TEHRAN – Iran has condemned the U.S. strikes against Syria, saying the U.S. presence in the Arab country is “illegal.”

“The U.S. has called the recent attacks by its transgressive army against popular groups and counterterrorism forces of Syria ‘a direct response to attacks and continued threats against the United States troops’,” Iranian Foreign Mi

TEHRAN–A museum focusing on Iran’s three different historical eras will be set up in the near future, the head of Iranology Foundation has said.

The museum will feature exhibits from historical periods of ancient Iran, Iran in Islamic era and Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Mohammad-Hossein Rajabi-Davani said on Wednesday.

A major goal of

TEHRAN–Collections of basketwork have been put on show at a sales exhibition in Dashtestan, which is famed as a national hub for the ancient craft in southwest Iran.

Opened on Friday, the eighth-day exhibition features a wide variety of traditional basketry made of natural materials such as young twigs from trees and shrubs like willow, plant

TEHRAN – A total of 22 historical relics have recently been discovered in the city of Saein Qaleh in Zanjan province, a senior police official in charge of protecting cultural heritage has said.

The relics, estimated to date back to the 1st millennium BC and the (early) Islamic era, have been recovered from a smuggler’s car, Hossein-Ali Fazli e