TEHRAN – Some 108,000 students from 117 countries have enrolled in Iranian universities for the current academic year (starting September 23), Mohammad Mohammadi Masoudi, an official with the Ministry of Science, has said.

According to unofficial statistics, more than 300,000 Iranian students study abroad, each of whom is an opportunity for the

Almost every time, after a large earthquake occurs near a residential area, questions are raised in the media as to "why the event was not anticipated?". 

The argument is that a successful forecast would reduce loss of life, if not necessarily economic damage, by allowing the evacuation of dangerous buildings, the clearing of tsunami-prone coastal

TEHRAN – Three animations from Iran’s Documentary, Experimental and Animation Film Center (DEAFC) will be competing in the seventh edition of the Turku Animated Film Festival (TAFF) in Finland.

“The Fourth Wall”, “The Hand and the Egg” and “The Wet Mirror” will be showcased in different sections of the festival, which will take place in Turku from A

TEHRAN – A stage reading of “Musas” (“Muses”), Venezuelan writer Néstor Caballero’s play on a fictional encounter between Frida Kahlo and Sylvia Plath, will be held at the Guye Art House in Tehran Wednesday evening.

Bahram Sarvarinejad will direct the reading, which will be performed by Marzieh Sadrai and Golchehreh Zand. Saeid Eslamzadeh will make