** IRAN DAILY
-- Iran mulling over restoring tourism ties with Egypt, Canceling visa requirements for Saudis on agenda: Minister
Iran’s Minister of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Ezzatollah Zarghami said that the Islamic Republic of Iran has started mulling over the restoration of tourism ties with Egypt, adding that the ministry is waiting for the diplomatic decision that would be taken by the Foreign Ministry.
In an interview with IRNA on Friday, Zarghami said that Iranian travel enthusiasts and those involved in tourism have for months been discussing the possibility of traveling to Egypt in the near future.
“Our private sector has even commenced its negotiations with its Egyptian counterparts,” he pointed out.
-- Tehran, Riyadh calls for expediting cooperation in various fields
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Saudi counterpart have underlined the need to accelerate the development of bilateral cooperation in various fields, including economy and tourism.
During a telephone conversation on Thursday night, Amir-Abdollahian and Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud exchanged viewpoints on multiple areas of common interest, highlighting that relations between the two countries are improving in all areas.
-- Iran’s speaker presents two medicines to UAE president
During a meeting between Iran’s Speaker of Parliament Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and the President of the United Arab Emirates Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, two types of Iranian medicines were presented as a symbol of Iran’s advancements in medical science.
One of these medications is the cellular drug Recallercell, developed by Iranian scientists, for treating the incurable disease Vitiligo. Iran ranks as the twelfth country globally in producing this cell-based medicine.
** KAYHAN INTERNATIONAL
-- Tehran Embassy Instructor Named Russia’s Teacher of Year
Oleg Igorevich Yankovsky, a Russian language and literature teacher who teaches at the school of the Russian embassy in Tehran, has won the title of Russia’s Teacher of the Year.
According to Russian media outlets, October 5 is designated as Teacher’s Day in the Russian calendar.
In a ceremony on the Teacher’s Day occasion, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Tatiana Golikova announced the names of the winners of the award of the ceremony.
-- Iran-Azerbaijan Exchanges of Goods Via Rail Grow by 44%
The director general of Iran’s North Railway Administration-2 Gholam Hussein Valadi has revealed the country’s significant 44 percent increase in the exchange of goods with the Republic of Azerbaijan via rail in the first half of the current Iranian calendar year.
The exchanges of goods through the joint railway between Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan at the Astara border crossing increased by 44 percent from March 21 to September 22 compared to the same period last year, Valadi stated on Thursday.
-- Official: Iran, Iraq’s KRG to Boost Trade Cooperation
Secretary of Iran’s Supreme Council of Free Trade-Industrial and Special Economic Zone Hojjatollah Abdolmaleki has said that Iran and Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) will expand mutual cooperation in the field of trade.
Abdolmaleki made the remarks in an interview with NRT TV Network on the sidelines of the inaugural ceremony of the Exclusive Exhibition of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Sulaymaniyah of Iraq.
** TEHRAN TIMES
-- Armita, the new project of Iran's enemies for sedition
A 16-year-old girl losing consciousness inside a metro cabin on Sunday while on her way to school has turned into a new tool for anti-Iran campaigners and Western politicians seeking to spark a furor inside Iran, a year after riots occurred inside the country following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.
CCTV footage released by the official IRNA news agency shows the student named Armita Geravand being pulled out of the train by her female accompaniers a few seconds after entering it. Apart from Armita’s friends and a female adult, who was later revealed to have been a nurse, surrounding her nonresponsive body on the ground, other passengers can be seen rushing towards the cabin in a hurry to reach their destination.
-- Iranian minister in Azerbaijan to follow up implementation of joint projects
Iranian Transport and Urban Development Minister Mehrdad Bazrpash travelled to Azerbaijan on Friday for a two-day trip to follow up the implementation of the enactments of the previous meeting of the two countries’ joint economic committee, visit the joint projects, and meet the senior officials of the neighboring country.
Bazrpash, who is the Iranian chairman of Iran-Azerbaijan Joint Economic Committee, was welcomed by Shahin Mustafayev, the deputy prime minister of Azerbaijan, who is the Azeri chairman of the joint committee, after arriving in Zangilan International Airport on Friday.
-- Archaeologists hail find of 10-million-year-old fossil site in northwest Iran
A team of archaeologists in northwest Iran has discovered a significant fossil site estimated to date from ten million years ago.
Iranian excavators have uncovered a vertebrate fossil site in Maragheh, East Azarbaijan province.
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