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About 300 of filmmakers and cinema insiders in Iran are ‘unfairly’ out of business for grappling with legal cases due to the ‘political, social, and security situation in country,’ the spokesman for Iran’s House of Cinema says.
The head of Iran’s police force says two million undocumented Afghan migrants in Iran will be deported to their own country by the end of the current Iranian year, on March 20.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has summoned the chargé d'affaires of the Islamic Republic of Iran in protest at the alleged move by Tehran to provide missiles to Russia for use in the Ukraine war.
Iranian Vice President Mohammadreza Aref has been the subject of criticisms for saying on Sunday that importing gasoline price at high prices and selling it at heavily-subsidized prices is ‘unreasonable.’
A member of the banned so-called Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), who was living in Iraq’s Sulaymaniyah, has reportedly been arrested and handed over to Iran, according to informed sources.
Abdollah Momeni, a well-known Iranian political activist, has been released from prison following a Supreme Court decision that overturned his original sentence, says his brother.
In a recent appointment by Iran’s Minister of Science, Research, and Technology, Mohammad Nabi Shahiki, a prominent Baloch and Sunni academic, has been named the Deputy Minister of Technology and Innovation.
Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, former head of National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Iran's parliament, criticized the public declaration of Iran's sale of ballistic missiles to Russia, calling it "the dirtiest form of Russophilia."
Iran’s elderly population, technically defined as people over 60 years old, will reach 32 percent by 2050 and will soar to 40 percent by 2080, according to a UN report.
China’s Ambassador to Tehran Cong Peiwu says the persisting problems for transactions between the Chinese and Iranian businesspeople are rooted in the Western, and specifically US, sanctions.
The September 2024 holidays provided an opportunity for Iranians to head to the country's north for recreation, with the coastal town of Abbasabad in Mazandaran Province being one of the many tourist destinations for people.
Persepolis, the remains of an ancient city in the southern Iranian province of Fars which bears secrets dating back to over 2,500 years ago is dying a slow death due to chemical pollutants, experts warn.
The Chairman of the Board of the Securities and Exchange Organization of Iran Majid Eshghi confirmed on Saturday he resigned from the post after a long period that the markets have been in the red, and days into a reported row over low-rate bank loans he received.
Russia’s recent and past deviations from what ‘strategic allies’ would normally do for each other, have shaken Iranians’ confidence, with calls growing on the new administration of President Massoud Pezeshkian to revise the country’s policies vis-à-vis Moscow.
An Iranian official has announced the discovery of the four-arched remains of the Sassanid era fire temple in Rashidabad Village in Kohdasht, in the western Iranian province of Lorestan.
As the ultimatum set by Iran for Pakistan on the implementation of the so-called Peace Pipeline, looms, some experts have called on the new Iranian Administration of President Massoud Pezeshkian to seize the opportunity and revive the long-delayed deal.
Iranian striker Mehdi Taremi scored the sole goal of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying for Iran against Kyrgyzstan on Thursday evening, which was celebrated by his Italian club Inter Milan, that has recently hired the Iranian forward.