** Iran Daily
-- Annual exports of minerals exceed $12.2b
Iran’s exports of mining and mineral industries products reached $12.2 billion in the previous Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2022 – March 20, 2023), registering a 3.4 percent rise in weight compared to a year earlier, according to the Iranian Mines & Mining Industries Development & Renovation Organization (IMIDRO).
IMIDRO stated that Iranian companies active in the mining and mineral industries sector exported over 48 million tons of products, valued at $12.24 billion, in the past Iranian calendar year
-- Rial-rupee mechanism crucial for Iran-India trade: SNSC
Ajit Doval, national security adviser to Narendra Modi, prime minister of India, visited Tehran on Monday and met the special representative of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution and the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), Admiral Ali Shamkhani. The two sides discussed political and security relations, particularly bilateral and multilateral economic issues and the most critical regional and international developments.
During this meeting, Shamkhani said that the deep-rooted historical and cultural commonalities, the will of the leaders of the two countries, as well as the strategic independence of Iran and India, are the main indicators for the development of bilateral cooperation.
-- MI6 Iranian spy disclosed Fordo and Fakhrizadeh: NYT
“Fordo’s discovery changed the world’s understanding of Iran’s nuclear program and redrew the West’s military and cyber plans for countering it,” the report noted, citing Yoni Koren, who was the chief of staff for Israel’s defense minister at the time that said in 2019, “The information about Fordo shocked us.”
“The great contribution of the British to the combined Western efforts to gather data from inside the Iranian nuclear project was always in human intelligence,” he said. “They had a foot on the ground in places where neither we nor the Americans had a presence.”
** Kayhan International
-- Russia, Iran Keen on Enhancing Cooperation in Medicine, Medical Equipment Fields
The head of the Iranian Food and Drug Administration (IFDA) Seyed Heidar Muhammadi has highlighted the resolve to develop bilateral cooperation between Iran and Russia in facilitating export in the fields of medicine and medical equipment.
Muhammadi said that Iran is determined to establish interaction with the Russian Federation in the health sector. Iran needs $3.5 billion worth of foreign currency for the procurement of medicines and relevant raw materials annually, he said.
-- TPOI Hosts Iran-Iraq Industrial Cooperation Conference
The Iran-Iraq Industrial Cooperation Conference was held at the venue of Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPOI) in Tehran on Monday with the aim of promoting trade and industrial relations between the two countries.
TPOI Deputy head for Promoting International Businesses Muhammad Sadegh Ghannadzadeh pointed to the objectives behind organizing this conference and said the development of trade and economic relations with other countries has been prioritized by the administration of President Ebrahim Raisi.
– Huge Demos in France Give Way to Fiery Clashes
Protesters clashed with security forces across France on Monday as more than one million people took to the streets for labor day to vent their anger against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform.
** Tehran Times
-- Iraqi prosecutor launches probe into alleged role of ex-PM role in Gen. Soleimani assassination
Head of the public prosecution office in Iraq has ordered an investigation into former Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s alleged involvement in the U.S. assassination of Iran’s top anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani.
Shafaq News reported that the prosecutor general instructed the Federal Court, which specializes in looking into all crimes, to pursue legal action regarding a complaint brought against al-Kadhimi and notify the office of the results, according to official documents released by the head of the public prosecution’s office on April 4 but made public on Sunday.
-- Tehran hosting 14th Iran Petrochemical Forum
The 14th Iran Petrochemical Forum (IPF) kicked off at IRIB International Conference Center (IICC) in Tehran on Monday.
The inaugural ceremony of the event was participated by Rouhollah Dehqani-Firouzabadi, the vice president for science and technology, Majid Chegeni, the managing director of National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), and senior director of the country’s petrochemical sector.
-- Archaeological discoveries to alter Persian Gulf history
Recent discoveries along the Persian Gulf and Makran coastline in southern Iran could change the settlement history of the Persian Gulf. Iranian archaeologists have identified a number of prehistoric, Sassanid, and Islamic sites in this area, ILNA reported on Monday.
So far, surveys have identified a number of coastal cities from the late Sassanid era (224–651) and the early Islamic period in this region, Iranian archeologist Abbas Moqaddam explained.
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