Tehran News

Tehran Mayor Pirouz Hanachi and Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani discussed the capital’s major issues in a meeting on Sunday.  According to Hanachi, traffic congestion and air pollution were…

Tehran Province earned 260 trillion rials ($2.5 billion) in revenues during the first eight months of the current fiscal year (March 21-Nov. 21), indicating a 12.5% rise compared with the…

Tehran Province has a 20% share from Iran’s total industrial production units, Yadollah Sadeqi, the head of Tehran Industries, Mining and Trade Organization, said. Tehran also accounts for 17.6…

Construction of the second phase of Tehran's seventh water treatment plant has been accelerated and will come on stream in April, managing director of Tehran Province Water and Wastewater…

Pointing to the outrageously high number of pollution-related deaths in Tehran, the mayor says measures are being taken in earnest to improve public transportation in the metropolis and reduce…

A plan is in the making to start a special bus service   between Tehran and Alborz Province to the west, as a solution to help ease commute.

Sharif University of Technology hosted a regional coding competition between 880 teams from West Asia in Tehran on Dec. 20-21. The competition precedes the 43rd round of the Association for…

Tehran will host the 19th technology exhibition Iran National Technomart at the international fairgrounds as of Monday. The event will continue until December 26. 

A startup has been launched in Tehran for ordering cakes online based on special tastes and preferences. The startup operating through the website cakesaz.com provides a gamut of options, from…

Over the past nine months, Tehran has had 41 days of unhealthy air. The omnipresent smog has compelled urban authorities to revisit the measures for curbing air pollution that has been in place…

Struggling to improve the quality of life and help move Tehran towards a smart city, a local startup is providing dock-less bike-sharing services in two Tehran districts from Tuesday.

Frost has inflicted losses amounting to 11 trillion rials ($107 million) on Tehran Province’s agriculture sector during the first eight months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Nov. 21).…

The First Tehran Investment Opportunities and Public–Private Partnership Forum will be held at Parsian Azadi Hotel on Dec. 17.

The Cabinet voted on Wednesday to approve Anoushirvan Mohseni Bandpey as the governor general of Tehran Province.  The top officials also endorsed the appointment of new governors general…

Air quality in Tehran has slightly improved over the past few days after a blanket of pollution descended on metropolis last week that for several days made breathing hard for large sections of…

Tehran City Council launched an open API portal at the 2nd Smart Tehran Congress on Monday in a fresh move to boost transparency, openness, local startup ecosystem and enhance digital urban…

At the opening ceremony of the 2nd round of Smart Tehran Congress on Monday, the mayor and ICT minister signed an agreement to join forces and support plans for transforming Tehran into a smart…

A soon-to-be operationalized terminal at Imam Khomeini International Airport will handle some of the foreign flights now being hosted at Terminal 1. According to the caretaker of Imam Khomeini…

Nine out of 18 air quality monitoring stations in Tehran issued emergency alerts on Wednesday with Tehran Air Quality Control Company (TAQCC) announcing that conditions are expected to worsen in…

Unlike in Tehran, home sales in other Iranian provincial capitals have been up 3% in the eighth month of the current Iranian year, Aban (Oct. 23-Nov. 21), compared with the same month of the…

An online grocery shop has been launched selling fresh fruit and vegetables to Tehran residents. The service is offered through the website miveplus.com.  Customers can buy fresh, dried,…

Pirouz Hanachi was endorsed by the Interior Ministry as Tehran mayor after an extensive and lengthy vetting process.  In a decree on Wednesday, Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli…

Latest data released by the Central Bank of Iran confirm that Tehran's housing market has been plunged into a state of stagflation. The data covering the eight months of the current Iranian…

The annual cost of maintenance and expansion of Tehran's power network is $22 million, the managing director of Tehran Province Electricity Distribution Company said Tuesday. Hossein Sabouri…

As is the norm in metropolises in most countries, transforming the Iranian capital into a smart city has been a priority of Tehran Municipality. Under ex-mayor Mohammad Ali Najafi, the TM held a…