An international webinar titled: ‘The Role of Literature, Culture and Humanities in the Formation of Civilization’, to be held on 13^th March, 2021, organized by Iran Cultural Center, Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Bangladesh with the participation of Scholars of the Universities of Iran and Bangladesh. Deadline of submission the abstract is 31^st January, 2021. Interested researchers, teachers and students are invited to send the abstract on time through the mail: [email protected].

Topics of articles and lectures:

• Factors for the Development and Decline of Civilization
• Factors forthe Growth and Prosperity of Civilizations
• The Role of Religions in the Development of Civilization
• Material and Spiritual Manifestations of Civilizations
• The Concept and Spirit of Islamic Civilization
• The Concept and Spirit of Modern Islamic Civilization
• The Role of Literature in the Development of Civilization
• The Role of Culture in the Development of Civilization
• The Role of Humanities and Technical and Engineering Sciencesin the formation of Civilization
• The Capacities of Iran and Bangladesh to participate in the development of Islamic Civilization
• The Role of Scientific and Academic Institutions of Iran and Bangladesh in the development of Civilization

Date of Webinar: 13 March 2021 (23 Isfand 1399)

Time: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm

Webinar Languages: Bangla, Persian, English

Deadline for submitting abstracts of articles and lectures: 31 January 2020 (12 Bahman 1399)

Official email: [email protected]

Telephone: 0088029611987 /0088029611903

A group of literati from several Persian-speaking nations are scheduled to celebrate Iran’s National Day of Persian Poetry and Literature with an online program.

The program, which has been organized by the Iran Book and Literature House in Tehran, will commence at 5 pm on instagram.com/khaneyeketab on Wednesday on the eve of the day.

Poets from Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and India will recite poems and deliver lectures.

The online meeting will be attended by Indian literati Abid Raza Naushad, Shafi Haider Rizvi, Sajid Rizvi and Syed Zaigham Abbas Naqvi, and Pakistani poets Mir Ali Jafari, Abbas Saqib, Ahmad Shahryar, Qari Afzal Imani and Zainul Abedin Khoy.

In addition, Tehran-based Afghan poet Mohammad-Sarvar Rajai and Tajik poet Shoh Mansoor Shohmirza will also recite works from some Persian poets.

Mohammad-Ali Bahmnai, Ali Davudi, Reza Esmaeili, Seyyed Akbar Mirjafari, Ali-Mohammad Maoddab, Esmaeil Amini and Gholamreza Tariqi will be attending the meeting.

The meeting will continue with reading a message sent by a grandchild of poet Muhammad Iqbal by Ahmad Shahryar. A message sent by Deputy Culture Minister for Cultural Affairs Mohsen Javadi is scheduled to be read.

The National Day of Persian Poetry and Literature is observed every year on the death anniversary of contemporary poet Mohammad-Hossein Behjat Tabrizi – Shahriar, which will fall on Thursday this year.

As the most prominent figure of contemporary Persian literature, Shahriar was mainly influenced by the poetry of Hafez, a Persian poet writing in the 14th century.

Shahriar, who also composed works in Azerbaijani, published his first book of poems in 1929 with prefaces by Persian literature scholars Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, Saeid Nafisi and Pejman Bakhtiari.

“Heidar Babaya Salam” is Shahriar’s most famous Azerbaijani poetry collection, which highlights his birthplace, the village of Heidar Baba.

Condemning the US and the Zionists’ economic war against Iran, the Iranian Oil Minister asserted that the country, as one of the largest exporters of oil products in the world, is doing well in petrochemical products exports.

Speaking in Iranian Parliament’s open session on Tuesday, Bijan Zangane gave a report over the performance of the Ministry of Oil and its development programs, stating, “Increasing the production capacity of the joint oil and gas fields, avoiding crude sales, expanding gas supply, increasing gas exports, supporting domestic manufacturing and knowledge-based firms, as well as countering oil sanctions are among the programs on our agenda.”

Hailing the increase in production capacity of South Pars gas field in recent years, he said, “In 2005, the production in South Pars gas field was 140 million cubic meters that the amount hit 280 million cubic meters in 2015, and in the current year it has reached 700 million cubic meters.”

Referring to petrochemicals increase in order to avoiding crude sale, Zangane added that, “We had been able to increase the production of petrochemicals from 12 million tons in 1996 to 66 million tons in 2019 that the amount of which is expandable to about 100 million tons in 2021.”

Also, petrochemical products hit about $2 billion in 1996 that the rate of which jumped to $11 billion in 2013 and about $15 billion in 2019, he added.

