Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque to be restored once again 

TEHRAN – Parts of the creamy dome of the 17th-century Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque, a masterpiece of Iranian architecture in Isfahan, are scheduled to be restored once again as the low-quality rehabilitation works last year caused a lot of criticism by experts and authorities.

Paykan officially part way with Veisi

TEHRAN – Iranian football club Paykan have officially ended cooperation with Abdollah Veisi on Friday.

By Morteza Rahmani

Macron under foreign influence: French journalist

TEHRAN– Reacting to the recent anti-Islam comments of Emanuel Macron, a French journalist said the president is following the interests of some foreign powers, instead of his own nation.

By Zahra Mirzafarjouyan

Macron's remarks endanger peace in France: German expert

TEHRAN – Stating that Macron’s domestic political plans have failed, Dr. Markus Fiedler believes that the French President's irresponsible suspicious remarks endangers the country's peace.

By Zahra Mirzafarjouyan

Macron using irritant comments to mask his failed policies

TEHRAN– Deniz Caner believes that Macron uses provocative comments to mask his mismanagement in the country and the government's unsuccessful economic and social policies.

Pandemic negatively affects Sweden-Iran trade: envoy

TEHRAN – Swedish Ambassador to Tehran Mattias Lentz has blamed the coronavirus pandemic as the main reason for the decline in the trade between Iran and Sweden expressing hope that with the outbreak easing the two countries would resume trade at normal levels.

Iran on verge of regaining its oil market share: Bloomberg

TEHRAN – As one of the world’s major oil producers Iran is expected to regain its market share, lost to rivals due to the U.S. sanctions, in case Joe Biden, who is leading in most polls, replaces Trump as the U.S.’s next president, Bloomberg reported.

​​​​​​​Democrats and Republicans just differ in strategy, says former Iranian diplomat

​​​​​TEHRAN - Hossein Mousavian, a former Iranian nuclear negotiator and a Princeton University research scholar, says the Democrats and Republicans are unanimous in advancing their country’s interests but they differ greatly in strategies.

Govt. supplies over $1.4b for imports of edible oil, oilseeds in 7 months

TEHRAN – Over $1.4 billion has been supplied for the imports of unrefined vegetable oil and oilseeds in the first seven months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20-October 21), an official with the Industry, Mining, and Trade Ministry said.

Iran’s cigarette exports nearly double in 6 months

TEHRAN – Iranian Industry, Mining, and Trade Ministry’s data indicates that despite a five percent fall in the production of cigarettes in the first six months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20-September 21), the exports of the commodity increased by 97.2 percent.

Rouhani inaugurates energy projects worth over $795m in 2 provinces

TEHRAN – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani inaugurated five water and electricity projects worth over 33.4 trillion rials (about $795.2 million) in two provinces during the 30th week of the Energy Ministry’s A-B-Iran program, IRNA reported.

TEDPIX loses 124,000 points in a week

TEHRAN- TEDPIX, the main index of Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE), fell 124,000 points, or 9.5 percent, in the past Iranian calendar week (ended on Friday).

Zarif condemns Nice attack, urges sanity

TEHRAN – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif denounced the Thursday terrorist attack in the French city of Nice that killed at least three citizens, saying this “vicious cycle” which is result of hate speech “must be replaced by reason and sanity”

Point-to-point inflation rate stands at 41.2% in Tehran Province

TEHRAN- Point-to-point inflation rate stood at 41.2 percent in Tehran Province during the seventh Irian calendar month (September 22-October 21), according to the data released by the province’s Management and Planning Organization.

Persepolis transfer ban lifted

TEHRAN – FIFA has lifted the transfer ban of Iranian football club Persepolis.

Jafar Samiei named Persepolis General Manager

TEHRAN – Jafar Samiei was appointed as Persepolis football club General Manager.

Zarif dismisses report Iran has freed two U.S. spies in prisoner swap 

TEHRAN – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday vehemently dismissed as untrue a report that Iran has released two U.S. spies in a prisoner exchange deal. 

Iran’s deputy FM undertakes shuttle diplomacy to end Azerbaijan-Armenia war

TEHRAN – Seyed Abbas Araghchi, the deputy foreign minister for political affairs, has begun a regional tour of four capitals to help end the deadly war in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Archaeological survey yields traces of Iron Age settlement, metal-melting kiln in west-central Iran

TEHRAN – The first phase of a demarcation project has recently come to an end on Tepe Kuzechi in west-central Iran, yielding traces of an Iron Age settlement and other findings, including a metal-melting kiln.

Cyrus Cylinder: the story of 2,600-year-old icon of freedom

TEHRAN - The 2,600-year-old Cyrus Cylinder is a small barrel-shaped clay cylinder, almost the size of an American football, which was inscribed in enigmatic-looking cuneiform on the order of the Persian King Cyrus after he captured Babylon in 539 BC.

Try to conjure up a picture of life in the past

Photo depicts a mudbrick gate inside a 19th-century architectural complex, which is situated in a desert oasis in Isfahan province, central Iran, October 27, 2020.

Leader: Macron’s blasphemy is insult to reason of people who have elected him

TEHRAN – Following French President Macron’s sacrilegious remarks against Islam and its Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday issued a short message intended to the French youth in which he wanted them to ask their president that why he insults the God’s messenger and calls it “freedom of expression”.

Millennia-old tree in Alborz to be demarcated

TEHRAN- A 2700-year-old Juniper in Shahrestanak village, Alborz province, is scheduled to be demarcated in the near future, the deputy provincial tourism chief has said.