Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is traveling to four Central Asian countries for a 4-day trip beginning on April 5, according to Foreign Ministry spokesman. Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh tweeted on Friday that Zarif would travel to Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan on April 5-8 to discuss mutual and regional cooperation....

Bourse and Bazaar | Omid Rahimi: Over the past year, Iran has faced disruptions in its foreign trade relations following the withdrawal of the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Trade with partners like Europe and China has suffered because of U.S. secondary sanctions. In the face of these uncertainties, Iran has adopted a neighborhood ...

Tasnim An official of Russias State Duma stressed the need for Iran to play a more active role in Central Asia and the Caucasus. First deputy chairman of the committee of Russias State Duma for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and relations with Russian nationals abroad, Konstantin Fyodorovich Zatulin, hailed Iran as an important country ...

Alwaght - Every year in November, the EU holds a meeting with the Central Asian states. The 14th one was held on November 23 by foreign ministers of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan with the high EU representative, vice-president of European Commission, and a couple of other top European officials. The summit focused on security issues,...

Iranian Diplomacy | Sam Sasan Shoamanesh: Given the volatile state of the Middle Easts security landscape, increasing conflicts and regional tensions, Irans projection of military might is crucial to safeguarding the countrys national security. That said,in grand strategic terms, the nuclear deal, successfully negotiated two years prior, hints at the ...

Iran Review- Experts took part in a meeting on geopolitical, geostrategic and geo-economic position of Irans transport corridors and transit routes, discussing the following issues: International rail network Irans rail network has many extraordinary advantages, including the potential to get connected to railroads in Central Asia in northeast,...

IRNA -- Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived in Tehran on Wednesday, ending his three-day tour to the Central Asian and Caucasian states. During his tour which started on Sunday (April 16), the Iranian foreign minister visited Turkmenistan, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan. Zarif, heading a high-ranking politico-economic delegation, also held talks ...

IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif leaves Tehran for three Central Asian and Caucasian states on Sunday at the head of a political and economic delegation. Foreign Ministrys spokesman Bahram Qasemi told IRNA on Saturday night that Zarif will visi Turkmenistan, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan. Over 20 businessmen and representatives of companies ...

Press TV- Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to embark on a rare visit to Azerbaijan and Kazakstan amid Israeli media fanfare hailing the regimes common interests with the two Muslim-majority countries. The two-day tour, which is to begin on Tuesday, is the first one to be made by an incumbent Israeli premier to the region in a ...

Tehran, Sept 19, IRNA Central Asian countries will rise amount of their export of furnace fuel oil via Iranian southern ports to 300,000 tons by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2017). According to Hossein Ashouri who is a deputy in the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways, some of Irans northern neighbors have started to transit ...

TEHRAN, Apr. 11 (MNA) Deputy FM Rahimpour said Mon. Iran and Kazakhstan are keen on expanding cooperation on peace and stability in Central Asia, as opposed to regional meddling by certain transregional countries. Ebrahmi Rahimpour made the remark on the eve of Kazakh Presidents visit to Iran on Monday. Nursultan Nazarbayev will be accompanied ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Head of the Strategic Research Center of Iran's Expediency Council Ali Akbar Veleyati cautioned that the Takfiri terrorists have plans to make inroads into Central Asia, a threat which he said necessitates Iran and Russias vigilance. We know that Takfiri terrorists seek to infiltrate into Central Asia, a region in the security ...

TEHRAN Dec 03 (Shana)--Irans President Hassan Rouhani has said a railroad connecting Iran to two Central Asian countries of Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan would facilitate energy transfer. Rouhani made the remarks Wednesday in a ceremony to put the railroad into service in the Turkmen city of Inche Boroun on the Iran-Turkmenistan border where his Kazakh ...

[caption id="attachment_98960" align="alignright" width="183"] Data show Irans non-oil exports exceeded $8 billion in the first two months of the current Iranian year.[/caption] TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iran has reached agreements with Central Asia and Iraq for export of its industrial and mineral products, said Head of Iran's Industry, Mine and Trade House ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Minister of Industries, Mines and Trade Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh said Tehran intends to invest in the mines of the Central Asia and Guinea. "There are mines in the Central Asian countries like Kazakhstan where we can make joint ventures," Nematzadeh said, addressing a ceremony in Southern Iran on Saturday. He also noted ...