** IRAN DAILY
- Iran, Russia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan seal transit deal
A transit agreement was concluded by Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Russia and Iran during the visit of Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mehrdad Bazrpash to Russia, aimed at attending the 26th Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). According to Bazrpash, pursuing bilateral agreements and speeding up the completion of the International North-South Transit Corridor (INSTC) were the most important goals of his participation in SPIEF this year, IRNA reported.
- Raisi: Bullying powers powerless against independent nations
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said Tehran-Havana cooperation can create hope in independent nations, stressing that bullying powers are powerless against these nations, as he wrapped up a three-nation trip to Latin America. The Iranian president, who visited Cuba as the last stop on his tour to Latin America, held talks with senior Cuban officials and participated in a trade forum in Havana on Thursday.
- AEOI: Iran reactivates 10 IAEA cameras at Natanz nuclear site
The spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said some 10 cameras of the UN nuclear watchdog have been reactivated at a centrifuge manufacturing site in the central province of Isfahan, as the two sides boost cooperation to resolve their differences. Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Behrouz Kamalvandi said the cameras had been reactivated as part of a deal with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), but the data recorded on the camera would not be handed over until a final agreement is reached, Iran Front Page reported.
** TEHRAN TIMES
- The general's shadow over America's backyard
The tour of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi to Latin America included many major achievements but one thing stood out differently: the commemoration of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in Latin America. President Raisi left Tehran for Caracas on Monday morning Iran local time. In Venezuela, he led many high-level meetings with Venezuelan officials. During the visit, Iranian and Venezuelan officials laid the groundwork of increasing volume of trade first to $10 billion and then to $20 billion.
- "Resistance against occupation"; The choice of most Palestinians
A survey has revealed that the majority of Palestinians support the armed resistance to liberate their entire land and form one state over the Palestinian Authority and its “two-state” solution. According to the results of a survey carried out by the Palestinian Policy Research and Survey Center, most of the Palestinian respondents said they believe resistance movements in the besieged Gaza Strip, such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad have outperformed the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its President Mahmoud Abbas, in thriving for a Palestinian state. The Palestinian Policy Research and Survey Center is based in Ramallah, the occupied West Bank city that houses the headquarters of the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority.
- Iran working to upgrade relations with Egypt: diplomat
An Iranian diplomat has said that Iran is making efforts to raise the level of relations with Egypt to ambassador. The diplomat, Mohammad Hossein Soltanifar, who is the head of the office representing Iran’s interests in Egypt, said improvement in Tehran-Cairo relations would leave a major impact on the region. “If this convergence takes place and the relations between the two countries improve, we will see a very positive and important impact, firstly on the Iranian-Arab relationship and secondly on the developments in the region, especially Palestine,” Soltanifar said in remarks to Fars News.
** KAYHAN INTERNATIONAL
- Latin America Visit Secures 35 Agreements
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has returned from a tour of Latin America, where he signed dozens of agreements with three allies who share Tehran’s defiance of Western powers. The Iranian president, who was accompanied by his ministers of foreign affairs, defense, petroleum and health, arrived in Tehran on Friday after a five-day trip that took him to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba. Speaking to reporters, Raisi said 35 memoranda of understanding and agreements were signed with Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba in energy, industry, mining, and power plant fields.
- U.S. Business Titans Flock to China Despite Trade War
From Elon Musk to Bill Gates and Apple’s Tim Cook, some of the United States’ biggest business titans have headed to Beijing, seemingly defying the barrage of doomsayer narratives around the U.S.-China trade war. The stream of visits by some of the world’s richest men began after China abruptly ended nearly three years of Covid isolation late last year. In Beijing, the American magnates have talked up their optimism about China’s vast market and trade ties between the world’s two largest economies.
- Iran Among Top 10 Pharmaceutical Producers
Director General of Pardis Technology Park (PTP) for Communications and International Affairs Amin-Reza Khaleghian says Iran is now among the top 10 world pharmaceutical producers in terms of diversity. Speaking in an exclusive interview with IRNA, Khaleghian said that Iran is now the sixth country in producing multiple sclerosis (MS) medicines in the world. Most of the drugs used for migraine were painkillers but its treatment has been made for the first time in Iran, he added.
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