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.

The first round of the Iranian University Entrance Exam, simply known as Konkur, was held across the country on Thursday and Friday.

The fourth preparatory meeting for the second International Congress on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Science will be held at Smart University of Medical Sciences in Tehran on May 11.

The Iqbal Lahori Memorial Conference, organized by the ECO Cultural Institute (ECI)and the International Affairs Department of the Art Bureau of the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization, was held on Thursday with the presence of distinguished Iranian and Pakistani scholars and poets in Tehran.