Iran Daily

Rouhani: Iran cannot be barred from global energy market

President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday that Iran, as a country rich in oil and gas resources, cannot be excluded from the global energy market despite US attempts to cut the country�s oil exports.

US backtracks on Iran-focused confab in Poland after objections

European objections have forced the United States to backtrack on plans to stage a two-day conference in Poland focused on building a global coalition against Iran.

US Senate to vote on bills to end shutdown

US Senate leaders agreed to hold votes this week on dueling proposals to reopen shuttered federal agencies, forcing a political reckoning for senators grappling with the longest shutdown in US history: Side with President Donald Trump or vote to temporarily end the shutdown and keep negotiating.

Iran finds �very light and sweet� oil in Abadan

Iran discovered a new oil field containing unspecified reserves of �very light and sweet� crude in the southwestern Khuzestan Province, Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said on Wednesday.

Venezuela accuses US of ordering coup

Venezuela�s President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday accused the United States of ordering a coup against his government and called for a �total revision� of ties with the US.

Leader: Iran must increase pace of scientific progress

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said Iran must maintain and increase the pace of its scientific progress

Salehi: Iran to mass-produce homegrown centrifuge machines

Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi unveiled plans for the mass production of the fourth and fifth generations of homegrown centrifuge machines used for enriching uranium.

Defense minister: Iran to try another satellite launch soon

Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami said Iran is planning to launch its second satellite to space after its recent failure to put a satellite into space.

tehran Times

NIOC inks deals worth $1b with domestic companies
Subsidiaries of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) signed nine deals worth $1 billion with domestic contractor companies for maintaining and increasing the production capacity of the country�s aging oil and gas fields, Shana reported.

30 new biologic drugs to be produced
Biotech Development Center (BioDC) aims to support the production of 30 new biologic drugs in the country, said the center�s director, Mostafa Qanei.

Syria warns of attack on Tel Aviv airport

Syria has warned that it could use its right to respond in self-defense to recent Israeli air raids against a civilian airport near Damascus by striking Tel Aviv�s Ben Gurion airport if the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) fails to shoulder its responsibilities and act against the regime�s aggression.

Diplomats: Pompeo might cancel Warsaw conference

The U.S. said Tuesday that a controversial conference on Middle East stability next month in Poland, jointly hosted by the State Department, won�t be focused on Iran and will have a broader agenda the Wall Street Journal reported.

�Russia and U.S., including conspiracies and interference�

On the delicate and critical relations between the United States and Russia, we interviewed Professor Claudio Moffa, professor of History of International Relations at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Teramo.

Why Yemen matters to Saudi Arabia and the West

Yemen is one of the most populous countries on the Arabian Peninsula.

Protesters condemn U.S. arbitrary detention of Marzieh Hashemi
The staff members of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) on Wednesday gathered in front of the United Nations� office in Tehran to condemn the U.S. detention of Press TV news presenter Marzieh Hashemi.

Washington failing to create consensus against Iran, Salehi says

Ali Akbar Salehi, director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), said late on Tuesday that there has been no international consensus against since the conclusion of the 2015 nuclear deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA.

Russian diplomat calls Warsaw conference �counterproductive�

Russia�s Ambassador to the UN Vasily Nebenzya has said that joint U.S.-Poland conference on the Middle East in Warsaw will be �counterproductive�.

Iran to launch a new satellite by January 31

Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami said on Wednesday that Iran will launch a new satellite before the Ten-Day Dawn celebrations marking the
victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Leader pushes for steady scientific progress
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday pushed for efforts to keep up steady scientific progress and to prevent any deceleration in Iran�s scientific advancement.In an address to a gathering of officials and researchers

Iran urges world to end Israeli impunity

Es�haq Al-e- Habib, the Iranian deputy ambassador to the UN, said on Tuesday that the international community should put an end to the Israeli impunity against Palestinians and hold the regime accountable for its crimes.