CANNES, France — A sharp, nearly perfect 21-minute movie about a 6th-grade girl caught in a tug of war between divorced parents, “Needle” was shot last summer in Chicago by School of the Art Institute film student Anahita Ghazvinizadeh. Friday at [...]
The 2013 edition of SAARC International Film Festival in Sri Lanka has selected Iranian filmmaker Abbas Rafei to attend this year’s jury panel. Rafei has been invited to judge at the festival along with some other jurors from Russia and [...]
Iran news headlines on Saturday include Iran denial of military presence in Syria; approval of 312 rejected hopefuls for Tehran council race; Rafsanjani calling for safeguarding Islamic Republic and country rejection of involvement in US cyber attacks. No Iranian armed forces, military [...]
Iranian Reformist presidential candidate Mohammad-Reza Aref says he will accept any final result that comes out of the ballot box in next month’s presidential election. The former first vice president said an epic political event, as advised by the Leader [...]
Four out of the eight Iranian presidential candidates approved by the country’s Guardian Council have officially started campaigning. Presidential candidate, Saeed Jalili, who is the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, kicked off his campaign on Friday. Jalili put [...]
Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi rejects Western allegations that Iran has sent military forces to Syria. “The Islamic Republic of Iran has not sent and will not send military forces to Syria,” Vahidi said Wednesday. “If it were not [...]
Presidential candidate Saeed Jalili says he will remain faithful to the ideals of Iran’s Islamic Revolution of 1979 if elected president. “Anyone who becomes the next Iranian president must continue on the path of the Islamic Revolution and must use [...]
The United States House of Representatives’ Committee on Foreign Relations passed a bill on May 22, 2013, which has paved the way for the US President Barak Obama to enforce new sanctions against all companies conducting transactions with Iran regardless [...]
Beitol Moqadas drills in Isfahan launched with Army full staff. By Mehr News
Iran’s High Supervisory Board of Elections has approved the qualifications of 312 city and rural council hopefuls in Tehran who were initially rejected. The board said Saturday that more than 4,500 hopefuls have signed up for the council election in [...]