Elsewhere in his remark, Zangane pointed out that Iran’s exports of oil products have doubled since 2005, however, there had been problems and restrictions due to the sanctions imposed by some foreign countries.

Criticizing the United States and the Zionists efforts in imposing a full-scale economic war against the Iranian nation in all dimensions, Oil Minister asserted “As one of the largest exporters of oil products in the World, We are doing well in the fields of petrochemical exports.”

The Gore-Jask pipeline is one of the solutions to circumvent sanctions, he said and added, and “This pipeline will be completed by the end of the current year ending in March 20, that through of which about one million barrels of crude oil will be exported.”

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Iranian ICT minister announced that the final tests of the advanced remote-sensing satellite have been completed at the Iranian Space Research Center and will be delivered to the Iranian Space Agency next week.

Iranian Minister of Communications and Information Technology (ICT) Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi made the announcement on Monday at the opening ceremony of the exhibition of “Localization of advanced equipment of the National Information Network” which was held in the Research Institute for Information and Communication Technology.

“Pars-1” satellite is the most advanced remote-sensing satellite ever built in the country, he said, adding that the final tests of the satellite have been completed at the Iranian Space Research Center and will be delivered to the Iranian Space Agency next week.

He noted that after this project, the researchers of Iranian Space Research Center will work on “Nahid-2” telecommunications satellite project.

The Iranian Space Agency has plans to launch a number of satellites including Pars-1, Pars-2, Zafar-2 and Nahid-2. They will orbit 500 kilometers above the earth.

Iran Heavy Diesel Manufacturing Company (DESA) unveiled the country’s first dual-fuel locomotive engine in a ceremony on Sunday, the Transport and Urban Development Ministry’s portal reported.

The unveiling ceremony of the 4,000-horsepower heavy engine was attended by the Head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways (known as RAI) Saeed Rasouli.

Speaking in the ceremony, Rasouli said that in the past few years, the quantitative and qualitative development of the country’s railways has intensified and several provinces, including Kermanshah, Hamedan, Urmia, and Gilan, have been connected to the country’s rail network.

“We have been able to provide opportunities for investment making in the rail industry by offering support packages. The move has prompted numerous requests from the private sector for investment making in this industry, some of which are in progress and some are at the stage of signing agreements and contracts,” the official said.

He stated that if the required funding is provided, RAI would be able to put 1,000 kilometers of new railways into operation by the end of the current government’s incumbency.

The official stressed that the manufacturing of this engine is a significant success for the country’s rail industry and would play a significant role in reducing the industry’s reliance on foreign sources.

Back in June 2019, Iran’s Transport Minister Mohammad Eslami had unveiled an Iranian-made freight locomotive on the sidelines of the 7th International Exhibition of Rail Transportation, Related Industries, and Equipment, dubbed RAILEXPO 2019.

The development of rail transport infrastructure is crucial for sustainable development and economic growth in any country, and Iran has been heavily focusing on expanding its railway infrastructure in recent years.

In 2018, during the same exhibition, Iran unveiled the first-ever Iranian-made locomotive engine.

Currently, Iran has over 13,000 kilometers of railway laid and based on the country’s Sixth National Five-Year Development Plan (2016-2021), the railway network is due to expand to more than 16,400 kilometers. /T.T/

A knowledge-based company has succeeded to save up to $20 million annually by domestic production of a drug needed for organ transplantation, according to the Vice Presidency for Science and Technology.

The domestic medicine, called Iminoral, is meeting 95 percent of the country’s need and is prescribed to patients who have had a transplant, and it is responsible for suppressing the body’s immune system so that the patient’s body does not reject the transplanted organ.

The annual production and sales value of this product in three doses of 25, 50, and 100 mg is over 600 billion rials (about $14 million at the official rate of 42,000 rials) per year.

Iminoral is 40 percent cheaper than similar foreign samples, however, in several tests, its high quality has been approved.

With the support of the Vice Presidency for Science and Technology and the Innovation and Prosperity Fund, the necessary facilities for the development of production lines for this company have been approved.

Mohammad Reza Shanehsaz, head of the Food and Drug Administration said in January that the Iranian pharmaceutical industry and scientists are capable of producing any kind of medicine over a two-year period.

Iran also produced drugs confirmed to be effective in the coronavirus treatment, including, Remdesivir, Tocilizumab.

Health Minister Saeed Namaki said that some 97 percent of the whole medicine consumed in the country is produced domestically and only 3 percent is imported.

Sourena Sattari Vice President for Science and Technology also said that “Iran plays a leading role in the field of biotechnology in the region, with the production of 24 biotech medicine. /T.T/