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 […]
TEHRAN — The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) reported on Tuesday it has begun legal procedures to pursue action against baseless charges of the Bahraini High Criminal Court. The central bank, based on the agreement on encouragement and mutual support of investment between the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the government of […]
TEHRAN – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei officially endorses Ayatollah Seyed Ebrahim Raisi as the eighth president of Iran. The Endorsement (in Persian: Tanfiz) Ceremony for the head of the thirteenth government of Iran was held on Tuesday morning with the participation of almost all high-ranking Iranian officials from the three […]
TEHRAN – “The Angel Maker”, a bestseller by the Belgian novelist Stefan Brijs who writes in Dutch, has been published in Persian. The literary page-turner about one man’s macabre ambition to create life and secure immortality has been translated by Samgis Zandi and An Amut is the publisher of the book. The village of Wolfheim […]