TSE’s main index rises 2.7% in a week

TEHRAN- TEDPIX, the main index of Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE), rose 2.7 percent in the past Iranian calendar week (ended on Friday).

Iran remain unchanged in FIFA ranking

TEHRAN – Iran national football team remained in 22nd place in the FIFA ranking released on Thursday.

Russian military official says Iranian fleet adorned Russian naval parade

TEHRAN — A senior Russian military official has said the participation of Iranian warships in the Russian Navy parade in the current year “adorned” the naval parade.

Afghans critically wounded in terror act sent to Iran for treatment

TEHRAN — Iran was due to receive a group of Afghan nationals who sustained injuries during last week’s terror attack on a Shia mosque in the southern city of Kandahar.

Iran FM meets ex-Iraqi PM, holds talks with Omani counterpart

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian met on Tuesday with former Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi and held phone talks with Omani Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad Albusaidi.

Iran’s rights chief: Iraq must bring Gen. Soleimani's assassins to book

TEHRAN — Iran’s Deputy Judiciary Chief for International Affairs and Secretary of the High Council for Human Rights has aid Iraq must bring perpetrators of the assassination of Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani to book as soon as possible.

Iran, Qatar discuss relations

TEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian had a conversation over the phone with his Qatari counterpart on Monday, according to a Qatari foreign ministry statement.

Esetghlal edge Havadar in IPL

TEHRAN – Esteghlal football team saw off newly-promoted Havadar in Matchday 1 of the Iran Professional League (IPL) on Wednesday.

Iran diplomat meets UN, Italian envoys for Syria

TERHAN - Ali Asghar Khaji, a senior advisor to Iran’s foreign minister, met on Tuesday with UN and Italian special envoys for Syria Geir Pedersen and Italian Special Envoy for Syria Stephen Ravanan in Geneva.

UN envoy slams Israel’s land grab policies in West Bank, siege on Gaza

TEHRAN - The United Nations Middle East envoy has censured Israel’s unlawful demolitions and settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territories as well as the crippling siege the regime has imposed on Gaza, complaining of a lack of progress in efforts to achieve a so-called two‑state solution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

IDFA picks movies from Iran 

TEHRAN – Four movies by Iranian filmmakers will be competing in the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), which will take place in the Dutch capital from November 17 to 28.

“No Choice” tops at Cinecitta International Film Festival

TEHRAN – Iranian drama “No Choice” has won first prize at the 013 Cinecitta International Film Festival in the Netherlands.

“Walls Talking” on political currents behind Iranian revolution graffiti published 

TEHRAN – A book containing pictures of graffiti created by various political groups during the 1979 Iranian revolution has recently come to Iranian bookstores.

Mahdavikia announces Iran’s 25-man team for 2022 AFC U23 Asian Cup qualification

TEHRAN – Mehdi Mahdavikia announced his 25-man team for the 2022 AFC U23 Asian Cup qualification.

Drought, groundwater withdrawal pushing lands into ‘silent death’

TEHRAN – Iran has been affected by groundwater deterioration and the plains have been torn apart in a crisis of drought and human negligence so that a silent creeping phenomenon called land subsidence is threatening the whole country.

Iran, Iraq to expand legal, judicial relations

TEHRAN – A joint statement on the expansion of legal and judicial relations was signed by the Iranian Minister of Justice Amin Hossein Rahimi and his Iraqi counterpart Salar Abdul Sattar Mohammed.

Expats hold 10% share in funding schools built by benefactors

TEHRAN – Some 10 percent of schools constructed by benefactors across the country have been funded by Iranians living outside the country, Nasser Ghofli, the director of the School-Building Donors Association, has stated.

U.S. sanctions hurting Iran’s ‘butterfly kids’: UN experts

TEHRAN – Over-compliance with United States-imposed sanctions against Iran is harming the right to health, and people with rare skin disease are among those affected, many of them children, experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council said on Tuesday.

Loans granted to support handicrafts businesses in Bandar-e Torkaman

TEHRAN – The Iranian government has granted 2.4 billion rials (about $57,000 at the official exchange rate of 42,000 rials per dollar) in loans to support handicrafts businesses across Bandar-e Torkaman, the northern province of Golestan. 

Discover Ibn Babawayh cemetery in southern Tehran

TEHRAN – Ibn Babawayh is a vast historical cemetery located in Rey, southern Tehran, in which many Iranian figures have been laid to rest.

Iran tourism still holds its own despite virus restrictions, official says

TEHRAN – Iran's tourism industry has made every effort to stand on its own two feet despite the considerable damage caused by the virus pandemic. 

Iran to meet Netherlands in 2022 FIVB World Championship opener

TEHRAN - Iran, which captured their fourth Asian title last month after stunning hosts Japan in straight sets in final showdown, will challenge the Netherlands in their first match of the 2022 FIVB Men’s Volleyball World Championship in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.

Bolivia welcomes Iran’s investment in various sectors

TEHRAN - Bolivian Ambassador to Tehran Romina Guadalupe, in a meeting with the Head of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA) Gholam-Hossein Shafeie on Wednesday, invited the Iranian private sector to invest in her country’s major industries.

Tehran hosting intl. HVAC&R exhibition

TEHRAN – Iran’s 20th International Exhibition of Heating, Cooling, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigerating Systems (IHE 2021) kicked off at Tehran Permanent International Fairgrounds on Tuesday, IRNA reported.

Idea of Islamic unity is a strategic and necessary notion, Raisi say

Raisi: Iran seeking to eliminate poverty, corruption in Islamic world

TEHRAN — President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran said on Tuesday that the Islamic Republic seeking to “eliminate poverty and corruption” and counter “insecurity and instability” in the Islamic world.

Nomadic art of giant tents revived in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad

TEHRAN - The nomadic art of making Siah-Chador (giant “black tents”), which was once on the verge of oblivion in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, has been revived in various counties of the western Iranian province.

People participate in restoration of 8,000 historical monuments

TEHRAN – People have participated in the restoration of some 8,000 historical monuments [and relics] over the past couple of years, a senior advisor to Iran’s tourism minister has said.

Sepahan start 2021/22 IPL season on high note

TEHRAN – Sepahan defeated Mes Rafsanjan 2-0 in Matchday 1 of the 2021/22 Iran Professional League (IPL) season on Tuesday.