How Iran Benefits From an Illicit Gold Trade With Turkey
by Iran.us News Robot
on 05/17/2013 - 12:00 pm
Category: Iran News
Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan has arrived in Washington, D.C. for a much-anticipated summit with President Barack Obama. The timing of the visit -- amid reports of chemical weapons usage in Syria and an attack against a Turkish border town by alleged Syrian agents -- will make it hard to talk about anything other than the civil war in Syria.
But some members of Congress want to draw attention to a less-obvious issue. Last month, a bipartisan group of 47 members of Congress penned a letter to Secretaries John Kerry and Jack Lew calling for clarification on Turkey's financial dealings with Iran. Under the initiative of Sou ...
Iran's car imports drop 68% in month
by Iran.us News Robot
on 05/17/2013 - 12:00 pm
Category: Iran News
Tehran Times Iran's car imports fell by 68.3 percent in number in the first Iranian calendar month of Farvardin (March 21-April 20), ISNA reported on Wednesday. Some 518 cars, valued at $12 million, were imported to the country in the month of Farvardin.
The imported cars were 63.6 percent lower in value compared to the same month last year.
The average price of an imported car was $22,736.
About 94 percent of the cars were imported from the United Arab Emirates, and the rest from South Korea, Kuwait and other countries.
Iran plans to manufacture at least three ...
Iranian director's taut family saga rivets critics at Cannes
by Iran.us News Robot
on 05/17/2013 - 12:00 pm
Category: Iran News
(Reuters) - Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi premiered his latest tightly wound family drama at Cannes on Friday, confirming critics' advance buzz it would prove a contender for the film festival's top prize.
The prestigious festival on the French Riviera - where the sun finally emerged on day three - is looking to spot its Palme d'Or winner among the 20 entries in the main competition and early reviews were enthusiastic for "Le Passe" ("The Past").
The intense psychological drama, shot in Paris in French, is Farhadi's first to be filmed outside his homeland, wher ...
Iranian firefighter saves lives, even after his death
by Iran.us News Robot
on 05/17/2013 - 12:00 pm
Category: Iran News
Mehr News Agency & ISNAAccording to Jalal Maleki, the spokesman of Iran's Firefighters Organization, body parts of firefighter Amir Abbasi will be offered to patients in need of transplants. Abbasi died during a mission in north Tehran after saving a girl from a fire in a residential complex.
Jalal Maleki told Mehr News that "firefighters received a call informing of a fire at a residential building in Bagheri neighborhood in Tehran at 2:18 PM on Tuesday.
A young woman with her two children had been trapped inside an apartment. The woman managed to escape along with her son, but her 9-year-old daughter ...
