MNA The National Petrochemical Company (NPC) and the Iranian Mines & Mining Industries Development & Renovation Organization (IMIDRO), have reached an agreement to facilitate the construction of several petrochemical projects in southern Iran. As per a memorandum of understanding signed between the two sides on Monday, IMIDRO and NPC will ...

Tasnim Irans Intelligence Ministry seized a big haul of heroin at a southern port destined to Europe. In a statement on Saturday, the Intelligence Ministry said the heroin shipment, weighing 618 kilograms, has been confiscated at one of the southern ports. The drug shipment, destined to Europe, has been adroitly hidden in four 40 ft shipping containers,...

An earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale jolted the town of Khormoj in Bushehr province, Southern Iran, on Sunday, Fars News Agency reported. The Seismological center of Bushehr province affiliated to the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University registered the quake at 09:40 hour local time (0610 GMT). According to Russia Today, powerful ...

Seventeen people have died after a storm capsized a passenger boat off of Iran's southern coast.Rescue teams saved five people, a provincial sailing official, Hossein Khoshbakht, the nation quoted IRNA. The boat sank Saturday evening while sailing between Hormuz Island, the most northern piece of land at the entrance of the Gulf,and the port city ...