News of Iran's automotive industry

IKCO to start mass production of first Iranian BRT bus
Hashem Yekkeh Zare, head of Iran Khodro Diesel (IKD) company announced Iran Khodro is ready to mass produce and supply need of urban transportation network to BRT bus and said: This product has all technical and welfare characteristics necessary to meet considerations of municipalities orgnization and urban passengers.

One of the main factors  in designing this BRT bus was welfare of passengers, our experts considered all points to comply specially requirements of Iranian passengers and Iranian BRT bus has significant differences with Imported BRT buses on this aspect.

You can find full article in Persian language here.

SAIPA launched car assembly plant in Sudan
Head of SAIPA, Iranian car manufacturing company inagurated a car assembly plant in sudan. Partner of SAIPA in sudan is GIAD industrial group.

Full article in Persian language

Sign of 1.5 million US dollars contract for improvement of hybrid bus prototype.

University of Tehran and IDRO (Industrial Development and Renovation Orgnization of Iran) signed a contract to Improve hybrid bus prototype.

According to this contract Tehran University should accomplish performance and quality tests in accordance to commercial standards and certifications of credible centers. So the hyrbrid bus will be ready for commercial mass production by one of the Iranian car manufacture companies till next 10 months.

Hybrid bus prototype was unveiled last year by University of Tehran.

Full article in Persian language

Scared Defence Exhibition in Baharestan Square in Tehran: 2- Ghadr-F, Sejil and Qiam-1

Specification placards of Qiam-1, Shahab-2, Ghadr-F and Sejil Ballistic missiles:

Qiam-1:

Max. Range: 800 km

Total Weight: 6155 kg 

Length: 16 m (!? I guess it is 10.6 m )

Diameter: 88 cm

Warhead Weight: 747 kg

Propellant: Liquid Fuel

Flight Ceiling: 126 km

Flight Path: Ballistic

Shahab-2:

Max. Range: 500 km

Min. Range: 50 km

Total Weight: 6055 kg 

Length: 11 m 

Diameter: 88 cm

Warhead Weight: 747 kg

Propellant: Liquid Fuel

Flight Ceiling: 125 km

Flight Path: Ballistic

Sejil:

Max. Range: 2000 km

Total Weight: 23623 kg 

Length: 17.57 m 

Diameter: 1.25 m

Warhead Weight: 500 kg (!!!)

Propellant: Solid Fuel

Flight Time: 835 s

Flight Path: Ballistic

Ghadr-F:

Max. Range: 1948 km

Length: 15.86 m 

Propellant: Liquid Fuel

Guidance System: Inertial (imu)

Flight Path: Ballistic

One of interesting points of information of these posters is warhead weight of Sejil, I don't know how much these information are credible, but I think if warhead weight of Sejil is really 500 kg (less than Fateh-110 or Qiam-1 or Shahab-2), So max. range of two stage Sejil missile with 23 tons weight and 17.5 m length, is much more than 2000 km (the same range of liquid fuel 15.86 m Ghadr-F missile).

Qiam-1 missile:

Warhead of Qiam-1:

Differences of jet vanes of Ghadr-F and Sejil missiles:

Ghadr-F, Sejil, Shahab-2 and Fateh-110 missiles:

Iran accelerates space and missile launch projects

By Allison Puccioni Jane's Image Analyst, California; Nick Hansen, Industry Expert in Imagery Analysis, California

3/18/2011

Iran is rapidly and significantly expanding capabilities to accommodate larger missiles and satellite launch vehicles (SLVs), including the Simorgh 3 SLV in construction at Semnan space centre, according to Jane’s analysis of satellite imagery of the site.

The construction begun in mid-2010 is aggressive even by Iranian standards, with a number of very complex facilities nearing external completion only months after they were started. The site is likely to assume operational readiness by 2013, judging by the pace of construction. Rapid construction – which prevents extended overhead analysis – could underscore the secretive nature of the site, the strategic importance of the facilities, and Iran’s inclinations towards space readiness.

The first new project is at the launch/engine test facility, where a launch pad or engine test stand is in the early stages of construction. The flame trench that funnels rocket blast exhaust away from the tower is roughly the same size and shape as one first identified by Jane’s in 2010, but is situated 73 m to the north.

Elements at the second site are identical to the flame trench and auxiliary pad at the first, but construction of the second tower had not commenced as of 9 March 2011. The first tower is still under construction but should be finished by the end of the year; that pace suggests that the second tower will likely be completed by 2013.

