TEHRAN- Ali Bahadori Jahromi, the spokesman for the Iranian government, said on Thursday that the nation's freshly launched satellite, called Khayyam, had successfully orbited the Earth.

"The stabilization of satellite 'Khayyam' was successfully done,” Bahadori Jahromi said on Twitter. 

On Tuesday, a Russian rocket carrying the high-resolution

TEHRAN –On the occasion of Government Week (August 24-30), a total of nine tourism-related projects are scheduled to come on stream in West Azarbaijan province, northwest Iran, the provincial tourism chief has said.

The projects include a hotel, traditional accommodation center, travel agency, tourist complex, and hydrotherapy center in different

Salman Rushdie, famous for his blasphemous views about Islam, was attacked on Friday before a scheduled lecture in western New York on Friday.

Police said Rushdie, 75, was apparently stabbed in the neck after an assailant attacked him and an interviewer.

“Rushdie suffered an apparent stab wound to the neck, and was transported by helicopter to an a

TEHRAN –—Iran’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts has set up a special committee to oversee fresh restoration work to be conducted on the UNESCO-registered Imam Mosque of Isfahan.

Arrays of faulty tiles, which are now pledged to be replaced with flawless ones, were revealed earlier this year when scaffolding was partly taken