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Iran earned $11.8 billion from its tourism sector during the past Iranian calendar year (which started in March 2018), said Ali Asghar Mounesan, head of Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handcrafts and Tourism Organization.

The Brazilian ambassador to Iran says the US’ anti-Iran sanctions are cowardly and, if necessary, Tehran can count on Brazil in this regard.

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Sunday, May 5, 2019, and picked headlines from 13 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy.

A recent report by CNN shows Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was right when he said there is a rift between Donald Trump and members of his administration on waging war against Iran.

The Iraqi intelligence forces have thwarted a major plan by the ISIS terrorists to regroup in the Arab country, a media report says.

A group of Iranian experts have built the country's first undersea restaurant on Kish Island, which is one of the biggest of its kind in the world.

The French capital of Paris is hosting the second edition of an Iranian photography exhibition called Iran Photo (inside & outside) which offers a nuanced view of Iran, one that reveals the complex changes that the country has experienced over the last four decades.

Filband, a village in northern Iran famous for its skies which are full of interconnected cumulus clouds, has become even more attractive these days as it is blanketed with snow in the middle of spring.

The fourth round of political consultations between Iran and Kyrgyzstan was held in Tehran on Saturday, in the presence of Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyyed Abbas Araqchi and his Kyrgyz counterpart Nuran Niazaliyev.

A new media report says the US high-ranking officials have recently sent an official note to Iran saying that Washington has no plan for any military confrontation with Tehran under any condition.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Deputy Foreign Minister of Kyrgyzstan Nuran Niazaliyev have discussed promotion of ties in Tehran.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Trump administration is legally guilty of conspiring to commit genocide in Iran through their “maximum pressure” policy.

The notorious US security firm Blackwater has begun training members of the ISIS terrorist group in Iraq, a new report says.

Iran is to hold the first International Gastronomy Festival with the main goal of bringing various countries and nations closer together through the means of food, said the director of the festival, Jalal Zokaee.

A group of Iranian researchers have developed a fully-homegrown X-ray machine, and a plan is in the offing to export the product.

The 32nd edition of Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF), which is underway at the Musalla of Imam Khomeini, is going to wrap up later Saturday.

Iran’s president says the United States wants to have the Iranian currency devalued in order to achieve its illegitimate objectives.

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Saturday, May 4, 2019, and picked headlines from 12 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy.

Iran’s parliament speaker says the United States seeks to get its hands on Venezuela’s oil riches by creating instability in the country.

John Bolton and his hawkish team in the Trump administration have reportedly failed to convince the president to stop issuing waivers for Iran’s nuclear cooperation with the world, which could practically kill the JCPOA and force Iran into leaving it.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi has downplayed the Bahraini foreign minister’s seemingly threatening remarks that Iran will not be allowed to close the Strait of Hormuz even for a single day.

The arrival of spring in Iran has given spectacular scenery to Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province in the country’s west and West Azarbaijan province in the north-west, among others.

Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa claims Iran will not be allowed to shut the strategic Strait of Hormuz even for one day, warning that if it closes the corridor, it means it is “walking towards the abyss”.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi says the Islamic Republic strongly condemns the US’ attempt to stage a coup or take any military action in Venezuela, and the remarks made by American officials with the aim of provoking riot and violence in the country.

Secretary-General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo says it is not possible to exclude Iran from the oil market.