FNA - Police Chief of Iran's Southwestern province of Khuzestan Brigadier General Heydar Abbas-Zadeh said that an armed separatist team has been disbanded in Mahshahr city. Abbas-Zadeh said that the team had staged an armed assault on the house of a local Basij commander and a member of the volunteer force on Wednesday night. He noted that the ...

Tasnim A fire that caused a short halt to production at a major petrochemical plant in southwestern Iran has been fully contained, officials said. A spokesman for Shahid Tondgooyan Petrochemicals said on Sunday that technical problems had caused installations at one of the factories of the sprawling complex to catch fire earlier in the day. Hamid ...

SHANA -- The first project in the butane chain in Mahshahr will be ready for operation with the aim of commercial production of three important and new items, parallel with planning for realization of the second petrochemical leap in Iran. According to the National Petrochemical Company (NPC), the countdown has started for the second leap in the ...

Reuters - A Caspian Airlines plane slid off the runway onto a highway on landing at an airport in southwestern Iran on Monday, but all passengers were evacuated without injury, Iranian state media reported. It ran out of runway when landing at Mahshahr airport with no casualties, state news agency IRNA said. Some other Iranian media outlets reported ...

MNA Commander of Khuzestan province's Police Brigadier General Heidar Abbaszadeh announced on Wednesday that an individual has been detained on charges of sending information during the recent riots in Mahshahr county, the southwestern province of Khuzestan, to Saudi-led Iran International Television. The arrested individual has reported fake news ...

Tasnim The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said its forces have arrested the rioters who took arms in the recent unrest in Irans southwestern port city of Bandar Mahshahr and were involved in shooting at people and security forces. In a statement on Monday, the IRGC office in Khuzestan Province said the main elements behind the shootings ...

MNA The CEO of the National Petrochemical Company (NPC) said final decisions regarding the construction of a new petrochemical hub in the southwestern region of Mahshahr would be taken soon. According to NPC, speaking in Mahshahr on Monday, Behzad Mohammadi said Mahshahr was an oil petrochemical hub and a key player in Irans petrochemical industry,...

MNA At least four people were killed on Thursday in an explosion of the pipelines that link the gas network from Mahshahr city to Ahvaz city in southwestern Iran, a senior provincial official said. According to Kiomars Hajizadeh, the director general of the provinces Crisis Management Directorate, the blast, which struck a gas pipeline between ...

SHANA - Iran has launched three downstream petrochemical projects in the southwestern city of Mahshahr, adding 146,000 tons per year to the country's petrochemical production capacity. The projects were launched in a ceremony held with senior Iranian petrochemical and petroleum officials in attendance on Monday, NIPNA reported. The units are ...

Ahvaz, Khuzestan Prov., Aug 6, IRNA Fire broke out Saturday afternoon in the Bandar Imam Petrochemical Complex is under control, Mahshahr Governor Mansour Qamar told IRNA. 'Most of the fire has been contained,' Qamar said, adding that operations are underway to completely contain the fire. The Crisis Management Commander in Mahshahr Petrochemical ...

Tehran, Aug 6, IRNA � The BDSR storage of Bandar Imam petrochemical plant in Mahshahr, Khuzestan province, caught fire. Smoke billowing to the sky from the petrochemical plant is seen from the long distance. Fire fighters are on the scene to extinguish the inferno. By IRNA

  TEHRAN, June 01 (Shana) Iran is planning to develop Mahshahr Petrochemical Special Economic Zone (PETZONE), a petrochemical official said. Addressing a ceremony held to farewell Mahshahr PETZONE's managing director and welcoming his replacement, Marziyeh Shahdaei, deputy petroleum minister in petrochemical affairs, said Mahshahr PETZONE ...

TEHRAN Feb 18 (Shana): Bandar Imam Khomeinis Petrochemical Complex hosts the 6th meeting of the heads of public relations departments of oil industry in Mahshahr, south of Iran, on Wednesday. Shana correspondent reported from Ahwaz, south Iran, that new policies, electronic public relations, planning in public relations and holding a festival on choosing ...