RFL/RE – Iran’s Foreign Ministry says Russia’s use of a military base in Hamadan for striking targets in Syria has ended for now. Foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi made the announcement in an August 22 news briefing. “Russia has no base in Iran and is not stationed here. They conducted this [operation] and it is finished for now,” Ghasemi was …

Reuters – German exports to Iran, mostly machines and equipment, jumped in the first half of the year following the removal of international sanctions against the Islamic Republic, official trade data showed on Monday. Exports to Iran surged by 15 percent year-on-year in the first six months of 2016 to 1.13 billion euros ($1.3 billion), the Federal Statistics Office said. …

mehrnews – The Iranian sports caravan managed to collect eight medals in 2016 Rio Olympic Games in order to finish 25th in the final standings table. Having attracted more than 10 thousand athletes, the 31st edition of Summer Olympics was convened from August 05-21 in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro while the closing ceremony was held on Monday morning …

HRANA News Agency – Forests of Marivan, close to De-Reh-Veh-Ran and He-Najiran villages are in fire since last Monday. The association of Sabz-Chiya has requested help to control the fire. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), around one thousand hectares of one the most un-touched areas of De-Reh-Veh-Ran and He-Najiran villages has turned to ashes …

PayvandNews – According to the Central Bank of Iran, the financial sector has about $260 billion of liquidity. cartoon by Keyvan Zargari, Iranian daily Shahrvand The government of President Hassan Rouhani started his tenure in office with a promise to put Iran’s economic boat back on an even keel, but many analysts are of the opinion that the administration now …

RFL/RE – Iran has released images of its first domestically built long-range missile defense system, the Bavar-373. The photos carried by several Iranian news agencies on August 21 showed President Hassan Rohani and Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan standing in front of the defense system. Rohani toured the facility where the new air defense system was developed, state media reported. Dehghan has said …

VOA – Russia has stopped using an Iranian air base for launching airstrikes on Syria for the time being, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday, just hours after the Iranian defense minister criticized Moscow for having “kind of show-off and ungentlemanly” attitude by publicizing their actions. There was no immediate response from Moscow, which had used the Shahid Nojeh Air …

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Tasnim – A senior Iranian lawmaker warned that the parliament will impeach Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh if a new model of oil contracts with foreign customers, which has recently been approved by President Hassan Rouhani’s administration, is not modified. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Seyed Nasser Mousavi Largani, who is a member of the parliament’s Economy Commission, pointed …

Sputnik — According to Dehghan, the use of Hamadan air base is the result of mutual cooperation at Syria’s government request. “Reception of Russian aircraft at the airbase in Hamadan is carried out in the framework of mutual cooperation and the fight against terrorism at the request of the Syrian government,” Hossein Dehghan said as quoted by the Tasnim news …