AP -- Two Iranian hard-line newspapers have criticized Asghar Farhadi's best foreign film Oscar, claiming "politics" brought him the award. The Keyhan daily said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's executive order to ban U.S. entry for citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iran, was behind the award for "The Salesman." The Javan ...

Reports from Tabriz University indicate that a speech given on campus by Mohammad Hossein Safar Herendi, a former Keyhan editor-in-chief and minister of Culture Guidance under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was interrupted and cut short by protesting students. The Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reports that the students chanted slogans about freedom ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The headlines and summaries of the editorials and main articles of Tehran's Principlist papers this morning: Resalat: The Arak heavy water reactor and Bushehr atomic power plant are Iran's redlines in the negotiations with the world powers (the US, Russia, China, France and Britain plus Germany). The West's alleged concerns about Iran's ...

A leading Iranian conservative attacked the countrys oil minister for proposing the sale of natural gas to Europe once sanctions end, in the latest sign of internal divisions over President Hassan Rouhanis detente. Hossein Shariatmadari, the editor of conservative newspaper Kayhan and a figure with close ties to Irans Supreme LeaderAyatollah Ali Khamenei,...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The headlines and summaries of the editorials and main articles of Tehran's conservative papers this morning: Kayhan: The talks between Iran and the Group 5+1 is reaching its most crucial and sensitive days. The West is trying to get more concessions from Iran in lieu of lifting the unilaterally-imposed sanctions against Tehran. The ...

Now that an interim deal over Irans nuclear program has been reached, after more than a decade of on-and-off negotiations, the Rouhani Government faces the task of ensuring public acceptance of its terms. The initial signals after Sundays agreement were positive. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Irans negotiating team returned to Tehran to ...

While Iran's reformist dailies are upbeat about the constructive tone of Tehran's latest round of talks with world powers on its nuclear programme, the country's conservative press remains suspicious of Western intentions. However, both camps think that the West should respond to Iran's expressed readiness to compromise by offering concessions of ...