Iran water situation improves
Iran is not suffering from water stress this year, after facing drought for 10 years, said the caretaker of Water and Wastewater…
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Iran’s football legend receives int’l Award
TEHRAN, May 4 (Xinhua) — Iranian football legend midfielder Ali Parvin was conferred prestigious Gold Award on Friday in recognition of his…
Encyclopedia of Iranian Armenians presented at 26th Tehran International Book Fair
The 26th Tehran International Book Fair held a session during which the Encyclopedia of Iranian Armenians was unveiled. The unveiling ceremony was…
Photos: Supreme leader visits Tehran Intˈl Book Fair
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei visited various sections of the 26th Tehran International Book Fair Saturday morning.…
Quake shakes Bushehr’s Kaki city
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.0 on the Richter scale jolted the town of Kaki in Iranian province of Bushehr on…
Bodycount from Iran’s Khuzestan province road accident rises to 17
The body count from Iran’s yesterday road accident in country’s Khuzestan province has risen to 17, ISNA reported. Yesterday an accident occured…
Iran becomes third country to implant telescope lens
Iran has become the third country in the world to perform a surgery on implanting telescope lens into a patient’s eye, Tasnim…
The unlikely winner in the war on drugs? Iran
As Barack Obama arrives in Mexico for the first visit of his second term in office, talk has inevitably turned to the United States’ floundering war…
Iran ranks first in science production in Middle East
The Islamic Republic of Iran ranks first in science production in the Middle East, the country’s deputy minister for science, research and…
Torrents caused damages in Iran’s two provinces
Mudflows taking place as a result of downpours and floods in last two days caused serious damages of infrastructure and living houses…
US human rights report aims to pressure Iran: Judiciary chief
Iran’s Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani says the US State Department’s “fake” human rights report against Iran simply aimed to exert…
Renowned Iranian artist exhibits “Eastern Woman” painting at Matic
KUALA LUMPUR, May 2 (Bernama) — The Matic Art Gallery, which has hosted various local art exhibitions, has become the host for…
12 people burn alive in Iran
Another horrific accident occured in Iran, as a bus full of people collided with a truck on the Ishanan-Ahvaz road, Fars news…
Bus crashes into trailer in Iran, leaving 14 dead
A bus in Iran has crashed into a trailer, as a result of which 14 people ended up dead, ISNA reported. The…
West’s materialistic approach to women, unforgivable sin: Leader
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the materialistic approach taken by the Western civilization to women is an…
Iran union urges wage hike at May Day rally
An Iranian workers union on Wednesday urged the government to hike salaries and curb soaring inflation as the Islamic republic’s economic woes…
Iran makes computer games to defend Persian Gulf islands
Managing Director of Iranian National Foundation of Computer Games Behrouz Minaei reiterated that the three Iranian islands located in Persian Gulf are…
Iran Standard Time: Close encounter of the inebriated kind
A late-night drunken run-in with an Iranian police officer is enough to quicken the pulse of any western passport holder Just before…
Reza Derakhshani’s works evoke Iran’s magnificent past
If you want a reason to visit Reza Derakhshani’s solo show at Salsali Private Museum, the fact that the main installation has…
Iran, Turkey to hold symposium on Mowlavi’s masterpiece
Iran’s university of Urmia and Turkey’s Yuzuncu Yil University are slated to hold a joint symposium on the Persian poet Mowlavi’s Masnavi…
Spokesman raps US report on Iran’s human rights
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Foreign Ministry rejected Washington’s claims about the violation of human rights in Iran, stressing that the US is a…
Iranian book enters ‘German Book of Month’ selection
Iranian author Seyyed Ali Shojai’s book The Big Snowman has been selected as the Pictorial Book of the Month by the German…
Iran’s health officials warn about increased alcohol consumption among youth
Iran’s Health Ministry has issued a warning about the increase of alcohol use among young people in the country, ISNA news agency…
South Korean embassy in Iran holds Persian cultural tour
South Korean Embassy in Tehran has held the second cultural and tourism program in Iran focusing on the splendid history and civilization…
Veteran Iranian scholar Parviz Marzban passes away
Prominent Iranian scholar of visual arts and translator Parviz Marzban, has died of natural causes at the age of 96 in the…
Politics and art of Iran’s revolutionary tulips
Their petals are on the national flag. They line the dome above Ayatollah Khomeini’s tomb. They adorn billboards of martyrs from the…
Austrian festival to present traditional Iranian music
Iran’s renowned Kamancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor and the eminent vocalist Ali Reza Qorbani are to perform traditional music program at the Austrian…
Through story, a look into Iran: Newsha Tavakolian’s portraiture
In 1999, Iranian students took the streets of Tehran in the fiercest unrest the country had seen since the 1979 Islamic revolution.…
Iran’s Gharibpour to perform ‘Hafez’ puppet opera in Dubai
Veteran Iranian theatre director and pioneer of traditional Persian puppet play Behrouz Gharibpour is slated to present his Hafez opera puppet show…