Iranian cultural attaché to Ankara said UNESCO is reviewing a Turkey-suggested preliminary plan to register the travel routes of 13th-century Persian poet Molana ‘Rumi’ from Afghanistan to Iran and then to Turkey.
The 49th edition of Roshd International Film Festival, the oldest festival in the Middle East, opened in the Iranian capital on Firday evening.
A number of foreign ambassadors, diplomats, as well as cultural and economic attaches have been invited to attend a regional nomadic festival, which opens today in Iran’s northern Golestan province.
Iranian university students staged a demonstration in front of the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, which represents the US interests in Iran, to protest at the illegal detention of Professor Masoud Soleimani who has been held under detention in the US for a year without trial.
Deputy Minister of Health, Treatment and Medical Education Mohammad Reza Shanehsaz underlined Iranian pharmaceutical companies' efforts to produce all medical needs, saying that the US sanctions have turned into opportunity.
Iranian Vice-President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari said that the country's pharmaceutical companies produce 98% of the medicine needed by people.
The Director General of Pardis Technology Park for Economic Affairs and Planning Office Mohsen Pilannejad said the Park has exported $35 million worth of 40 types of knowledge-based products to 21 countries since March.
Various lifestyle, rituals, crafts and arts of Iranian tribespeople and nomads are under spotlight in a five-day exhibition, which is underway in Khorramabad, the capital of western Lorestan province.
President of Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran Mohammad Taqi Ahmadi announced that Iranian Professor Masoud Soleimani who has been held under detention in the US for a year without trial, will be freed soon.
Three Iranian and two Turkish scientists were announced winners of the Mustafa Prize 2019 during a ceremony which was held at Alzahra University in Tehran on Wednesday.
