Nader and Simin: A Separation 2011

       Nader and Simin: A Separation is the new masterpiece of Asghar Farhadi .It stares Leila Hatami (Simin) ,  Peiman Ma'adi (Nader) , Shahab Hosseini, Sareh Bayat and Sarina Farhadi .
       The film is based on the story of an Iranian middle-class couple who are getting a divorce, while considering the future of their only child.The film is highly critically acclaimed and may be considered as probably the best film of the past year . IMDB has rated it as 8.6 and Hollywood Reporter , Screen daily , variety and rotten tomatoes all have given it hugely positive reviews.The Hollywood Reporter has predicted the film will be among next year's foreign language Oscars nominees.
      The film won the Golden Bear Award of the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival and the event's Silver Bears for the entire male and female cast ensemble.Its also won the Fajr Film Festival's Crystal Simorghs for Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematographer and Best Sound Recorder .It also has won the Sydney Film Prize for best movie at the 2011 Sydney Film Festival .Ahmad Miralaii, the director of Iran's Farabi Cinematic Foundation, said that "the Iranian cinema is proud of the awards", as he welcomed Farhadi at the airport upon the director's return from Berlin.

Iran's automotive Industry

Iran's automotive industry is the 12th largest automotive industry in the world and the largest in the middle east . The growth rate of Iran's car production is much higher then the rest and going in the same rate very soon Iran's car production industry will become a major power .

Iran produces many types of vehicles from  passenger cars to four wheel drives, vans,small trucks,heavy trucks. buses, minibuses and pickups and motorcycles .

 There are many automotive companies in Iran of which the two major companies are;

Iran Khodro and  Saipa  ,

           while other important companies are ;

 Pars Khodro

 Shahhab Khodro

 Sherkat Martab

 Bahman Group

 Kerman Motors

 Zagres Khodro

 Modiran Khodro

 Tractor Sazi

 Runiran and many others like Kerman Khodro , Kish Khodro etc .

 Iran Khodro diesel is the major producer of buses and trucks.

In the early days the Iranian car companies just assembled foreign cars in Iran but with the passage of time they have started making local cars which are now very famous all over Iran and are exported to many countries with the estimate of over 100,000 units export by the year of 2015.

Iranian car companies are now looking to reach higher safety and consumptions standards and most of the cars now come in both Gasoline and CNG option as the Government encourages CNG usage and also dues to very low price of CNG in Iran .

Iran Khodro and Saipa  have built car manufacturing plants in many countries in Africa , Latin America , Syria , Azerbaijan and neighboring countries.

Some of the Iranian cars

IKCO Dena 

IKCO Soren

IKCO Samand

IKCO Runna 

Saipa Tiba

Peugeot 206SD

Peugeot 207i

Peugeot Pars

Some Iranian buses 

Saipa Diesels Kaveh Truck

IKCO Dena Car profile

                            

 Dena is the latest car offered by the Iranian automotive company Iran Khodro .It is built on a locally designed platform and is tagged as luxury car with high quality control . It will come with to models ,  the LX and ELX .

Dena LX will be priced starting from 14000 US dollars and is outfitted with EF7 (1.7 L (1648 cc) 113 hp)
gasoline engine and a CNG based engine.
Dena ELX will be priced starting from 18000 US dollars and has a turbo charged EF7 (1.7 L (1648 cc) 150 hp) engine. ELX model will also enjoy extra options like sport rings, electric power steering, electric folding mirrors, fog lights, passenger air bag etc .

Dena has been designed to meet frontal impact and pedestrian impact safety requirements and is said to meet EURO IV emission standards .

Other specifications are
VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine, 5-passenger, 4-door sedan
FUEL ECONOMY: EPA average: 34.4 mpg
TRANSMISSION: automatic/manual
The car will hit domestic market in early 2012 and will also be exported to global markets , the main targets of which are Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, East European and Persian Gulf region countries, Africa and East Asia.

Iran's second satellite Rasad 1

Iran has recently launched a new satellite named Rasad 1 into orbit . According to the Iranian Space organization the Safir e Rasad which is Irans second Satellite carrier was responsible for placing the satellite into orbit.

Rasad loaded on  Safir launcher

 The satellite

According to information released by the missile after launch and operate properly in accordance with the schedule of the final stage rocket separated from the satellite in orbit of 260 km from the Earth's. The orbiting observatory will continue to move in for two months. Experts from the Malek e Ashtar university have announced that images are being received from the satellite and the satellite is in perfect condition orbiting the earth.

Iran launched its first home made satellite Omid in 2009. The telecommunication satellite put Iran's name in the list as the ninth country to develop satellite launch capability