‘Certified Copy’ among AP’s Top 10
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 Provides Civil Liability Insurance for Members of Rural Cooperatives
Iran’s Deputy Minister of Agricultural Jihad said the country has provided agricultural organizations’ members with insurance support.
Persian language Annual Forum held in Moscow
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 […]
Foreign tourists visiting Kohgiluyeh rise high
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, […]
Iran’s Cinema Vérité Supporting Entrepreneurship
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.
Ancient relics seized by police forces
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 […]
‘When the Moon Was Full’ highly praised at Estonia’s Tallinn festival
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 […]
Iran-Italy collaboration in cultural heritage, 60th anniversary
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 […]
Muslims Demonstrate Against Islamophobia in France
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, […]
6 Killed, 345 Injured in Magnitude 5.9 Quake Hitting NW Iran
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.