IBBY, the International Board on Books for Young People is proud to announce the shortlist for the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award – the world’s most prestigious award for the creators of children’s and youth literature for Authors section: María Cristina Ramos from Argentina, Bart Moeyaert from Belgium, Marie-Aude Murail from France, …

Speaking to IRNA, head of West Azarbaijan track-and-filed committee Hossein Fahimi said according to World Masters Athletics, Mazaheri together with Somayeh Shams Golpaygani were among nominees.Mazaheri had earlier received a gold medal of the 400-meter category in Malaysia, he added. Golpaygani also in the long jump category grabbed a bronze …

Last night Iranian government discussed issues related to calling off Iran hosting, he tweeted on Monday, adding that this action is completely political and in line with anti-Iran sanctions.He noted that Iranian sports and diplomacy bodies became responsible for the issues and for defending Iranians' rights. Earlier, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister …

According to the IRGC News website, Major General Hussein Salami in a ceremony to introduce the new commander of the Quds Force held on Monday in the presence of senior commanders and senior officials at the IRGC Command Headquarters noted that everyone has clearly seen that this great commander with …

Manijeh Hadian Dehkordi said on Monday that good efforts were being made to cooperate with the Hungarian Academy of Arts, saying that the first step towards reaching common language and understanding would be taken tomorrow during the speech to be delivered by Miklós Sárközy’s as one of the most prominent Hungarian …

Mikhail Ulyanov wrote on his Facebook account on Monday that the European Troika Group called the cause of launching the dispute settlement mechanism in the JCPOA a concern over Tehran's reduced commitment to the deal.The ministers of the three European nations, Britain, Germany and France, told European members on last …

Elaborating on the reason behind delay in announcing the findings about the cause of air crash, he said that similar cases in the world are being announced with more delay.For example Russia earlier targeted Ukrainian plane and it took one month to say that he accident happened due to missile …

The two top politicians discussed Tehran-Caracas ties, as well as regional and international developments.Heading a high-ranking mission, Arreaza arrived in Tehran to meet  Zarif and some other senior Iranian officials. 9417**2050 Follow us on Twitter @IrnaEnglish IRNA English

The team category of the competition began on Monday with the presence of six teams from Iran, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Uganda.Technical director of the competition Elyas Amirabadi said that the Iranian team claimed the first place with 701 scores and Iraq, Azerbaijan and Afghanistan took the following places …

Zarif made the remarks in a formal session of Majlis to answer question of a parliamentarian.He told the parliamentarians that he has most decisively defended all the Islamic Republic's policies, though, in some cases, he had another idea. Referring to defenses he made of the country's policies in India, Astana, …