According to reports in the foreign media, the little flip phone is to make a comeback in 2017. According to several patent filings in the US, South Korea, Japan and China, the world’s tech…

‘Mashhad, Culture Capital of the Islamic World’ was officially launched at a ceremony at the shrine of Imam Reza (AS) in Mashhad, capital of Khorasan Razavi Province, on Tuesday.

The…

Iranian filmmaker Behnam Behzadi will be among the jury of the 40th Goteborg Film Festival in Sweden slated for January 27-February 6.

Behzadi will be a juror in the international section…

Tabriz, capital of East Azarbaijan Province, will host the ‘Ashiklar Music Festival’ from March 6-8.

The festival will pay tribute to Ashik Rasool Qurbani, 81, one of the most famous…

A flash fiction collection titled ‘Blind Fish,’ which includes stories from the best and most popular contemporary fiction writers, is now available in Persian. 

The book, originally…

Burundi began releasing a quarter of its jail population under a mass presidential pardon on Monday, but prisoners’ rights groups voiced concern they were just making room for more political…

Israel’s former foreign minister cancelled a trip to Brussels after Belgian prosecutors confirmed they wanted to question her over war crimes allegations.

Tzipi Livni was expected to meet…

The UK Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Prime Minister Theresa May must get the parliament’s approval before she begins Britain’s formal exit from the European Union.

Gambia’s new vice president will be a leader of the opposition coalition that helped bring new President Adama Barrow to power, a presidential spokesman announced on Monday, as regional troops…

The White House warned China it will “defend” US and international “interests” in the South China Sea and that trade must be a “two-way street.”

Signaling US President Donald Trump’s tough…

The first North Atlantic Treaty Organization Istanbul Cooperation Initiative Regional Center opened in a high-profile ceremony on Tuesday in Kuwait.

The country’s Prime Minister Sheikh…

At least 87,000 people have been displaced since the military launched a crackdown in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state early October, United Nations said on Monday.

China has deployed top-notch Dongfeng-41 intercontinental ballistic missiles in the northeast Heilongjiang Province, which borders the Russian Far East.

The pictures of the missiles have…

Negotiations between the Syrian government and opposition groups have kicked off in the Kazakh capital of Astana as part of an initiative led by Russia, Turkey and Iran.

Kazakh President…

A group including former White House ethics attorneys will file a lawsuit on Monday accusing President Donald Trump of allowing his businesses to accept payments from foreign governments, in…

A number of domestic insurance firms have shown interest in spinning off their life insurance operations into separate entities, said Abdolnasser Hemmati, the president of Central Insurance of…

The Iranian steel industry and its upstream sectors exported over 3.84 million tons valued at $1.56 billion of industrial materials to 20 destinations during the eight months to November 20.…

Iran’s banking relations with the world will improve by the end of the current fiscal year in March, the deputy for international affairs at the Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and…

In a decade, the majority of Iranian real-estate deals will take place through the Internet, the head of Tehran Association of Realtors said.

The CEO of the international advisory firm Roedl & Partner from Germany–who has just opened his Tehran office–said that after the lifting of sanctions, a more clear image of Iran is being…

Iranian banks’ lending has declined in recent months, said Parsian Bank’s chief executive who is also the head of Iranian Private Banks and Credit Institutions Association.

Donald Trump’s inauguration speech on January 20 repeated the disruptive message of his election as US president. 

It was a call of defiance against the political and media mainstream…

Mehdiabad Lead and Zinc Complex produced 594,905 tons of lead and zinc lumps during the nine months to December 20, registering a 31% rise compared with last year’s corresponding period. The…

The government has sharply reduced tariffs on the import of meat and agricultural products, including rice and sugar, to keep prices in check in the runup to the new Iranian year (starting March…

Iran’s share of the global halal market is meager, the former secretary-general of the Federation of Iranian Food Industry Associations said.

“It is estimated that Iran’s share of the $2…