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Iran among top producers of Remdesivir in world

 

The Remdesivir drug is produced by an Iranian knowledge-based company in Iran and can be exported to the foreign market, Deputy Managing Director of the knowledge-based company Mohammad Ali Maleki said in the inauguration ceremony of producing Remdesivir Medicine in Saveh County in Markazi province.

 

 

Iran Increases Nuclear Research Group's Budget By 256%

 

Iran’s defence minister Amir Hatami confirmed the news and said that Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research, known by its Farsi acronym SPND, had been given a budget boost of 256 per cent. SPND was previously headed by Mohsen Fakhrizadeh who was assassinated near Tehran last month. 

"There are two matters that people in charge should put in their to do list: 1- To follow up the atrocity and retaliate against those who were responsible for it. 2- To follow up Martyr Fakhrizadeh's scientific and technical activities in all fields in which he was active," said Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei.

 

 

Istanbul-Tehran-Islamabad railway to resume operations in 2021

 

The Istanbul-Tehran-Islamabad (ITI) railway is expected to resume operations in 2021 to boost Pakistan’s trade with Turkey and Iran, according to Adil Karaismailoglu, Turkey’s Minister of Transport and Infrastructure.

After the virtual 10th edition of the joint meeting of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) held in Istanbul, national railways of Turkey, Iran, and Pakistan mutually agreed to re-launch the ITI railway project in 2021.

 

 

Iran identifies, arrests some individuals involved in scientist killing

 

A senior Iranian official says some of those involved in the brutal assassination of the country’s top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, have been arrested.

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, special assistant to the speaker of Iran’s Parliament, made the remark in an exclusive interview with Arabic-language Al-Alam television news network.

 

 

 

Miniature art registered on UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage

 

The miniature art has officially been registered on the List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

The international registration came after the multinational case on the miniature art received the approval of judges at the 15t meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on December 16, 2020. 

Iran, Turkey, the Azerbaijan Republic and Uzbekistan had jointly presented the case to the committee.