Iran’s Chabahar; big chances for investment
IRNA – Chabahar has a free trade zone and two ports, completion of first phase by the public sector has given the…
Tag Archives: Iran’s Sistan and Balouchestan province
56% rise in Sistan-Baluchestan exports to Afghanistan
Financial Tribune – More than $181 million worth of goods were exported from the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan to Afghanistan during the…
Iranian intelligence forces smash Jaish ul-Adl terrorists: Official
Tasnim – Iran’s intelligence forces have managed to identify and smash a terrorist cell affiliated with the so-called “Jaish ul-Adl” terrorist group…
Two Iranian border guards killed in clashes with terrorists in southeast
Press TV – Iranian police say two border guards have been killed in clashes with members of a terrorist group in the…
Sistan and Baluchestan prov. customs export over $772mn products in 9 months
MNA – Observer of Sistan-Baluchestan Customs and Director General of Zahedan Customs Reza Rasti said that about $772,959,515 worth of products were…
Fuel smuggling in Iran: A strange narrative
Financial Tribune | Hamid Molazadeh: The Tehran government’s protestations about fuel smuggling from the eastern and southern borders have become a permanent…
Chabahar-Muscat shipping line to resume operation next month
IRNA – Chabahar-Muscat passenger shipping line, shut down for two years, will resume operation to commute passengers next month, a senior official…
Iran to develop new farming systems in southeastern region of Sistan
Tasnim – The Iranian Central Organization for Rural Cooperatives (CORC) plans to adopt new measures to optimize use of natural resources in…
Number of Pak passengers entering Iran through Mirjaveh grows 81% in Q1
MNA – Number of Pakistani passengers entering Iran via Mirjaveh joint border has increased by 81 percent in the first six month…
Sweden, Norway, Austria condemn Zahedan terrorist incident
IRNA – Ambassadors of Sweden, Norway and Austria in Tehran on Wednesday condemned Wednesday terrorist attack on a bus, in which a…
Three days of mourning declared in Sistan-Baluchestan over deadly blast
IRNA – Governor General of Sistan-Baluchestan Ahmad Ali Mouhebati declared three days of mourning in the province after a deadly blast in…
Air Defense opens new radar site in southeast Iran
Tasnim – Iran’s Air Defense commander inaugurated a new radar site in the country’s southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan on Saturday.…
India takes over operations of part of Chabahar port in Iran
Times of India – India has taken over operations of the strategic in the Sistan-Balochistan Province of energy-rich Iran’s southern coast, the…
Sistan and Baluchestan power capacity to exceed 2.6 GW by 2021
MNA – Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said on Tuesday that the electricity generation capacity in Sistan and Baluchestan province is set to…
150bn Rials worth of credit allocated in Sistan and Baluchestan prov.
MNA – Head of Islamic Revolution Mostazafan Foundation Mohammad Saeedikia revealed the allocation of 15 billion rials worth of credit to one…
Efforts underway to enhance trade relations with Iran: Pak minister
IRNA – Pakistan Minister for Finance Asad Umar has said that efforts are underway to build strong trade relations with all the…
Iranian authorities under fire after deadly school blaze
Al-Monitor – A blaze on Dec. 18 at a girls’ school in the southeastern Iranian border town of Zahedan — the capital…
Iranian Media: School fire kills 3, resembles 2012 blaze
Voice of America – Iranian media say a Tuesday school fire that killed three girls in Iran’s impoverished southeast indicates the country…
Chabahar port, Iran’s winning card in trade with South Asia, CIS
MNA | Ebrahim Fallahi: In southeastern Iran, on the Sea of Oman, there is a port city called Chabahar which is the home…
Iran arrests 4 suspects in recent suicide bombing
AP — Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency is reporting that the country’s authorities have arrested four suspects in a suicide car bombing…
Photos: Deadly car bomb attack hits Iran’s SE port city of Chabahar
Tasnim – A terrorist car bomb explosion has hit near a police post in Iran’s southeastern port city of Chabahar, leaving two…
Iranian media: Sandstorm in Iran sends 95 people to hospital
AP — Iran’s semi-official Mehr news agency says 95 people were taken to hospitals after suffering breathing problems during a sand-and-dust storm…
Intense dust storm hits Iran’s Sistan and Balouchestan, disrupts life
Tasnim – An official with Iran Meteorological Department in Sistan and Balouchestan said dust concentration in the southeastern province’s air is around…
Photos: Darak beach
Tasnim | Erfan Samanfar: Darak is a an attractive sand beach on the rims of Oman Sea, south of the Iranian southeastern…
Chabahar port city; undiscovered gem in southern Iran
IFP- Chabahar, located in Sistan and Baluchestan Province in southeast of Iran, is a beautiful port and a Free Trade Zone on…
The challenging geopolitics of the port at Chabahar
The Diplomat | Harsh V. Pant: Last week saw the inauguration of the first phase of the strategic Chabahar port by Iranian…
IRGC nabs assailants in recent terrorist attack in SE Iran
Tasnim – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Friday it has arrested the perpetrators of an August 19 attack in…
Soldier dies in armed attack on government office in Southeast Iran
Tasnim – Gunmen attacked a government building in a small town in southeast of Iran on Tuesday morning, killing a soldier serving…
Sistan coastal projects underway
Financial Tribune- Work has begun on developing four coastal tourism resorts in southern Sistan-Baluchestan Province on the shores of the Sea of…
Anti-aircraft gun seized in police raid on terrorist arms depot in SE Iran
Tasnim – Police forces in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan raided an arms depot run by the so-called Jaish al-Adl…
IRGC pushing for development of border province
Tasnim– Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force said the force has mobilized all available resources for development of…
Six die in Sistan-Baluchestan floods
Financial Tribune- Heavy rainfall in the past week in Sistan-Baluchestan Province caused flooding in 13 counties: Kenarak, Chabahar, Nikshahr, Fanouj, Iranshahr, Bazman,…
One killed, near 1700 houses damaged as floods hit Southeastern Iran
Tasnim – The governor of Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan on Friday announced that one person has been killed and…
Police bust criminal gang southeast of Iran
Tasnim – The Iranian Police smashed an armed gang in a village in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan. After intelligence…
$500 mln allotted to Iran border province development
Tasnim – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has issued an order to withdraw a sum of $500 million…
A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on December 13
Iran Front Page- Newspapers today covered the order by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei to allocated $500m…
Rouhani: Chabahar port soon to turn into intercontinental linkage
FNA- President Hassan Rouhani says Chabahar port on the Sea of Oman will turn into an inter-continental linkage. Addressing a group of…
License plates for camels in Southern Iran!
IFP- “We are going to give identity cards to 35,000 camels during the first phase of issuing licence plates for them,” said…
Good news from Afghan president about Iran’s Hamoun Lake
IRNA – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has given good news to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif about Hamoun Lake in the…
Sistan marine tourism shifts into high gear
Feasibility studies have begun on four projects to develop Sistan-Baluchestan Province’s marine tourism, according to the provincial tourism chief. Provincial officials underline…