Although Jane’s previously suggested that this tower could be either a launch facility or engine test site, the towers will likely be used primarily for testing.

Background image, GoogleEarth. Inserts: Imagesat International.[1]

This image of new Iranian launch site has been taken May 2009 [1]:

This is image of the same site taken on November 2009 [1]:

And this is image if missile integration center [1]:

[1]: All images have been published by Defence Update

Russia, China Caution IAEA to File Fair Report on Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- Reports said Russia and China are urging the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to act fairly when issuing its next report on Iran.

"Russians and Chinese are not pressuring the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) to refrain from reporting on the realities of Iran's nuclear program," one Western diplomat said. 

Another Western envoy to the agency said however that they expected the IAEA head, Yukiya Amano, to resist western countries' pressures and publish the report the week before a November 17-18 meeting of the 35-member IAEA board, as planned. 

What Amano says in the report "is not going to be a reflection on who has bent his ear in one direction or the other," the Vienna-based diplomat told AFP on condition of anonymity. 

Russia and China have traditionally taken a softer stance on Iran than fellow veto-holding UN Security Council powers the United States, Britain and France. 

Previous IAEA reports have concentrated on Iran's efforts to enrich uranium, and said that there has been "no diversion in Iran's nuclear materials". 

The IAEA chief is under much pressure by the US and its European allies to have a high-pitch tone in his Iran report. 

Very recently the US started a new round of allegations against Iran to prepare the ground for a new set of UN sanctions against Tehran, and it now needs a harsh IAEA report to achieve its goal. 

US-Iranian relations are already fraught, hot on the heels of US accusations - rejected by Iran - that Tehran was behind an alleged plot for a Mexican drug cartel to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington. 

Washington and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only. 

Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry. 

Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment. 

Tehran has dismissed West's demands as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians' national resolve to continue the path. 

Tehran has repeatedly said that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has come clean of IAEA's questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities. 

A 2008 report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by the then Director-General, Mohamed ElBaradei, thanked Iran's honest cooperation in removing ambiguities about its past activities and confirmed that Iran has answered all the six outstanding questions of the world body about the nuclear material and activities that it had had in the past. 

The US attempt to push for stronger Security Council sanctions has been undermined by the country's own national intelligence estimate, published in late 2007, which said Iran is not pursuing a weapons program. 

Washington's push for additional UN penalties also contradicts reports by the former IAEA Director-General ElBaradei - including a report in November 2007 and the other one in February 2008 - which praised Iran's truthfulness about key aspects of its past nuclear activities and announced settlement of outstanding issues with Tehran. 

The February 2008 report by the UN nuclear watchdog praised Iran's cooperation in clearing up all of the past questions over its nuclear program, vindicating Iran's nuclear program and leaving no justification for any new UN sanctions. 

Also in another report to the IAEA's 35-member Board of Governors, ElBaradei once again verified Iran's non-diversion of declared nuclear material, adding that the UN agency has failed to discover any "components of a nuclear weapon" or "related nuclear physics studies" in Iran. 

The UN nuclear watchdog has also carried out frequent surprise inspections of Iran's nuclear sites so far, but found nothing to support the West's allegations. 

The Vienna-based UN nuclear watchdog continues snap inspections of Iranian nuclear sites and has reported that all "declared nuclear material in Iran has been accounted for, and therefore such material is not diverted to prohibited activities." 

Analysts believe that the aforementioned reports have made any effort to impose further sanctions on Iran completely irrational. 

Observers also believe that US President Barack Obama's attempt to rally international pressure against Iran lost steam due to the growing international vigilance following the said reports and after the start of Islamic Awakening in the region. 

Many world nations have called the UN Security Council pressure against Iran unjustified, specially in the wake of the said IAEA reports, stressing that Tehran's case should be normalized and returned to the UN nuclear watchdog due to the Islamic Republic's full cooperation with the agency.  

Scared Defence exhibition in Baharestan square in Tehran: 1- Persian Gulf missile.

When Persian Gulf missile was introduced for the first time, a question was raised on it: Is it radar guided missile or optical guided?

First published images didn't show nose section of missile clearly. But when images of this missile on September 2011 parade was published, it was found that it uses an optical guidance system.

Like previous years, Scared Defence exhibition was held in September 2011 in Tehran. Now Images of nose section of displayed Persian Missile on this exhibition shows it uses an Infra Red seeker:

Seems these missiles have been "Fateh 110" missiles that have been converted to Persian Gulf (Khalij Fars) missiles, notice to the nose section:

 And These are images of new launcher of "Persian Gulf" missile:

Media Complex project in Tehran.

