TEHRAN – Three historical sites in Qazvin and one other in Rey have suffered cracks as an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 struck a city near Tehran on Wednesday night. The tremor widened some previously-existing cracks in Jameh Mosque, Peighambarieh School-Mosque, and Caravanserai of Sa’d al-Saltaneh in Qazvin province, CHTN reported on Thursday. It […]

Iran’s Ambassador to United Nations Eshagh Al Habib said Iran has participated in every international and regional effort to create peace and stability in Afghanistan. Iran’s Ambassador and DPR of the Permanent Mission of Iran to UN, Eshagh Al Habib, made the remarks at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Afghanistan. The […]

Neor Lake is located in a mountainous area 48km southeast of the Iranian northwestern city of Ardabil, in an altitude of 2700 meters above sea level, with an area of more than 220 Hectares. It is composed of smaller and larger basins, which get connected in rainy seasons forming a single lake. It has an […]

A political analyst based in London hailed Iran’s “critical role” in the collapse of the Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) terrorist group in the Middle East and said Iranians proved, with their blood, their commitment to fighting terrorism. “Iran has played a very critical role in the fight against Wahhabism in Syria and in Iraq,” Marcus […]

TEHRAN — The earthquakes across Iran over the past 40 days, particularly the most recent one in the capital Tehran, have fueled widespread, well-founded fear amongst people alike. The magnitude 5.2 earthquake which hit the provinces of Tehran and Alborz on Wednesday night left 2 dead and some 115 injured all due to the fear […]

TEHRAN- Iran’s exports to Europe grew 122 percent in October, in comparison with the same month in 2016, European Union’s statistics agency Eurostat reported. The figure reached €986 million in October from its previous €443 million in the same period in 2016. Iran-Europe trade in the named month increased by 54 percent and stood at […]

TEHRAN- Iran tries to push down its inflation rate to below five percent within the next few years, Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Deputy Governor Akbar Komijani announced addressing SEANZA’s meeting of central bank governors in Tehran. “Iran could manage to reach a single-digit inflation in 2016, which was unprecedented during the past 25 years”, […]

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said on Thursday that the Palestine will remain the key issue of the Muslim world forever. In a statement on Thursday, Ghasemi lashed out at Bahrain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa, for calling al-Quds a “side issue”, saying the Bahraini foreign minister makes such remarks to please the […]

Iran ended the year 2017 ranked No.32 in the world on the latest FIFA rankings released on Thursday. Team Melli are still the best Asian team above Australia, Japan and South Korea. The world champions, who qualified to defend their crown in Russia by winning all ten of their qualifiers and have been unbeaten in […]

Head of the Relief and Rescue Organization of the IRCS Morteza Salimi said the 5.2 magnitude earthquake left 1 dead and 97 casualties in different parts of the country which the earthquake was felt. A magnitude 5.2 earthquake hits the Iranian city of Malard in Tehran province last night.The quake was also felt in the […]