Author: Samsalkan

After the Nowruz holiday ended on April 3, the poisoning of students, especially girls, resumed. According to the State-run Rukna website, on April 4, 78 students were poisoned. “In one of Naqdeh schools, about 50 students suffered poisoning symptoms and were taken to the hospital and hospitalized,” said the general director of the regime’s education in West Azarbaijan, IRNA news agency reported on April 4. On April 4, the IRNA news agency quoted the head of the emergency department in Tabriz as saying that “20 girls’ school students in Baghmisheh town of Tabriz were taken to the hospital due to…

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Expounding on the latest situation and performance of transit in the country last year in 1401 (March 21, 2022 to March 20, 2023), an official said Iran managed to transit 10.8 million tons of oil and non-oil goods, registering a new record. Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development Shahriar Afandizadeh made the remarks on Monday and called the approaches, priorities, effective measures and achievements of the ministry in this sector ‘promising and satisfactory’ in line with developing transit. Given the transit of 7.5 million tons of non-oil goods a year earlier, “We witnessed 10.7 percent growth in…

This concept will allow Iranian citizens to learn more about Russia, said Mehrdad Etesam, director general of the Iranian travel agency Travok An aviation hub for Iranian tourists heading to Turkey will appear in Yekaterinburg in 2023. The concept will allow Iranian citizens to learn more about Russia, Mehrdad Etesam, director general of Iran’s Travok travel agency, told reporters on Thursday .”Our main goal for 2023 is to make a large air hub based in Yekaterinburg, which would receive guests from Tehran, Iran, and then send them to Antalya or Alania in Turkey, it turns out a three-way [traffic]: Iran, Yekaterinburg and…

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s deputy minister of industry, mine and trade for general industries affairs put the value of the country’s total exports in the Persian calendar year of 1401 (March 2022- March 2023) at $52.5 billion. Mohammad Mehdi Baradaran also put the exports value of the country a year earlier at $37.5 billion. Speaking in the honoring ceremony of the exemplary exporters of Khorasan Razavi province on Thursday, Baradaran stated that interacting with various countries of the world, especially neighboring countries, is a top priority of the administration of President Ebrahim Raisi. He pointed to the restoration of diplomatic ties between Iran…

Iran’s budget deficit has led to massive government borrowing, a significant increase in liquidity, increasing inflation, and the national currency devaluation. However, the ruling regime does not collect taxes from the economic giants under the supervision of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to compensate for the deficit. In January 2020, Omid Ali Parsa, then-head of the Tax Affairs Organization, said that “half of the country’s economy is exempt from taxes.” Such a large portion of the country’s economy are exempt from taxes while the government’s tax revenues from the people, businesses, government employees, merchants, and private sectors have increased tremendously over…

Pakistan’s army said attackers from Iran killed four of its border patrol soldiers. The soldiers were part of a routine border patrol operating along the Pakistan-Iran border when fighters attacked in the Jalgai sector of Kech district, the military said in a statement on Saturday. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. “A group of terrorists operating from Iranian side attacked a routine border patrol of Pakistani security forces operating along Pakistan-Iran Border,” the military’s media wing ISPR said in a statement. “Necessary contact with Iranian side is being made for effective action against terrorists on the…

Has Dr. Rania Majeed, Prime Minister Barzani’s gatekeeper and close personal confidante, royally destroyed the Kurdish Regional Government’s (KRG) primary source of income – its lucrative oil contracts? Majeed, who is known inside of KRG and among government insiders as the “untouchable” and – according to the article KRG oil in control of three women – fiercely loyal right hand to Barzani reportedly manages relationships and highest priority objectives on Barzani’s political and personal agendas. Based on the importance of these contracts to the KRG’s financial stability, Majeed likely played an instrumental role in the recent negotiations between Baghdad and…

In the small Iranian city of Shandiz, near the religious city of Mashhad, known as a stronghold for principlists, a man entered a shop saw two women not wearing the hijab. Angered by the sight of the women not abiding by the Islamic dress code, the man threw yoghurt at them, leaving them in shock. Hours later, it was revealed that the attacker was a religious eulogist. The incident, which took place on 31 March, is the latest in a series of developments that have once again raised tensions in Iran regarding the issue of the mandatory hijab, as many young women…

More Iranian schoolgirls were taken to hospital on April 5 amid a wave of poisoning attacks that have hit more than 200 girls’ schools across the country over more than four months. In the central province of Fars, a video posted on social media showed several pupils from Esteghlal Girls’ School in Kohenjan being rushed to hospital in apparent serious condition. Students from Hazrat Mehdi Girls’ High School in Piranshahr, West Azarbaijan province, were also brought to hospital. The day before, an official in the north-western city of Tabriz said 20 schoolgirls were treated after suffering shortness of breath. Eight students…

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Thirty-one percent of Iran’s non-oil exports are destined for China, the chairman of the Iran-China Joint Chamber of Commerce said, adding that giant steps have been taken in the current year for the expansion of trade relations between the two countries. Major parts of the Iran-China 25-Year Strategic Partnership Document will be implemented in the current Iranian calendar year of 1402 (started March 21, 2023), Majid Reza Hariri told IRNA on Thursday, noting that trade delegations of the two countries will officially strengthen their cooperation after the holy month of Ramadan. He went on to say that Iran and China…