Tehran Times - Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said 84 percent of the countrys rural areas are supplied with gas through national gas network, IRIB reported. According to the minister, currently some 28,916 villages are connected to the national gas network, which is more than 84 percent of the total number of villages across the country....

ISNA | Mona HoobehFekr: On the occasion of the Government Week, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Monday visited an exhibition of Government achievements in development of rural infrastructures.�  

MNA On the occasion of the Government Week, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Monday visited an exhibition of Government achievements in development of rural infrastructures. Rouhani paid a visit to the exhibition on the achievements of the government in development of rural infrastructures in the sectors of energy, communications, oil, roads ...

Tehran Times - Rural and nomadic women in the country can enjoy free of charge breast cancer screening tests and prevention services for one year, Mehr reported on Monday. According to an agreement signed between the vice presidency for womens and family affairs and the health ministry, breast cancer screening tests and prevention services are covered ...

Financial Tribune- Rural communities accounted for 25% of all new jobs created in Iran in the last fiscal year (March 2018-19). According to Deputy Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare Isa Mansouri, the government allocated 73 trillion rials (about $510 million) to generate employment in rural areas last year for creating 188,000 new ...

Telecompaper - Iran's ICT ministry says broadband services will be available in almost every rural areas by the end of March 2020, Financial Tribune reported. Mehrdad Torabian, director of the ICT Ministry's office for Communication Services Development in Rural Areas, said people living in 63 percent of rural areas have access to landline/mobile telephony ...