IRNA Iran's UN envoy Gholam-Ali Khoshru has hailed late leader of South Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela as symbol of campaign against racial discrimination. Khoshru made the remark on the sidelines of his tour of a photo exhibition on Mandela, opened in the UN headquarters in New York by Iranian photographer Meisam Shahbabaie. While appreciating Iranian ...

Iranian photographer Meysam Shahbabaee holds an exhibition in Tehran ob July 18 to mark birthday anniversary of the South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, Nelson Mandela who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. Irans Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati and Head of the UN Information ...

[caption id="attachment_135099" align="alignright" width="172"] South Africas Nelson Mandela passed away at age 95 on December 5, 2013.[/caption] TEHRAN, Dec. 10 (MNA) Africa Street in northern Tehran has been renamed after Nelson Mandela during a ceremony with the presence of two members of Tehran City Council and South African ambassador to Iran....

[caption id="attachment_135099" align="alignright" width="205"] South Africas Nelson Mandela passed away at age 95 on December 5, 2013.[/caption] Irans international poster exhibition on late South African icon Nelson Mandela has announced winners during a ceremony held at the Iran Artists Forum in Tehran. The names of winners were released at the ...

Iran has launched an international poster exhibition in the capital, Tehran, in honor of anti-apartheid legend Nelson Mandela. The exhibition entitled 'Nelson Mandela, Bird of Liberty' is being held at the Iran Artists Forum to commemorate the first anniversary of his death. Some 76 designs, selected out of 422 works submitted by 63 artists, are ...

The death of Nelson Mandela last December at the age of 95 brought forth an outpouring of prepared grief and remembrances worldwide. Here in the United States, leaders and politicians of all stripes stepped forward to the cameras, eager to praise the former South African President. One by one, they eulogized Mandela as a statesman, the father of a ...

An Iranian director is planning to make a documentary on the South African hero Nelson Mandelas memorial proceedings and funeral ceremony. Meysam Shahbabaei who has attended Mandelas memorial ceremonies held in South Africa, is to mirror the Africans mourning and grief on losing their legend leader. The director himself is slated to provide the ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 16 (MNA) Madiba is not among us anymore. This is something which we should believe, or somehow convince ourselves to believe. However, the grandpa, who was a source of inspiration for the entire world throughout his fruitful life, can still be seen as an icon of freedom, struggle for peace and dignity and disobedience to oppression ...

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TEHRAN (FNA)- As the world commemorates Nelson Mandela, it is unfortunate that so much of the public discussion is dominated by the pious bloviating of politicians whose own careers seem not just unspeakably trivial compared to Mandelas, but run directly against so much of what Mandela worked so hard to accomplish in his life. We think it is better ...

Iran is planning to hold an international poster exhibition illustrating the anti-apartheid activities of the late South African hero Nelson Mandela. Organized by the Iranian Artists Forum (IAF), the show which has been titled Nelson Mandela: The Bird of Freedom will welcome all various works focused on the determined theme. Meanwhile, the Iranian ...

Tehran, Dec 12, IRNA - Head of the Presidential Office Mohammad Nahavandian on Thursday singed the memorial book of the late former South African President Nelson Mandela at South African Embassy. He extended the condolence of Iranian government to South African Ambassador to Tehran Archie Whitehead on the sad demise of Mandela. Mandela is hero ...

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SHAFAQNA-A spokesman says the Dalai Lama will not attend memorial services for fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nelson Mandela in South Africa, where the Buddhist spiritual leader has twice been unable to obtain a visa. Tenzin Takhla gave no reason Monday for the Dalai Lama's missing a memorial service in Johannesburg and funeral in Mandela's hometown....

TEHRAN, Dec. 11 (MNA) British Prime Minister David Cameron, Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, and U.S. President Barack Obama are at Mandelas funeral join together for a mobile phone self-portrait. We laugh at the kids; because they are so silly and have sense of decorum. Sometimes they're just embarrassing posting selfie from funerals....

TEHRAN (FNA)- The world has lost a man of ages that will be never forgotten. An icon of peace and reconciliation, Nelson Mandela, 95, passed away Thursday (Dec 5) after a long battle against lung illness. Mandela, often known as Madiba, was an outspoken critic of the Zionist regime policies who remarkably proclaimed in a 1997 speech that his peoples ...

Tehran, Dec 10, IRNA -- Vice-President for Executive Affairs Mohammad Shariatmadari left Tehran for South Africa to participate in the funeral procession of the former South African president Nelson Mandela, as Irans representative. Some 50 world leaders are to attend the funeral procession of the father of modern South Africa, who died at age of ...

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TEHRAN, Dec. 10 (MNA) Irans FM has attended South African embassy in Tehran, signs Nelson Mandelas book of condolence. Mehr News reported that Mohammad Javad Zarif signed Mandelas book of condolence in South African embassy in Tehran. The embassy has opened Mandelas book of condolence so that the public could sign the book. The book will remain open ...