TEHRAN – Tourism is the most important component of rural development in north-central Semnan province, Semnan’s Governor has announced. In the province, tourism is considered an important priority of rural development, with villages being encouraged to utilize their existing resources, CHTN quoted Seyyed Mohammadreza Hashemi as saying on Saturday. Villages in the province can have […]

TEHRAN – The traditional skill of making giant earthen tandoors, which have long been practiced in the city of Ferdows, eastern province of South Khorasan, has won national cultural heritage status, a local tourism official has announced. Tandoor making is the practice of making traditional and home bakery ovens out of clay, which has been […]

TEHRAN – A total of 158 trillion rials (nearly $3.7 billion at the official rate of 42,000 rials) allocated from the national budget to school construction, Mehrollah Rakhshanimehr, director of the Organization for Development, Renovation, and Equipment has announced. Last year, school building benefactors have allocated a sum of 33 trillion rials (around $781 million […]

TEHRAN – The Vice Presidency for Science and Technology aims to help large companies and startups develop markets for products by launching eight new biotechnology accelerators. Since 2016, the process of creating bio-accelerators started to pace up with the support of the Biotechnology Development Headquarters of the Vice President for Science and Technology, and there […]

TEHRAN- TEDPIX, the main index of the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE), lost 5,337 points to 1.334 million on Saturday (the first day of Iranian calendar week). Over 4.311 billion securities worth 90.917 trillion rials (about $736 million) were traded at the TSE. The first market’s index lost 5,105 points, and the second market’s index dropped […]

TEHRAN – Aquatic habitats in the northwestern West Azarbaijan province play host to more than 100,000 water birds and shorebirds annually, which enter the wetlands to spend the winter, Omid Yousefi, head of the wildlife surveillance of West Azarbaijan’s department of environment, has said. Due to the available resources in West Azarbaijan, a large number […]

TEHRAN – Rouhollah Rostami of Iran won a silver medal at the 2021 World Para Powerlifting Championships on Friday. Gu Xiaofei of China won the gold medal by lifting 230kg and got his revenge over Rostami for losing the Paralympic First place medal in Tokyo. Rostami finished in second with 230kg. The bronze medal went […]

TEHRAN – Iran were defeated by Romania 39-11 in their opening match of the 2021 World Women’s Handball Championship Friday night. In the match held at the Pabellón Ciutat de Castelló in Castelló, Romania cruised to their largest win at the World Championship since the 47-14 drubbing of Puerto Rico in their opening match at […]

TEHRAN- As announced by the managing director of Maku Free Trade Zone Organization, commodities valued at $2.030 billion were exported from the Maku FTZ, in Iran’s northwestern province of West Azarbaijan, during the first half of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-September 22). Mohammadreza Abdol-Rahimi said that the export of non-oil products worth nearly […]

TEHRAN — Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid met with French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday to discuss the Vienna talks that are primarily intended to lift sanctions on Iran. He was in the UK on November 28 as well. Is Israel sending a message to the negotiating sides in Vienna? “I just finished a long […]

TEHRAN – After a months-long hiatus, Iranian and Western negotiators ultimately met in the same room but much of the work does not seem to be done in the room. Instead, the Western negotiators seem to prefer forging ahead with media hyperbole. While many of those who participated in Monday’s plenary session in Vienna came […]

TEHRAN – A selection of 52 high-quality works handcrafted by the natives of Khuzestan province has been granted the National Seal of Excellence, the provincial tourism chief has announced. Winners were picked by a panel of national juries from a shortlist of 80 works, Seyyed Hekmatollah Musavi said on Tuesday. “Khuzestani craftsmen and artists have […]