Iranian women stand in line at the Masoumeh shrine in Qom, about 120 kilometres south of Tehran on Friday, June 12, 2016. (AP) May 20, 2020 The "leader of the largest trafficking gang of Iranian women in Malaysia" has been arrested and transferred to Iran, media in Tehran reported on May 18. The [...]
The mission team leader Mohd Khafiz Bachok said it was the third SAR to search for Ramli. (Rozaimi Mohd Said) July 10, 2017 Four climbers from the Alpine Club Malaysia (KJA) left for Tehran on Sunday, to continue the search and rescue (SAR) mission to find Ramli Abdul Majid,45, who went missing on [...]
Malaysia’s Petronas has signed an agreement to study Iran’s South Azadegan and Cheshmeh Khosh oil fields. (Photo by Shana) December 22, 2016 Malaysia’s Petronas has signed an agreement to study two Iranian oil fields – the latest in a wave of similar agreements that the country is awarding international energy giants over its [...]
December 20, 2016 Malaysia's PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang has come under fire from the International Union of Islamic Scholars, in which he is the vice-president. In a statement issued in Arabic, the union condemned Hadi for attending an international conference in Tehran last Saturday, where Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khameinei delivered the closing speech. "The [...]
Iranian deputy minister says negotiations have started, after meeting with Parliament Speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia. August 30, 2016 Malaysia wants to resume buying crude and oil products from Iran, Iranian Deputy Oil Minister for International Affairs and Trading Amirhossein Zamaninia was quoted by IRNA news agency as saying on Tuesday. He said this [...]
Ramin Pakneiad escorted by Thai police after being extradited from Malaysia.Bangkok Post July 22, 2016 A 45-year-old Iranian man who jumped bail in Pattaya several years ago in a large-scale passport forgery case and fled into hiding in Malaysia has already arrived in Thailand and will be today taken to the Criminal Court [...]
June 18, 2016 Federal police have crippled a RM27 million drug syndicate with the arrest of eight men, including two Iranians. The raids took place on Wednesday at five locations in Perak and Selangor. The Narcotics Crime Investigation Department (NCID) and Special Tactical Intelligence Narcotics Group (STING) busted drug-processing labs in Behrang and Tanjung Malim [...]
May 31, 2016 The recent lifting of trade sanctions by the U.S. on Iran should pave the way for local companies, especially Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), to further increase their market presence there. "The Iranian halal market is big. It is a country with a population of almost 80 million," Deputy International Trade and Industry [...]
May 14, 2016 A senior official with Malaysia’s AirAsia X said on Saturday that direct flights to Tehran from Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok will be resumed, adding that they are going to be operated three times weekly. “We believe that the revival of direct flights to Tehran from Kuala Lumpur is timely and we foresee [...]
May 10, 2016 A Malaysian high-ranking trade delegation arrived in Tehran on Monday for holding talks with Iranian counterparts to begin or expand bilateral relationships and also signing a preferential trade agreement with Iran. Dzulkifli Mahmud, the chief executive officer of Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation known as MATRADE, leads the 36-member delegation, Islamic Republic [...]
