Renault’s profit surged 38% in 2016 after the French carmaker gained market share in Europe with an expanded lineup of sport utility vehicles and upgraded models like the Megane hatchback.

Several videos have emerged online purporting to show Iranian-made Peugeots being broken into with astonishing speed. Dozens of videos uploaded to Iran’s local video upload website aparat.com show…

Barez Group will produce 150,000 tons of tires annually by 2021, the company's CEO told a press briefing in Tehran last week.

Barez Industrial Group is a local tire manufacturer with a…

Iraqi security forces fired tear gas on Saturday at thousands of supporters of powerful Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr demonstrating near Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone—a cluster of embassies…

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was in Istanbul on Friday for talks with Turkey’s prime minister, Binali Yildirim, at the start of his first visit to the Middle East as the world…

Donald Trump is considering a new executive order to ban citizens of certain countries from travelling to the US after his initial attempt was overturned in the courts.

Trump told reporters…

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta declared Friday the drought that has ravaged swathes of Kenya to be a national disaster. More than 3.7 million people have been hit by the three-year water shortage…

With already more than 3.5 million displaced within and outside the borders of South Sudan and thousands more driven to neighboring countries every day, the United Nations refugee agency has…

President Donald Trump welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with a brotherly hug and warm words of admiration, as he ditched previously hard-charging rhetoric toward Tokyo during a White…

Russian President Vladimir Putin says he’s ready to meet his American counterpart, Donald Trump, in Slovenian capital Ljubljana.

“Ljubljana, and Slovenia in general, is of course a great…

The United States has objected to the appointment of a former Palestinian prime minister to lead the United Nations political mission in Libya, saying it was doing so to support its ally Israel.…

Influential poet and filmmaker Forough Farrokhzad (1935-1967) will be commemorated today, February 12, on the occasion of her 50th death anniversary, at Charsou Cineplex in Tehran. 

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Iranian virtuoso pianist Fereydoun Nassehi will perform a piano recital on February 24, at the Niavaran Cultural Center in Tehran.

The large number of school books has adverse effects in students’ education. “When the curriculum is voluminous, qualitative learning is replaced by quantitative,” said teacher and education…

A comic drama ‘Fools,’ written by American author, screenwriter and playwright Neil Simon, and directed by theater actor and director Mohsen Sotoudeh is underway at Parviz Parastoui Theater in…

‘Tolou,’ Tehran’s largest and most advanced library for the visually impaired opened on February 6 at Khavaran Cultural Center.

“Cultural and Art Organization (affiliated to Tehran…

Well-known cinema actor Mohammadreza Golzar, who also has a background in music, will stage his first concert in Tehran on March 10.

Golzar’s first ever vocal concert was held in Bandar-…

The difference between domestic and foreign inflation rates should be used to determine the foreign exchange rates, the head of Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture…

Rent-to-own companies are now allowed to operate in the housing market with the interest rate cap recently devised by the Central Bank of Iran, announced the chairman of Iranian National Leasing…

Bank Keshavarz Irani (Agriculture Bank) will receive its share from the government’s plan to increase the capital of public-sector banks by the yearend, announced the minister of agriculture jihad…

The government has settled a significant portion of its debts to the health insurance sector, announced the government spokesman. “Health Insurance covered 11 million people throughout the country…

The Central Insurance of Iran and Central Bank of Armenia on Thursday signed an agreement to expand cooperation in insurance and reinsurance services.

India's Ministry of External Affairs rubbished Pakistan's claims that India is building a secret nuclear city in the south of India and developing an inter-continental ballistic missile.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has approved a constitutional reform bill, according to his office, to pave the way for a referendum on an amendments package that seeks to extend his powers…

Basmati exports market of India was expecting a good time this year, as Iran had decided to resume rice imports from the country. 

But the higher price of Basmati rice made the…