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  • 2026 AVC Women's Club Championship Today 17:49

    Mehrgan Noor to represent Iran at 2026 AVC Women's Club Championship

    TEHRAN - Mehregan Noor will represent Iran at the 2026 AVC Women's Clubs Championship. 

  • Iran-Turkey trade Today 09:26

    Turkey, 3rd top non-oil export destination of Iran in a year

    TEHRAN- According to a report released by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA), Turkey was the third top destination of Iran’s non-oil products in the past Iranian calendar year 1404 (ended on March 20).

  • war Today 09:23

    Iran's engineering capabilities, pillar of resistance, reconstruction

    TEHRAN– The Federation of Iranian Machinery and Equipment Industries announced in a statement: Engineering capabilities are the pillar of resistance and reconstruction, and the destruction of infrastructure will never be able to stop the national will for progress and self-reliance.

  • private sector Today 09:19

    ‘Private sector, flag bearer of food security, people's livelihoods during wartime’

    TEHRAN– The Minister of Agriculture said that private sector traders and entrepreneurs have become the standard-bearers and frontrunners in protecting the people’s food security and livelihoods during wartime conditions.

  • IMF Today 09:15

    Global economic bodies unite to assess US-Israeli war with Iran fallout on energy, food

    TEHRAN- After the US and Israel attacked on February 28, Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, sending the price of crude oil and liquefied natural gas sharply higher.

  • women Today 01:14

    By Maedeh Zaman Fashami

    A revolution without women? Impossible! The war has a female narrative

    Truly rare are statesmen who possess insight across multiple domains from politics and governance to military affairs and the foundations of civilization. Our martyred leader, Imam Khamenei, was one of them. A wise thinker who not only paid attention to the surface structures of society but also gave deep consideration to the roots and foundations of civilization-building. Perhaps one of the clearest reflections of this is his elevated perspective on women, their dignity, status, and rights.

  • cultural heritage Today 01:06

    US, Israel wreak more damage on Iran’s cultural heritage

    TEHRAN – The U.S. and Israeli strikes have damaged more than 130 cultural and historical sites across Iran, including museums, palaces and UNESCO-listed landmarks, according to the country’s minister of cultural heritage.

  • Bagh-e Ferdows Today 01:01

    By Afshin Majlesi

    Candles, silent classrooms, and a night of collective memory in Tehran

    TEHRAN – It was around 8:00 p.m. on a mild Monday evening, and people continued to arrive, drawn by a shared need to be present. Among them were artists, actors, filmmakers, and ordinary citizens, all gathering to pay tribute to those lost, to express solidarity, and, perhaps most notably, to show that fear of ongoing airstrikes had not confined them to their homes.

  • Hezbollah Today 00:45

    By Wesam Bahrani

    Hezbollah targets Israeli warplanes, bombs tanks

    TEHRAN – The latest escalation shows that the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement prioritizes high-value military targets belonging to the Israeli regime.

  • war Today 00:43

    The world will keep seeking answers for Trump’s war on Iran

    TEHRAN – The world is asking why the United States and Israel started an unwarranted war against Iran. The world was surprised that the war began while the talks were underway between Iran and the U.S.

  • Iran Greco-Roman team Today 00:39

    Iran Greco-Roman team win 2026 Asian Wrestling Championship

    TEHRAN - Iran Greco-Roman team claimed the title of the 2026 Asian Wrestling Championship on Tuesday.

  • Zahra Ghanbari Today 00:36

    Ghanbari: Australia experience will fuel Iran’s future in Women’s Asian Cup

    TEHRAN – Zahra Ghanbari, captain of Iran’s women’s national football team, believes that despite a difficult campaign, the 2026 AFC Women’s Asian Cup provided invaluable experience for the squad as they look ahead to future tournaments.

  • Professor Nimet Yıldırım Today 00:28

    Turkish scholar Nimet Yıldırım expresses solidarity with Iran

    TEHRAN- Professor Nimet Yıldırım, the Head of the Persian Language and Literature Department at Atatürk University in Erzurum, Turkey, has released a message of solidarity with the Iranian people following the recent US-Israeli aggression and the martyrdom of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution.

  • A poster for "To Which Sin?" national theater event Today 00:25

    National theater event honors Minab schoolchildren

    TEHRAN-The national theater event “To Which Sin?” is being staged across multiple Iranian provinces to honor the memory of the Minab schoolchildren who lost their lives in a coordinated attack by the Zionist regime and the US.

  • museums Today 00:23

    Director of TMoCA calls for international solidarity to protect shared human heritage

    TEHRAN – The Director of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) has reported extensive damage to over a hundred historical artifacts and several museums and palace-museums in Iran over the past 38 days during the US-Israeli aggressions on Iran in an open letter to the heads of prestigious museums worldwide and the international museum community, calling for global solidarity to protect the shared heritage of humanity.

  • deputy health minister Alireza Raeisi Today 00:15

    World Health Day: securing health against politicization, military threats

    TEHRAN – Observed on April 7 annually, World Health Day 2026 calls on people everywhere to stand with science under the theme ‘Together for health. Stand with science’.

  • Shina Ansari Today 00:09

    DOE warns UNEP about environmental impact of striking peaceful nuclear plants

    TEHRAN – The head of the Department of Environment (DOE), Shina Ansari, in a letter to the executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Inger Andersen, has warned about the detrimental consequences of brutal attacks on Iran's nuclear plants.

