and concessions company in Europe, has said it is in preliminary talks over building high-speed train stations in Iran.

 
Long gone Iranian fossils unveiled in Tehran
Fossils which were long gone and kept in the U.S. were unveiled in the Department of Environment (DoE) on Saturday.

 
Iran says Peugeot would pay compensation for withdrawal during sanctions
The French car-maker Peugeot would pay compensation to Iran according to a new contract signed with Tehran last month, for the losses inflicted through its sudden withdrawal from the Iranian market during the sanctions, Iran�s minister of trade and industry said on Saturday.

 
Ecuador slams Erdogan guards for attack on demonstrators
Newly-released footage shows personal bodyguards of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan violently attacking three female protesters during his speech in Ecuador before wrestling them away.

 
Iran�s Rezaee sees possibility of regional war if Saudis enter Syria
Mohsen Rezaee, the former chief of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, has not ruled out the possibility of a widespread war in the Middle East if Saudi soldiers enter Syria.

 
IRGC chief: Saudis do not dare to send forces to Syria
The chief of Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on Saturday mocked a an announcement by Saudi Arabia that it is ready to deploy troops in Syria, saying the Saudi Army is a �classic� one which is not capable of countering �Islam�s warriors�, a reference to resistance forces fighting the Saudi-backed militants in Syria.

 
Greek prime minister due in Tehran
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is scheduled to visit Tehran by heading a high ranking politico-economic delegation.

 
Lavrov awarded for his contribution to settling Iran nuclear issue
The World Council of Nuclear Workers (WONUC) has awarded a prize to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for contribution to the settlement of the Iranian nuclear program issue, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday.

 
Visit by Iran�s foreign minister shows �warming� relations with UK
A trip to London this week by the Iranian foreign minister, the first such visit in 12 years, has been hailed as a �symbol of warming relations� in spite of decades of mistrust and ongoing differences on regional issues and human rights.

 
Islamic Revolution in Iran remains an enigma: scholar
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