The Fajr International Film Festival will be held from April 21st to 28th, 2017 in Tehran, under the supervision of well-known Iranian filmmaker, Mr. Reza Mirkarimi.The official website of the festival writes, “The festival focuses especially on films from the Middle East, Central Asia, Caucasus and Anatolia as well as …
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Iran, Italy study expansion of academic cooperation
Italy is among European countries with constant good political and economic relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran, Farhadi said.Iran is ready to fully implement the contents of the scientific memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the two countries one a half year ago, he said.Farhadi said Iran is ready …
Read More »Official: Iran becomes a sustainable tourism destination
Morteza Rahmani Movahed told IRNA that based on domestic and global figures, the 11th government had taken fundamental measures with regard to tourism, including infrastructure, facilitation, being present in international events, giving information and advertising.He pointed out that government, using its authority, with the help and contribution of private sector …
Read More »Iran's consul general in Kazan meets Tatarstan health minister
Addressing the meeting, Vafin pointed to the health conditions in Iran like insurance, the quality of medical centers, self-sufficiency in pharmaceutical production and life expectancy rate as valuable. Vafin also hailed promoting cooperation with Iranian academic and medical centers. He went on to say that Tatarstan will dispatch expert delegation …
Read More »Predator wolf snatches unprotected infant
Mother of the infant described the incident to IRNA saying that her children were playing in front of their house, but suddenly the weak cry of the infant drove her attention and she saw that a gigantic wolf took the 1.5 year old infant out of his crib and dragged …
Read More »Int’l congress on stem cells starts in Mashad
“The future of medicine is interrelated with cell therapy and the treatment of refractory and incurable diseases is in this field of medicine,” said the clinical deputy of Royan Institute, Ahmad Vosough Dizaj, MD.“The scientists of engineering majors are conducting in-depth researches alongside the biologists and medical practitioners to cure …
Read More »Iran-Italy scientific meeting kicks off in Tehran
Valeria Fedeli heading a 150-member delegation including academic officials has taken a trip to Iran.The event started by signing a joint statement.Farhadi addressed the meeting saying that both countries can capitalize on the scientific MoUs signed between Iran and Italy two years ago, creating a joint scientific committee, and deep …
Read More »Iran to attend Int’l Budapest Book Fair
Iran will have 250 books on Iranology, arts, poetry, language learning, and children. Iran will also invite publishers to the 30th Tehran International Book Fair (3 – 13 May) during the Budapest fair.24th Budapest International Book Festival hosts about 100 authors from 25 countries.The Book Festival is also a professional …
Read More »Most ancient works identified in eastern Iran
The Public Relations Office of the Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism (RICHT) quoted head of the archeological team Montasar Qolinejad as saying that a series of stone tools were identified which could be dated back to the Paleolithic period.Three percent of the objects identified date back to the …
Read More »4 Richter magnitude quake hits Ardebil Prov.
The earthquake struck at 1:57 local time ( 20:27 GMT, Tuesday) in the morning, according to Iranian Seismological Center, Institute of Geophysics, Tehran University.The center of the earthquake was registered 39.65 north latitude and 48.80 east longitudes in the depth of 28 km in Salyan, Republic of Azerbaijan which is …
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