TEHRAN – A project to restore Khatun Bridge, which is located some 30 km from Tehran in an eastward direction, could need further funding due to rising costs and soaring inflation.

The ancient bridge’s restoration project may require an extra 50 billion rials ($125,000), Alborz province’s tourism chief said on Monday.

Work on the arch bridge started

TEHRAN- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani has mentioned that how Tehran had responded to the use of a fictitious name for the Persian Gulf during a recent sporting event in Iraq.

In a weekly conference, he talked about how the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had complained to the Iraqi government about the matter, and that Ministry of

TEHRAN-- Without mentioning the name of Iraq and the recent friction between the two countries over the name of the Persian Gulf, the Javan newspaper points to the historical roots of the name of the Persian Gulf and its importance for Iranians and wrote: "Some politicians in the allied countries should be careful that familiarity with diplomatic

TEHRAN- The chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has stressed that the recent foreign-backed riots in Iran are regarded as a "world war," but Iranian youths thwarted Western-conceived ploys to destabilize the country.

Referring to the riots broke out in Iran in mid-September last year, Major General Hossein Salami noted on