Tag: Iran

Monday, May 2nd 2022 - 19:53 UTC
Iranian Petroleum Minister visits Venezuela to deepen bilateral ties

Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) CEO Asdrúbal Chávez has met in Caracas with Iran's Petroleum Minister Javad Owji to sign bilateral agreements between two countries heavily damaged by US-imposed sanctions.
Monday, April 11th 2022 - 10:01 UTC
Brazil discussing with US sanctions on Teheran to help liberate Iranian fertilizers

Brazil is in discussions with the United States for a truce that would allow Brazilian companies to buy fertilizers from Iran. Because the United States has imposed sanctions on Iran, Brazilian firms are hesitant to purchase Iranian fertilizers as doing business with Iran might provoke a reaction from the US.
Wednesday, March 30th 2022 - 09:50 UTC
Fertilizers from Iran and expanding the wheat area, priorities of Brazil's agricultural year

Brazilian fertilizer stocks amount to at least 13 million tons, including the inputs that have been already internalized and the ones that have been ordered. The statement comes from David Roquetti Filho, a former board member of ANDA, Brazil's National Association for Fertilizer Diffusion, and currently an independent business consultant.
Thursday, March 17th 2022 - 09:51 UTC
British-Iranian nationals back in UK after long years in jail

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori, who hold dual British and Iranian citizenship, have arrived back in the United Kingdon in the early hours of Thursday local time after being imprisoned in their native country for several years.
Thursday, February 24th 2022 - 09:45 UTC
Brazil ensuring greater urea supplies from Iran in a fertilizer short world

While Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was in Moscow visiting his close friend and admired populist 'strong man' Vladimir Putin, in the midst of the escalating situation in Ukraine, and brushing off critics saying Brazil is “nobody's a puppet”, his agriculture minister was in a more strategic mission, --in another outcast country--, but crucial for the booming farming sector.
Tuesday, February 22nd 2022 - 21:50 UTC
Iran to further help Venezuela regarding oil and other issues

Venezuela's Foreign Minister Félix Plasencia and his Iranian Petroleum colleague Javad Owji Tuesday signed an agreement to deepen mutual cooperation in the area of hydrocarbons.
Friday, January 21st 2022 - 09:35 UTC
UN General Assembly, except Iran, adopts resolution condemning any denial of the Holocaust

On the month of Holocaust Remembrance Day, United Nations General Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution rejecting and condemning any denial of the Holocaust following on a joint proposal from Israel and Germany.
Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:54 UTC
Seven years after, death of Argentine special prosecutor and alleged Iran connection remain unresolved

On a rainy evening Tuesday 18th January, dozens toured the streets of Buenos Aires in memory of the prosecutor Alberto Nisman on the occasion of the seventh anniversary of his death, a case which remains unresolved by Argentine justice. With umbrellas, dressed in black some carrying candles, flashlights, and flowers, the march reached the Le Parc flats complex, in a posh area of Buenos Aires, where Nisman was found dead with a shot in the head, and an investigation that still has to decide if it was a homicide or suicide.
Wednesday, January 12th 2022 - 20:54 UTC
Venezuela resumes crude exports after nine months

Venezuela's state-run PDVSA will begin exporting diluted crude oil (DCO) this week after a nine-month stoppage, it was reported in Caracas. The last time PDVSA shipped diluted crude to Asia was in April last year.
Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 09:33 UTC
Venezuelan leader announces trip to Iran sometime next year

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has announced he would visit strategic ally Iran sometime next year following an invitation from his Iranian colleague Ebrahim Raisi to discuss further cooperation between the two countries.