Iranian students took six medals, ranking 11th at the 64th International Mathematical Olympiad which was held in Japan on July 2-13. A gold medal from Ehsan Heidari, four silver medals from Sobhan Aram, Mohammad-Parsa Jafarnejadi, Arvin Taheri, and Mohammad-Ermia Qaseri, and a bronze medal from Pouria Rahmani placed the country 11th among 111 participating countries, ISNA reported.

According to the International Mathematical Olympiad rules, approximately 1/12 of the participants receive a gold medal, 2/12 receive a silver medal, and 3/12 receive a bronze medal.

Furthermore, even if they do not receive a medal, contestants who score a perfect 7 points on at least one problem are awarded an honorable mention.

IMO is the World Championship Mathematics Competition for High School students and is held each year in a different country.

The first IMO was held in 1959 in Romania, with seven countries participating. It has gradually expanded to over 100 countries from all seven continents.

At the 63rd edition of IMO which was held in Norway, Iran grabbed three gold medals and three silver medals, ranking 8th among 104 countries.

Iranian students grabbed two gold and two silver medals at the 34th edition of the International Biology Olympiad (IBO) held in the United Arab Emirates from July 3-11.

The IBO 2023 hosted 293 students from 76 countries.

Arman Forqani and Ali Qasemloui won the gold medals, while Kiyarash Behboudi and Aidin Naziri-Fard won the silver medals.

In the 33rd International Biology Olympiad, Iran’s team was ranked first in the world by winning four gold medals.

The IBO 2022 was held in Armenia and attended by 65 countries./ T.T/

Iranian short films, namely “A Butterfly Is Knocking on Window”, “The Melody of Loneliness”, and “They” were awarded at Tracce Cinematografiche Film Festival in Italy.

Directed by Seyyed Morteza Sabz-Qaba, the short film “They” received a special award of the Mediterranean section of the festival.

The short film depicts the story of a group of people who leave Dezful city, Southwest, Iran, with a heavy heart, to go to their families. They haven’t been too far since the city starts getting bombed with warplanes.

The Iranian short film had previously won the honorary diploma and the third-best movie award at the 4th edition of ‘Three Acts of Goodness Micro Film Festival’ in Taiwan.

“The Melody of Loneliness” by Samira Azimian won the best animation award, while “A Butterfly Is Knocking on Window” by Mohammad Hassani was named the best social film.

The 12th edition of the Tracce Cinematografiche Film Fest was held in Rome on July 4-9 2023. /MNA/

Fars province, which is home to countless cultural, historical, and archeological sites in southern Iran, has registered more than 10,000 visits to those attractions within a month.

“10,472 foreign nationals visited cultural, historical sites as well as cultural heritage museums of Fars province from Khordad 20 to Tir 16,” the provincial tourism chief said on Tuesday.

Talking about the most visited destination, the official said: “Over 3,000 international travelers visited the UNESCO-registered Persepolis during the period.”

“Hafez mausoleum with 2,295 foreign visits and the UNESCO-designated Pasargadae with 2,121 international visits ranked second and third respectively,” the official added.

The ancient region of Fars also spelled Pars, or Persis, was the heart of the Achaemenian Empire (550–330 BC), which was founded by Cyrus the Great and had its capital at Pasargadae. Darius I the Great moved the capital to nearby Persepolis in the late 6th or early 5th century BC.

Celebrated as the heartland of Persian culture for over 2000 years, the capital city of Shiraz has become synonymous with education, nightingales, poetry, and crafts skills passed down from generation to generation. It was one of the most important cities in the medieval Islamic world and was the Iranian capital during the Zand dynasty from 1751 to 1794. Moreover, Shiraz is home to some of the country’s most magnificent buildings and sights. Increasingly, it draws more and more foreign and domestic sightseers flocking to this provincial capital.

Eram Garden, Afif-Abad Garden, Tomb of Hafez, Tomb of Sa’di, Jameh Mosque of Atigh, and Persepolis are among the historical, cultural, and ancient sites of Shiraz that are of interest to domestic and foreign tourists. The ancient city is also home to some magnificent historical gardens such as Bagh-e Narenjestan and Eram Garden, which are top tourist destinations both for domestic and international sightseers. /T.T/

The 20th edition of the QS World University Rankings (2024) has placed seven Iranian universities among the world’s top institutes, compared with six universities in 2023.

The Rankings features 1,500 institutions across 104 locations and is the only ranking of its kind to emphasize employability and sustainability.

Sharif University of Technology, University of Tehran, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran University of Science and Technology, Shiraz University, Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), and Ferdowsi University of Mashhad are the top Iranian universities.

This year, the largest-ever methodological enhancement has been implemented, introducing three new metrics: Sustainability, Employment Outcomes, and International Research Network.

The results draw on the analysis of 17.5m academic papers and the expert opinions of over 240,000 academic faculty and employers.

The number of top Iranian universities and research institutes in the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) database has increased from 112 last year (March 2022-March 2023) to 115 this year, the Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) has reported.

