TEHRAN - Letizia Rossano, the director of the Asian and Pacific Centre for the Development of Disaster Information Management (APDIM), has said Iran is really at forefront of understanding the problem of sand and dust storms as well as dealing with it.

Iran is one of the few countries that have a coordinating committee at the national level to deal

TEHRAN –Parts of the UNESCO-tagged Soltaniyeh Dome in northwestern Zanjan province have undergone some rehabilitation works, the provincial tourism chief has said.

The project involves flooring and repairing the routes of the western section of the historical site, Amir Arjmand explained on Wednesday.

The project also aims at preparing the

The culture of coercive diplomacy as a national security strategy has been the hallmark of U.S. foreign policy as leverage to seek the desired outcome against its perceived enemies and adversaries.

Although the tradition of coercion has been central to the U.S. foreign policies from the Vietnam War to the recent Iranian nuclear deal, it has vast

TEHRAN –Some obsidian tools, dating back to the Neolithic period, have recently been discovered on Tepe Ahranjan, which is home to a 9,000-year-old human settlement in Salmas county, West Azarbaijan province, northwestern Iran.

The items found are diverse and categorized into seven types based on their appearance and colors, said Iranian