TEHRAN – Mustafa Science and Technology Foundation (MSTF) hosted a press conference to announce the laureates of the 2017 Mustafa Prize on Tuesday. The actual prize ceremony of Mustafa is set to kick off on December 1. During the press conference at the Institute of Culture, Art and Architecture in Tehran, Mahdi Safarinia; President of […]

The presidents of Russia, Iran and Turkey held a joint press conference in Sochi following a meeting. Vladimir Putin, Hassan Rouhani and Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed the future of Syria after the defeat of ISIL. The Russian, Iranian and Turkish leaders reaffirmed the importance of preserving sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of Syria. The presidents […]

TEHRAN _ Manoochehr Ashtiani has PhDs in sociology and philosophy. He wrote his philosophy dissertation under the supervision of Karl Löwith (Heidegger’s student and critic) and Dieter Henrich (one of the four great contemporary German philosophers); and his sociology dissertation under the supervision of Ernst Topitsch (Austrian philosopher and sociologist and member of Vienna Circle). […]

TEHRAN  – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) moved the country’s biggest portable field hospital to the western province of Kermanshah to treat those injured in Sunday’s 7.3-magnitude earthquake. As part of its rescue and relief operations, the IRGC transferred the field hospital from Isfahan province to Kermanshah. The field hospital is portable and has […]

A revolutionary new technique to create radioactive molecules has the potential to bring new medicines to patients much faster than before — using light. While the previous approach took months, the new photocatalytic process replaces hydrogen with tritium in just hours. Radioactivity may have a bad rap, but it plays a critical role in medical […]

TEHRAN — Dignitaries from around the world offered their heartfelt condolences over the deadly quake which jolted Iran’s western province of Kermanshah on Sunday night local time. By Monday night 450 were reported dead and more than 6,700 injured from the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that had hit Kermanshah province. According to the Iranian Seismological Center, […]

 A solo painting exhibit held at Theme Art Gallery in Tehran reflects painter Javad Saba’s views on contemporary humankind and society.‘Contemporary Human’ is a vivid demonstration of the artist’s preoccupation with human relations and emotions in modern times.“Who are these contemporary humans and how have they ended up here?” Saba, 42, asks with his paintings, […]

Parisa Rafi’ Mehr will perform a stage reading of ‘Death of a Salesman’, written by American playwright Arthur Miller, for seven days from November 15.Miller’s play, rendered into Persian by Ataollah Nourian, addresses loss of identity and a man’s inability to accept change within him and society. The play is a montage of memories, dreams, […]

Sistan-Baluchestan University’s Art Faculty in collaboration with the Society of Cultural Heritage of Zabol is planning the first International Festival of Mythical Characters for Esfand, the last month on the Iranian calendar (February 20-March 20).“A carnival of puppets of Shahnameh’s mythical characters will march through the city of Zabol (capital of Sistan-Baluchestan Provicne),” Mehr News […]

TEHRAN  – The road leading to Islamic civilization is fraught with difficulties, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said, adding, however, that the Islamic Revolution’s growth in Iran heralds a promising and prosperous ending for that goal. “The path of efforts in the name of God, upholding righteousness and justice, and the […]