Tehran hotels will offer up to 40% discounts to Norouz (Iranian New Year) tourists during March 21 - April 2, said the head of the Association of Tehran Hotels and Hotel Apartments. 

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New Zealand sits atop a previously unknown continent—mostly submerged beneath the South Pacific—that should be recognized with the name Zealandia, scientists said on Friday.

Tehran's tourism authority plans to launch the much-touted "hop-on hop-off" bus tours of the city before the two-week Norouz (Iranian New Year) holidays start on March 21.

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Mexico enjoyed a banner year in 2016 for tourism, hitting "historic highs" in part due to a spike in the number of US travelers drawn in by the weakened peso, the government said on Wednesday. A…

A retrospective of Arapic Baghdasarian (1939-1985), an Iranian-Armenian graphic designer, caricaturist, film director and translator, titled ‘Marked Designer’ opened at Tehran’s Gallery A on…

The Iran-Afghan joint film ‘Parting’ directed by Navid Mahmoudi is showing in a limited number of cinemas in some American cities.

‘One Evening in Late Autumn,’ a play written by Swiss author and dramatist Friedrich Durrenmatt (1921-1990) is underway at Drama Hall in Tehran until March 3.

The play was translated into…

A short story by Iranian author, translator Mohammad Tolouei was published in the British newspaper Guardian on February 14.

The 6th Expo of Iranian Contemporary Artists opened on Friday at Tehran’s Laleh Art Gallery.

The gallery has hosted earlier editions of the exhibition and in the successive years seen an…

The US, polarized and divided as never before, could become a destabilizing factor for the rest of the globe unless it stays “domestically strong and united”, Federica Mogherini warned after her…

Oil slipped further below $56 a barrel on Wednesday as an industry report showing a large rise in US crude inventories signaled ample supply, even as OPEC achieves record compliance with its…

The ambassador of the UAE to Afghanistan died on Wednesday of wounds sustained in a bomb attack in Kandahar last month, which also killed five Emirati aid workers, the UAE’s Foreign Ministry…

Grounds have been prepared for unifying the foreign exchange rates, which will finally be accomplished "when macroeconomic conditions are agreeable", vice governor of the Central Bank of Iran said…

A new bank will be established with 100% Iranian share in Azerbaijan, Iran's Central Bank Chief Valiollah Seif said.

Interest rate cuts will be postponed until after the presidential elections in May, claims a bank chief executive.

The government has approved a proposal for setting the minimum capital required for establishing insurance firms during a Cabinet meeting on Sunday.

The measure also lowers the minimum…

A senior lawmaker predicted that more shock events lie ahead of the new administration of US President Donald Trump after his national security adviser, Michael Flynn, resigned on Monday following…

A prominent Russian analyst underlined Iran’s anti-terrorism efforts in the region and said Moscow is a major impediment to Washington’s hostile moves against Tehran.

The 2015 Iran nuclear deal has significantly weakened the hand of new hawkish US President Donald Trump in pushing its anti-Iran policies, a nuclear negotiator said.

“One of the challenges…

Principlists are facing a tough challenge for the May 19 presidential vote as they have failed to agree to a candidate due to the lack of cohesion in the camp, secretary-general of Iran Zamin…

Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Jaberi Ansari held separate meetings with the Russian president’s special envoy on Syria and the Arab country’s ambassador to the UN ahead of the peace talks in the…

Iran’s new domestically-manufactured IR-8 centrifuge machines will increase the country’s capacity to enrich uranium 20 times more than the existing IR-1 machines, the spokesman of the Atomic…

Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said plans to revive the economy should top the government's agenda and singled out unemployment and inflation as the two major problems…

President Hassan Rouhani visited the Persian Gulf Arab states of Oman and Kuwait on Wednesday in his first trip to Iran's southern Arab neighbors since becoming president in 2013.

The…

About $91 million worth of medicinal herbs, including cumin, coriander and coriander seeds, henna and damask rose, were exported in the last Iranian year (March 2015-16).

At present 140,000…