Turkey, Russia and Iran have reached an “agreement in principle” on the lists of Syrian government and opposition lists to form a constitutional committee. The representatives of the three guarantor countries met with UN Special Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura on Sept. 10-11 in Geneva, during which they discussed the formation of a constitutional […]

Adviser to Iran’s Parliament speaker, Mansour Haghighatpour, told Mehr News on Saturday that the recent developments in Iraqi city of Basra which culminated in an attack on Iran’s consulate are “completely suspicious”. Speaking to Mehr News Agency on Saturday, Adviser to Iran’s Parliament speaker, Mansour Haghighatpour, said the attack on Iran’s consulate in Basra, south of […]

US President Donald Trump has faced big challenges in re-imposition of sanctions against Iran such as lack of support from its allies and modern financial technologies, the issue of which causes new US sanctions to be not as effective as the previous batch of sanctions imposed on Iran. Since new round of US sanctions on […]

 The reintroduction of illegal and unilateral sanctions against Iran by the Trump administration is frightening away major companies from the Iranian market. The Trump administration has threatened that any company that do business with Iran cannot do business in the United States. The U.S. also plans to introduce ban on Iranian oil exports in early […]

Astronomers obtained the most detailed anatomy chart of a monster galaxy located 12.4 billion light-years away. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the team revealed that the molecular clouds in the galaxy are highly unstable, which leads to runaway star formation. Monster galaxies are thought to be the ancestors of the huge elliptical galaxies […]

The 20th Iran Cinema Celebration has announced the top of Iranian cinema productions in the past year, with ‘No Date, No Signature’ directed by Vahid Jalilvand winning as many as five awards in various categories. The 20th Iran Cinema Celebration, organized annually by the Iranian House of Cinema with an aim to observe Iran’s National […]

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) will financially support part of the expenses for the applicants and accepted nominees at the second Youth Filmmaking Olympiad in Iran. The move is part of cooperation between the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance and UNICEF. In cooperation with Iran Youth Cinema Society and Farabi Cinematic Foundation, the […]

Iranian Deputy Health Minister Akhoundzadeh says that Iran is the best country of the region in the field of providing health care services. “Iran tops the countries of the region in providing health care services,” said Shahin Akhoundzadeh, Iranian Deputy Health Minister, on Monday, after hailing the efforts in Iran which according to him have […]

TEHRAN — “Iranians have never considered clothing as a mere covering. We always care about what we wear,” Deputy Culture Minister for Artistic Affairs Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini said during the opening ceremony of 7th Fajr International Fashion and Clothing Festival in Tehran on Sunday. “Our history is a great treasure that we can use for […]

Iranian short movie ‘The Oblivion’ was awarded at the Moondance International Film Festival in US. Produced by Iranian Youth Cinema Society, ‘The Oblivion’ narrates the challenges aging population faces with. Due on September 15-16, Moondance International Film Festival is an independent annual film festival and awards competition in the USA that takes place in the fall. […]