Maria Saeedi is an Iranian craftswoman who preferred living in a small village in a desert area in her motherland instead of residing in the US, to empower Iranian rural women. “If I am an Iranian, what I have done for my country? Not considering the duties of the government, what is my responsibility toward...Read More

Homeira Rigi Zirouki was appointed as Iran’s new ambassador to Brunei. Based on proposal of Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif and the approval of President Hassan Rouhani, Homeira Rigi Zirouki was appointed as Iran’s new ambassador to Brunei. She will depart for the mission in the coming days. Homeira Rigi from Iranian Sunni community...Read More

Women accounted for 27.5 percent of all the Oscar nominees in 2019, a slight uptick from last year’s record-setting year, in which only 26.8 percent of the nominations went to women. Of the 225 individuals nominated this year in the 24 competitive categories, 62 women were named, based on a tally from TheWrap. That’s compared...Read More

Scientists say they have discovered the secret behind why some people are skinny while others pile on the pounds easily. Their work reveals newly discovered genetic regions linked to being very slim, according to BBC. The international team say this supports the idea that, for some people, being thin has more to do with inheriting...Read More

 Some 65 percent of children in Iran between 3-5 years of age have smart cellphone or tablets, said Khosro Saljouqi, the executive director of children’s internet plan of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), ILNA reported on Friday. The figure is stated according to a survey conducted by the Statistical Center of Iran...Read More

For people who have trouble concentrating, help may be on the way through a new game app that helps improve the ability to focus just by playing. Researchers documented improvements in attention among healthy young adults who played a game called Decoder twice a week for a month, according to a report in Frontiers in...Read More

Zeinab Nasiri, the director of Health Department of Tehran Municipality, said that the scheme will be part of the campaign against cancer in the National Week of Fight Against Cancer. She said that video clips will be screened on Metro LCDs and graphic signs will be displayed at wagons and platforms to help inform citizens...Read More

 Yazd, Iran’s historical city, was registered as one the UNESCO’s world heritage sites in 2017 and the city is located in the middle of the Iranian plateau, some 800 kilometers south of the capital Tehran. The Iranian National Commission for UNESCO has opened a new regional center in the central city of Yazd. ‘This center...Read More

 The organizers of the 37th Fajr Film Festival announced the jury for the official competition on Monday. The jury is composed of filmmakers Mohammad-Ali Bashe Ahangar, Mohammad Bozorgnia, Puran Derakhshandeh and Mohammad Ehsani. Cinematographer Mahmud Kalari, film critic Mehrzad Danesh and actress Rima Raminfar are the other members of the jury. The 37th Fajr Film...Read More

— In the current Iranian calendar year (starting on March 21, 2018), some 100 diabetes care centers have been established in 60 universities of medical sciences nationwide, Mehdi Shadnoush, head of the Health Ministry’s management center for transplantation and special diseases has said. Some 200,000 patients suffering from diabetes are receiving treatment at the centers,...Read More