Tasnim Missile capabilities constitute a main component of Irans defense power and continue to grow constantly, Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami said. Speaking to Tasnim in Zanjan on Saturday, Brigadier General Hatami said one of Irans main priorities has always been boosting the missile power. We continue to enhance this capability,...

Press TV - Foreign direct investment (FDI) to Iran declined over the past calendar year to stand at $854 million, says a new report. Figures published on Sunday by the semi-official ISNA news agency showed that FDI was down by nearly 22.5 percent in the year ending March 19 from $1.102 billion reported over the previous 12-month period. The report ...

IRNA Some 2,689 foreign tourists visited the Soltanieh dome on Zanjan neighborhood in the first six months of Iranian year compared to 2,368 tourists in the the same period last year. The head of Soltanieh World Heritage Site told IRNA on Monday that during the first six months of the current Iranian year, tourists from Germany, France, the US,...

Tasnim Iranian First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri reiterated the countrys policy to resist the US sanctions and said the Islamic Republic has devised good strategies to overcome the economic pressures. Iran is experiencing special conditions due to pressures imposed by the US and some regional countries, Jahangiri told reporters in the northern ...

IFP - After the collapse of an old house in the Iranian city of Zanjan, some antique dishes have been found which experts say date back to almost 1,000 years ago. Abolfazl Aali, the director of the research office at the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Department of Zanjan Province, said the discovered relics prove the old history ...

IFP - The twelfth female mayor of the Islamic Republic of Irans history has begun her work, setting the stage for more ladies to assume top jobs in the country. Irans twelfth female mayor has been elected for the city of Zanjan, further paving the way for women to reach high managerial posts in the country. Samaneh Shaaddel has taken ...

IFP - A kind of traditional shoe made of leather is currently sewn in northwestern Iran which is not only regarded as an artwork, but is worth hundreds of dollars. Mard-Ali Heidari, an old artist and shoemaker, makes a highly valuable kind of traditional leather footwear in the northwestern Iranian province of Zanjan. Tourists visiting ...

Zanjan, Oct 9, IRNA Managing Director of Zanjan Customs said that the value of the products exported from Zanjan reached $74,554,109 in the first half of the current Iranian calendar year (beginning on March 20). Ahmad Barkabian told IRNA on Sunday that zinc ingot, transformator and its accessories, cable, dairy (yogurt, milk and cream), lead ingot,...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A second train carrying European tourists arrived in Tehran to visit different cities. The first rail tourists visited Zanjan, Isfahan, Yazd, Shiraz and Tehran cities and left for Europe Sunday night after a one-week visit in Iran, the Iranian students news agency reported. The second group which includes 65 tourists from European ...