Iran provides laboratory services to the neighboring countries as a significant number of researchers in those countries is a good platform for expanding the export of laboratory services.

Reza Asadi-Fard, director of the laboratory network at the Vice Presidency for Science and Technology, pointed out that the quality of the country’s laboratory services has increased, stressing the need to provide these services to other countries, IRNA reported.

One of the best ways to introduce the country’s laboratory services to global markets is to facilitate the export, he noted, adding, certainly the services have an acceptable capacity to be exported to other countries.

The Vice Presidency for Science and Technology has been providing the technology and innovation for several years to applicants in various fields such as engineering, materials and metallurgy, electricity and electronics, chemistry, aerospace, mining; and also services in the fields of environment, agriculture and medicinal plants, biotechnology, and medicine, he explained.

One of the plans the Vice Presidency this year is to supply products in these fields to international markets, he concluded. T.T/

Iranian short film ‘Better than Neil Armstrong’, directed by Alireza Ghasemi, has won the ‘best drama’ award at the first edition of the Southport Film Festival in the UK.

Written and directed by Alireza Ghasemi, ‘Better than Neil Armstrong’ is the story of four kids who start their journey to the moon with the mission of finding a mysterious place called ‘The Redland’, but the gates of The Redland are being guarded by a mischievous snake.

Run by film-makers for film-makers, this festival is destined to become a significant annual event on the cultural calendar in the Northwest of England, reads the event’s website, adding their simple aim is to showcase the very best short films from around the world.

The event was held online from June 26 to 28.

The Iranian short film has competed in more than 40 international festivals across the world so far, obtaining numerous awards.

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An official with Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) said on Sunday that The country’s exports to the UAE increased 39 percent in terms of weight in a three-month timespan to June 20.

According to the Director-General of the Arab-African States Department at TPO Farzad Piltan, the UAE market has had a 15.2-percent share in Iran’s exports in the first quarter of the current Iranian calendar year, reaching $967 million from March 21 to June 22, 2020.

“This figure in the same period in 1398 stood at $895 million dollars, which shows a growth of 8 percent,” he said noting that the announced figures are registered under the coronavirus pandemic.

“However, in terms of weight, Iran’s exports to the UAE in the first quarter of the current fiscal has increased by 39 percent to 3,377,000 tons,” he added.

As Piltan said, Iran-UAE trade hovers around $12 billion annually, 40 percent of which belongs to Iran’s exports to the country.

Iranian Parliament Research Center (IPRC) said that the United Arab Emirates (UAE), China, and Iraq accounted for about 54 percent share of Iran’s total value of non-oil goods in 2018.

There is a relatively strong focus on Iran’s export target markets in such a way that the aforementioned three countries accounted for about 54 percent of the country’s total exports share value of non-oil goods, Head of Iranian Parliament Research Center Mohammad Ghasemi added. MNA/

Four books on the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, which is known as Sacred Defense in Iran, have been published in English.

“Viva Kumayl”, “Hand in Hand with Rain”, “City of Blood: The Commander’s Account” and “You Know the Commander?” have translated and published in collaboration between Sureh-Mehr Publications and the Iran Language Institute.

“Viva Kumayl” written by Mohsen Motlaq, a war veteran who recounts his memories of the days he spent with Iranian soldiers and volunteers on the frontlines.

The book was originally published in 1991, three years after the end of the war. The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei wrote a recommendation for the book at that time.

“The writing is scented with a rich aroma of sincerity,” the Leader wrote and added, “Due to its fine style of narration and satirical attitude, these memories are more readable than other written memories of the war; it should be translated.”

Co-written by Hedayatollah Behbudi and Morteza Sarhangi, “Hand in Hand with Rain” is a compendium of accounts of their visits to the warzones and Khorramshahr and Abadan, two Iranian cities hit by the war, a few months after the end of the war. The writers were praised by the Leader for the efforts they made in writing the book.

