Legendary vocalist master Mohammadreza Shajarian, who was known as Iran’s king of song and once called himself the “son of Iran”, died on Thursday at 80 at Tehran’s Jam Hospital years after suffering from kidney cancer.
Director Majid Majidi lodged stern criticisms of the U.S. sanctions on Iran during a press conference for his latest drama “Sun Children” on child labor in Iran at the 77th Venice Film Festival
Referring to the 100th anniversary of the establishment of political and diplomatic relations between Iran and Switzerland , the Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis came to Iran. The swiss FM first destination was Isfahan; land of culture & UNESCO world heritage sites. The reason why he travel to Iran is to mark the centenary of…
Tehran’s municipality came up with a brilliant idea to bring some musical joy to Iranian families in quarantine during these hard times; to livestream one concert every single night of the 15-day holiday.
Acclaimed Iranian author and translator Najaf Daryabandari, who translated many of the world’s outstanding literary works into Persian, died on Monday at the age of 91.
Tehraners enjoy the chance to experience the drive-in cinema at Milad Tower parking lot to watch Ebrahim Hatamikia’s latest feature, Exodus. The first night of the program on Friday 1 may 2020 received huge welcome by cinema fans and all the tickets were sold out in less than two hours. Ordinary cinemas are still closed…
‘Khoniagaran-e Mehr’ the famous Iranian women traditional music group performed online during coronavirus.
The Iranian documentaries “Vars” and “Hafez and Goethe” will be competing in the Archaeology Channel International Film Festival in the United States, the organizers have announced. The festival is scheduled to take place in Eugene in the U.S. state of Oregon from May 13 to 17. Due to complications from the COVID-19 outbreak in Oregon,…
Iranian feature film ‘Selfie with Democracy’ was nominated for the best international film award at the 3rd Annual Southeast Regional Film Festival in United States. Directed by Ali Atshani, the movie has a supernatural plot. It is about those who were present in the Iran-Iraq War and it almost a sequel of the feature film…
A group of European restoration experts will cooperate with Iran to renovate parts of the Jame Mosque of Qazvin in northwestern Iran, which is one of the oldest Islamic structures in Iran. Cooperated with Iran’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage Tourism and Handicrafts, they will work on the dome and maqsurah (closed-off space) of the mosque,…
