TEHRAN – Iran national futsal team goalkeeper Alireza Samimi announced his retirement from national duty on Wednesday.

The 35-year-old custodian represented Iran in three editions of the FIFA Futsal World Cup.

Samimi helped Iran win their first-ever bronze medal in the competition in the 2016 edition.

He has already won two AFC Futsal Championship in

TEHRAN – The literacy rate among refugees has increased significantly in recent decades. So that the literacy rate of Afghan immigrants in Iran is higher than the number of literate people in Afghanistan, according to a report published in June by the research center of the Iranian Parliament (Majlis).

According to the Population and Housing Census

TEHRAN – Finland, and Poland announced readiness to strengthen cooperation in the health sector with Iran.

Mohammad Hossein Nicknam, director of the International Affairs Department at the Ministry of Health met separately with Ambassador of the Republic of Finland to Tehran Kari Kahiluoto and Poland chargé d’affaires Wojciech Unolt, in a meeting in

TEHRAN – The Iranian University Entrance Exam, simply known as Konkur, started on Wednesday for the 52nd year across the country.

The exam will be attended by 1,489,220 candidates, which shows an increase of 121,166 (an increase of 9.2 percent) compared to last year.

This year’s Konkur is also being held in 17 overseas centers in 15 countries. The