Persian is the second language of the holy religion of Islam and is also the integral part of both Afghan and Iranian identities, said the managing director of the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).

A music exhibition titled, ‘A Taste of Music,’ featuring 100 Persian musical instruments, was held from December 29-30, at the Iranian Embassy in Beijing.

Up to 100 years ago the Persian gardens had preserved their ancient characteristics, but ever since then gradually and parallel with the alteration of viewpoints they distanced from their noble identity and now you can trace no sign of a new Persian garden, although their appearance has somehow been preserved, but no perfect sample, or even move for the revival of that forgotten paradise is seen.

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By Sadeq Dehqan & Leila Imani

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By Sadeq Dehqan & Farzam Vanaki

In a meeting with the director of a Syrian publication, Iran’s cultural attaché in Syria emphasized the boosting of cultural cooperation between the two sides in terms of supporting Arab translators of Persian literary works.

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Iran’s veteran writer and translator, Gholamreza Emami, translated the book, ‘The Nightingale,’ by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen.

Classes for Persian traditional music which are being held online due to the coronavirus pandemic received kudos internationally, an Iranian music teacher said on Sunday.

The Persian translation of Jean-Paul Dubois’ novel ‘Tous les hommes n’habitent pas le monde de la même façon’ (‘All Men Do Not Live in the Same Way’), which won France’s most prestigious literary award, the Goncourt Prize, was released on Saturday.

The cultural center of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Khana-e-Farhang Iran) in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, the country’s cultural hub, will start a virtual Persian language course by the end of this month.

Iran's Foreign Ministery Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi marking the National Day of the Persian Gulf emphasized, this Gulf will forever remain Persian and the sea of peace and friendship with its neighbors, Iran Press reported.