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Condolences pour in over award-winning Iran film director
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and top officials have expressed their condolences over the sad demise of internationally-acclaimed Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami. President Rouhani said on his Twitter page on Tuesday that Kiarostami's "distinct and deep view to life and his invitation of humans to peace and friendship will be a lastin ...
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Bangladeshi festival honors Iran’s “Valad”
“Valad”, Iranian filmmaker Amir-Abbas Rabiei’s short film about the savage Israeli bombardment of Gaza, has won the jury special award at the Internat ...
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Almost $600,000 raised on charity ceremony to free prisoners
Philanthropists and some high ranking officials made a 21-billion-rial (nearly $600,000) contribution to release prisoners committed involuntary crime ...
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Red Deer’s Chances of Survival Improve
The recent birth of four baby red deer in Semeskandeh Wildlife Refuge in Sari, Mazandaran Province, has lifted the spirits of officials and activists, ...
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Smuggling of goods declined 40% in Iran: official
Primary estimates show a 40 percent decline in the smuggling of gods in Iran over the past two years, Qasem Khorshidi, head of the Anti-Smuggling Head ...
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Inscription of ornate copy of Quran completed
A group of Iranian artists has completed the inscription of a copy of the Quran, which is believed to be the most ornately illuminated version of the ...
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Iran, India, Afghanistan sign Chabahar transit agreement
Iran, India and Afghanistan sign a key trilateral deal, known as the Chabahar agreement, to establish a strategic transit and transport route connecti ...
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2015 Economic-Scientific Events at a Glance
It goes without saying, Iran’s efforts to raise oil exports could not have come at a worse time, given the market’s lingering oversupply. Yet, that’s ...
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Iran’s forests expand despite global shrink: World Bank
Despite the fact that forests across the globe are shrinking at a rate of 0.09 percent annually Iran’s forests expanded 0.98 percent on average per ye ...
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Some 386,000 foreign students go to schools in Iran
Some 386,000 foreign nationals are studying at schools in Iran, while 360,000 of them are Afghan nationals, said Shahin Noushabadi, the deputy educati ...