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 […]

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 […]