Tasnim Iran and Iraq have reached an initial deal to build a long highway that would ease traffic across the border and help boost trade between the two neighboring countries, an official said. Irans Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami said on Wednesday that the 354-kilometer highway would connect the city of Mehran on the western ...

IRNA Iran's Customs Administration spokesman Rouollah Latifi said on Monday that Mehran crossing on the border with Iraq was reopened and operates on Monday and Wednesday. Latifi told IRNA that Mehran border crossing was reopened on Monday after continued talks with Iraqi officials and now trading is in processing by transshipment through this ...

MNA According to Iraq Border Crossing Department, any activity in Mehran Border Terminal both in trade and passenger sector is currently closed until further notice. Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) announced, Iraq Border Crossing Department had halted trade activity in the field of unloading and discharging goods imported ...

MNA By the decision of Iraqi Wasit Governorate, activity in Mehran-Zarbatieh Border was suspended for a period of two weeks, effective as of Feb. 28. According to a letter received to Mehran Customs Office, the Iraqi government suspended trade and passenger activity in Irans Mehran and Iraqs Zarbatieh Border. This proposal has been given by ...

MNA Some 71,000 Iranian and foreign pilgrims crossed Mehran border in the western province of Ilam on Saturday to join Arbaeen pilgrimage, an official in the province said. Mohammad Hassani, the Deputy of General Road Administration of Ilam Province said on Sunday that the number of pilgrims left Iran for Iraq through Mehran border was 69,288. The ...

Tasnim Some 35,000 pilgrims left Iran to visit Iraqs holy sites or returned to the country via Mehran border crossing in the western province of Ilam on Friday, showing a nine-fold increase compared to the same day last year, an official in the province said. Speaking to Tasnim, Head of Arbaeen Headquarters in Ilam Province Ahmad Karami said the ...

MNA Iran exported a total of $986 million worth of commodities to Iraq through Mehran Border Crossing, during the past nine months through Dec. 21, a senior official at the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration said. According to Director General of Ilam Customs Administration Ruhollah Gholami, the figure indicates a 9% increase compared ...

IRNA Official in charge of Ilam customs house Rouhollah Gholami said on Sunday that since early this year over dlrs 960 million worth of goods have been exported from Mehran border to Iraq. Speaking to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), he said 'we are now witnessing positive growth of exports from Mehran border to Iraq in recent months'....

AFP - A 15-minute walk from the Iraqi border in the west Iranian town of Mehran, three young clerics are hard at work polishing the shoes of pilgrims. Farther down the road another cleric stands on a chair holding a Quran over the heads of passing crowds, blessing them as they march in the thousands towards the shrine of Imam Hussein in Karbala,...

MNA The head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) says the reasons for the decline in exports through Mehran crossing on the border with Iraq are being investigated. Foroud Asgari said in the western city of Ilam that exports through Mehran border crossing declined by 5% during last Iranian year (1396) compared to the ...

IRNA - An earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale jolted the city of Mehran in western province of Ilam on Wednesday. According to the Seismological Center of the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University, the tremor occurred at 11:16 hours local time (07:46 GMT Wednesday) in an area located at 46.29 degrees longitude and 32.80 degrees latitude ...

Press TV - Thousands of Iranians are marching toward the Iraqi holy city of Karbala to perform the rituals of Arbaeen, one of the most revered religious occasions on the Islamic calendar. On Thursday, Iranian pilgrims gathered at Mehran border crossing to pass into Karbala to honor the 40th day after the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein,...

IRNA Deputy Head of Industry, Mine and Trade organization of Ilam Province for commercial affairs Jamil Shohani said on Tuesday that more than $2.3 billion of goods were exported from Mehran border terminal to Iraq past year. Shohani said that by signing bilateral agreements between neighboring Iraqi provinces of Maysan, Wasit, Diyala and Babil with ...

IRNA Managing Director of the Islamic Republic Red Crescent Society (RCS) Mohammad Soleimani says nine of those injured in a driving accident in Iraqi territory early Sunday morning have been transferred to medication centers in Mehran border city. Soleimani told IRNA on Sunday that immediately after the accident in the wee hours in the morning, ...

IRNA Deputy Head of Arbaeen ceremony headquarters of Ilam Hossein Kalantari said that some 90,000 Iranian pilgrims returned from Karbala through Mehran border on November 18. Kalantari told IRNA that 350,000 pilgrims have passed through Mehran border since November 1. Referring to the fact that there is no problem on the way of pilgrims returning ...

IRNA| Farzad Alizadeh: Thousands of Iranian pilgrims are crossing Mehran border to enter Iraq�s territory for attending Arbaeen in the holy city of Karbala.  

TEHRAN, Dec. 20 (MNA) Mehran city governor has announced that Mehran customs trading activity has been resumed. In an interview to Mehr News, Morad Naseri said, after a short pause due to the high volume of traffic during Arbaeen, Mehran border customs trade activity has resumed. He said business owners could go to the border for office works and ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian deputy minister said a high level of security prevails along the countrys joint borders with neighboring Iraq as some 1.5 million Iranian pilgrims have been returning home after attending religious ceremonies in Karbala. There has been no security problem along the borders, neither inside Iran nor Iraq, Iran's deputy ...

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Thousands of Iranian pilgrims are crossing Mehran border to enter Iraq's territory for attending Arbaeen in the holy city of Karbala.   By Tasnim News Agency   The Iran Project is not responsible for the content of quoted ...