Culture min. condemns Charlie Hebdo’s insulting cartoon
MNA – Iran’s Minister of Culture Abbas Salehi condemned the French magazine Charlie Hebdo for republishing cartoons insulting the Holy Prophet of…
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Iranian artists sympathize with Lebanon over casualties of Beirut explosion
IRNA – Iran’s Minister of Culture wrote in a Twitter message on Thursday that the artists of the country sympathize with the…
Minister: Martyrs Beheshti, Motahari, Imam Musa Sadr, three prominent scholars
IRNA – Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Abbas Salehi said on Saturday that Martyrs Beheshti, Motahari and Imam Musa Sadr…
Photos: 8th day of 38th Fajr Film Festival
MNA | Hamid Vakili: Iran’s Minister of Culture Abbas Salehi and Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Masoumeh Ebtekar paid a visit…
Hafez as fresh as flower in public memory: Minister
IRNA – Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Abbas Salehi said on Friday that Hafez is the most popular poet who is…
Photos: Awarding ceremony of 13th National Youth Music Festival
ISNA | Farzad Zanjirdar: The awarding ceremony of the 13th National Youth Music Festival was held at Tehran’s Vahdat Tall on Tuesday…
Arak reactor’s reconstruction project at a good pace
MNA – Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) hailed the good coordination between the Iranian, Chinese and British sides…
Culture to be “highway” for Iran-Turkmenistan ties
IRNA – Cultural common ground and neighborhood help Iran and Turkmenistan develop their amicable relations, Minister of Culture and the Islamic Guidance…
Disappointing people aim of enemies’ psychological war: Minister
IRNA – Disappointing people is the main goal of the enemies’ psychological war, Iranian culture and Islamic guidance minister said on Saturday.…
Iran: 80,000 tons of print paper to be imported at subsidized rate
Financial Tribune – The government will allocate subsidized foreign currency at the rate of 42,000 rials per dollar for the import of…
Tehran to hold 27th intl. Quran exhibition
MNA – The 27th International Quran Exhibition will be opened at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Mosalla on Saturday evening during a special ceremony…
Photos: Closing ceremony of 34th Fajr Intl. Music Festival
ISNA | Hadi Zand: The closing ceremony of the 34th Fajr International Music Festival, Iran’s major music event, was held Tue. night…
Hungarians seeking historical roots in Iran
IRNA – Hungary’s First Deputy Culture Minister announced in a meeting with Iran’s Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance that Hungarian people…
Iran, Russia stress boosting cultural ties
MNA – Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Seyed Abbas Salehi and Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky called for broadening and…
Iran culture min. to attend St. Petersburg intl. cultural forum
MNA – Iranian Minister of Culture Abbas Salehi is set to attend the 7th St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum, which will be…
Germany seeks to deepen cultural relations with Iran: Envoy
MNA – German Ambassador to Tehran Michael Klor-Berchtold said that his country is after expanding and cementing cultural ties with Iran. In…
Iran blasts Western media for false image of country under US sanctions
Sputnik – Western media’s coverage of Iran under reimposed US sanctions does not reflect the current reality, Iranian Culture Minister Abbas Salehi…
Iran’s government steps in to address paper crisis, but papers over the cracks
Bourse and Bazaar | Maziar Motamedi: Among currency fluctuations and returning sanctions, Iran is now battling a paper crisis. Gradual price hikes…
Iran movies win over 500 int’l awards in a year: Minister
IRNA – Iranian films attending different world festivals could receive 562 international awards during the past Iranian calendar year ended on March…
Iran’s culture min. meets with Iraqi FM in Baghdad
MNA– Iran’s Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Seyed Abbas Salehi, who is in Baghdad on an official visit, has met with…
Iran welcomes cultural ties with Iraq: Minister
IRNA – Iranian minister of culture welcomed here the expansion of cultural relations with the neighboring country of Iraq. In line with…
Culture Minister: Iranian cinema producing most films in region
IRNA – Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Abbas Salehi said Iranian cinema ranks first in the region in term of producing…
Cultural interaction prerequisite for sustainable development
MNA – Iran’s Minister of culture and Islamic guidance attended the first conference of Asian Cultural Dialogues where he said that creating…
Culture Min. stresses Iran-Vatican shared stances
MNA – Iran’s Minister of Culture Abbas Salehi met visiting Vatican Minister of Foreign Affairs Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher on Wed. and…
Art, culture most universal Iranian elements: Minister
IFP- Iran’s new culture minister says the country’s artworks and cultural products are the most well-known Iranian elements across the globe. Speaking…
Iranian President Rouhani appoints caretakers for 3 ministries
President Hassan Rouhani has appointed three caretakers for the Iranian Ministries of Sports and Youth Affairs, Education, as well as Culture and Islamic Guidance. On…
Iran, Spain after closer cultural ties
EHRAN (Tasnim) – Officials from Iran and Spain at a meeting in Tehran weighed plans to boost cultural cooperation between the two…
Iranian cultural official satisfied with book titles’ growth rate
TEHRAN — Deputy Culture Minister for Cultural Affairs Seyyed Abbas Salehi said on Saturday that the per capita rate for book titles…
Iran is still the winner even if Congress rejects nuclear deal: Salehi
We do not break with norms and stay committed to our obligations, because we believe in logic, Salehi said. Because of the…
Iran’s atomic czar explains how he helped seal the Iran nuclear agreement
TEHRAN—Last February, nuclear talks between Iran and world powers were foundering. The two sides had found common ground on the deal’s broad…
AEOI chief: 90 percent of Iran-US technical differences resolved
TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran and Washington have overcome their differences on technical issues with regard to Iran’s nuclear program in most of the…
Iran, Poland open historical documents expo
TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iran and Poland inaugurated an exhibition showing historical documents of the two countries. Polish Deputy Minister of Culture and National…
New developments in controlling book publication are promising: Salehi
IBNA- Deputy Culture Minister Abbas Salehi said the measures they had planned in improving the condition of book publishing are fortunately being…