At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2017, ministers of G20 countries called on members to continue on the path of inclusive growth, warning against protectionism. 

Iran has signed major economic contracts with Syria in what Tehran and Damascus have hailed as “a new page” in economic ties.

Syria’s economy is shrinking fast as industrial and…

As Iran Air has begun receiving its first brand-new, western airplanes in decades, it seems that President Hassan Rouhani’s efforts to lift sanctions have paid off. However, rejuvenating a long…

The Second Yazd International Exhibition of Industries and Mines was inaugurated by Deputy Minister of Industries, Mining and Trade Mehdi Karbasian in Yazd Province on Thursday. Participants in…

Iran’s Kish South Kaveh Steel, otherwise known as SKS, which entered the merchant billet market at the end of 2015, intends to reach higher utilization by focusing on exports.

Buying activity was absent in the Iranian flat steel import market over the past week.

The main factor behind the halt in purchasing was the high price of foreign material, compared with…

British investment company Amedeo Resources announced on Thursday that it has acquired a 2.5% stake in Ganjine Kani Company for $500,000, a copper mining company close to the city of Mashhad in…

Around 3.2 million children aged 3-6 were screened for lazy eye (amblyopia) syndrome, and 60,000 children had been diagnosed with the problem. Amblyopia screening program began in October 2016…

Early marriages and childbirth in the tender years has serious consequences on the health of girls. “Poverty, social problems and other factors are the main reasons of early marriage of girls,”…

Women from low socio-economic backgrounds are 25% more likely to suffer a heart attack than disadvantaged men, research shows.

Iranians consume the most bread per capita (160 kg per person) in the world after Turkey with 199.6 kg per person, as per official figures.

There are 10,000 unidentified old people in the country covered by the State Welfare Organization, said Hossein Nahvinejad, deputy of rehabilitation. Pointing to the shortage in nursing homes for…

The fate of at least 20-30 people remains unknown after a 17-storey commercial building in downtown Tehran collapsed on Thursday even as firemen were putting out a blaze. 

The fire was…

For men, prolonged exposure to work-related stress has been linked to an increased likelihood of lung, colon, rectal and stomach cancer and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a new study has warned. 

The deal between Iran and the world powers in July 2015 to end sanctions has enabled the import of raw materials for production of vaccines directly from European countries, reducing costs by 15…

Danish police have arrested six people who had scaled the walls of the Iranian Embassy in Copenhagen, in an attack that drew a strong protest from Tehran.

The United Nations, the European Union and key players in the Iran nuclear agreement delivered a united message on Wednesday aimed at the then US president-elect, Donald Trump: The deal is working…

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran will have its "own options" in response to any violations of the 2015 nuclear deal, adding that the Islamic Republic will "surprise" US president-…

Iran's top diplomat rapped the international community and media for not being mindful of the sufferings of Rohingya Muslims, calling on the United Nations to focus on restoring the basic rights…

A deputy foreign minister called on Britain to observe the principle of mutual respect, in protest over recent remarks by London's UN envoy Matthew Rycroft who accused the Islamic Republic of…

Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, in a decree on Thursday, appointed his top advisor Ali Akbar Velayati as new chairman of the board of founders of Islamic Azad…

Iran is preparing to inject uranium hexafluoride into a new Iran-made centrifuge machine, known as IR-8, in the near future, the deputy head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Asghar…

The Iranian play ‘Only the First Dog Knows Why it is Barking’ directed by theater director Ebrahim Poshtkuhi will go on stage in Munich, Germany, early February.

A production of Titowak…

‘At the Existentialist Café,’ a thoughtful inquiry in a philosophical movement by British nonfiction writer Sarah Bakewell, 54, is now available in Persian.

The book whose complete title is…

The Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC) in Tehran has produced ‘Dash Akol,’ an animation based on a short story with the same name written by renowned Iranian writer Sadeq Hedayat (…