TEHRAN – Deputy Head of Iran’s Mass Construction Association Iraj Rahbar has said the country’s contractors are capable of constructing one million housing units a year if the necessary funding and land is provided, IRNA reported. Mentioning a plan for the construction of one million affordable housing units per year by the new government, Rahbar […]

TEHRAN – Behrouz Aghaei, the director-general of Ports and Maritime Department of Sistan-Baluchestan Province in southeastern Iran, has said the country’s largest fully mechanized grain silo, with a loading and unloading capacity of 1,200 tons per hour, will be put into operation in the next Iranian calendar year (starts in March 2022). The construction operations […]

TEHRAN – Sajad Ganjzadeh from Iran claimed a gold medal in the men’s karate kumite competition in the +75kg category of the 2020 Olympic Games on Saturday. He defeated Tareh Hamedi from Saudi Arabia by Hansoku in the final match. Hamedi was given a disqualification penalty for kicking Ganjzadeh hard in the upper body or […]

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held a meeting with senior diplomats from Nicaragua and Bangladesh. Zarif held talks with Shahriar Alam, the State Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh, who was in Tehran on behalf of his government to attend the inauguration ceremony of Iran’s new president, Seyed Ebrahim Raisi. In the […]

TEHRAN – Iran national football team will begin the third round of the 2022 World Cup qualification with no warm-up matches, while their opponents in Group A will prepare well for the competition. The UAE, headed by Bert van Marwijk, have started their preparatory camp in Serbia as they ramp up preparations for the third […]

As mourning month of Muharram approaches, Hamrahe Aval, Mobile Company of Iran, MCI), like previous year, has provided special facilities and amenities for the religious circles and centers across the country in cooperation and collaboration of AGHIGH Information Center which is tasked with publishing news related to the religious circles and centers. Accordingly, religious circles […]

TEHRAN — On Sunday afternoon, President Ebrahim Raisi officially appointed two key members of his cabinet. Mohammad Mokhber and Gholam Hossein Esmaeili were appointed respectively as first vice president and presidential chief of staff. Mokhber has been the head of the Headquarters for Executing the Order of the Imam during the last two decades. The […]

TEHRAN – The Blood Transfusion Organization and the High Institute for Research and Education in Transfusion Medicine were selected for the third time as a partner center of the World Health Organization (WHO). With the successful and complete implementation of the activities of the second period of the WHO Cooperative Center in the field of […]

TEHRAN – Crystals have long been created in Iran to captivate human attention with their enigmatic mysterious beauty. Carving crystals is one of the most original and common methods of decorating crystal works tracing back to the Achaemenid era (c. 550 – 330 BC). Sassanid artists were also very skillful to do so. Experts say […]

TEHRAN –A selection of 12 moveable properties in Khuzestan province has recently been inscribed on the national heritage list. The Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts announced the inscriptions on Sunday in a letter to the governor-general of the southwestern province, CHTN reported. Inscriptions, petroglyphs, statues, traditional costumes, and stone seals were among the […]

TEHRAN — The Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council has condemned any action that would strengthen and help expand the Zionist regime’s occupation, describing implementation of the “evil plan” to normalize relations with the Tel Aviv regime by some Arab countries as a “failed step”. Ali Shamkhani made the remarks in a meeting with […]

TEHRAN – A Pakistani journalist says the public in his country oppose hosting U.S. bases. “Public in Pakistan doesn’t want the U.S. bases here,” Imad Hussain tells the Zardis News. The experience of Pakistan as a country that collaborated with former U.S. President George W. Bush to invade Afghanistan proved costly. The extremists took the […]