This is an article published by Archdaily : 

CAAT Studio Architecture shared with us their design for a media complex located in the main cultural zone of Tehran. Their goal is to show that the human itself, acts as a media in the project. During the day, the presence of humans can make the project alive by moving towards different parts of it such as amphitheatre on the roof and other spaces. More images and architects’ description after the break.

The Abbas-Abad hill is one of four beautiful hills placed in the Tehran foothills of Albourz mountain. These lands are important for their special location. There, you can access three main area highways which are Hemmat, Modarres, Resalat and also Africa boulevard. Also, a rich green area and surrounding parks have influenced this zone to be known as the lungs of Tehran. The Abo-Atash park is angled in the north-east side of the site. The land dimension is about 32,400 m, and it has north-south steep. Under the existing regulations 10 to 15 % of the land can be structured which is estimated about 4000 m.

The physical program displayed by the client added with our opinions and spatial suggestions leads to forming a new physical program with spaces such as: galleries (temporary and permanent video art), workshops (multimedia workshop, music studio, performance room, media department, photography studio and photo gallery, training workshop) office, restaurant, café, and mechanical room.

Today a media is not able to response to all the people’s needs. In marketing, there is more room for those products which includes a variety of media. In other words they inform more in comparison to a single media. Therefore, it happens to create a multimedia. One of its most important features is that although it is generally integrated, it is independent in components (multifunction). This appears as folding a flat strip according to the physical plan and position of different functions in the project’s volume. These folds create the surfaces, facades, plans and finally the landscape. Folds are in line with those 4 mentioned main area directions around the project.

Their goal is to show that the human itself, acts as a media in the project. During the day, the presence of humans can make the project alive by moving towards different parts of it such as amphitheatre on the roof and other spaces. Moving starts by getting a code from the entrance gate and getting in, like a data to the system and this would let the people use the facilities and visit all parts containing the restaurant, galleries and studios. Finally, this process would end by giving back the code and exiting the complex and we can see its reflection at night. During the night, the building acts as a reaction to the day’s happenings by projecting images of peoples’ activities in the day through advertisements and important events like concerts and news, on all of its 4 surfaces which can be seen from those 4 main axes of the surrounding area.

Architects: CAAT Studio Architecture

Location: Tehran, Iran
Project Team: Project architects: Mahdi Kamboozia, Helena Ghanbari; Partner architects: Nasim Ghafari, Khatereh Lotfi, Semiramis
Ghorbani, Negar Vahdati, Anahita Tabrizi
Animator: Alireza Jafari
3D Rendering: Alireza Esfandyari


        

Iran constructs fourth largest nanotechnology and silicon industrial zone of the world, Iranian "Silicon Valley"

According to Fars news agency report, Iran is constructing fourth largest nanotechnology and silicon industrial city of the world in Broujerd city in the west of Iran since four years ago. Five plants in the field of "Micro-Electronic", "Silicon" industries, "Solar Cells", are under construction in this inrustrial zone for the fist time in Iran and Middle East. 

Dr. Mazaheri, designer and contractor of industrial nanotechnology and silicon zone of Iran says after inauguration this project, we'll see a great leap in the field of "New Energies" and "Electronic" industry of Iran.

He indicated to the second plant of industrial nanotechnology and silicon city and said purification factory of silicon metal is one of another plants in this industrial zone which produces purified silicon in two solar grade, 5N and 7N purity and two electronic grade, 9N and 11N purity.

He also stated another factory in this industrial zone is a factory for production of solar modules and cells with capacity of 400 MW of silicon based solar cells and 180 MW of thin film solar cells.he added this factory is one of the largest factories available in the world. Dr. Mazaheri said capacity of production of energy of this amount of solar cells is comparable to nuclear power plants. Every two years , solar cells with capacity of Bushehr nuclear power plant will be produced which is a great leap in the field of "New Energies" of country.

Another factory of this industrial zone is factory of production of 12-inch electronic wafer with capacity of three millions wafers every year.These wafers will be used on production of different types of chip, IC, transistors and diodes.

Factory of production of silicon-based monomers with 100,000 tons capacity is one of the another factories of this industrial zone. This materials is used in oil, cosmetic and medical, energy and automotive and aerospace industries.

This project will be inaugurated two years later, by launching of this plants Iran will be among four top countries of the world at the field of nanotechnology and silicon. Dr, Mazaheri said and added this project was done entirely by the private sector.

Here is official website of "Iranians Silicon & Nanotechnology Industrial City".