TEHRAN – A Persian translation of American scholar Lesley Stern’s book “Dead and Alive: The Body as a Cinematic Thing” has been published in Tehran. The book translated by Saleh Najafi has been released by the Lega publishing house. In the cinema, many were living and many kept on living and many became dead, as […]

TEHRAN – A house of handicrafts is set to be inaugurated in the ancient city of Bam, which is famed for its magnificent UNESCO-registered adobe citadel. “A house of handicrafts will be inaugurated in Bam to help develop and promote various fields of handicrafts and to train new crafters,” Kerman province’s deputy tourism chief said […]

TEHRAN — Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf says the Islamic Republic will keep supporting the oppressed nation of Palestine until the al-Quds is fully liberated. Qalibaf made the comments in a meeting on Monday with Ziyad al-Nakhalah, the secretary general of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement, in Tehran. The speaker emphasized Tehran’s unwavering support […]

TEHRAN – Iran volleyball coach Behrouz Ataei has named his 15-man squad for the 2021 Asian Men’s Volleyball Championship. Iran have been drawn in Pool B along with Thailand, Pakistan and Hong Kong. The tournament will be held in Chiba and Funabashi, Japan from Sept. 12 to 19. The top two teams of the tournament […]

TEHRAN – Mohammad-Hassan Motevalizadeh, the managing director of Iran’s Power Generation, Distribution, and Transmission Company (known as Tavanir), has announced the possibility of imposing electricity supply limitations for industrial subscribers, IRIB reported on Monday. “If household consumers do not cooperate by managing their consumption we might be forced to impose supply limitations for industrial subscribers […]

Our government came into office in 2018, focused on fulfilling the promise of delivering Naya Pakistan to our voters. We wanted to provide education, jobs, and better health care by leveraging our connectivity infrastructure to foster regional trade and investment. We knew that this would require a peaceful neighborhood. Accordingly, shortly after his election, Prime […]

TEHRAN – Desalination plants in southern Iran are currently providing 600,000 cubic meters of drinkable water for the region’s coastal provinces, and the figure will be increased to one million cubic meters in the near future, the spokesman of Water and Wastewater Company of Iran told IRIB on Thursday. According to Hamidreza Kashfi, the one-million-cubic-meters […]

TEHRAN – An archaeological museum is currently under construction in Arg-e Bam, a quake-stricken UNESCO-registered citadel in Iran’s southeastern Kerman province. Covering an area of 1,200 square meters, the museum is expected to open in the next six months, the provincial tourism chief has said. In addition, some restoration projects are being carried out on […]

TEHRAN – Teeming with colorful houses and scenic views, Javaherdeh is one of the most charming villages in northern Iran. It is situated in Ramsar county of Mazandaran province. Javaherdeh, literally “the village of Jewel”, draws many people to it thanks to the cool weather in summer, the fresh air, and the lush vegetation. During […]

TEHRAN — On his first day as the Iranian president, Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi met with several high-ranking foreign officials, marking a busy day for himself. Foreign officials had visited Tehran to attend the inauguration ceremony of Raisi. During a meeting with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Friday, Raisi said that the Iranian government will […]

TEHRAN — In separate meetings with the Afghan president and the leader of the Hamas political bureau, Iranian Parliament Mohammed Baqer Qalibaf has stressed the importance of establishing peace in the region. In his meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday night, Qalibaf said that peace can be achieved in Afghanistan through dialogue. President […]

TEHRAN- Iran’s outgoing transport minister said that about 10,000 kilometers of railway projects are currently under study. Pointing out that the length of the country’s railway network has reached 14,000 kilometers, Mohammad Eslami said, “Eight rail lines in three provinces will be connected to the country’s railway network. The projects for connecting Kordestan, Ardebil, and […]