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EghtesadOnline: An official from Russian foreign ministry said while JCPOA showed diplomacy was effective, stressing that it was impossible to resolve the issue of the North Korean nuclear program in the same way the Iranian nuclear issue was settled.

EghtesadOnline: Iran has attracted over $5.5 million in industry and mining sector after signing a landmark nuclear deal, also known as JCPOA, with the six world powers in 2015, according to Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Mohammad-Reza Nematzadeh.

EghtesadOnline: The Governor of Central Bank of Iran (CBI) said on Saturday that the JCPOA has terminated all nuclear-related sanctions.

EghtesadOnline: Chabahar Free Zone Organization managing director declared that 63 investing foreign countries had been registered in the region since implementing Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action (JCPOA).

EghtesadOnline: German Deputy Foreign Minister Markus Ederer in a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Majid Takht-e-Ravanchi underlined the need for expansion of cooperation between the two countries, especially in banking and financial domains.

EghtesadOnline: Governor of Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Valiollah Seif said on Saturday that Iran’s banking diplomacy after the implementation of Iran nuclear deal, also known as Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), has been able to resolve all the country’s banking problems.

EghtesadOnline: Iran has attracted 11 billion Euro foreign investment after the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), an official said.

EghtesadOnline: Head of Executive Board of the Industrial Development and Renovation Organization (IDRO) Mansur Moazami called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action as a golden and exceptional opportunity for developing economy of the country and complained instead of appreciation for opening South Pars phases.

EghtesadOnline: Director of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) Abouzar Ebrahimi Torkaman said on Thursday that cultural and political relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Italy will be bolstered in post-JCPOA era.

EghtesadOnline: When Iran last year cemented a landmark nuclear agreement with six world powers to remove many of the sanctions against it, Hassan Rouhani, the country’s moderate president, said it would aim to attract at least $30 billion a year of foreign investment.

EghtesadOnline: Official figures show Iran’s imports from China saw a major rise over the past four years in what is seen as a result of the removal of sanctions against the country and the subsequent return of global shipping lines to its ports.

EghtesadOnline: Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi emphasized that there was no plan to discuss issues other than JCPOA with Americans.

EghtesadOnline: The following headlines appeared in local English language newspapers on Sunday:

EghtesadOnline: Montenegrin Foreign Minister Srdjan Darmanovic in meeting with Iran’s new accredited Ambassador to Montenegro Hossein Molla Abdollahi praised Iran’s rich culture and old civilization and called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) a great achievement for Iran.

EghtesadOnline: Ebrahim Raisi, the conservative cleric seeking to unseat Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in this month’s election, said the country’s historic nuclear accord with the West is legitimate and should be respected.

EghtesadOnline: Aryan, a 26-year-old with a master’s degree in engineering, showed impeccable timing when he returned home to Tehran from Canada. It was early 2016, and a decade of economic sanctions was drawing to an end, boosting Iran’s economy and kicking off a scramble for the country’s small pool of white-collar professionals. The job offers piled up. “Abroad, you’re a small fish in a big pond,” says Aryan as he unwinds in a garden cafe after a day spent drafting investment strategies for clients of the European consulting firm he works for. (He asked that his last name and the name of his employer be withheld.) “Here, each person can be the first to launch something or become a leader in their field.”

EghtesadOnline: Incumbent Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, who is running for a second term, has lashed out at the internal critics of the historic nuclear deal signed under his administration between Tehran and the six world powers, saying "some people" are ignorant of the regulations governing election campaigns.

EghtesadOnline: Iran says there is no negotiation between Tehran and Washington outside the nuclear issue, but US officials have requested talks over the case of one or two prisoners in the Islamic Republic.

EghtesadOnline: Wary of US President Donald Trump’s tough talk on Iran, the European Union is courting Tehran to signal its commitment to a nuclear deal and holding out the promise of its economic payoff ahead of the May 19 presidential polls, EU diplomats say.

EghtesadOnline: As Iran reaps the benefits of sanctions removal and reintegration with the global economy, its banking system is struggling to resume and normalize ties before international restrictions choked off its gateways with the outside world.