A couple wearing protective face masks following a coronavirus outbreak walk in the Iranian city of Qom. (Reuters) April 24, 2021 Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency is reporting the country’s civil aviation agency has banned all flights to and from India and Pakistan because of the dramatic surge in coronavirus cases in the [...]
Russian-made Sputnik V coronavirus vaccines are being unloaded at Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport, Feb. 4, 2021. (AP) March 12, 2021 Iran has received a shipment of 150,000 doses of an Indian Covid-19 vaccine, Covaxin, local media reported Thursday. "The coronavirus vaccine shipment from India arrived at (Tehran's) Imam Khomeini airport containing 150,000 doses," [...]
Security officials examine the site of an explosion near the Israeli embassy in New Delhi, India, Jan 29, 2021. (Reuters) March 8, 2021 Iran’s Quds Force was behind the January attack near the Israeli embassy in New Delhi, but a local Shia cell in India planted the bomb, Indian media said central counterterrorism [...]
Under U.S. sanctions, Tehran is unable to use U.S. dollars to transact oil sales. (AFP) March 4, 2021 Indian merchants have almost entirely stopped signing new export contracts with Iranian buyers for commodities such as rice, sugar and tea, due to caution about Tehran’s dwindling rupee reserves with Indian banks, six industry officials [...]
Sellers wearing masks in an Iranian fruit market, June 15, 2020. (Reuters) By Maytaal Angel and Rajendra Jadhav December 22, 2020 India will be unable to count on Iran, one of its most important sugar customers, for its upcoming export drive as an increase in Iranian production and Tehran’s shortage of rupees limit [...]
A ship bearing various flags parked at Chabahar (Shahid Beheshti) Port during the inauguraition of the first phase in the southern Iranian coastal city of Chabahar, Dec 3, 2017. (AFP) September 11, 2020 New data released by Iran's major trading partners show a significant drop in Iranian imports, as well as the nations' [...]
The hackers typically demanded a ransom between one and five Bitcoin. As of Wednesday, one bitcoin was worth over $11,000. (iStockphoto) September 1, 2020 Unsophisticated Iranian hackers are attacking company networks with ransomware, a cybersecurity firm said. The attackers have been using Dharma ransomware “and a mix of publicly available tools” to target companies in Russia, Japan, [...]
Iran's Chabahar Port on the Arabian Sea. India is investing in the port to facilitate shipping of its good to the region. (ISNA) By Umar Karim August 22, 2020 The Middle Eastern-South Asian borderlands have been the focus of new geopolitical ventures for some years now. The coastal zones of Pakistan and Iran near [...]
Indian PM Narendra Modi, right, with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani release a postal stamp commemorating growing economic and trade ties between the two nations in New Delhi, Feb. 17, 2018. (AP) By Krzysztof Iwanek July 20, 2020 Over the past few days, various media outlets have been suggesting that Iran and China will sign [...]
The railways is to connect Chabahar, Iran's only major port on the Indian Ocean, to Afghanistan and Central Asia. (Getty) July 15, 2020 The media in India say Iran has dropped India from a railway project that will connect Chabahar, a would be trading hub in southern Iran to Zahedan, the capital of [...]