The number of top Iranian universities and research institutes in this database has increased from 112 last year to 115 this year.

Iran’s top universities and research institutes are present in 19 subject areas, and the largest number is in the engineering subject area with 59 universities and research institutes.

The number of institutions in the fields of clinical medicine was 57, chemistry 50, material sciences 25, agricultural sciences 23, pharmacology and toxicology 19, plant and animal sciences 16, environment/ecology 15, social sciences, biology and biochemistry, and computer sciences 13 each.

Meanwhile, the number of institutions in the fields of neuroscience and behavior was 7, geology 6, physics and immunology 5 each, molecular biology and genetics 4, mathematics and microbiology 2 each, and psychiatry/psychology 1.

Reviewing the status of universities worldwide shows that the number of Iranian universities has increased in nearly all subject rankings.

At the beginning of its formation, rating systems provided a comprehensive view of institutions and evaluated them from all aspects and as a whole. But in the past few years, many of these systems evaluate and rank institutions in various scientific fields.

This new ranking method has emerged to meet the needs of users who seek to know the position of an institution in a special field.

Some of these systems evaluate broad scientific fields such as humanities and social sciences, technical and engineering, and medicine, and others measure special fields such as chemistry, mathematics, artificial intelligence, anthropology, and nursing in institutions.

The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2023 has placed 65 Iranian universities among the top Asian institutions.

The Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings 2023 use the same 13 performance indicators as the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, but they are recalibrated to reflect the attributes of Asia’s institutions.

The universities are judged across all their core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook – to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available.

The Sharif University of Technology is ranked first in the country and 64th in Asia. The position of two Iranian institutions is also mentioned as a reporter.

In the 2023 edition of the Times Higher Education’s Asian University Ranking System, the names of 928 institutions from 36 Asian countries are included in the final list. In the previous edition of this ranking system, 58 universities from Iran were among the top institutions in Asia, IRNA reported. /T.T/

Iranian taekwondo practitioners snatched seven colorful medals to become first at the Turkey Open 2023–G2. Iranian men national squad won 4 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze medals and became champion at the Turkey Open 2023–G2.

Mehdi Haji Musaei (weight -54 kg), Abolfazl Zandi (-58 kg), Mateen Rezaei (-63 kg), and Arian Salimi (- 87 kg) received gold medals in the sporting event.

Other Iranian fighters Mehran Barkhordari (- 80 kg) and Abulfazl Abbasi (+ 87 kg) won silver medals, while Erfan Bozorghi (-68 kg) gained the bronze medal in the tournament.

Bizhan Moghanlou led the men’s teams at the tournament.

The Turkish Open Taekwondo Tournament was held in Ankara, Turkey on July 06-09, 2023. /MNA/

The simulator system for MiG-29 fighter jets was put into operation in a ceremony at Shahid Sattari Aeronautical University on Sunday.

The ceremony was attended by the Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Major General Abolrahim Mousavi.

Mousavi appreciated the elites of the Army Air Force at Shahid Sattari University for producing this simulator system for MiG-29 fighter jets.

He also attached great importance to the construction and production of such a simulator, which has already been built for other aircraft.

Stating that the MiG-29 electronic warfare training simulator has passed successful tests, Mousavi added that it will definitely be effective in improving the combat capability of the Air Force.

These simulator systems will be delivered to bases that are equipped with MiG-29 fighters in the coming days. /MNA/

The value of trade exchanges between the US and Iran in the first five months of 2023 has reached $22.4 million, indicating a 5% YOY growth.

According to the latest report released on Sunday by the United States Department of Commerce, the value of trade exchanges between the US and Iran from January to May 2023 reached $22.4 billion that shows 5 percent growth as compared to the corresponding period the year before although the figure is negligible as compared to the total trade exchanges of the two countries with the world.

US export to Iran during the first five months of 2023 reached $21.9 million which shows a 34% YOY increase, while Iran’s exports to the US during the mentioned period reached % 0.5 million indicating an 89% YOY decrease.

Iran ranked 175th among US target export markets in the said period, the report noted. /MNA/

The Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) has released the latest ranking of universities by subject, according to which 44 universities from Iran are among the top 224 universities from Islamic countries.

As an international scientific organization, ISC has ranked universities and research institutes in Iran by forming an internal working group.

ISC, as an avant-garde citation system in the Muslim world, published Islamic World University Rankings in 2013. Building on past experience, ISC’s Department of Universities Ranking published the new ISC World University Rankings in 2018.

In 2021, there were 42 Iranian universities on the ISC ranking by subject from 215 universities in Islamic countries.

