Tehran Times The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) will launch a campaign for the second time to solicit public donations to ease water stress in four provinces of the country. Called Nazr-e Ab (literally meaning water donation), the campaign will start on August 1 and will run until September 11 in four provinces of Sistan-Baluchestan, South ...

Financial Tribune - Despite the fact that dams and Chah-Nimeh water reservoirs are full, residents in Sistan-Baluchestan Province are still suffering from the shortage of safe drinking water supply, the provincial Friday prayer leader said. "Heavy rainfall in April and May notwithstanding, households have to pay large sums of money to have their ...

MNA The police force of Irans Sistan and Baluchestan province have successfully busted a large drug trafficking network with a big consignment of illicit drugs in the southeastern borders. Commander of Sistan and Baluchestan Border Guards Colonel Mohammad Mollashahi said on Sunday that some 2,195 kilograms of opium were seized last night when the ...

Tehran Times - Malaria is still a challenge in some parts of Iran, especially in Sistan-Baluchestan Province, said Dr. Christoph Hamelmann, World Health Organization (WHO) Representative in Iran. Sistan-Baluchestan is a big province though it has a scattered population. It borders Afghanistan and Pakistan. However, some diseases arent controlled ...

IRNA Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that development of Chabahar free trade zone is high on the agenda of the Iranian Foreign Ministry and foreign policy. Zarif made the remarks speaking to IRNA correspondent upon arrival in the Iranian southeastern port city of Chabahar on Thursday. The Iranian minister is scheduled to leave ...

MNA Exports of Southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan to the neighbor country, Afghanistan, registered annual growth of 85 percent during the previous Iranian calendar year 1397 (ended March 20, 2019). According to Nader Mirshekar, the head of Sistan-Baluchestan Industries, Mining and Trade Organization, non-oil exports stood at above ...

Radio Farda - Iranian Plant Protection Organization (IPPO) warned on Thursday, April 18, that if the necessary budget for fighting desert locusts is not provided within two weeks, nothing could be done, and a locust breakout turns into a new crisis, alongside the flash floods. According to the government's official news agency (IRNA), desert locusts ...

IRNA Iran's First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri on Friday called for plans to control the floods that may come from Afghanistan. In a telephone conversation with governor general of Sistan-Baluchestan province late on Friday, he referred to flash floods in the neighboring country and flowing water from it to the province, and called for undertaking ...

Tehran Times - Development of information and communication technology (ICT) in villages has improved job creation and quality of life and has led to a halt in migration from villages to cities and even to voluntary return from cities to villages, ICT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi has said. IT is the knowledge of young generation and most ...

Radio Farda - The heating systems in 136,000 classrooms across Iran do not have the required standards, the Islamic Republic's Deputy Minister of Education has said. "As most of these classrooms are located in the province of Sistan & Baluchestan and other regions with no gas pipelines, it is impossible to upgrade their heating system for the ...

IRNA Commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Border Guard Command Brigadier General Qasem Rezaei says the Iranian border guards, kidnapped on Iran-Pakistan border recently, are safe and sound. Rezaei told a group of provincial border guard commanders on Thursday that the abducted border guards are safe, but the main concern for Iran is their ...

IRNA Chabahar Port is Irans best strategic point for domestic and foreign investment, as it is connected to free and oceanic waters, said managing director of Chabahar Free Trade and Industrial Zone. Addressing the First Seminar on Sistan-Baluchestan Investment Opportunities on Friday, Abdolrahim Kordi added that registration of the Iranian and ...

IRNA Genius Iranian 12-year old teenager Yasra Soleimani from the city of Fonoj in Sistan-Baluchestan of Iran for the third consecutive year grabbed trophy in Abacus calculation 2018 in Malaysia. The genius Iranian teenager is the champion of the years 2016 and 2017 in the field. Some 2,200 contenders from 75 countries round the globe took part ...

Press TV - On the orders of President Hassan Rouhani, Iran's Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian has visited Sistan-and-Baluchestan to address asomewhat insufferable situation in the wake of a record heatwave, which has hit the southeasternprovince. The province has witnessed temperatures of 56 C (132 F), which havecausedpower outages, and complicated ...

Zahedan, Sistan-Baluchestan Prov, June 12, IRNA - University of Sistan-Baluchestan (USB) admitted the first application from a foreign student for studying in this university in its way towards becoming an international university. Speaking to reporters, President of the University Alireza Bandani said on Saturday that this university started accepting ...

Konarak, Chabahar, Sistan-Baluchestan Prov, Jan 28, IRNA - The second day of Iran's navy military maneuvers currently is underway in the southeast Makran coast along the Gulf of Oman. At this stage the navy forces managed to strike heavily pounding fake targets. Tactical phase of big 'Velayat-94' maneuver commenced in eastern region of Strait of Hormuz ...

Tehran, Jan 12, IRNA - Rostam Castle from the Islamic era is the largest of its kind in the southeastern Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchestan, a faculty member of Sistan-Baluchestan University said. Issa Ebrahimzadeh said that the castle is named after Rostam the greatest legendary hero of Sistan, the Tehran-based English newspaper 'Iran Daily' ...

Zahedan, Nov. 5, IRNA - Explosion of the object or device on the way of police car in the souteastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchestan was not fatal, a local official said on Wednesday. 'The police car was driving along Iranshahr-Sarbaz road when an explosion forced it to deviate,' deputy governor general of the province, Ali-Asghar Mirshekari ...

By AFP TEHRAN: Three Iranian border guards were killed in clashes with armed drug traffickers near the border with Pakistan, Iranian media reported on Thursday, citing a border official. Two drug traffickers were also killed in the clash near the region of Koshtegan in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, Colonel Mehdi Mansourzadeh ...

Iran will step in to contain terrorists if Pakistan refuses to take measures in order to secure its borders to keep terrorists from slipping into the Islamic Republic, a senior Iranian military commander says. We believe that every country should respect its commitments vis--vis its own internal security as well as that of neighboring countries. Border ...