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Traditional and Ritual Theater Festival honors four veterans

TEHRAN – Four Iranian veteran theater artists including prominent tazieh performers Gholam-Ali Ayyubi and Abolfazl Kababian have been honored with lifetime achievement awards during the closing ceremony of the 19th edition of the Traditional and Ritu...

The Jameh Mosque of Dezful First, Oldest Mosque Built in Dezful, Iran - Tourism news

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Jameh Mosque of Dezful is the second important historical monument after the Ancient Dezful Bridge in Iran's southwestern province of Khuzestan....

“The Silent Patient” comes to Iranian bookstores

TEHRAN – English-Cypriot writer Alex Michaelides’ debut novel “The Silent Patient” has rec...

Parau Cave in Kermanshah: A Tourist Attraction of Iran - Tourism news

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Parau or Paru (meaning full of water) is the name of a cave at 3050 mete...

“How the Zebra Got Its Stripes” published in Persian

TEHRAN – “How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: Darwinian Stories Told Through Evolutionary Biolo...

Parau Cave in Kermanshah: A Tourist Attraction of Iran - Tourism news

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Parau or Paru (meaning full of water) is the name of a cave at 3050 mete...

Isfahan festival to screen children’s favorite films of classical Iranian cinema

TEHRAN – A selection of five favorite children’s movies from Iranian cinema during the 198...

Iranian films line up for Reading Film Festival

TEHRAN – Several films from Iranian directors will be competing in different sections of t...

Parau Cave in Kermanshah: A Tourist Attraction of Iran - Tourism news

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Parau or Paru (meaning full of water) is the name of a cave at 3050 mete...

Tehran theater hosts Slawomir Mrozek’s “Party”

TEHRAN – Iranian director Nima Aqakhani staged Polish playwright Slawomir Mrozek’s play “T...

News

US cannot be trusted in negotiations, says deputy FM Araghchi

TEHRAN, Aug. 19 (MNA) – Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that the US is not trustworthy enough to hold negotiations with as it showed in its leaving I...

Iran, Afghanistan ink MoU on electricity cooperation

TEHRAN, Aug. 18 (MNA) – Iran and Afghanistan signed a memorandum of understanding on Sunday to develop bilateral cooperation in the field of electricity industry....

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Sport

Iranian sports journalist battling cancer defines family as true love

TEHRAN - Cancer seems to be the end of the road for many but not for the Iranian sports journalist Mehdi Shadmani, who says the disease has helped him discover the true l...

Mehr News Agency - Last training session of Iranian basketball team before world cup

TEHRAN, Aug. 19 (MNA) – The Iranian national men's basketball team held its last training session on Monday in the basketball hall of the Grand Azadi Sports Complex in th...

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Travel

Iran’s Beauties in Photos: Amir Nezam Garousi Mansion

The house has now turned into a museum showcasing items belonging to the Qajar era. It was built during the time when Amir Nezam Garousi was an advisor to Naser al-Din Sh...

Iran’s Beauties in Photos: Shirz Canyon

The canyon with its great geo-tourism capacities is located 45 kilometres northeast of Kuhdasht. Shirz is 5 kilometres long with springs that join the stream of Seymareh ...

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Culture

‘Beloved’ goes to EBS filmfest. in South Korea

TEHRAN, Aug. 19 (MNA) – Iranian documentary ‘Beloved’, directed by Yaser Talebi, has made it into the competition program of 16th EBS International Documentary Festival (...

Mehr News Agency - Closing ceremony of 9th Intl. Daf Festival

SANANDAJ, Aug. 17 (MNA) – Closing ceremony of the 9th Navaye Rahmat International Daf Festival was held on Friday in Sanandaj, Kordestan province....

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Economy

Over €840m allocated to support domestic auto parts manufacturers

TEHRAN - The industry ministry has allocated €844 million to support the country’s auto parts manufacturers, director general of the industry ministry’s automotive and tr...

Sinopec still negotiating to develop Iran’s Yadavaran oilfield

TEHRAN – Managing director of Iran’s Petroleum Engineering and Development Company (PEDEC) has said the company is still negotiating the second phase of Yadavaran oilfiel...

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Society

ITO seeks UNIDO’s help to introduce Iranian startups to global market

TEHRAN – The Information Technology Organization (ITO) of Iran has asked the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) for introducing Iranian startups t...

Iranian technology delegation to visit China in November

TEHRAN – A delegation of 50 Iranian knowledge-based firms will travel to China in November in order to boost technological cooperation between the two countries....

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Life and Style

Abriz; Delicious Dish Indigenous to Bakhtiari Tribe

The local Bakhtiari food, a popular one among people of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, is mostly made with lamb heart and liver, but a mix of liver and mutton or chi...

Tomshi; A Tasty Bread Made of Soil!

is part of Hormozgan Province. There is a strange mountain on the island whose soil is used as a kind of spice by the locals! This seems to be the only edible mountain of...

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Technology

Iran to take part at MAKS Air Show 2019

TEHRAN, Aug. 19 (MNA) – Iran will take part at 2019 MAKS Air Show which will be held on Aug. 27 – Sep. 1 in Zhukovsky, Russia....

SRI to deliver homegrown Pars 1 satellite in Dec.

TEHRAN, Aug. 18 (MNA) – Iran Space Research Center (SRI) is to deliver domestically designed and manufactured remote sensing satellite Pars 1 to Communication and IT Mini...

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Photography

Mount Damavand is the highest peak in Iran and the highest volcano in Asia.

Travel tips

Things to Know Before Trip
One of the most important things to remember is that Iranians aren’t Arabs, they’re Persian. They speak Farsi (and other dialects), not Arabic, and some people might feel offended if you great them with Arabic words.