Head of Iranian Space Agency (ISA) Hamid Fazeli says the country plans to launch its domestically-built Fajr (Dawn) satellite into space during early months of the new Iranian calendar year (commencing on March 20).

Fajr is a measurement and imaging satellite that will examine subsystems used in previous satellites, Fazeli told IRNA on Tuesday.

He added that the manufacturing work of the satellite is still underway and nearly complete.

He noted that the national Fajr satellite will be placed in elliptical orbit of 400 km in radius and will remain in space for a year and a...

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Iranian photographer Hadi Asgari is slated to compete for the 2012 edition of Sony World Photography Awards (SWPA) set to be held in the UK.

Asgari has entered the Portraits line-up of SWPA’s Youth section and will compete with nine other photographers from different countries.

Other participants of the Portraits line-up include Tertious Alio, Kolyaskin Sergey, Marina Tkhorzhevskaya and Darya Kasyanova (Russia), Lidia K (UK), Samujjwal Sahu (India), Felicia Simion (Romania), Karina Sembe (Ukraine) and Berta Vicente (Spain).

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Commander of Civil Defense Organization Gholamreza Jalali said on Sunday Iran manufactures 90 percent of its needed defense equipment.

He made the remarks in an interview with reporters on the sidelines of the First National Cyber Defense Conference in Tehran.

Jalali said Iran was a mere consumer of foreign-made weapons durin gpre-revolution era whereas it now manufacture 90 percent of its needed military hardware.

He said 'We cannot use software, hardware or protocols made by our enemies agains them, therefore we should have our own indigenized know-how for cyber defense.'.

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Iran has prohibited import of foreign computer security software, Mehr quotes Iran's Information and Communications Technology Minister, Reza Taghipour as saying.

Taghipour stressed that no foreign software for computer security will be imported into the country, adding that Iran will rely on its own software, made by local developers.

He added that domestic security programs have been improving, and Iran will use them, instead of foreign security software, which cannot be trusted.

He also said the The Bonian Daneshpajouhan Institute has about 25 smaller firms that develop...

Iran exchanged some 1.8 gigawatts (GW) of electricity with the neighboring countries on February 17, ILNA news agency reported.

Armenia was the main exporter of power to Iran and Iraq was the main importer with 284 megawatts of export and 1,054 megawatts of import, respectively.

Iran plans to connect its national power electricity grid to Russia by the next calendar year which will end on March 20, 2013, Iran power generation transmission and distribution management company (TAVANIR) managing director said in January.

Iran will exchange up to 15 billion kilowatt hours (BkWh)...