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Iran loses to Japan in Asian Volleyball Championship final

Iran finished second in the 18th Asian Senior Men’s Volleyball Championship after it lost the final match to Japan. China ranked third after defeating Qatar.

Iran’s Tasisat Daryaei wins AFC Futsal Club Championship

Tasisat defeated Kuwaiti Qadsia 5-4 at the Nagshe Jahan Stadium in Isfahan to become the first Iranian club since 2012 to win the AFC Futsal Club Championship.

Iranian scientists clone endangered wild ram

Maral, the cloned ram, is in perfect health and is being kept in Royan Research Center’s farm, said the head of the Isfahan-based Royan Biomedicine and Stem Cells Institute.

Senior Iranian cleric writes letter to al-Azhar’s grand imam

Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi has welcomed the holding of a Shiite-Sunni conference to review the most important obstacles in the way of Islamic unity.

The only woman who makes horseshoes in Iran (PHOTOS)

Making horseshoes for my horse inspired me to learn the skill, Ashnaei said.

Agreement among Qom, Najaf and Al-Azhar offsets prejudice and religious violence

The head of the Islamic Madhahib University has said that cooperation among Qom and Najaf seminaries with Al-Azhar will deliver a blow to religious prejudice and violence.

Meet Iran’s next Bill Gates: a dropout-medical student

With a company in Turkey already established under his name and a new office in Tehran, the third-year college drop-out has made a name for himself.

Activists in 20 countries call for release of Saudi Shia cleric

Rallies were staged in Colombia, Switzerland, the US, Germany, Iran, Bahrain, New Zealand, Canada, France, Ghana and Lebanon, among others.

A shepherd with thousands of Instagram followers

A young shepherd with thousands of Instagram followers says that he prefers to eat the fruits of his labor rather than living on his fame.

Ranger sets two conditions for forgiving his assailant

A remorseful offender has been forgiven by a park ranger after he promised to give up illegal fishing forever and become an environmentalist.

World Archery Championships: Iran compound team wins title

The World Archery Championships 2015 was the biggest championship in history. More than 600 archers from 96 nations were competing for glory in Copenhagen.

A man who’s put in a lifetime to clean up the environment

An Iranian retiree, who has spent 23 years on protecting the environment, asks people to do something in exchange for the calm they get from the environment.

It takes a lot of guts to earn your keep up there in the sky

Tina, a young Iranian girl, has tapped into her past rock climbing experience to make a living by cleaning the windows of high-rise buildings in Tehran.

Iran’s first manned spacecraft unveiled (PHOTOS)

Prior to the manned mission, two dummies and a monkey will be launched into space as part of an experimental project.

World Christian gathering in Chaldoran a sign of religious freedom in Iran

We should safeguard this invaluable treasure called Iran, because only a few kilometers away from the borders of this country, churches are being destroyed, Archbishop Sarkissian said.

Paralyzed Iranian man wants his name recorded by Guinness (PHOTOS)

Snapshots of a paralyzed Iranian man who has thrown a basketball through the net from a distance of about 26 m.

Persian leopards in Tandooreh National Park are thriving

Images captured on camera of female leopards with their cubs show efforts to protect the big cats are succeeding in Tandooreh National Park.

Iran stands first in region in transplantation: Minister

Sanctions imposed high pressures on Iranian people in the field of food and medicine and claims that medicine is not among items under sanction are a mere lie, said Hassan Hashemi.

Iranian, Austrian officials review technological cooperation

Addressing a closing ceremony of the two-day Iran-EU conference dedicated to “EU-Iran – Post Sanctions Era” in Vienna, Sattari elaborated on developing markets in Iran.

Seminary student opens brew bar

I believe seminary clerics must be in contact with people and live among them, says Hadi Hosseini.

President Rouhani congratulates nation on Eid al-Fitr, nuclear victory

President Hassan Rouhani on Friday felicitated Iranians on the blessed occasion of Eid al-Fitr as well as on the nuclear agreement reached with world powers on July 14 in Vienna.

Leader condoles with Kuwait over top Shiite cleric decease

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has expressed condolences over the passing of top Kuwaiti Shiite cleric Ayatollah Seyyed Muhammad Baqir al-Musawi al-Muhri.

Muslims to show on Quds Day Palestine will not be forgotten: Rouhani

President Rouhani has said that on International Quds Day all Muslims in the world will seek the freedom of the occupied Palestinian territories.

Rare Pallas’s cats seen in northeastern Iran (PHOTOS)

After sightings of a leopard-like animal by the locals in a town in North Khorasan Province, the provincial Environment Department sent some experts to...

Artists in Mashhad transcribe holy Koran in Ramadan

A group of Artists has transcribed part of the holy Koran and Islamic Hadiths in the fasting month of Ramadan.

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