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In the same time, the companies exported 1,300 vehicles to nine countries, including South Africa, Azerbaijan, Spain, UAE and Iraq.
Based on previous data released by the Ministry of Industry, Mining, and Trade, 468,699 units (including cars, vans and trucks) were manufactured in Iran during the first half of the current Persian year (March—September).
9.1.3 Aviation sector news
Iran moves to bar flights from Russia due to fears of ‘mutant’ coronavirus strain
Iran charges 10 over Ukraine International Jet Airlines tragedy
Iran’s coronavirus (COVID-19) headquarters has moved to block flights from Moscow with officials anxious that passengers could be carrying a “mutant”, or variant, of the virus currently in evidence in the Russian capital, IRNA reported on June 20. Flights to Moscow are also to be barred by the move, which was expected to be activated within 24 hours.
A spokesman for the Iranian Aviation Authority referred to the Moscow “mutant strain”, but other reports have indicated the strain is the Delta variant, currently common in other countries including India and the UK. A steep increase in coronavirus cases in Moscow and other Russian cities has led to moves to decree compulsory vaccinations.
Iran's move comes as Turkey welcomes the restart of flights from Russia, which were banned by Moscow given a resurgence of the coronavirus in Turkey in spring. Russia is now said to be satisfied enough with the coronavirus situation in Turkey to allow Russian tourists to fly to Turkish resorts.
Iran presently has restrictions on flights to and from 39 countries due to the pandemic.
Iran has charged 10 officials over the crash of the Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) passenger aircraft shot down in January last year, killing all 176 people on board.
Gholam Abbas Torki, the former military prosecutor for Tehran Province, announced on April 6 that the 10 have been "brought to responsibility". They would face trial to determine "the necessary conclusions" over the incident, the semiofficial ISNA news agency reported him as adding.
Torki made the comments at a ceremony where he was handing over his office to his successor. He offered no other details.
Tehran initially claimed the Boeing 737 crashed. After three days it conceded that Flight PS752, which was Kyiv-bound, was shot down "unintentionally" by an air defence unit on high alert for incoming missiles at a time of high tensions with the US following an Iranian missile strike on air bases hosting US troops in Iraq in retaliation for the assassination of Major General Qasem Soleimani ordered by then US president Donald Trump.
Iran's Civil Aviation Organization’s interim report blamed the tragedy on the misalignment of a radar system. It also cited a lack of communication between the air defence operator and his commanders.
Those who died in the crash included citizens of Afghanistan, Britain, Canada, Germany, Iran, Sweden and Ukraine.In February, a UN special rapporteur accused Iran of making misleading denials and conducting inadequate investigations into the tragedy.
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