Iran’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi says another copy of Zafar Satellite, which failed to reach the orbit on Sunday, will be sent into space in June.
“The Sun”, Majid Majidi’s drama about child labor in Tehran, won the Crystal Simorgh for best film at the 38th edition of the Fajr Film Festival on Tuesday.
Millions of Iranians took to the streets of the cities across the country on Tuesday to commemorate the 41st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, in a show of unity at a time of heightened tensions with the United States.
Shiraz, the hometown of Hafez and Sadi that also houses the tombs of the great Persian classical poets, has been named as Iran’s 2020 Book Capital.
Spokesman for Ministry of Defense Aerospace Organization Seyyed Ahmad Hosseini said Sun. that ‘Simorgh’ launcher managed to launch ‘Zafar’ satellite, but it did not reach the speed needed to inject the satellite into the orbit.
“The Soldier”, a play on the military life of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, was performed in the courtyard of Tehran’s City Theater Complex on Thursday.
Some 37 million Iranian pilgrims and travelers visited the shrine city of Mashhad, the capital of Khorasan Razavi province, since the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2019).
The National Academy of Sciences will award the newly named Maryam Mirzakhani prize in mathematics to Larry Guth, professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
