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The jury members of the 22nd Iran’s International Storytelling Festival have selected 14 storytellers from around the world to compete at the final stage of the event.

Iran’s deputy tourism minister on Monday said that anti-Iranian sentiment or Iranophobia, which has long been forged and spread by some Western governments and media, has not prevented foreign travelers from visiting the country.

The Minister of Education Mohsen Haji Mirzaei in the closing ceremony of Roshd International Film Festival said: Organization for Educational research and Planning should reduce written content and by increasing video content, makes a new space for learning.

The closing ceremony of Roshd International Film Festival was held on Friday (November 22).

Iran’s deputy tourism minister on Monday said that anti-Iranian sentiment or Iranophobia, which has long been forged and spread by some Western governments and media, has not prevented foreign travelers from visiting the country.

Iranian scientists have announced that they have manufactured a paste to stop bleeding, using nano hydroxyapatite and bioglasses.

So far, as many as 73 inventions by Iranian scientists have been granted patents by authentic foreign patent offices, according to Vice Presidency for Science and Technology.

Head of Iran’s Nanotechnology Initiative Council (INIC) Saeed Sarkar boasted that his country is taking wide strides in developing nano-technology and nano-tech economy, adding that currently there are 610 nano-tech products available in the domestic market.

The Secretary of Biotechnology Development Headquarters of the Vice Presidency for Science and Technology Mostafa Ghanei said on Tue. that development of biotechnology will create a significant jump in the promotion of non-oil exports in the country and this great jump can transform country’s economy.

The UNESCO Night will be held in 49^thRoshd International Film Festival.

Turkish translations of 14 books by Iranian writers will be introduced tomorrow during a ceremony at Khaneye Ketab, a major book publisher in Tehran.

The winners of the 26th edition of the Student Book of the Year Awards in various categories were announced during a ceremony at the Faculty of Science of the University of Tehran on Tuesday. 

Schoolchildren from the remote village of Seyyedbar in Sistan-Baluchestan Province are organizing a photo exhibition at the Iranian Artists Forum in Tehran to raise funds for equipment for their school.

The Ministry of Health has prepared a plan consisting of 16 programs for the children aged 5 or less to improve their health condition across the country, head of the children’s health department at the Ministry of Health has announced.

 Iran’s Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattaris said that Iran and Turkey have plans to further expand their already close cooperation in science and technology fields.

A cultural anthropology team at Yamagata University in Japan recently announced the discovery of 143 huge ancient drawings etched in Peruvian soil known as “geoglyphs.”

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Iranian Association of Manufacturers of Oil Industry Equipment Sirous Talari said that a number of 150 knowledge-based companies were set up in sanctions period.

The second Polish Film Week, organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Tehran and Art and Experience Cinema, is set to open in three Iranian cities in December.

Esfahak rural landscape and its cultural heritage has become a nominee for the TO DO Award, which is presented by the German Institute for Tourism and Development.

The sixth international, regional conference on climate change opened in Tehran on Monday with the participation of representatives from World Meteorological Organization and several countries.

Tribespeople from every corner of Iran are showing their nomadic rituals, lifestyle, cuisine, crafts and arts in a four-day festival, which opened to the public in Gonbad-e Kavus, northern Golestan province, on November 17, 2019.

China’s ambassador to Iran says the number of Chinese tourists in Iran has increased with the efforts of the Iranian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts and thanks to the cancellation of visa regime for Chinese tourists, but it is still far from the optimal goal.

The first Specialized Exhibition of Application (APPEX 2020) will be held at Tehran’s Permanent International Fairground in January.

The 12th edition of Iran's Folk Music Festival is underway in the Southern province of Kerman to promote folk melodies from different parts of the country and also to save some of the lesser-known tunes from oblivion.

Iran's student team of inventors ranked second in the ARCA 2019 17th edition of the International Exhibition of Inventions in Zagreb, Croatia.

Export of stem cells has recorded a significant jump this year, according to the secretary of Stem Cells Development Headquarters.

 Iran’s Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari said Iran is ready to share its experiences of the scientific progress with other countries which has achieved in last few decades.

 For the first time in the country, a knowledge-based company managed to produce nano calcium carbonate (CaCO3) on industrial scale. This material has many applications such as in producing anticancer drugs.

Senior Iranian Member of Parliament Mohammadreza Aref highlighted the importance of space technology for his country, and urged all relevant organizations and authorities of Tehran to throw their weight behind further development of the technology in the country.

 A senior Iranian health ministry official announced on Sunday that 20 hi-tech medicine are produced in Iran, stressing the country's first rank in the region in production of science.

“Pet Man”, a short animation film by Iranian director Marzieh Abrar-Paydar was picked as the best work and awarded the top prize of the 4th edition of Bogota International Animation Festival in Colombia.

Winners of the 6th edition of the Reading Promoters Awards were announced during a ceremony at the House of Humanities Thinkers in Tehran on Saturday. 

Iran has been ranked 3rd among countries with fastest growing tourist destination by Afar, a U.S.-based award-winning travel magazine, next to Tajikistan and Ecuador in the first and second spots.

As long as deforestation is haunting the country, environmentalists have decided to join hands and plant one billion trees during the next five years, IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.

 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.

Five countries have announced their readiness to run the 27th Book Week of Iran concurrent with the days the event is being held in the country, November 14-21, the director of cultural affairs of Iranians overseas at the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization said.

The second national and the first international conference on Quran’s contribution to humanities and empirical sciences theories will be held at Tehran-based Malek Ashtar University of Technology.

A new prize is founded in the honor of the Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University, Maryam Mirzakhani, who won math's most prestigious medal before she died in 2017.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is ranked at the first place among the West Asian countries in terms of the number of papers in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in 2018, according to data released by SCImago Journal.

 Iranian short animated piece ‘Am I A Wolf?’, by Amir Houshang Moein, has made it into the lineup of the 36th Annual Chicago International Children's Film Festival in the US.

Iranian publishers had a strong presence at the XIII International Book Fair and Scientific Conference of Printed Products in Turkmenistan where they were selected as the best foreign participant of the event.‌