According to the Public Relations Office of the Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism (RICHT), Morteza Hasiri, head of the team for speculation and determination of the limits of Damb Kooh area Saturday pointed to the completion of the second stage of explorations in Damb Kooh in March- April.About …
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Tremor jolts north-eastern Iran
According to the seismological center affiliated to Tehran University Geophysics Institute, the quake occurred at 20:52 hours local time (16:22 GMT).The epicenter of the quake was recorded at 35.59 degrees latitude and 58.36 degrees longitude.There is no immediate report on possible casualties or damage caused by the quake.Iran sits astride …
Read More »Iranian Qur’an reciter ranks first in Malaysia competitions
Alizadeh, a Qur’an reciter from Khorssan Razavi province, was awarded by the Malaysian king and Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahed Hamidi at Saturday night.Iran’s cultural attaché Ali Mohammad Sabeqi also attended the awarding ceremony which was broadcast live on Malaysian TV. Reciters from Brunei and host Malaysia and Canada came …
Read More »Seven Iranian pilgrims wounded in suicide attack near Basra
He said that an Iraqi vehicle carrying Iranian pilgrims from Khuzestan province in a check-point somewhere near Basra accompanied with several other stopped vehicles were facing a suicide bomb car attack.He said the injured were transferred to hospital in Khorramshahr city, Khuzestan.Aqa-Babaei said six persons were released from hospital and …
Read More »Iran to host stem cell int’l conference
Saying about 1,500 people have registered to take part in the 2nd National Festival and International Congress on Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine. Noting that 300 articles have so far been sent to the conference secretariat, Hamidiyeh said the articles are being refereed.The registrations were from Iraq, India, Pakistan, Jordan, …
Read More »UNICEF: 300,000 children migrating solo
UNICEF said 170,000 of those children sought asylum in Europe in 2015-2016, many after making the treacherous trip across the Mediterranean Sea where hundreds of children are estimated to have drowned last year, AP reported.Nearly 92 percent of the boys and girls arriving by boat in Italy in 2016 and …
Read More »Iran’s Padvish Antivirus detects WannaCry worm
According to Iran Telecommunication Research Center, the ransomware encrypts all computer files and data and then demands ransom payments in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin in 28 languages. Iranian domestic antivirus was successful in stopping ransomeware attacks which had infected computers in 90 countries.Padvish Antivirus, commonly known as Padvish, is an antivirus …
Read More »Int’l confab on nephrology opens in Shiraz
Simultaneously, the 3rd International Congress of Organ Transplantation started work in Shiraz on May 16 for four days. A number of medical specialists from Iran and 20 other world countries have attended the Shiraz medical events. The two medical conferences are to discuss the latest achievements in nephrology, kidney and …
Read More »Four Paleolithic periods identified in western Iran
RICHT Public Relations Office quoted head of the team of exploration Saman Heydari Gouran as saying that the second season of scientific archeological explorations in Ivan cave and rocky shelter in central Kermanshah was accomplished by a team from the Cambridge University under the supervision of the Archeology Research Institute …
Read More »Security forces arrest assassins of police officers in Southern Iran
Terrorist elements attacked a police station in Ahvaz on Monday and killed two police officers and injured a soldier.The IRGC Commander for Khuzestan province, General Hassan Shahvarpour said that the terrorist elements were arrested while they were preparing to leave the country.Dissolution of terrorist bandit in 24 hours shows that …
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