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Iranians Remember Master Vocalist Shajarian With His Freedom Song ‘Morgh e Sahar’
By Nazanine Nouri
Iranians around the world are mourning the loss of the legendary classical Persian...
Playing Heavy Metal and Drumming as a Woman in the Islamic Republic of Iran – Interview With Shirin Vaezi
By Natasha Phillips
Pioneering Iranian musician Shirin Vazei has played the drums for several rock bands...
Iranian State TV is Urged by Guild to Allow Broadcasts of Musical Performances
By Azadeh Karimi
The Iranian Musicians Union has written to the president of the Islamic Republic...
Making History: Andy Madadian Gets Star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame
By Fred Parvaneh
On January 17th, the singer and actor Andy Madadian -- nicknamed "the Persian...
Iran Continues to Ban Actors Who Were Famous Before the Revolution
By Azadeh Karimi
The chairman of the Fajr International Film Festival (FIFF) has turned down Mohsen...
Iranian Film and Theater Actress Shahla Riahi Dies Aged 92
By Azadeh Karimi
Shahla Riahi, the renowned film and stage actress and Iran’s first female director,...
Googoosh Pays Tribute to Dead Iranian Protesters In Sold-Out Paris Mega-Concert
By Nazanine Nouri
Googoosh took Paris by storm with a sold-out concert at the 3,700-seat Palais...
Iranian Stage Directors Face Difficulty Adapting Persian Works, Playwright Says
By Azadeh Karimi
There are fewer restrictions on Iranian authors living in the Islamic Republic to...
Iran’s Ministry of Culture Stops Release of Album Containing Rumi Poem
By Azadeh Karimi
The poetry committee of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance’s Office for...
Oscars Selection Process Criticized by Iran’s Filmmakers
By Azadeh Karimi
The Farabi Cinema Foundation (FCF), which promotes the Islamic Republic’s film industry abroad,...
Armenian Women’s Role in the History of Modern Iran: Author Interview
By Adom Sabanchian
The Armenian community in Iran has a long and rich history.
There are the indigenous Armenians who inhabited the territory that is Iran...
‘Black Wave’: Ex-BBC Journalist Kim Ghattas Analyzes Iran and Saudi Arabia in Book
By Firouzeh Nabavi
The Middle East is one of the hardest areas of the world for journalists to cover. It requires not only a grasp...
‘Superabundantly Talented’ Author Ottessa Moshfegh Releases New Book
By Nazanine Nouri
Ottessa Moshfegh is an award-winning American author and novelist of Iranian descent who has published four books to great critical acclaim since...
Iranian-American Authors Publish New Collection of Real-Life Stories From the Diaspora
By Nazanine Nouri
“My Shadow is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora” is a recently published collection of nonfiction stories spanning the period from...
Iranian-Born Novelist Shokoofeh Azar Nominated for International Booker Prize
By Nazanine Nouri
This year’s International Booker Prize -- a global literary award for the best book translated into English and published in Britain or...
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Soccer-Asian Champions League East Zone To Resume on Nov. 18
Oct 6 (Reuters) - The Asian Champions League's rescheduled group stage matches for clubs in the East Zone will take place from Nov. 18-Dec. 4, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) confirmed on Tuesday with the release of the fixture list https://www.the-afc.com/competitions/afc-champions-league/fixtures.
Asia's elite club competition...
Soccer-10-Man Persepolis Prevail in Shootout To Reach ACL Final
Oct 4 (Reuters) - Iran's Persepolis reached the Asian Champions League final on Saturday with a 5-3 penalty shootout victory over Saudi Arabia's Al Nassr in Doha, despite finishing with 10 men and having lost their key striker to a six-month ban just hours before...
Soccer-Persepolis Set up Semi-Final Clash With Al Nassr
By Michael Church
HONG KONG, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Striker Issa Alekasir was on target as Iran’s Persepolis beat 10-man Pakhtakor from Uzbekistan 2-0 in the quarter-finals of the Asian Champions League on Wednesday, setting up a semi-final meeting on Saturday with Saudi Arabia’s Al Nassr.
Al...
Soccer-Persepolis End Asian Champions League Hopes of Xavi’s Al Sadd
By Michael Church
Sept 27 (Reuters) - Xavi Hernandez’s hopes of leading Al Sadd to the Asian Champions League title came crashing down in Doha on Sunday as a late Issa Alekasir header earned Iran’s Persepolis a 1-0 win that eliminated the Qataris.
Persepolis, beaten finalists...
