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‘Women to hold 45% of labor market share in Iran by 2026’

By the next ten years about 45 percent of the Iranian labor market will be in the hands of women, Moslem Khani, an advisor to the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare said here on Monday. Studies show that the ratio of men to women in the market, which is currently around 80 percent to 20 percent, will completely change in the nex ...

Iran’s revolutionary poet Hamid Sabzevari dies at 91

Hamid Sabzevari, an Iranian poet who is mostly known for the works composed in the heat of the Islamic Revolution and the early years after the histor ...

Smuggling of goods declined 40% in Iran: official

Primary estimates show a 40 percent decline in the smuggling of gods in Iran over the past two years, Qasem Khorshidi, head of the Anti-Smuggling Head ...

French Speaker: Tehran Vital for Regional Peace

French Parliament Speaker Claude Bartolone says without Iran's engagement, West Asia will not see lasting peace. "I believe that today, the most ur ...

IP gas pipeline to be completed by June 2018: Pakistani min

Pakistan’s Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project will be completed by June 2018, P ...

Iran launches direct flights with Russia to boost trade

Iran has opened direct flights between Tehran and the Russian city of Astrakhan to boost trade ties between the two countries, local media reported Tu ...

Iran Wants Telecoms Satellite Back

Efforts are underway to take back Mesbah satellite seized by Italy during the sanctions period, the head of Iran Space Agency said. “Iranian resear ...

Iran’s “Salt Man” wins Grand Prix of Bosnian filmfest

Iranian filmmaker Seyyed Sajjad Musavi’s short film “The Salt Man” has won the Grand Prix of the Viva Film Festival in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovin ...

Ayatollah Khamenei: Dignity, welfare, serenity tied to Quran

On the first day of the blessed fasting month of Ramadan, the month in which the holy Quran was revealed, a ceremony of familiarity with the holy Qura ...

Iran, China to Set Up Industrial Town in Bam

Iran and China are planning to set up a joint industrial town, in which auto parts will be manufactured, the deputy head of Iran Small Industries and ...