TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian filmmaker Narges Abyar’s award-winning drama, ‘When the Moon Was Full,’ was screened in the official competition of Estonia’s 23rd Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and received an enthusiastic welcome from Estonian film fans. The first screening of ‘When the Moon Was Full’, also its first international debut, was on November […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – 60th anniversary of Iran-Italy collaboration in cultural heritage and archaeology will be celebrated in a conference, which will be held on Sunday at the National Museum of Iran in downtown Tehran. Amongst invitees to the event are Iran’s tourism minister Ali-Asghar Mounesan, Italian Ambassador to Iran Giuseppe Perrone and tens of […]

TEHRAN (Iran News)- A national demonstration held in Paris against Islamophobia in France, as it is in the throes of another fabricated wave of anti-Muslim scapegoating. With the one-year anniversary of the Yellow Vest movement a week away and the government trying to force through a deeply unpopular raising of the retirement age, France’s media, […]

At least 6 people have been killed and 345 others injured in a magnitude 5.9 earthquake hitting Iran’s northwestern province of East Azarbaijan in the early hours of Friday.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian short animated piece ‘Am I A Wolf?’, by Amir Houshang Moein, has made it into the lineup of the 36th Annual Chicago International Children’s Film Festival in the US. The animation depicts a number of students who are performing a play called “The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats”. The […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Two Iranian short films won awards at the 62nd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, known as DOK Leipzig, in Germany. The short animated piece, ‘Am I a Wolf?’, by Amir-Houshang Moein, won the Golden Dove for best-animated film, while the short documentary, ‘Asho,’ directed by Ja’far Najafi, received […]

Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said the capital, Tehran, will host an international exhibition on the electricity industry starting on Thursday with representatives from 36 countries in attendance.

Iranian art works, which went under the hammer at Christie’s Middle Eastern Modern & Contemporary Art, sold almost £1.4 million. Iran’s sell-through rate was 45 percent (29 out of 39 Iranian artworks were sold), and the sale overall brought in £3.1 million for 114 works, providing a record for the auction. Iran News reports. A […]

A play adaptation of Mary Shelley’s famous novel ‘Frankenstein’, written and directed by Iman Afsharian, will go on stage at City Theater of Tehran.

Migratory birds have returned to Gavkhuni wetland once again as heavy rainfall has revived the long-dried wetland.