TEHRAN –An exhibition of unseen photos of Hegmataneh is currently underway in the historical site in the west-central Iranian province of Hamedan. The exhibition includes more than 50 pictures taken from different vantage points of Hegmataneh by photographers who have achieved top rankings in various competitions, the director of the historical site said on Monday. […]

TEHRAN— Ali Bahador Jahromi, the Iranian government spokesman, said on Sunday that Canada must put an end to shows and extradite Iranian embezzlers and return the stolen public property. “The Canadian government’s show on International Human Rights Day” are not acceptable, Bahadori Jahromi wrote on his Twitter account. The government spokesman added, “The Iranian people […]

TEHRAN – Rey tourism directorate is set to organize a photo exhibition, which features people, monuments, and landscapes of the ancient Iranian city during the 19th-century. “The exhibit will showcase a selection of 30 photographs and paintings of Cheshmeh-Ali, Tughrul Tower, Borj-e Khamoushan (Tower of Silence), and the holy shrines of Shah Abdol Azim and […]

TEHRAN – An Iranian diplomat said on Friday that countries that have been contributing to concentration of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the atmosphere have “historical responsibility” to compensate related damages. Zahra Ershadi, deputy permanent representative of Iran to the UN, made the remarks in a statement before the UN General Assembly Plenary. Ershadi also […]

TEHRAN – Iranian Energy Minister Ali-Akbar Mehrabian has said the country is currently able to exchange electricity with Afghanistan, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Armenia, and Turkey, IRNA reported. As reported, developing energy diplomacy and exchange of electricity with the neighboring countries has been among the top priorities of the energy minister and in this regard, Mehrabian […]

TEHRAN – Like the past years farmers are preparing to cultivate water-intensive crops that are mostly fed by ground waters. This is mostly noticeable in lands used to grow rice and onion. It has been proven over the last three decades that farmers mostly don’t care about the gradual depletion of underground waters. They are […]

TEHRAN — President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday it is Iran’s strategy to break sanctions. Raisi made the remarks in a meeting with ambassadors and heads of missions of Iran to 15 neighboring countries. He added, “The enemy’s strategy is that the shadow of these sanctions to always remain and grow on the Iranian […]

TEHRAN – Olympique Lyon have reportedly agreed personal terms with Zenit St Petersburg striker Sardar Azmoun, but will need to convince the Russian club to let go of the Iranian six months before the end of his contract. The 26-year-old, who is manager Peter Bosz’s priority for January, almost joined over the summer before his […]

TEHRAN – Car manufacturing in Iran has risen 4.7 percent during the first eight months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-November 21), as compared to the same period of time in the past year. According to the data released by the Industry, Mining, and Trade Ministry, Iranian carmakers manufactured 651,408 vehicles in the […]

TEHRAN- Iran exported 137,000 tons of dates in the first seven months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-October 22), which was 14 percent more than the exported amount in the same period of time in the past year, an official with Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) announced. Mahmoud Bazari, director-general of TPO’s Coordination Office […]

TEHRAN — A number of CEOs of large holdings and Turkish investors in Iran met with Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, speaker of the Iranian parliament, on Thursday night on the sidelines of a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul, Turkey. At the beginning of the meeting, the CEOs […]

TEHRAN – Rome’s ambassador to Tehran Giuseppe Perrone has paid a visit to the UNESCO-registered Persepolis when he admired sets of glazed bricks recently unearthed by a team of Iranian and Iranian experts. Accompanied by several diplomates and embassy staff, the envoy visited Tall-e Ajori, a ruined royal gateway in the vicinity of Persepolis, where […]