MNA Irans Minister of Culture Abbas Salehi condemned the French magazine Charlie Hebdo for republishing cartoons insulting the Holy Prophet of Islam (PBUH). In a tweet on Wednesday, Salehi wrote, "Do not play with the gunpowder depot. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is not a person or a religious leader. He is the identity of one and a half billion people....

IRNA Irans Minister of Culture wrote in a Twitter message on Thursday that the artists of the country sympathize with the people of Lebanon over the explosion that happened in Beirut on Tuesday night. Expressing condolences over the sad incident, Abbas Salehi tweeted that he was supposed to participate in a webinar about world cultural relations ...

IRNA - Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Abbas Salehi said on Saturday that Martyrs Beheshti, Motahari and Imam Musa Sadr are the three eminent contemporary scholars. Salehi tweets a message that the sectarian and state terrorism kidnapped the three best contemporary scholars from us. Today we need their thoughts and views more than ...

MNA |Hamid Vakili: Irans Minister of Culture Abbas Salehi and Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Masoumeh Ebtekar paid a visit to Mellat Cineplex during the eighth day of 38th Fajr Film Festival on Saturday.    ...

IRNA Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Abbas Salehi said on Friday that Hafez is the most popular poet who is as fresh as a spring flower in the public memory. Addressing a ceremony commemorating Hafez in Shiraz on Friday, he added that some section of Hafez' eternality lies in the fact that the Iranian society does not feel it recites poetry ...

ISNA | Farzad Zanjirdar: The awarding ceremony of the 13th National Youth Music Festival was held at Tehran's Vahdat Tall on Tuesday night, in the presence of minister of culture and a number of Iranian artists.    

MNA Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) hailed the good coordination between the Iranian, Chinese and British sides engaged in the reconstruction project of Arak reactor, saying the plan is going on at a good pace. The joint committee for the reconstruction of Arak reactor, including China and Britain, is doing well....

IRNA Cultural common ground and neighborhood help Iran and Turkmenistan develop their amicable relations, Minister of Culture and the Islamic Guidance Abbas Salehi said in a meeting with his Turkmen counterpart Atagely Shamuradov on Monday. "According to the Supreme Leader, Iran and Turkmenistan are relatives; we have lived next to each other for ...

IRNA Disappointing people is the main goal of the enemies' psychological war, Iranian culture and Islamic guidance minister said on Saturday. Enemies have waged a psychological war to disappoint people, isolate the country across the globe and divide the officials, Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Seyyed Abbas Salehi said. He made the ...

Financial Tribune - The government will allocate subsidized foreign currency at the rate of 42,000 rials per dollar for the import of 80,000 tons of copy and print paper in the current Iranian year (March 2019-20), says Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Abbas Salehi. A total of 39,000 tons of paper were imported last [fiscal] year [March ...

MNA The 27th International Quran Exhibition will be opened at Tehrans Imam Khomeini Mosalla on Saturday evening during a special ceremony attended by Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Abbas Salehi and a number of cultural figures. The worlds biggest Quranic event, the expo has numerous sections and each one is dedicated to a certain activity ...

ISNA | Hadi Zand: The closing ceremony of the 34th Fajr International Music Festival, Iran's major music event, was held Tue. night at Vahdat Hall in the presence of culture minister Abbas Salehi.    

IRNA - Hungary's First Deputy Culture Minister announced in a meeting with Iran's Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance that Hungarian people believe their ancestors have come not only from Russia, but from Iran to today Hungary and have Persian roots. On the sidelines of the International Cultural Conference of Saint Petersburg, Orshaya Pacay ...

MNA Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Seyed Abbas Salehi and Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky called for broadening and enhancing bilateral, cultural cooperation. Visiting Iranian culture minister met with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Medinsky today morning after participating in the inaugural ceremony of ...

MNA Iranian Minister of Culture Abbas Salehi is set to attend the 7th St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum, which will be held on Nov. 15-17 in Russia's cultural capital. Salehi is scheduled to deliver a speech during the event and meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Medinsky, who will also participate in the forum. The Forum ...

MNA German Ambassador to Tehran Michael Klor-Berchtold said that his country is after expanding and cementing cultural ties with Iran. In a Sunday meeting with Iranian Minister of Culture Abbas Salehi, the German envoy pointed to the long history of relations between the two countries in various fields, adding that Germany seeks to deepen ...

Sputnik - Western media's coverage of Iran under reimposed US sanctions does not reflect the current reality, Iranian Culture Minister Abbas Salehi said on Monday. "The narratives ofWestern media ofthe Middle East developments are different fromthe reality onthe grounds. We should coordinate the subjects and contents inorder tocreate an ...

Bourse and Bazaar | Maziar Motamedi: Among currency fluctuations and returning sanctions, Iran is now battling a paper crisis. Gradual price hikes have been increasing pressure on book and newspaper publishersover the last year, but the scale of the crisis became clear when Culture Minister Abbas Salehiannouncedon August 4 that the country has just ...

IRNA Iranian films attending different world festivals could receive 562 international awards during the past Iranian calendar year ended on March 20, minister of culture and Islamic guidance said here on Wednesday afternoon. 'Cinema is a window to widen ties with the world,' Abbas Salehi said in a meeting held in Tehran with Iran's ambassadors and ...

MNA Irans Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Seyed Abbas Salehi, who is in Baghdad on an official visit, has met with Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari. In the meeting which that started this afternoon in Baghdad, Irans ambassador to Iraq Iraj Masjedi and some other Iranian officials are present The two sides are expected to discuss ...