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2021-06-26 18:46
Soleyman Prison: a conical peak with fascinating history
TEHRAN - Soleyman Prison (“Zendan-e Soleyman” in Persian) is situated in a dramatic 97m conical peak that dominates the valley landscape for miles around in northwest Iran.
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2021-06-26 18:39
Martin Heidegger’s “Parmenides” comes to Iranian bookstores
TEHRAN – German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s book “Parmenides” has been published in Persian.
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2021-06-26 18:36
Shorts from Iran line up for Fribourg Intl. Film Festival
TEHRAN – Four short movies from Iranian filmmakers will be competing in the Fribourg International Film Festival, which will take place in Fribourg, Switzerland from July 16 to 25.
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2021-06-26 18:32
Iranian movies win awards at Light to the World Intl. Youth Film Festival
TEHRAN – Iranian movies have won awards at the Light to the World International Youth Film Festival in Rybinsk, Russia.
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2021/06/26
By Farrokh Hesabi
Former volleyball player Mahmoudi reacts to VNL’s results
TEHRAN - Behnam Mahmoudi, the former Iranian volleyball player, believes that “under no circumstances” should Iran be ranked 12th in the Volleyball Nations League (VNL).
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2021-06-26 18:28
Iran publishes book revealing motives behind U.S. invasion of Iraq
TEHRAN – The Iranian Culture Center in Baghdad has recently published a book that reveals the aims the U.S. had in the invasion of Iraq.
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2021-06-26 17:55
Journalists killed in accident laid to rest
TEHRAN – Reyhaneh Yassini and Mahshad Karimi, two female journalists from IRNA and ISNA news agencies respectively, who had been killed in a car accident on Wednesday were laid to rest on Friday.
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2021/06/26
By Abir Bassam
Biden-Putin summit: A meeting or setting red lines
No one could be holding its breath expecting important outcomes from the summit between the two presidents: Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin.
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2021-06-26 17:05
By Mahnaz Abdi
‘Capital market capacities at the service of production growth’
TEHRAN- The head of Iran’s Securities and Exchange Organization (SEO) stated that the capacities of the country’s capital market are at the service of production growth.
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2021-06-26 16:59
Literacy among Iranian youth 6% above global average
TEHRAN – The average literacy rate of the youth (15-24-year age group) in Iran is estimated at 97.4 percent, which is almost 6 percent higher than the global average, Shapour Mohammadzadeh, head of the Literacy Movement Organization, has stated.
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2021-06-26 16:58
Iranian universities among world’s top in biotechnology
TEHRAN – A total of 7 Iranian universities have been listed among the world’s top in biotechnology subject, according to the Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS).
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2021-06-26 16:54
Plan to support labor, street children in 12 provinces
TEHRAN – A five-point plan for labor and street children will be implemented in 12 provinces of the country, Mahmoud Aligo, an official with the Welfare Organization, has said.
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2021-06-26 16:51
By Mohammad Mazhari
Iran election showed most parties back Islamic Republic: Turkish academic
TEHRAN – Despite some calls to boycott the presidential election in Iran, reformists, centrists, and conservatives proved that they support the establishment, says Mustafa Caner, a Turkish academic.
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2021-06-26 16:29
Last calendar year’s Q4 non-oil GDP growth stands at 3.3%: SCI
TEHRAN - Iran's gross domestic product (GDP) excluding oil grew 3.3 percent in the fourth quarter of the previous Iranian calendar year (December 21, 2020-March 20, 2021) compared to the same period in the preceding year, according to the Statistical Center of Iran (SCI).
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2021-06-26 15:52
By Ebrahim Fallahi
Long-term solutions for electricity crisis
TEHRAN – Over the past few years, numerous articles and news pieces have been written on Iran’s electricity issues that have become more intensified recently due to the severe drought and the significant increase in the temperature across the country, and also illegal activities of cryptocurrency miners.
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2021-06-26 15:51
TEDPIX climbs 20,700 points on Saturday
TEHRAN- TEDPIX, the main index of Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE), gained 20,728 points on Saturday, which is the first day of the Iranian calendar week.
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2021-06-26 15:51
100 Eurasian companies to participate in Iran’s 1st EAEU exclusive expo
TEHRAN – More than 100 companies from the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) are scheduled to participate in Iran’s first exclusive EAEU exhibition which is due to be held during July 9-12 in Tehran, the exhibition’s director told IRIB.
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2021-06-26 15:44
Construction of mega petrochemical complex begins in southwestern Iran
TEHRAN - Iran’s Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (PGPIC) has started the construction of a mega petrochemical complex in the Mahshahr region, southwestern Iran, Shana reported on Saturday.
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2021-06-26 14:00
EU Leaders reject proposal by France, Germany to restart talks with Russia
European Union leaders have dismissed the initiative, handing German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, a rare public defeat at what could be her final EU summit.
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2021-06-26 13:47
Moscow says U.S. involved in British warship violating Russian territorial waters
Russia has accused Britain and the United States of working together to incite conflict in the Black Sea. The country’s Deputy Foreign Minister says “Washington and London are denying reality... they are trying to provoke conflict”.
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2021-06-26 13:44
Woman sprinter Fasihi to represent Iran at Tokyo 2020
TEHRAN – Sprinter Farzaneh Fasihi became the Iran’s ninth woman to compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
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2021-06-26 13:25
IME’s value of monthly trade rises 8%
TEHRAN- The value of trade at Iran Mercantile Exchange (IME) rose eight percent during the past Iranian calendar month (May 22-June 21).
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2021-06-26 13:14
Hundreds of indigenous bodies found in graves from Canada’s ‘cultural genocide’
A second chilling discovery has been found in Canada that contains the bodies of hundreds of indigenous people, many of them children, just weeks after a similar finding sent shockwaves across the country and the world.
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2021-06-26 13:09
Yemeni forces kill scores of Saudi mercenaries, troops in retaliatory attack
Yemeni forces have retaliated against Saudi Arabia in a large operation that involved armed drones. The cross-border attack targeted a military site in the southwest of the Kingdom. A Yemeni army spokesman says “The operation was carried out using ten Qasef-2K drones. It targeted the command center, training sections, and other parts of the barracks”
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2021-06-26 13:03
UN denounces Israeli plan to build new settlements as illegal, calls for immediate halt
The United Nations has accused Israel of ‘flagrantly’ violating international law by expanding settlements in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem al-Quds. The UN reiterated that settlement any activity is illegal under international law and demanded the regime’s new cabinet to halt any expansion immediately.
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2021-06-26 02:52
Iran's Keikha takes gold at Artistic Gymnastics World Cup
TEHRAN – Saeedreza Keikha of Iran claimed a gold medal in the men’s Pommel Horse at the 13th Artistic Gymnastics World Cup on Friday.
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2021-06-26 01:01
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2021-06-26 00:48
Iran’s women's 10m air rifle win gold at ISSF World Cup
TEHRAN – Iran’s women's 10m air rifle seized a gold medal at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup in Osjek, Croatia on Friday.
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2021-06-26 00:20
Persepolis move provisionally top of IPL table
TEHRAN – Persepolis football team edged past Mes to move provisionally top of Iran Professional League (IPL) table.
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2021-06-25 20:21
Raisi says ‘collective security’ forms backbone of his foreign policy doctrine
TEHRAN – Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raisi has said “collective security” constitutes a key part of his incoming administration’s regional foreign policy doctrine.