Arts & Culture Desk

Hollywood is slowly getting back to work as feature films, Netflix shows and network programs resume production. The industry has introduced enhanced safety protocols and drastic new measures designed by guilds and unions, along with epidemiologists, to keep incidences of COVID-19 down on sets.

A senior Russian diplomat said the so-called “maximum pressure” policy pursued by the United States against Iran has failed to fulfill Washington’s demand to target the country’s economy and has only led to human suffering.

The platform of South Pars Phase 16 has resumed operation after the reconstruction of the damaged parts of the platform’s offshore pipeline.

The Europe-Iran Business Forum on investment opportunities in Iran, aimed at attracting European investors, will be held next month, announced the advisor for international affairs of Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization (TPO).

Iran Mercantile Exchange (IME) announced on Saturday that 1.91 million tons of commodities, valued at over $771 million, were traded in its domestic trading and export halls during the month to November 20.

Iran’s Bid Boland Gas Refinery in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, which started operating recently, exported its first cargo of products with a total weight of 30,000 tons.

The head of Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) of Astara in the northern Iranian province of Gilan said on Saturday that the weight of exported and imported goods through Astara Port increased by 40 percent in the first eight months of the current Iranian year (March 20-November 21) compared to the same period last year.

Borussia Dortmund star Erling Haaland has won the 2020 Golden Boy award after a stunning first year with the Bundesliga side.

Although the Islamic Republic of Iran is an observer member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the promotion of its status to membership, which is supported by SCO member states including China and Russia, could raise the organization’s authority in the Middle East.