Asia Iran Human Rights Watch, a pressure group, condemned a new verdict handed down to Narges Mohammadi, a prominent Iranian human rights defender sentenced to eight years in prison and 74 lashes, calling on Tehran to release her "immediately and unconditionally"
Asia Iran The Minister of Industry, Mines and Trade has announced that Iran's exports have exceeded US$40 billion in the last ten months; it has been estimated that exports will reach US$45 billion by the end of the year
Asia Iran Iranian volleyball player Zahra Moghani has joined AJM FC Porto in Portugal; she is the youngest Iranian volleyball player playing in the European champions' league
Asia Iran Negotiations to revive a 2015 nuclear deal signed between the country and other world powers - China, France, Germany, Russia, the UK - will resume today in Vienna, the capital of Austria
Asia Iran Amnesty International launches Persian-language website to increase access to information about Iranians' rights amid escalating impunity crisis in the country
Asia Iran Iran's 27th International Textile and Machinery Exhibition kicked off at the Tehran Permanent International Fair, with more than 200 companies from all over the country participating to showcase their domestic production
Asia Iran Iranian photographer Mohammad Babaei has won the Winter Sports Photo Awards at the World Media Summit in China for his stories on Iran's national women's ice hockey team during their training for the Asian Challenge Cup
Asia Iran The judiciary shut down the state-owned, Tehran-based daily Kelid two days after its front page read 'millions of Iranians live below the poverty line'
Asia Iran The Iran Saffron Council, said that from March 20 2021, the country has exported 95.708kg of saffron, for a total value of over US$47 million, to some 60 countries; compared to the same period last year, export has grown by 25%
Asia Iran After two years of work, Iranian researchers have produced a new breed of genetically modified goat that is bigger than a donkey and cannot be found anywhere else in the world
Asia Iran Iran's Minister of Communications and IT has proposed the establishment of joint regional data centers with the Organization of Developing Countries' Communications and Information Ministers
Asia Iran Filmed secretly by women and men, the film 'Nasrin', a portrait of human rights activist and political prisoner Nasrin Sotoudeh, among the 100 most influential people of 2021 according to The Times, is now available on streaming platforms
Asia Iran The Asian Football Confederation has released a report on the historic presence of Iranian women at the AFC Women's Asian Cup; after their victory over Jordan, Iranian women have reached the finals and this achievement is for the first time ever