The Center for the Study of Sadi will pay tribute to the Persian poet Sheikh Muslih od-Din Sadi Shirazi in a weeklong program commencing today, just one day prior to Sadi Day.
Bookstores across Iran were allowed to resume activities from Saturday after a nearly two-month shutdown due to the new coronavirus pandemic.
Iranian police have recently confiscated four historical objects related to Seljuk era (1037–1194) in Tehran.
As in previous years, the UNESCO-tagged Gonbad-e Soltaniyeh, sometimes referred to as Iran’s ‘Taj Mahal’, celebrated the International Day for Monuments and Sites, but this time, in an online program aimed to help stop transmission of the coronavirus, which is currently challenging the whole world.
Iranian director Farnush Abedi’s short animated movie “Malakout” will be competing in the 50th Annual USA Film Festival taking place in Dallas in May/June 2020, the Iranian Youth Cinema Society has announced.
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.
Persian song, “Az Sharm Dar Hejabam” (I am behind the veil from shame) by popular singer Abdolhossein Mokhtabad won Gold medal of the Global Music Award in 2020.
Three Iranian knowledge-based companies are working on discovering the exclusive antibody of coronavirus known as immunoglobulin, according to an official.
Dozens of Iranian publishers have showcased their latest offerings in a movement to fill in for the Tehran International Book Fair, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Golestan Gallery owner Lili Golestan has launched a painting competition for children aged under 10 during the home quarantine.
Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations said in a message on Sunday that in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, sanctions function as enemy’s “fifth column”.