The six subjects included natural sciences (biological sciences, chemical sciences, computer and information sciences, earth and related environmental sciences, mathematics, physical sciences, and other natural sciences (multidisciplinary sciences); engineering and technology ( chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, environmental biotechnology, environmental engineering, industrial biotechnology, materials engineering, mechanical engineering, medical engineering, nano-technology, and other engineering and technologies (engineering, multidisciplinary; engineering, industrial; engineering, manufacturing; food science and technology; instrumentation and instrumentation; microscopy; imaging science and photographic technology; spectroscopy); medical and health sciences (basic medicine, clinical medicine, health sciences, medical biotechnology, and other medical science; agricultural and veterinary sciences (agricultural biotechnology, agriculture, forestry, fisheries animal and dairy science, veterinary science, and other agricultural science (agricultural engineering; agricultural economics and policy; food science and technology); humanities and the arts (art, history and archaeology, languages and literature, philosophy, ethics and religion, and other humanities (humanities, multidisciplinary); social sciences (economics and business, education, law, media and communication, political science, psychology and cognitive sciences, social and economic geography, sociology, and other social sciences (hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism; asian studies; cultural studies; social sciences, interdisciplinary).

The number of top Iranian universities and research institutes in the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) database has increased from 112 last year (March 2022-March 2023) to 115 this year, the Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) has reported.

The number of top Iranian universities and research institutes in this database has increased from 112 last year to 115 this year.

Iran’s top universities and research institutes are present in 19 subject areas, and the largest number is in the engineering subject area with 59 universities and research institutes.

The number of institutions in the fields of clinical medicine was 57, chemistry 50, material sciences 25, agricultural sciences 23, pharmacology and toxicology 19, plant and animal sciences 16, environment/ecology 15, social sciences, biology and biochemistry, and computer sciences 13 each.

Meanwhile, the number of institutions in the fields of neuroscience and behavior was 7, geology 6, physics and immunology 5 each, molecular biology and genetics 4, mathematics and microbiology 2 each, and psychiatry/psychology 1.

Reviewing the status of universities worldwide shows that the number of Iranian universities has increased in nearly all subject rankings.

At the beginning of its formation, rating systems provided a comprehensive view of institutions and evaluated them from all aspects and as a whole. But in the past few years, many of these systems evaluate and rank institutions in various scientific fields.

This new ranking method has emerged to meet the needs of users who seek to know the position of an institution in a special field.

Some of these systems evaluate broad scientific fields such as humanities and social sciences, technical and engineering, and medicine, and others measure special fields such as chemistry, mathematics, artificial intelligence, anthropology, and nursing in institutions.

The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2023 has placed 65 Iranian universities among the top Asian institutions.

The Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings 2023 use the same 13 performance indicators as the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, but they are recalibrated to reflect the attributes of Asia’s institutions.

The universities are judged across all their core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook – to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available.

The Sharif University of Technology is ranked first in the country and 64th in Asia. The position of two Iranian institutions is also mentioned as a reporter.

In the 2023 edition of the Times Higher Education’s Asian University Ranking System, the names of 928 institutions from 36 Asian countries are included in the final list. In the previous edition of this ranking system, 58 universities from Iran were among the top institutions in Asia, IRNA reported. /T.T/

The latest ranking of the best taekwondo athletes in the world indicates the rise of the Iranian taekwondo athlete Nahid Kiyani to the top of the world rankings.

The official website of the World Taekwondo released the world and Olympic rankings for July 2023 after registering the scores of the World Championships and the Rome Grand Prix.

Nahid Kiyani accumulated 311.07 points in the Olympic ranking for the 57-kg category, and climbed 10 steps to reach the fifth spot in Olympics rankings. /MNA/

An ancient inscription has recently been found in the southern province of Fars, ILNA reported on Monday. Archaeologists have recently discovered a petroglyph in the region bearing the name Allah, said Iranian archaeologist Abolhassan Atabaki.

The rock carving is estimated to date back to the early-Islamic era, he added.

Ancient works and stone inscriptions discovered in the region over the past few years have always captured the interest of archaeologists, historians, and people interested in ancient languages.

In January, Atabaki announced that a Sassanid-era petroglyph, written on the subject of wishing for a holy marriage for an Iranian lady, was discovered in the region.

An ancient rock drawing of a Sassanid-era horseman was also discovered in Marvdasht plain in the province, he mentioned.

Moreover, in February, a petroglyph containing verses from a poem by the Persian poet Sheikh Muslih od-Din Sadi Shirazi was discovered in the province.

The ancient region of Fars, known as Pars or Persis, was the heart of the Achaemenid Empire founded by Cyrus the Great and had its capital in Pasargadae. Darius I the Great moved the capital to nearby Persepolis in the late 6th or early 5th century BC. Alexander the Great defeated the Achaemenian army at Arbela in 331 and burned Persepolis apparently as revenge against the Persians because it seems the Persian King Xerxes had burnt the Greek City of Athens around 150 years earlier.

Persis became part of the Seleucid kingdom in 312 after Alexander’s death. The Parthian empire (247 BC– 224 CE) of the Arsacids (corresponding roughly to the modern Khorasan in Iran) replaced the Seleucids’ rule in Persis during 170–138 BC. The Sasanid Empire (224 CE–651) had its capital at Istkhr. Not until the 18th century, under the Zand dynasty (1750–79) of southern Iran, did Fars again become the heart of an empire./ T.T/