Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said the seminary is tasked most importantly with articulating Islamic facts and paving the way for a new Islamic civilization.

A global study involving over 1.3 million participants has found that Iran ranks fourth in average IQ, placing it among the world's most intelligent nations, behind only China, South Korea, and Japan.

The 36th Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF) opened at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla in Tehran on Wednesday in the presence of the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Seyyed Abbas Salehi.

Leader's message to 100th Anniversary of Reestablishment of Hawza Ilmiyya of Qom: The following is the full text of leader's message issued on April 30, 2025, addressed to the conference commemorating the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Hawza Ilmiyya of Qom [Islamic Seminary of Qom] and its founder, Grand Ayatollah Haj Sheikh Abdulkarim Haeri Yazdi (ra)

Dr. Peyman Jebelli, head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), addresses the 3rd edition of the International Sobh Media Festival in the Iranian capital Tehran on May 5, 2025.

A total of 979,923 births were registered in the country in the past Iranian calendar year (March 2024 – March 2025), the Civil Registration Organization has announced.

This year, more publishers from the general category have applied to attend the 36th Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF) fair compared to last year, Ebrahim Heidari, the spokesperson and deputy director of the fair, said at a press conference on Monday at the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in Tehran.

Hasti-Sadat Hosseini, a female Iranian inventor, has won the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) prize, and received the International Federation of Inventors’ Associations (IFIA) innovation standard (IIS) certificate for her invention, ‘Hasticell’, at the 50th edition of the International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva.

A total of 32,196 marriages over the age of fifty were registered across the country in the past Iranian year (March 2024 – March 2025), according to the Civil Registration Organization.