TEHRAN – An Iranian studies center opened at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens, Greece on Sunday. The center has been set up in collaboration with Iran’s Cultural Office in Athens, the Persian service of IRNA reported on Monday. The rector of the university, Ismini Kriari-Katrani, and Iran’s Cultural Attaché in […]

TEHRAN – Iranian short ‘Pet Man’ by Marzieh Abrar-Paydar won the best animation award from The Sao Paulo Times Film Festival. ‘Pet Man’ directed by Marzieh Abrar-Paydar won the best short animation award from the 2nd Sao Paulo Times Film Festival. The São Paulo Times Film Festival is an event held by newspaper The São […]

TEHRAN– Proud owners of old and classic cars took their vehicles out to Azadi Racetrack in Tehran on Friday in the form of an exhibition.

TEHRAN – Some 6,500 overseas tourists toured Carpet Museum of Iran over the first nine month of the current Iranian calendar year, which started on March 21. It drew over 4,000 domestic museumgoers during the cited period as well, the museum director Parisa Beyzaei told IRNA on Wednesday. The number of foreign visits to the […]

TEHRAN – Iran has called on its nearby states to join hands to put forward the ancient Persian Yalda festivity for a possible UNESCO registration. “We are prepared for a multinational inscription of Yalda Night by 2019,” Mohammad-Hassan Talebian, a deputy director of the Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization, said on Thursday. Iran solely […]

TEHRAN – Three historical sites in Qazvin and one other in Rey have suffered cracks as an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 struck a city near Tehran on Wednesday night. The tremor widened some previously-existing cracks in Jameh Mosque, Peighambarieh School-Mosque, and Caravanserai of Sa’d al-Saltaneh in Qazvin province, CHTN reported on Thursday. It […]

TEHRAN – A collection by veteran photographer Maryam Zandi featuring portraits of a number of Iranian music elites is on display in an exhibition at Tehran’s E1 Gallery.  The collection, which is composed of 24 black and white photos, has been accumulated over a period spanning nearly 16 years, the gallery announced on Saturday. Vocalists […]

A farmer shows off pomegranates she has picked from a garden on the outskirts of the city of Farouq, southern Fars province. Farouq is a hub of pomegranate, well-known for such quality sought-after fruits. According to Iran’s ministry of agriculture, the country is the major producer of pomegranate, accounting for a third of around three […]

For at least 2,000 years, the region once known as Persia, has remained the most important source of turquoise. Its sky-blue turquoise has always been a magnet for beauty seekers throughout history. Turquoise is a non-vitreous stone, which differs in shade from blue, green and blue-green depending on its origin. The blue color of turquoise […]

While people from many countries across the world are currently getting ready for Christmas, people in Iran are looking forward to another kind of festivity: Yalda Night. It has a nice ring to it, and the whole premise behind it is actually pretty cool, too. To put it in a nutshell, Yalda is the longest […]