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  • Latin America Yesterday 23:47

    LatAms condemn U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran

    TEHRAN — A broad coalition of Latin American governments and political movements has condemned recent U.S. and Israeli military strikes against Iran, voicing solidarity with Tehran and calling the attacks a violation of international law.

  • UN Yesterday 23:41

    Russia and China veto UN resolution on Strait of Hormuz amid US threats

    TEHRAN - Russia and China vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Tuesday that sought to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, hours before a US-imposed deadline for Iran to allow transit or face attacks on its infrastructure. The heavily watered-down measure, which passed with 11 votes in favor, two against, and two abstentions, had removed any language authorizing offensive action, limiting it to “defensive means necessary” for securing navigation. Even in its weakened form, the resolution was blocked by Moscow and Beijing, underscoring growing opposition to US and Israeli aggression against Iran.

  • IRGC Yesterday 23:38

    Iran warns retaliation could cut off U.S. and allies from Persian Gulf oil and gas for years

    TEHRAN-Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has warned that any American or Israeli crossing of Tehran’s “red lines” could trigger retaliatory strikes that would deprive the United States and its allies of regional oil and gas for years. The statement came after the IRGC claimed responsibility for a new wave of attacks under the 99th phase of “Operation True Promise 4.”

  • Why Trans-Iranian Railway is a glittering engineering feat of the 20th century? Yesterday 23:21

    Iran calls on UNESCO to protect Trans-Iranian Railway from Israeli threats

    TEHRAN- Iran’s Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts, Reza Salehi-Amiri, has formally urged UNESCO to condemn threats by the Israeli regime against the Trans-Iranian Railway (TIR), a UNESCO World Heritage site. In a letter to UNESCO Director-General Khaled al-Anani, Salehi-Amiri expressed deep concern that any attack on the railway would constitute an assault on global cultural heritage and endanger civilian lives.

  • women Yesterday 23:03

    By Afshin Majlesi

    Guardians of strength and sacrifice

    TEHRAN – From early moments of the war, women and girls have borne a growing share of its human cost. Hundreds have been killed, injured, or displaced in consecutive airstrikes including the one in Minab, where more than 165 young schoolgirls between the ages of seven and twelve lost their lives.

  • Aid worker comforts an Iranian women after a U.S.-Israeli airstrike in Tehran Yesterday 23:00

    By Xavier Villar

    The conditional visibility of Iranian women

    MADRID – A young woman removing her hijab on a Tehran street is often presented in Western media as an uncomplicated image of defiance. Yet such a scene, repeatedly extracted and circulated, belongs to a broader and more layered social reality in which women’s choices, constraints, and political positions cannot be reduced to a single interpretive frame.

  • Middle East Yesterday 22:56

    By Garsha Vazirian

    The war that ended the old Middle East

    How Washington and Tel Aviv unwittingly catalyzed a new strategic dawn

    TEHRAN — Five weeks after the United States and Israel started their unprovoked campaign of aggression against Iran on February 28, the Middle East stands transformed.

  • A US-Israeli projectile demolished a synagogue in central Tehran on Tuesday. Photo: Tehran Times  Yesterday 22:51

    By Shahrokh Saei 

    ‘Heinous and cowardly’: US-Israeli bombs level historic Tehran synagogue

    TEHRAN - Nearly 40 days into the joint US-Israeli war on Iran, a Jewish synagogue in central Tehran was targeted in a devastating attack on Tuesday.

  • IRGC has launched missiles from twin launch systems for the first time in its retaliatory strikes against the US-Israeli aggression that began 40 days ago.  Yesterday 22:50

    Iran strikes Israeli petrochemical facility near Dimona 

    TEHRAN - In a sweeping retaliatory operation, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and the Iranian Army launched massive strikes against US-owned and Israeli-linked petrochemical and military targets, warning Washington, Tel Aviv, and their regional partners that any further aggression against Iranian infrastructure will meet with uncompromising retaliation.

  • Iravani Yesterday 22:49

    Iran, at U.N., accuses U.S. and Israel of ‘Unprecedented Barbarism’ in attacks on universities

    TEHRAN- Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations has accused the United States and Israel of committing “unprecedented barbarism” by deliberately targeting Iranian universities and scientific institutions, calling the strikes war crimes that no amount of threats or military pressure can extinguish.

  • Iranian citizens form human chains on a bridge in the southern city of Ahvaz on April 7, 2026, following Trump’s threat to strike Iranian infrastructure en masse Yesterday 22:41

    By Faramarz Kouhpayeh

    'No restraint'

    IRGC warns of devastating response should Trump expand war crimes and target Iran's power plants

    TEHRAN – U.S. President Donald Trump has repeated his unhinged threats to commit mass war crimes against the Iranian nation, a move that would not only harm Iranians but also seriously damage the interests of Washington’s Arab allies in the Persian Gulf, and force Tehran to take further actions that would restrict the flow of oil outside West Asia.

  • Ashish Prashar Yesterday 20:35

    Negotiations are ‘theatre’ as Trump seeks exit from war, says Ashish Prashar

    London— Ashish Prashar, political strategist, former advisor to the Middle East peace envoy, and director of the “Game Over Israel” campaign, has dismissed ongoing U.S. calls for negotiations with Iran as political theater, arguing that Washington is seeking a face-saving exit amid escalating military pressure.