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A knowledge-based Iranian company announced that it has managed to acquire the technology for manufacturing next-generation solar desalination systems.

Iranian Communication and IT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi announced that the country will send into the orbit its new home-made satellite, 'Zafar (Victory)', before February 11 (the 41st anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran).

Iranian researchers at Isfahan University of Technology succeeded in manufacturing a system for non-invasive deep brain stimulation based on interfering electric fields.

A selection of British poet and translator Dick Davis’s essays about the translation of Persian classical poetry into English will be reviewed in a session at Tehran’s Book City Institute next week.

The “city-friendly schools” scheme was launched in the capital to promote environmental protection and urban development issues among students.

President Hassan Rouhani has declared a law, requiring the government to include subjects in the books of schools and universities to reflect American crimes and conspiracies.

An exhibition of books with the central theme of death is currently underway at the library of the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA).

Canadian children’s writer Marie-Louise Gay’s book “Any Questions?” has been published in Persian.

Azerbaijani-Persian dictionary authored by "Anar Karimov" Professor of Persian Language and Literature at Baku State University has just been published in the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Visual Arts Exhibition of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Kuwait inaugurated on Wednesday at the Kuwait Museum of Contemporary Art .

Three Iranian films, namely ‘Mr. Deer’, ‘21 days later’, and ‘The time of pomegranate’s smile’ will be screened at the 9th Kolkata International Children’s Film Festival (KICFF) in India.

Nine Iranian projects have been nominated for the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) Prize 2020.

Iranian researchers have succeeded to produce aviation navigation charts, known as Inflight AIP (Aeronautical Information Publication), which was monopolized by the United States.

Iranian pharmaceutical industry and scientists are capable of producing any kind of medicine over a two-year period, Mohammad Reza Shanehsaz, head of Food and Drug Administration, has said.

An environmental research satellite, which has been fully designed and built for the first time in the country, was unveiled on Sunday.

Vice-President for the Science and Technology Sorena Sattari said that Iran’s knowledge-based economy registered a 60-step growth over the past five years.

Iran's Information and Communications Technology Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi says the Zafar 1 and 2 satellites, have been delivered to Iran Space Agency and will be put into orbit in the near future.

Iran’s deputy tourism minister on Friday inaugurated a cultural heritage museum in Izeh, southwestern Khuzestan province, with the aim of introducing the rich history and culture of the ancient city.

Based on indices including citations, 65 Iranian universities, 22 of them active in medical sciences, are among top universities in the world, a senior Iranian official said.

Head of Iran's Space Research Center says the country is now capable of manufacturing space engines.

An Iranian calligrapher, Majid Khandagh Abadi, believes that one of the reasons the Persian calligram has become so popular in the last forty years is because the art style is looking to find an audience outside the country.

Celebrated Iranian kamancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor won the Artist Award of the globalFEST, North America’s most important world music industry event, which was held in New York last week. 

Iranian knowledge-based companies will be setting up a pavilion at the 17th Oman Petroleum & Energy Show (OPES) in March.

The executive secretary of the 14th Fajr International Poetry Festival announced on Wednesday that the organizers have launched a campaign to collect books to donate to the flood-stricken people in Sistan-Baluchestan.

Iranian feature 'Douch', directed by Amir Mashhadi Abbas, will be screened at a special program for children on Okinawa island in Japan.

Chief of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Hossein Salami said on Tuesday that Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani was architect of defeats suffered by the United States, the Zionist regime of Israel and their allies in the region.

Iranian researchers have acquired the technical knowledge for producing a radiopharmaceutical to diagnose lymphoma (a group of blood cancers), which was previously produced only by the United States.

The 10th International Exhibition of Architecture, Modern House and Interior Designs (MIDEX) kicked off on Tuesday in Tehran international permanent fairground.

The director of ‘Copper Notes of a Dream’, Reza Farahmand won the special jury award of the Greek film festival.

Iranian benefactor physician, Mohammad Reza Esparvarin, will construct 110 schools in deprived areas across the country.

Iran’s Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA) has launched a painting and calligraphy contest named “Like Father, Kind” with the central theme of the martyrdom of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

The Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC) is producing an animation on the preservation of Iranian historical sites.

A plan on domestic production of 135 medicines is on the agenda, which will save up to $570 million per year, Mostafa Qane’ei, secretary of the Vice Presidency for Science and Technology for biotechnology development, has said.

 Iranian director Amir Dasargar’s movie “No Fly Zone” was crowned best at the 10th Ammar Popular Film Festival (APFF). 

A memorial for the victims of the Ukrainian plane crash incident will be set up in the capital, IRNA news agency reported on Sunday.

The Iranian-made medicine for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), called Alsava, will reduce treatment costs from currently $47,000 to $5,000 per patient annually.

 Oscar-winning American filmmaker Michael Moore has called on the people of the U.S. not to trust Trump’s lies about Iran and the assassination of Quds Force commander Lieutenant General Martyr Qassem Soleimani.

American author Mark T. Sullivan’s novel “Beneath a Scarlet Sky” has recently been published in Persian in Tehran.  

A team of Iranian students won seven bronze medals at the Kaohsiung International Invention and Design EXPO (KIDE) 2019, which was held in Taiwan, December 6 – 8, 2019.

A group of cultural heritage and environmental activists have proposed to introduce the imprinted image on a 4,000-year-old stamp, found in western Lorestan province, as a symbol of the country's environment protection.

 Iran was ranked fourth among 20 leading countries publishing nanotechnology articles in 2019, holding 6 percent share of the world’s publications relating to nanoscience, according to StatNano website.

Ravayat-e Fat’h Publications has launched a contest, during which school students will compete by writing a letter to commander Qassem Soleimani, the organizers announced on Thursday. 

A selection of movies on Palestine and Yemen screened during the 10th Ammar Popular Film Festival in Tehran last week will be presented during a three-day program, which will open today at the Commodore Hotel in the Gaza Strip.

Over 40,000 students from 129 nationalities are studying at Iranian universities, Abdolhamid Alizadeh, director for overseas students at the science ministry, has said.

A group of Iranian archaeologists and researchers have found that farming and animal breeding were practiced some 9,000 years ago around the historical Tepe Ahranjan in Salmas, northwestern Iran.

Quds Force commander Lieutenant General Martyr Qassem Soleimani will be commemorated during the opening and closing ceremonies of the 38th edition of the Fajr International Theater Festival, the director of Iran’s Dramatic Arts Center, Shahram Karami, announced on Tuesday. 

The Iran Digital Media Organization of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance has announced that it has launched a campaign against Instagram over suspending dozens of Iranian accounts and deleting numerous Iranian users’ posts condemning the assassination of Quds Force chief Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani by the U.S. government.