MNA The second group of Iranian students, stranded in Italy due to the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic, arrived in Tehran on Sunday morning. They are 180 Iranian students studying in Italy, who were to arrive in Tehran last Friday morning, but their flight was canceled. Before getting on board and leaving Rome for Tehran, all the students were ...

The Guardian | Jon Henley and Angela Giuffrida in Rome: Authorities in virus-hit country take extreme measures as Covid-19 takes hold in Europe Italys government has ordered all shops, bars and restaurants across the country to close after the countrys death toll from the coronavirus outbreak rose by 31% in the space of 24 hours to a total of 827....

Press TV - Italy has replaced Iran as the country with the highest number of coronavirus deaths outside of China, as its fatalities exceed 100. The total number of people in Italy who died of the COVID-19 virus rose to 107, the countrys Civil Protection Agency said on Wednesday, after 28 deaths were reported in the previous 24 hours. According ...

The Guardian | Peter Beaumont in London, Lily Kuo in Beijing, Kim Willsher in Paris and Angela Giuffrida in Rome: Italian death toll now 34, German cases nearly double, and South Korea and Iran also struggle to contain outbreak New coronavirus infections spiked dramatically across Europe on Sunday, with Italy reporting hundreds of new cases and ...

IRNA Following US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to Rome, Italian government on Friday announced that Iranian Mahan Airlines' flights to the country have been stopped. According to the Italian newspaper 'La Stampa', the Italian government, like its European counterparts (France and Germany), has banned Mahan flights under the US pressures....

ISNA | Mona Houbefekr: New ambassadors of Afghanistan, Italy, Bangladesh and Bolivia to Iran submitted their copies of credentials to President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday.  

MNA A humanitarian aid flight left from the southern Italian city of Brindisi on Tuesday carrying 40 tons of essential humanitarian aid for victims of the flash floods that have afflicted much of Iran over the past month. The items include relief supplies and hygiene and sanitary kits that have been donated to the Iranian Red Crescent, the Italian ...

IRNA Hafez commemoration conference was held in Rome in the presence of some lovers of Iranian culture and literature. Participants reviewed great impacts of Hafez on Western literature including Geothe of Germany. The one-day conference was held on Sunday in the Venanzo Crocetti Foundation in cooperation with office of Iranian cultural attach ...

IFP - An Italian appeal court has rejected a lawsuit by the US that called for the seizure of $5 billion worth of Iranian assets in Italy, in a second win for Tehran in its legal battle against the US this month. Following continuous efforts by the lawyer of the Central Bank of Iran in Italy, an order to [temporarily] freeze the CBI assets in Rome ...

IFP - Iranian graphic artist Carmel Maleki, who was expected to represent Iran in an international event to reconstruct the quake-hit city of LAquila in Italy, has been denied a visa to visit the European country. Maleki is among the graphic artists who were picked up from across the world to take part in the international Rebirth project ...

IFP - Irans Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has expressed regret over the deadly collapse of a giant motorway bridge in the Italian city of Genoa. In a Tuesday statement, Qassemi offered condolences to the Italian government and people as well as the survivors of the tragedy. About 30 people were killed in the incident on Tuesday....

IRNA Italian police returned a 17th century gravestone which has been smuggled out of Iran to the Iranian Embassy in Rome. Commander of Italy's Cultural Heritage Protection Force General Fabritsio Paroli handed over the ancient gravestone to Irans Ambassador to Italy Jahanbakhsh Mozaffari in a ceremony on Monday. Mazaffari said after taking delivery ...

MNA At the official invitation of Italian conductor of Emilia-Romagna orchestra, a number of musicians fromIranian National Orchestra will travel to Italy to take part in special performance of this magnificent orchestra. Given the above issue, conductor of orchestra Emilia-Romagna invited three prominent violin virtuosi and conductor of Iranian ...

MNA Iran Air (HOMA) CEO Farzaneh Sharafbafi told the media that Iran Air will use the credit lines of French and Italian companies to buy new Airbus and ATR airplanes. To buy some new aircrafts, the two plane-makers of France and Italy have specified two credit lines for Iran Air (HOMA), announced Iran Air (HOMA) CEO Farzaneh Sharafbafi on Sunday....

IFP - An Italian newspaper has published a report on Irans Shah Cheragh Mosque with detailed descriptions about its artistic interior decoration and beautiful light reflections inside the mosque. Italian paper La Stampa has said in its recent report that the mosque, with its thousands of small mirror works, is a unique ancient piece of art....

Tasnim Irans Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said he will pay a visit to Italy to attend a naval conference and provide the European country with Irans experience in ensuring security in high-risk maritime zones, like the Gulf of Aden. The top Iranian commander said on Friday that he will soon make a trip to Italy for a naval ...

IFP - The Iranian Parliament has expressed its strong protest against Italy after its embassy in Tehran demanded to fingerprint two Iranian lawmakers expected to visit the country in the near future. Iranian lawmaker Abolfazl Hassan Beigi says the Italian embassys fingerprint request is an insult to the Islamic Republic of Iran and the ...

Press TV - The Iran men's national volleyball teamhas started off its campaign atthe 2017 Fdration Internationale de Volleyball(FIVB) VolleyballWorld Grand Champions Cup in an acceptable form, and achieved a tie-break win over the Italain side. On Tuesday, the Iranian outfit took revenge on the European powerhouse for bitter losses at the 2017 FIVB ...

IFP - An Iranian artist has rejected a prestigious Italian award in protest against the humiliating behaviour of the Italian embassy in issuing visa for Iranian applicants. Touraj Saberivand, an internationally renowned graphic designer, had been invited to receive the A Design Award for one of his artworks, but he returned it after ...

IRNA 'I have attended European courts to defend victims of terrorism and found out that terrorism is guided by world powers,' said Italian lawyer Carlo Corbucci on Friday. 'The main supporters of terrorism and terrorist groups are non-national powers that are, by no means, related to the people,' said Corbucci at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences ...