Al-Arabia – Iran has announced a new ambassador to Syria after three months of the role going unfilled due to reports of disagreements on who should fill the role. Javad Turk Abadi was named to the role after the previous ambassador completed his mission three months ago. The office remained vacant due to reports of disagreements between Iran’s foreign ministry …

PayvandNews – The number of automobiles manufactured in Iran during the first nine months of the current Iranian calendar year (ending December 20) registered a 39.1 percent increase compared to the same period last year, Tasnim news agency reported. Some 949, 497 vehicles of various types have been produced by the Iranian auto makers in the said time. From the …

PayvandNews – Iranian port of Asalouyeh demonstrated some of its new changes to a group of reporters and journalists who visited the area during a two-day media tourorganized by the National Petrochemical Company (NPC). Asalouyeh in Iran’s southwestern province of Bushehr is home to a number of petrochemical complexes which receive gas and gas condensate feedstock from the giant South …

RFL/RE – An Iranian lawmaker has warned the government that a prominent jailed dissident is in serious condition on a hunger strike and should be released. Reformist parliamentarian Elias Hazrati wrote to Judiciary chief Sadeq Larijani that Arash Sadeghi is in critical condition after going 70 days without food and that his death could result in “serious” political consequences for …