TEHRAN – “The Badger” by Iranian director Kazem Mollai will be competing at the Maryland Film Festival, which will be held in the U.S. city of Baltimore from May 19 to 27. The film is about Sudeh, a 40-year-old woman who faces a strange incident right before her second marriage. Sudeh and her son Matiar […]

TEHRAN – MercatorNet, an Australian website promoting the family and human dignity, has praised Iranian director Mohammadreza Kheradmandan’s two-minute movie “Thursday Appointment”, calling it ‘another gem from Iranian cinema’. The 2019 film is about an elderly couple making their way through traffic and reciting to each other a poem by the great Persian poet Hafez. […]

TEHRAN – Production of textile, clothing, and leather products in Iran doubled in the previous Iranian calendar year (ended on March 20), a board member of the Iranian Tanners Association announced. “This success was achieved at a time when entrepreneurs in the textile, apparel, and leather industries were facing lots of problems in the previous […]

TEHRAN – Head of Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) said the country has put a 21-percent rise in foreign trade on the agenda for the current Iranian calendar year 1400 (started on March 21), IRNA reported. Speaking in a press conference on Monday, Hamid Zadboum said two scenarios have been considered for the current calendar […]

TEHRAN- TEDPIX, the main index of Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE), lost 8,082 points to 1.216 million on Monday. Over 3.139 billion securities worth 30.516 trillion rials (about $726.5 million) were traded at the TSE on Monday. The first market’s index fell 7,065 points, and the second market’s index dropped 12,364 points. Unprecedented fluctuations in the […]

TEHRAN – The Iranian movie “Sun” directed by Majid Majidi is to be screened in Spanish cinemas by May 14, Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) has announced. The movie’s trailer in Spanish has already been released by Caramel Films, a distributor in Spain. After its screening at the 38th Fajr Film Festival in 2019, […]

TEHRAN – In the midst of a diplomatic war of words between Iran and the heads of two Arab organizations, Western media outlets claimed that Iran and Saudi Arabia have quietly begun talks in Baghdad to repair their relations, a claim that was rejected as untrue by sources close to both Tehran and Riyadh. The […]

TEHRN – Iran’s Esteghlal football team cruised past 10-man Al Shorta of Iraq 3-0 on Matchday Two of the 2021 AFC Champions League Group C on Monday. The two sides entered the game on the back of contrasting Matchday One results, with Al Shorta having lost to Al Duhail SC 2-0 while Esteghlal overpowered Al […]

TEHRAN – Serbia’s Foreign Minister Nikola Selakovic said on Sunday that Belgrade has always supported and would continue to support the 2015 nuclear deal – JCPOA – and Iran’s peaceful nuclear program. Selakovic, who visited Tehran on Saturday, made the remarks in a meeting with President Hassan Rouhani. Serbia, Selakovic added, remains determined to have […]

TEHRAN– Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of the Iranian parliament, spoke on Sunday about the 60% uranium enrichment and the sabotage act at Natanz, suggesting that the sabotage must be responded “at the right time”. Noting that enriching uranium up to 60% purity carried important political messages to the West, Ghalibaf said, “Iran’s enemies expected Iran’s […]

TEHRAN– In a message on Sunday commemorating Army Day, President Hassan Rouhani emphasized his administration’s efforts to equip the Army and other branches of the armed forces with modern arms amid the country’s economic struggle. “The morale of the military forces and their weaponry have never been better than they are today,” the president said. […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s ambassador to the Vienna-based international organizations says the United States must present a list of steps it would take to lift sanctions on Iran in order to prove its seriousness in the ongoing talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). “What is […]