TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran and Turkey have inked a cooperation agreement focusing on further expansion of religious relations. The agreement was signed in the Turkish capital Ankara on Thursday between Abouzar Ebrahimi Torkaman, the head of Iran’s Islamic Culture and Communication Organization, and Ali Erbaş, the head of Diyanet or Religious Affairs Directorate, Turkey’s […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Boston Film Festival will screen eight titles from the Iranian contemporary cinema in the United States. Each year, film curators from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Smithsonian Institution’s Freer|Sackler, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, collaborate to organize this compelling annual festival offering a range of perspectives by […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The water level at Lake Urmia, northwestern Iran, currently stands at an elevation of 1,271 meters above sea level, which is 71 centimeters more than the water level on the corresponding date of last year, a senior official said. Head of Lake Urmia Restoration Project Farhad Sarkhosh said Sunday that the […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – An official in Iranian Chamber of Cooperative put the export of handwoven carpets at $30 million in the first four months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21 – July 22). Abdollah Bahrami, Chairman of the Committee on Carpet, Handicrafts, and Tourism of Iranian Chamber of Cooperative added that $420 […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami’s 2010 ‘Certified Copy’, the late master’s first dramatic feature made outside Iran, has been selected as one of the 10 best films of the decade by The Associated Press. The Associated Press’s list of Best 10 Films of the Decade has put Abbas Kiarostami’s 2010 ‘Certified Copy’ at the […]

Iran’s Deputy Minister of Agricultural Jihad said the country has provided agricultural organizations’ members with insurance support.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – All these attendants have devoted their entire life to the Persian language. Persian language experts including linguists from around Russia have gathered at the fifth Moscow forum of Russian and Iranian teachers of Persian language. The Persian Language annual forum provides a ground for experts to talk about various aspects of […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The number of foreign tourists visiting Iran’s Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province rose by about 33 percent in the first eight months of the current Iranian year (started March 21, 2019), compared to the preceding period, the top provincial tourism official said. The provincial head of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Department, […]

The 13th Iran International Documentary Film Festival - also known as the Cinema Vérité- has added an entrepreneurship section this year in order to support the youth willpower in face of the US sanctions.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – A number of ancient relics, estimated to date from prehistoric times to the [early] Islamic era, have recently been seized from a smuggler in Nahavand, Hamedan province, west-central Iran. “The accused was traced and lastly arrested in Nahavand after police received reports from cultural heritage aficionados about him [illegally] keeping ancient […]