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A funeral procession will be held in Tehran on Monday for the firefighters who lost their lives in a massive fire and subsequent collapse of a 17-story building on January 19, governor of Tehran announced.

Iranian researchers and scientists have put on display the world’s first ever herbal medicine to cure Alzheimer’s or stop it from progressing through alleviating its symptoms such as memory loss and confusion.

A child has been born in an Iranian hospital after 14 years of cryopreservation, the process of preserving an embryo at sub-zero temperatures.

A Dutch website has given the Golden Lace Award to the Iranian striker of Eredivisie club Heerenveen Reza Ghoochannejhad.

An early-morning fire Saturday destroyed a mosque in Texas that was a target of hatred several years ago and experienced a burglary just a week ago.

Firemen from 15 stations put out a fire caused by lightning strike at the oil refinery of Tehran on Sunday morning.

Over 10,600 flood victims have received relief aid by the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) in the southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan as rescue operation continues, a provincial official said Saturday.

The Iranian Space Agency and Iran’s Space Research Centre have signed a contract to jointly design and build a communications satellite to be named Nahid II (Venus II).

An Iranian lawmaker slammed the country’s failure to launch a blood refinery, saying Iran should not import expensive blood-based drugs while it is capable to produce them.

The forces of IRGC’s Construction Base have been actively involved in debris removal and rescue operations at the scene of the Plasco building incident since a few hours after the collapse, an official noted.

Iran’s Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said on Wednesday that all perpetrators of the tragic fire and collapse of Plasco Building in Tehran will be identified and certainly be brought to justice.

Following the tragic collapse of Plasco Building, many Iranian media outlets have sharply criticized the presence of Iranian artists and athletes in Tehran’s City Council - thanks to public votes - while they do not possess sufficient expertise and efficiency for managing urban affairs.

The heart of Behnam Mirzakhani, a 25-year-old Iranian fireman who was brain-dead in the Plasco building collapse, have been donated to a patient.

A funeral ceremony that was due to be held on Thursday for the firefighters who lost their lives in the tragic collapse of a high-rise building in Tehran has been delayed for a couple of days, an Iranian official announced.

A Pakistani female lawmaker threatened to burn herself after she was harassed by male colleagues in the parliament.

A famous Iranian TV host fainted during a live show because of what was declared to be a chest pain caused by a nervous attack.

Thousands of Iraqi children are heading back to school in east Mosul after weeks of fighting and more than two years of the ISIS terrorist group’s rule, the UN children's fund UNICEF said Tuesday.

The 18th week of Iran’s Persian Gulf Pro League was completely overshadowed by the collapse of the ageing high-rise, called Plasco Building, in downtown Tehran last week.

Iranian scientists have produced a new type of medicine for treatment of cardiovascular diseases using flaxseeds.

In a ceremony held on Tuesday, the holy city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran was officially named the capital of Islamic Culture in 2017 for the Asia region by the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO).

The floodgates of Zayandehroud Dam were opened on Sunday to allow water to flow into the parched river with the same name.

In a decade, the majority of Iranian real-estate deals will take place through the Internet, the head of Tehran Association of Realtors said.

The Iranian striker Reza Ghoochannejhad scored a hat-trick in Heerenveen’s match against PSV Eindhoven on Sunday to become the Eredivisie’s top scorer with 12 goals at the end of the 19th week.

A US-based Iranian architect says people in Iran should call for tighter regulations on building construction and maintenance in the aftermath of the deadly Plasco Building collapse like what the US society did following the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911.

The first Tehran Game Conference will be held April 29-30 under the auspices of the Iran Computer and Video Games Foundation in collaboration with the US deal making event for the video games industry known as Game Connection.