TEHRAN – The Japanese ambassador to Tehran has announced his country’s plan to organize a cultural festival in Iran.

Speaking in a meeting held on Sunday with the Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Mohammad-Mehdi Esmaeili, Kazutoshi Aikawa said that the month-long festival will be held in Tehran, in the northwestern Iranian city of

TEHRAN – Several Iranian musicians have been honored at the Global Music Awards.

Puya Sarai won a silver medal in the well-known American international music competition which celebrates independent musicians, the organizers announced Saturday.

Sarai received the medal for his composition “Boghz”, a single that features Salar Aqili on vocals.

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TEHRAN - Shireen Tahmaasb Hunter, a professor of political science at Georgetown University, says that the idea of establishing a NATO-like alliance in the Arab world is unrealistic.

“Nothing remotely resembling NATO could be established in the Arab world,” Hunter tells the Tehran Times.

 “However,” she adds, “more formal and structured defense coope