Iran

TEHRAN, Jul 28 (NNN-IRNA) – The Iranian Intelligence Ministry, said yesterday that, the arrested members of an “Israel-linked spy network” had sought to carry out a bomb attack, in one of Iran’s sensitive defence industry centres.

Israel provided the terrorists with the most complex combined techniques for identifying the target’s geographical position, and inflicting massive damage, said a ministry statement.

27 July 2022; MEMO: Iran said, on Wednesday, a sabotage team detained by its security forces were Kurdish militants working for Israel, who planned to blow up a "sensitive" defence industry centre in the city of Isfahan, state media reported.

Iran's Intelligence Ministry had announced the arrests on Saturday, amid heightening tensions with arch-enemy, Israel, over Tehran's nuclear programme, without giving the nationality of those detained, Reuters reports.

27 July 2022; MEMO: Iran will soon start accepting payments made with Russia's Mir bank cards, a top official was quoted by Russia's RIA news agency as saying, making it the latest country to adopt the Russian-made alternative to Visa and MasterCard, Reuters reports.

"I think this payment system will be activated in Iran soon," RIA quoted Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy, Medhi Safari, as saying on Wednesday.

26 July 2022; MEMO: Iran and Russia will officially begin trading in rials and rubles, dropping the US dollar as their common currency exchange, Tehran has announced.

Iranian Minister of Economic and Financial Affairs, Ehsan Khandouzi, made the announcement at a press conference today, marking a new step in economic cooperation between Moscow and Tehran, while seemingly dealing yet another blow to the status of the US dollar.

26 July 2022; MEMO: Iran's income from oil and condensates exports is 580 per cent higher in the first four months of the Iranian year (March 21 to July 21) compared with the same period a year ago, the Iranian Economy Minister said on Tuesday, Reuters reports.

According to the report, the Economy Minister, Ehsan Khandouzi, told a news conference that Iran saw a 580 per cent increase in the Treasury's income from the export of oil and condensate in the first four months of this year.

26 July 2022; MEMO: Iran yesterday announced the discovery of a new gas field north of the South Pars gas field, which it shares with Qatar, with a capacity of about one trillion cubic metres.

A spokesman for the Iranian Parliament's Energy Committee, Malik Shariati said work in two of the four exploration phases in the field has been completed, noting that another oil field is expected to be found in the area and exploration operations are continuing.

24 July 2022; MEMO: Iran said on Saturday its security forces had arrested a network of agents working for Israel before they were able to carry out sabotage and "terrorist operations", state media reported, Reuters reports.

The announcement by Iran's Intelligence Ministry came amid heightening tensions with arch-enemy Israel over Tehran's nuclear programme.

TEHRAN, Jul 24 (NNN-IRNA) – An Iranian lawmaker, yesterday, described U.S. President Joe Biden’s Middle East tour as a failed project, that did not achieve anything for the United States.

Fada-Hossein Maleki, a member of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said, Biden sought to pursue the failed policies of his predecessor, Donald Trump, in the Middle East during the trip, however, the Saudis reacted with greater cognisance towards Washington’s regional strategies, in view of their experience.

TEHRAN, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said Saturday that U.S. sanctions on Tehran are detrimental to the global economy, particularly Europe.

Raisi made the remarks in a 120-minute phone conversation with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, according to the Iranian presidency's website.

23 July 2022; MEMO: Iran announced on Friday its refusal to choose between reviving the nuclear agreement or establishing relations with Russia, stressing that this bilateral relationship is "false".