TEHRAN – Iran U17 football team beat Comoros 3-1 in the 24th International Youth Soccer on Monday.

 Reza Ghandipour (two goals) and Kasra Taheri scored goals for Iran.

Iran started the campaign with a 2-1 loss against hosts Japan and defeated Niigata 2-1 in their second match.

Iran took part in the competition as part of preparation for the AFC U17

TEHRAN - The project manager of Iranian Agriculture Ministry’s smart irrigation systems development program has said 25,000 hectares of the country’s farmlands have been equipped with modern irrigation systems in the first five months of the current Iranian year (March 21 – August 22).

Fariborz Abbasi, who is the head of the Agriculture Ministry’s W

TEHRAN- Iran's gross domestic product (GDP) excluding oil grew 4.3 percent in the first quarter of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21 – June 21) compared to the same period last year, according to the Statistical Center of Iran (SCI).

According to SCI data, the figure including oil increased 3.8 percent, IRIB reported.

The SCI put the

TEHRAN - Average daily production of natural gas in Iran’s South Pars gas field has stood at 614.7 million cubic meters (mcm) during the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21 – August 22), the managing director of South Pars Gas Company (SPGC) said.

Ahmad Bahoush made the remarks in a meeting of SPGC managers with the