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In a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres dated a few days ago Iran informed the international body that 8 million hectares of land in Iraq are hotspots of dust storms which hit Iran...

Iran has put forward its Arasbaran protected area as a candidate for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage list for 2018.

IRNA - Deputy head of Iran’s Anti-Drug Headquarters announced here on Tuesday that the country is ready to cooperate with Kabul to replace cultivation of opium poppy with other agricultural...

TEHRAN, Sep. 01 (MNA) – According to the latest HR development report of the WEF, Iran has soared 14 ranks higher in 2014.

Tehran (AFP) - Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian has said she will donate part of a 100,000-euro ($112,000) Dutch award to charity, including Syrian and Iraqi refugees.

UN Undersecretary General Erik Solheim said that Iran has managed to raise the issue of dust storm at international level and urge other countries to take practical measures to solve the problem.

Iran has advanced notably in terms of scientific publications and research output worldwide, director of the Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) said, IRNA reported on Saturday.

Iran has introduced its latest and inventive achievements in the health sector to the seventieth World Health Assembly 2017, which is being held in Geneva on May 22-31.

Capital punishment will be removed for all drug-related offenses with the exception of 3 cases, vice-chairman of Parliament’s Judiciary Committee told Mehrnews Agency on Sunday.

Iran has strongly condemned a recent terrorist attack on a Shia mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul, which killed four people, including three civilians.

Iran’s Logistics Performance Index (LPI) has jumped 18 places in 2016 to 96th compared to 114th in 2014, according to the World Bank’s “International LPI Global Ranking 2016” report.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Monday called on Qatar and Saudi Arabia to settle their disputes through dialogue.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday called for establishment of an international fact-finding mission to make clear the realities behind recent US attack on Syria under the pretext of use...

In a joint press conference with Fars and Tasnim News Agencies at the Press Exhibit, Hadi Sadeghi, the Cultural Deputy of the Judiciary gave news of the traveling of 2 UN thematic rapporteurs to...

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says the Islamic Republic invariably supports dialog over military action as a means of resolving conflicts.

With the cooperation of UNA-Iran, on 8 January 2018, the ODVV held the Introduction to the Universal Period Review and Project Formulation Course for the 3rd human rights in Iran review.

The ODVV is to hold an education course on the Introduction to Family Rights, with the cooperation of the legal clinic of Shahid Beheshti University on the occasion of the International Day for the...

Describing the situation in Yemen as one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises – ‘and one that is entirely man-made’ – the United Nations human rights deputy chief urged the national commission...

With the escalation of unilateral inhuman sanctions against the people of Iran on the pretext of Iran's nuclear activities, which have caused countless economic and medicinal problems and a...

On the occasion of the International Day of Non-Violence a workshop was held at the ODVV on the subject of "Prevention of Violence.