Iran to receive $50 million loan from World Bank to fight COVID-19
Submitted by saman on Sat, 04/18/2020 - 13:16The World Bank (WB) will provide Iran with a $50-million loan to support the country in fighting coronavirus.
The World Bank (WB) will provide Iran with a $50-million loan to support the country in fighting coronavirus.
The 18th edition of the Piracicaba Humor Hall, which is organized on the sidelines of the International Humor Exhibition of Piracicaba in Brazil, has unveiled a poster designed by Iranian illustrator Saba Darabian.
The Book City Institute in Tehran announced on Thursday its plan to pay tribute to the Persian poets Sheikh Muslih od-Din Sadi Shirazi and Sohrab Sepehri during a weeklong program entitled “A Week with Sadi and Sepehri”.
A total budget of 48 trillion rials (nearly $1.1 billion at the official rate of 42,000 rials) has been earmarked to renovate schools nationwide in the current Iranian calendar year (started March 21), an increase of 65 percent year on year.
The Iranian Academy of Arts plans to release eight albums recorded during the Qajar period (1789–1925) online on its website during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Chief Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami said that IRGC has developed a homegrown device capable of detecting the coronavirus without any need for blood tests.
Iranian writer Mohammadreza Bairami’s novel “The Deceased of the Green Garden” has been published in Azerbaijan.
The Research Center and Archives of Sacred Defense in Tehran has given free access to a collection of military atlases of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.
Iranian plans to celebrate Sadi Day for Turkish Persian literature aficionados with a live program entitled “Sadi and a Wise Life” on Instagram.