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Tabriz, Nov 6, IRNA – Indian investors, visiting Rabe Rashidi of Innovation and Technology Exhibition (Rinotex), voiced their readiness for undertaking rail projects, especially electrifying Tabriz-Tehran train, said East Azarbaijan deputy governor general for coordinating developmental affairs on Tuesday.

Javad Rahmati told IRNA on Wednesday, "If the investors accept risk of investment, we are ready for cooperation with them based on build-operate-transfer (BOT)."

Tehran, Nov 6, IRNA - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a message referred to Iran'd 4th step of reducing JCPOA commitments and , saying gas injection to 1044 centrifuges will start on Wednesday.

"Iran’s 4th step in reducing its commitments under the JCPOA by injecting gas to 1044 centrifuges begins today," Rouhani wrote in his Twitter account on Wednesday.

"Thanks to US policy and its allies, Fordow will soon be back to full operation," he added. 

TEHRAN, Nov 5 (NNN-TASNIM) – Iran said, President Hassan Rouhani, sent letters to Saudi Arabia’s king, for cooperation on regional peace.

“The theme of the letters has been regional peace and stability,” Ali Rabiee, government spokesman, was quoted as saying.

“We believe multiple bilateral ties could be shaped in the region, and the U.S. pressures should not cause a distance between neighbours,” Rabiee added.

On Saturday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry announced that, Iran had forwarded its Hormuz peace plan to regional states.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Monday broke further away from its collapsing 2015 nuclear deal with world powers by announcing it’s doubling the number of advanced centrifuges it operates, calling the decision a direct result of President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the agreement.

TEHRAN, Nov 4 (NNN-TASNIM) – Iranian forces will target the interests of the United States and its allies, in case of aggression against Iran by Washington, the spokesman for Iran’s Armed Forces said.

“Any place and any territorial point, sheltering the interests of the United States and its allies, would be threatened (in case of aggression against Iran), as Iran has proven that it is capable of doing this,” Abolfazl Shekarchi was quoted as saying, by Press TV.

TEHRAN, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- The Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that Iran has forwarded a peace plan over the Strait of Hormuz to the regional states, official IRNA news agency reported.

The full text of the Hormuz Peace Initiative has been sent to the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council as well as Iraq, said the ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi.

Iran's move indicates its seriousness in preserving the stability and security of the Gulf region, Mousavi noted.

TEHRAN, Nov 2 (NNN-TASNIM) – Iran connected its national power grid to that of Iraq on Friday, a news agency reported.

The power grids of the neighbouring countries were synchronised in a ceremony, with the participation of Iranian energy minister and the Iraqi deputy minister of electricity, the report said, without further details.

The move is aimed at helping Iraq reduce its power outages, it added.

The agreement to connect the two countries’ power grids was reached earlier this year.

2 Nov 2019; MEMO: The United States should return to a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and major powers, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Friday, saying the new US sanctions imposed on Tehran showed failure of Washington’s policy, Reuters reports.

“Rather than dig itself deeper, US should abandon failed policies & return to #JCPOA (the 2015 nuclear deal),” Zarif tweeted.

TEHRAN, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday lashed out at U.S. new sanctions against Iran.

On Thursday, the White House imposed sanctions on Iran's construction sector. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that Iran's construction sector is heavily influenced by Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), an elite part of Iran's army which Washington has announced as "a terrorist group."

TEHRAN, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry on Saturday slammed the recent U.S. sanctions against Iran's construction sector.

In a statement, Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said that the new U.S. sanctions against the country's construction sector indicate Washington's "weakness and failure."

"Unfortunately, the U.S. diplomacy is incapable of initiatives and only relies on coercion and economic terrorism," Mousavi said.

The spokesman urged the United States to quit "imposing repetitive sanctions ... which are doomed to failure."