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-- Qalibaf hails Iran-Pakistan good cooperation in border areas
Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said that there is a good relationship between the security forces of Iran and Pakistan at the common border. Qalibaf made the remarks in his meeting with Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan Qasim Khan Suri, according to Mehr News Agency.
Referring to the long border between Iran and Pakistan, he stressed the importance of the security issues and coordination between the two countries in this field.
-- Iran’s exports to Russia up over 60%
The head of the Joint Chamber of Commerce of Iran and the Russian Federation said Iran’s exports to Russia rose over 60% during the current Iranian year (started March 21, 2021).
Hadi Tizhoush made the announcement at the Second International Conference on Trade and Economic Cooperation of Iran and Russia in Tehran.
-- Makhunik: Village of Lilliputians in Iran
Makhunik is a unique village in a remote corner in Iran’s South Khorasan Province which dates back to hundreds of years ago. This mysterious village, commonly known as the land of Lilliputians, is one of the seven amazing world’s villages for its remarkable architecture, itto.org reported.
It is located in Doreh rural district of Sarbisheh County, South Khorasan Province, near the Iran-Afghanistan border. Makhunik is known as Liliput land because of its dwarf residents and the tales around them; people who have Afghan roots and migrated to the area several hundred years ago.
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-- Iran Urges West to Adopt Realistic Approach
Talks in Vienna on reviving a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran through removing sanctions on the country have reached a sensitive point and Western countries should take a realistic approach to settle remaining matters, Iran’s foreign minister said on Wednesday.
“Nuclear talks in Vienna are reaching a sensitive and important point,” the minister, Hussein Amir-Abdollahian, told a news conference with his Omani counterpart in Tehran.
-- Iranian Girl Starts Brazil World Tennis Tour With Victory
Iran national team player Meshkatozahra Safi gain a victory in her first game in Brazil world tennis tour. The 17-year-old flourishing tennis girl of Iran is the only representative of Iran in Brazil world tennis tour.
She defeated her Brazilian rival Maria Carolina with overall scores of 2-1 in the first round in the singles category, qualifying to face the next rival who is from Canada. In the doubles category, Safi is going to play with an Ecuadorian teammate against a team from Switzerland and the U.S.
-- Tehran, Baghdad Set to Enhance Energy Cooperation
Iranian Petroleum Minister Javad Owji has met and held talks with his Iraqi counterpart Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail and discussed increasing Iran’s gas exports to Iraq, as well as paying Iraq’s gas debt to Iran.
The meeting was held on the sidelines of GECF in Dha, Qatar, and the two sides also discussed the expansion of cooperation between Iran and Iraq in the field of energy. During his visit to Doha, Owji held intensive talks with his counterparts and signed a memorandum of understanding with Venezuela.
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-- Khajeh Nasir al-Din Toosi, the most eminent engineer of his time
The National Engineering Day is observed in Iran on February 24, honoring engineers for their efforts and achievements to change the world for the better. It marks and commemorates the birthday of Khajeh Nasir al-Din Toosi (1201–1274), a Persian polymath and prolific writer, who is considered to be one of the greatest Persian scholars. He is also known as a philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, theologian, physician, and prolific writer. Toosi was born in Toos, northeastern Khorasan region, in the year 1201 and began his studies at an early age. He studied Arabic, the Qur'an, Hadith, Shi'a Jurisprudence, logic, philosophy, mathematics, medicine, and astronomy.
At a young age, he moved to Nishapur to study philosophy under Farid al-Din Damad and mathematics under Muhammad Hasib.
-- $7.7m allocated to unfinished tourism projects in northwest Iran
Some two trillion rials ($7.7 million) has been allocated to the semi-finished tourism-related projects in the northwestern province of West Azarbaijan, the provincial tourism chief has announced. Projects with at least 40 percent physical progress will receive the budget, CHTN quoted Jalil Jabari as saying on Wednesday.
Upon completion of the projects, which are being carried out by the private sector, there will be over 100 job opportunities, the official added.
-- Lee Child’s “Make Me” published in Persian
A Persian translation of “Make Me” by the British author of thriller novels Lee Child has been published by Ketabsara-ye Tandis in Tehran. Mohammad Abbasabadi is the translator of the book first published in 2015, which is a novel from Child’s Jack Reacher series.
“Why is this town called Mother’s Rest?” That’s all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It’s a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad station, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have started small and then turned lethal.
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