TEHRAN – English poet Gavin Bantock’s book “Dragons” has been published in Persian by Elmi-Farhangi in Tehran.

Saeid Tavanai Marvi is the translator of the book originally published in 1979.

The book contains Bantock's poems since the publication of “Eirenikon” (1972), together with a selection of his previously uncollected earlier poems. 

His new

TEHRAN – Three animations from Iran’s Documentary, Experimental and Animation Film Center (DEAFC) will be competing in the seventh edition of the Turku Animated Film Festival (TAFF) in Finland.

“The Fourth Wall”, “The Hand and the Egg” and “The Wet Mirror” will be showcased in different sections of the festival, which will take place in Turku from A

TEHRAN – Some 108,000 students from 117 countries have enrolled in Iranian universities for the current academic year (starting September 23), Mohammad Mohammadi Masoudi, an official with the Ministry of Science, has said.

According to unofficial statistics, more than 300,000 Iranian students study abroad, each of whom is an opportunity for the

Almost every time, after a large earthquake occurs near a residential area, questions are raised in the media as to "why the event was not anticipated?". 

The argument is that a successful forecast would reduce loss of life, if not necessarily economic damage, by allowing the evacuation of dangerous buildings, the clearing of tsunami-prone coastal