Sales of Renault-branded vehicles in Iran doubled in 2016 to 108,536 units, according the company’s annual production report sent to the Financial Tribune.

Renault Group said sales boomed…

BMW said it was best for business for the UK to be in the EU single market and urged London to ensure the country retained tariff-free access to the bloc.

Car plants in Kazakhstan produced 8,397 cars in 2016 compared to 12,453 cars produced to 2015. In the last month of 2016, output reached 240 cars compared to 452 cars in November 2016 and 1,648…

Boston Festival of Films from Iran paid tribute to the late Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami by opening its 2017 edition with the screening of one of his greatest masterpieces ‘The Taste of…

The 10th Tehran International Animation Festival (TIAF) 2017 will be held from March 5-9 at several cinemas and cultural centers in the capital, as well as provincial cinemas affiliated to the…

‘The Door and Objects,’ an Iranian play written and directed by theater director Mehdi Mashhour, 36, will go on stage at the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival to be held from July 5-16.

A painting exhibition by four Iranian artists is underway at the House of Cantabria in Madrid, Spain.

Composed of 40 paintings, calligraphy, miniature and calligraphy paintings, the exhibit…

Iranian photographer and documentarian Hamid Reza Zeynali, 43, has curated a photography exhibition in collaboration with 146 of his peers.

The exhibit ‘Human’ will open on January 20 at…

Two consecutive days of shooting attacks that left a total of nine dead have put two of the jewels of Mexico’s Caribbean coast on edge and spurred a warning to tourists by the US government.

Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde expressed doubt on Wednesday whether US president-elect, Donald Trump, has a clear plan of the economic policies he is going…

Moscow considers Austria’s program of chairmanship in OSCE as pragmatic and is ready to take steps for its implementation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

The Organization for…

Center-right politician Antonio Tajani was elected the new president of the European Parliament on Tuesday after defeating his socialist rival, a fellow Italian, in a daylong series of votes. The…

Hamas and Fatah, the leading Palestinian political parties, have agreed to form a unity government after intense negotiations in Russia’s capital, Moscow.

The three-day meetings were…

US President Barack Obama slashed the sentence of transgender army private, Chelsea Manning, who had been sentenced to 35 years behind bars for handing classified US documents to WikiLeaks.

Nigeria’s military says a fighter jet has mistakenly bombed a refugee camp in the country’s northeast, killing dozens of people and wounding scores more, according to aid workers.

Gambia’s National Assembly passed a resolution allowing President Yahya Jammeh, who lost an election in December, to stay in office for three more months, state TV announced on Wednesday.

A Palestinian teenager has been shot dead by the Israeli army during a confrontation in the occupied West Bank, according to officials. The violence erupted on Monday when Israeli forces raided…

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled that a former Libyan dissident Abdul-Hakim Belhaj can sue the former foreign secretary Jack Straw, according to the ruling published on…

The US dollar was exchanged for 38,500 rials in Tehran’s market, the Association of Bureaux de Change Operators of Iran announced, down by 800 rials or 2% compared with Monday.

Banks, reinsurers and financial institutions have a much lower appetite for risk with regard to crude oil shipping from Iran than in the pre-sanctions era and this will not change in the near…

The updated version of the Banking Reform Bill, a blueprint for undertaking major reforms in the banking sector, will at last be taken up in the parliament ‘s spring session, announced the head of…

The Central Bank of Iran announced on Tuesday that it has revised regulations regarding the operation of leasing companies, allowing lenders to offer their services at approximately 3% higher…

Should the Iran nuclear deal fall apart, the consequences for the Middle East region would be "unfathomable", according to a new report from the International Crisis Group.

The report,…

Iran responded to an official invitation sent by Saudi Arabia to attend meetings to discuss the resumption of hajj pilgrimage for Iranians, a hajj official announced.

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif plans to travel to Switzerland and Malaysia later this week to attend the World Economic Forum and a meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation…