TEHRAN – The tourism industry in Iran is the most viable alternative to the oil industry in terms of economic growth, a member of the Iranian parliament has said.

In order to save the country’s economy from dependence on oil, tourism is the best alternative, CHTN quoted Gholamreza Montazeri as saying on Saturday.

There are a number of aspects of

TEHRAN – A historical statue of the ancient city of Babylon in Iraq has been presented to the governor of the western Iranian province of Ilam, IRNA reported on Saturday.

In a meeting on Thursday, Hussein Falih, the director of the governmental Babel Antiques Organization, presented the historical statue to the governor of Ilam, Hassan Bahramnia,

TEHRAN - Abbas Araghchi, the secretary of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations (SCFR), has said the victims of U.S. economic sanctions are much more than those killed in the U.S. atomic bomb attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.

“The number of victims of the U.S. cruel sanctions in the world far e

TEHRAN - Iran’s 86th flotilla of warships is now sailing along the western shores of Latin America, the Navy second-in-command said on Saturday.

Rear Admiral Hamzeh Ali Kaviani said the flotilla is going to berth at Brazil’s southeastern port city of Rio de Janeiro within the next few days, Press TV reported.

Addressing a ceremony in the northern