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Tehran, IRNA – Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says that the Islamic Republic is committed to expanding its nuclear electricity sector to reach a generation capacity of 10 gigawatts (GW).

Mohammad Eslami said on Monday that Iran will make efforts to attract foreign investment into its nuclear electricity sector, adding that a budget law for the calendar year to March 2024 projects construction of nuclear power plants with reliance on domestic and foreign investments.

Tehran, IRNA – Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Ali Bagheri Kani has said the United States dealt a devastating blow to the international rule of law by withdrawing from Iran nuclear deal some five years ago, adding that the opportunity to revive the deal is not always there.

Bagheri, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, made the remarks on Tuesday on the anniversary of the United States’ withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in May 2018.

08 May 2023; MEMO: The Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Ground Force successfully tested on Sunday the locally manufactured Fajr-5 missile, which is equipped with a thermobaric warhead, Iranian Tasnim news agency reported.

The agency said experts at the Research and Self-Sufficiency Jihad Organisation of the IRGC Ground Force, have developed the Fajr-5 missile; a 333 mm rocket, whose guided version, dubbed 'Fajr-5C', had been already delivered to the IRGC Ground Force units.

TEHRAN, May 8 (NNN-IRNA) – Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, said yesterday, his administration has managed to export products worth more than 50 billion U.S. dollars, since he took office in Aug, 2021.

Raisi made the remarks in a speech, at the opening ceremony of the 5th Export Potential Exhibition of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran Expo 2023).

Tehran, IRNA – President Ebrahim Raisi says that Iran has exported over $50 billion worth of goods in the Iranian calendar year 1401 (March 20, 2022, to March 20, 2023), which was a record in the past four decades.

President Raisi made the remarks at the opening ceremony of IRAN EXPO 2023 in Tehran on Sunday.

In his remarks, the president mentioned the activation of Iranian trade offices in other countries to introduce the Islamic Republic's economic and scientific potentials.

Tehran, IRNA – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani has blasted interventionist stances adopted by European countries following Iran’s execution of a terrorist ringleader.

Kanaani noted that Europe’s “supportive measures” for terrorists are not only aimed at preventing the execution of justice, but it will actually encourage and promote the “sinister phenomenon of terrorism” all over the world.

Habib Farajollah Chaab, who was responsible for a 2018 bloody attack in Ahvaz, southwestern Iran, was executed in Tehran early on Saturday.

Tehran, IRNA- Iran expects trade deals and business contracts worth up to $2 billion will be inked during IRAN EXPO 2023, a major international trade event being held in Tehran, an Iranian official says.

Alireza Peyman Pak, deputy minister of Industry, Mine and Trade, said on Sunday that an estimated 1,250 businessmen and trade officials from more than 65 countries in Europe, Latin America, Eurasia, Southeast Asia, and Africa, as well as Iran’s neighbors, are currently in Tehran to attend the event.

TEHRAN, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Sunday his administration has managed to export products worth more than 50 billion U.S. dollars since he took office in August 2021.

Raisi made the remarks in a speech at the opening ceremony of the 5th Export Potential Exhibition of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran Expo 2023), Iran's official news agency IRNA reported.

Tehran, IRNA- Iran has declared four Azerbaijani diplomats as persona non grata and has expelled them.

Four Azerbaijani diplomats in Tehran and Tabriz have been declated as persona non grata and expelled from lran.

The measure was a tit-for-tat response taken in reaction to Azerbaijan's measure to expel four Iranian diplomats.

On April 6, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Iran Seyyed Abbas Mousavi was summoned to the Azerbaijan Republic Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

06 May 2023; MEMO: Iran on Saturday executed a Swedish-Iranian dissident convicted of leading an Arab separatist group accused of attacks including one on a military parade in 2018 that killed 25 people, state television reported, Reuters reports.

The Swedish foreign ministry said it had summoned Iran's deputy ambassador to protest the execution of Habib Farajollah Chaab, which it confirmed took place earlier in the day.