“City of Blood: The Commander’s Account” covers the remarks Ground Force Chief Brigadier General Ali Sayyad Shirazi made in a long interview with Saeid Fakhrzadeh about Iran’s military movements a few days before the liberation of Khorramshahr on May 24, 1982. The Persian version of the book has been edited by Ahmad Dehqan, one of Iran’s foremost war writers.

Sayyad Shirazi was assassinated by the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in 1999 while serving as the deputy chief of the Iranian Armed Forces General Staff, the second-highest military office in Iran.

In “You Know the Commander?”, a number of commanders narrates memories about their comrade Hossein Kharrazi, one of Iran’s high-ranking commanders who was martyred during Operation Karbala 5 on the frontline at Shalamcheh on February 27, 1987.

The book has been written by Marjan Fuladvand and is appropriate for teenage readers./T.T/

Iran will supply its first localized production of antiviral “Remdesivir” medicine at the market next week in the fight against the novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19.

Iranian Minister of Health and Medical Education Dr. Saeed Namaki revealed the remarks on Wed. and reiterated, “the first domestically-produced antiviral “Remdesivir” in the country will hit the market as of the next week.”

There is no reliable and effective drug in the world for the treatment of patients suffering from coronavirus but the two drugs named “Remdesivir” and “Favipiravir”, as prescribed by some doctors, were distributed in the country especially when effectiveness of the two drugs were emphasized in the US and Europe.

He pointed to the spread of the novel coronavirus in metropolis Tehran in particular and added, “one-week restrictions have been notified to the various organizations and departments in order to contain the disease.”

The Iranian Health Ministry announced 2,388 new cases of infection with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on Wednesday, putting the total number of cases in the country at 264,561.

Speaking at a daily press conference on Wednesday, Health Ministry Spokeswoman Sima Lari put the death toll from the coronavirus in Iran at 13,410, saying the disease has taken the lives of 199 patients over the past 24 hours.

She also noted that at least 227,561 patients have recovered from the coronavirus infection so far and have been discharged from hospitals across the country.

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Iranian researchers in a knowledge-based company designed and produced isolated antivirus hospital clothing, applicable in the fight against the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in particular.

This waterproof product has been produced for medical staff to protect them against viruses according to the health protocols as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Iranian researchers designed and produced this antivirus isolated hospital clothing within the framework of “Corona Innovation Challenge”.

“Corona Innovation Challenge” was of the salient measures taken by Basij Mostazafin (volunteer forces) Organization and more than 40 supporters in line with confronting the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.

In this challenge, it was tried to identify effective solutions in line with reducing damages caused by COVID-19 or adopt strategies in battling coronavirus using collective intelligence and collecting ideas as well as innovative products and services.

Hamid Sagharichian one of innovators of this knowledge-based company, who participated in the Coronavirus Challenge” in an interview with FNA said, “we have succeeded in designing and producing ‘coverall’ clothing which is an isolated type of clothing that can be used by media staff of hospitals to protect themselves against viruses.”

He went on to say that this clothing has been produced according to the health protocols of the World Health Organization and is waterproof and also has a special stitching.

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An official with the Health Ministry said that Iranian knowledge-based companies have been able to produce raw material needed in manufacturing ‘Remdesivir’ medicine.

The Director-General of Research and Technology Development Office of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Hossein Vatanpour, made the remarks on Tue. in an interview with Mehr news agency and added, “Iranian knowledge-based companies have been successful in producing raw material and the final product of Remdesivir.”

The Ministry of Health and Medical Education is waiting for the results of the clinical trial to kick start the mass production of the medicine, he said.

“Favipiravir” and “Remdesivir” are among the drugs raised for the treatment of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, he said, adding, “we have announced that the Ministry of Health will support knowledge-based companies for producing these two drugs.”

When feasibility studies and research works start for production of medicine, it takes six months for producing the drug, he added.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Vatanpour added, “presently, some knowledge-based companies have gained salient achievements and progress in producing the raw material of the medicine, so that we are waiting the results of trials conducted in Iran and world.”

MA/