Soccer-Depleted Champions Al Hilal Through to Asian Champions League Last 16
Sept 20 (Reuters) - Defending champions Al Hilal battled their way into the Asian Champions League knockout phase on Sunday with a 0-0 draw against Iran's Shahr Khodro despite only have three substitutes available to them due to COVID-19 infections.
Al Hilal have 15 members...
Soccer-Jahanbakhsh Determined to Prove Himself at Brighton
Sept 18 (Reuters) - Brighton & Hove Albion winger Alireza Jahanbakhsh says he is determined to prove himself at the Premier League club after struggling for form and fitness since joining in 2018.
Brighton signed Jahanbakhsh from AZ Alkmaar for a reported 17 million pounds...
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Caspian Sea Water Level Is At 30-Year Low, Iranian Official Says
By Azadeh Karimi
The water level in the Caspian Sea dropped 13 centimeters between 2018 and 2019, according to Seyyed Masumeh Bani-Hashemi, the director of...
Tehran to Experience Earthquake Aftershocks for Two Months, Expert Says
By Azadeh Karimi
The aftershocks of a series of earthquakes registering below 4.0 on the Richter scale in and around Tehran earlier this month will...
Vast Areas of Iran’s Caspian Hyrcanian Mixed Forests Destroyed by Fire
By Azadeh Karimi
Since early February, warm winds have fueled at least 62 wildfires that have burned 130 hectares of the Caspian Hyrcanian Mixed Forests...
Thousands of Migratory Birds Dying of Bacterial Infection in Iran Wetlands,...
By Azadeh Karimi
Thousands of migratory birds have died of apparent bacterial infection in the Miankaleh Wildlife Sanctuary and Wetland, in the northern provinces of...
Flash Floods in Southeastern Iran Destroy Homes, Displace Thousands
By Azadeh Karimi
Torrential rains earlier this month have led to flash floods that have devastated vast areas of Sistan and Baluchestan, destroying villages, leaving...
Tehran Ranks Among World’s Most Polluted Cities
By Azadeh Karimi
Tehran Air Quality Control Company’s real-time air quality index (AQI) ranked Tehran the sixth most polluted city in the world on November...
DUBAI, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Iran on Friday blacklisted the U.S. ambassador in Iraq and two other diplomats, following a similar move by the United States against Iran's envoy to Baghdad, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said.
Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Twitter that...
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi
AMMAN, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Iran has delivered several gasoline and crude oil shipments to Syria, easing a near two-month gasoline shortage aggravated by tougher U.S. sanctions, shippers, port officials and traders said.
A vessel began unloading 38,000 tonnes of...
BAGHDAD, Oct 21 (Reuters) - It was a series of intercepted phone calls on a tense night in June that made Iraq’s new prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi fully realise how few friends he had.
During one call, a senior Iraqi...
DUBAI, Oct 20 (Reuters) - The first ever official United Arab Emirates delegation to Israel set off on Tuesday after the two countries normalised ties last month under a U.S.-brokered accord forged largely over shared fears of Iran.
An Etihad...
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK, Oct 1 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday refused to dismiss an indictment accusing state-owned Turkish lender Halkbank of helping Iran evade American sanctions.
U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan rejected Halkbank's claim that...
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Halkbank on Friday urged a judge to dismiss a U.S. indictment accusing the state-owned Turkish lender of helping Iran evade American sanctions, even as it seeks the judge's recusal for alleged bias.
At a...
By Stephanie van den Berg
THE HAGUE, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Lawyers for the United States on Monday asked judges at the United Nations' highest court to dismiss a case brought by Iran seeking to lift sanctions.
Lawyer Marik String said Iran had wrongly introduced...
By Natasha Phillips
Death sentences in Iran for three men who took part in a wave of anti-government protests in November have been denounced by 13 experts at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The experts...
CounterPoint brings together thought leaders, experts, and opinion makers specializing on Iran: its society, economy and politics, and its position on the global scene. Participants will also make recommendations on Iran’s future trajectory and on potential policy options available...
By Kayhan Life Staff
Women are not banned from national parks, natural heritage sites, wildlife refuges, and protected areas during the breeding season of red deer, the head of the Iranian Department of Environment, Dr. Isa Kalantari, has said.
In comments...
By Kayhan Life Staff
A decision by Iran’s Ministry of Education to remove images of girls from the cover of the third-grade mathematics textbook for the 2020-21 school year has triggered a public outcry. People have taken to social media...
By Kayhan Life Staff
Deputy Coordination Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naghdi has asked the Basij software programmers to design a computer game titled “Rescuing George Floyd,” the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
George...
