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  • Photo exhibition by Michel Setboun opens at Niavaran cultural complex 2025-02-03 17:49

    Photo exhibition by Michel Setboun opens at Niavaran cultural complex

    TEHRAN - A special photo exhibition featuring the works of renowned French photographer Michel Setboun is now open to the public at the Niavaran Historical-Cultural Complex in Tehran.

  • The French and German foreign ministers 2025-01-03 13:24

    French and German foreign ministers visit Syria

    The foreign ministers of France and Germany are headed to Damascus on the first official visit to Syria by top diplomats from European Union countries after the fall of former President Bashar Assad, in what the German minister said is a clear signal that a "new beginning" between Europe and Syria is possible.

  • Iran's Foreign Ministry building 2024-09-12 20:37

    Iran summons four European diplomats over claims of missile delivery to Russia

    TEHRAN - The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Thursday separately summoned the heads of the British, French, German and Dutch embassies following accusations that Iran had delivered missiles to Russia and imposed new sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

  • Exhibit of Eugene Flandin’s depictions arranged for World Mosque Day 2024-08-21 18:43

    Exhibit of Eugene Flandin’s depictions arranged for World Mosque Day

    TEHRAN - To mark World Mosque Day, the iconic book "Voyage en Perse" by Eugene Flandin, which is housed at the Koushk-e Ahmad Shahi Museum, is being introduced and showcased in a virtual exhibition.

  • Half-million-year-old evidence of human settlement found on the Iranian Plateau 2024-05-25 18:16

    Half-million-year-old evidence of human settlement found on the Iranian Plateau

    TEHRAN - Groundbreaking findings from a team of Iranian and French anthropologists have confirmed that humans inhabited the Iranian Plateau approximately half a million years ago.

  • Unrest racks French Pacific territory of New Caledonia 2024-05-14 15:12

    Photo: AFP

    Unrest racks French Pacific territory of New Caledonia

    Authorities impose an overnight curfew and ban gatherings after violent unrest in the capital, Noumea. The French authorities imposed the curfew in the capital, Noumea, and other areas, closed New Caledonia’s international airport, and sent for police reinforcements after protests by independence campaigners over changes to the territory’s voting system turned to unrest.

  • Prehistorical water system uncovered at legendry Sialk Hills 2023-10-08 18:22

    Prehistorical water system uncovered at legendry Sialk Hills

    TEHRAN — An archaeological team has uncovered a prehistorical water system during excavations in Sialk Hills, located near Kashan, central Iran.

  • Niger 2023-09-13 01:56

    By Ali Karbalaei

    Niger warns of French invasion 

    Paris desperately clinging on to its economic interests 

    TEHRAN- Niger's new interim government has accused France of sending its troops and "large quantities of war material" to the region in preparation for a potential invasion to overthrow the coup leaders. 

  • Iranian archaeologists in search of Neanderthal traces 2023-07-28 18:13

    Iranian archaeologists pursue excavation in Neanderthal cave

    TEHRAN – A team of Iranian archaeologists has begun follow-up project in a cave situated in Iran's Qazvin province where evidence of Neanderthal life was previously found.

  • Iranian, French archaeologists commence follow-up survey in northeast Iran 2023-07-02 19:55

    Iranian, French archaeologists commence follow-up survey in northeast Iran

    TEHRAN – A team of Iranian and French archaeologists has commenced a follow-up survey on the ruins of Viranshahr, situated in the Khorasan region, northeast Iran.

  • French riots police apprehend a protestor 2023-03-26 21:31

    Iran urges France to avoid violence against peaceful protesters

    TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian has urged the French government to observe human rights and avoid violence against citizens who are peacefully protesting proposed pension reforms.

  • وزارت خارجه ایران 2023-01-05 23:07

    Iran closes French research institute in response to Charlie Hebdo’s sacrilegious cartoons

    TEHRAN - In response to the French weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo’s insulting cartoons against Iran’s top religious authority, the Foreign Ministry on Thursday closed a French institute studying ancient Persian antiquities.

  • Ali Karimi-German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier 2022-12-23 22:07

    By Sadegh Fereydounabadi

    "Dumb and Dumber" New Episode in Berlin

    TEHRAN – After France and the United States made their own mistakes by promoting certain Iranian opposition figures, Germany appeared keen to follow suit and gall Iran by meeting a former soccer player who stands accused of fomenting riots in Iran.

  • خطیب وزیر اطلاعات 2022-12-07 21:20

    Khatib calls Macron a naïve who disgraced himself by meeting a ‘political clown'

    CIA dictates to Macron what to say: Iran’s intelligence chief 

    TEHRAN – Iranian Intelligence Minister Seyyed Esmaeil Khatib has said it is no longer necessary that the U.S. president set policies for French President Emmanuel Macron, rather it is the CIA that tells him “what to say and what position to take”.

  • Iran Foreign Ministry 2022-12-01 11:13

    Iran summons French ambassador

    TEHRAN – French Ambassador to Iran Nicolas Roche was summoned to the Iranian foreign ministry on Wednesday over the French foreign minister’s remarks about the situation in Iran and adoption of a resolution against Iran by the French National Assembly.

  • Yellow vest protesters are back 2022-11-23 19:07

    Yellow vest protesters are back

  • TEHRAN- Police in the French capital has attacked marking the fourth anniversary since the iconic movement made global headlines by hitting the streets every Saturday despite a violent police crackdown. 2022-11-20 18:52

    French police brutality against peaceful protesters

    TEHRAN- Police in the French capital has attacked yellow vest protesters marking the fourth anniversary since the iconic movement made global headlines by hitting the streets every Saturday despite a violent police crackdown.

  • French travelers visit lesser-known attractions in southern Iran 2022-11-13 22:30

    French travelers visit lesser-known attractions in southern Iran

    TEHRAN— A team of French sightseers has recently toured arrays of lesser-known attractions in the Fahraj county of Fars province, southern Iran.

  • The French call for NATO exit 2022-10-10 19:21

    The French call for NATO exit

    TEHRAN- Thousands of angry French protesters have gathered in the French capital to call for the country’s withdrawal from the U.S.-led NATO military alliance. The protesters have also called for the resignation of the country’s President Emmanuel Macron.