TEHRAN (Iran News) – The judges of Booker Prize 2019 have “explicitly flouted” the rules of the august literary award to choose the first joint winners in almost 30 years: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo. The chair of judges, Peter Florence, emerged after more than five hours with the jury to reveal that the group […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – A selection of 30 rare Persian carpets worth 50 million baht ($1,644,737) will be showcased at the Bangkok Persian Carpet Exhibition 2019 in River City Bangkok, from October 17 to November 24. Organized by Art on Da Floor, a community of avid collectors, under the theme of ‘Persian Carpet and Your […]

The medical progress made in Iran alongside valuable experiments gained in various fields of health and treatment caused the country to be introduced as a distinguished model among the Islamic countries, said the caretaker of the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. Alireza Zali told that the World Health Organization confirmed not only the accuracy […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian film ‘Orange Days’ by Arash Lahooti won the prize for the best feature at the 19th edition of Yari Film Festival in Uppsala, Sweden. This was announced at the fest’s closing ceremony on Sunday night, IRNA reported. Held annually in September, The Yari Film Festival is the oldest film event pertaining […]

People who are overweight or eat a high-fat diet are the most likely to benefit. Tea has long been linked to good health. But earlier this year a study confirmed it lowers cholesterol and blood pressure — key risk factors for heart disease and stroke — while another showed it protects the brain and reduces […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Alireza Shojanuri, the star of Majid Majidi’s 2015 blockbuster “Muhammad (S), the Messenger of God” about the life of Muhammad (S), will play the title role in “Salman Farsi”, a TV series about the life story of the Iranian companion of the Prophet of Islam. Shojanuri will portray Salman’s middle-age and […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – More than two million Iranian Arbaeen pilgrims have entered Iraq a week before annual Arbaeen processions are held in the holy city of Karbala. Speaking with ISNA, deputy chief of operations for Iran’s Police Force Hossein Sajedi-Nia said the Arbaeen pilgrims have entered Iraq during the past two weeks. About three […]

Tehran (Iran News) – The Arabic version of ‘The Descent in the Desert’, written by Ali Shariati, has been unveiled in Beirut. Yasser Al-Faqih and Maryam Mirzadeh translated Shariati’s book from Persian to Arabic. The Darol-amir Publications, which has been translating and publishing Shariati’s books for three decades, organized the ceremony, IRNA wrote. Religious figures, […]

Iran News covers the story told by Irandaily. In a region that sways “on the palm of a genie,” as the Arabic saying goes, where bullets and explosions are more familiar than bread, you would not expect people to read, let alone to risk their lives for the sake of books. Yet in 2013 a […]

Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Major General Hossein Salami pledged that the IRGC would use all its capacities to provide services for Iranian pilgrims visiting neighboring Iraq during the Arbaeen season.