[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....

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 ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEI Critical Threats Project Iran Analyst Will Fulton and Iran Intern Amir Toumaj, with contributors John Lesnewich and Mehrdad Moarefian. (E) = Article in English Excerpts of these translations may only be used with the expressed consent of ...

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 ...

By Reuters

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 ...

By Fars News Agency

Pretoria, Dec 12, IRNA - South Africa President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday that the South African people will never forget Irans support and assistance in fight against Apartheid. President Zuma made the remarks in a meeting with visiting Vice-President for Executive Affairs Mohammad Shariatmadari who is on a visit to South Africa to participate ...

By IRNA

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 (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 ...

By ISNA    

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 ...

South Africans, world leaders and celebrities braved the rain to honor the former South African president and anti-apartheid icon.   MIKE HUTCHINGS/REUTERS Nelson Mandela, former South African President and anti-apartheid icon, passed away last Thursday at the age of 95. World leaders are joining South Africans for his memorial service. JOHANNESBURG ...

Tehran, Dec 9, IRNA Former president Mohammad Khatami said on Monday that late Nelson Mandela was such a great hero that history is indebted to his services. Khatami attended South African Embassy in Tehran and signed a memorial book dedicated to late Nelson Mandela. Khatami, who is Head of Baran International Foundation signed the memorial ...

CENTURION, South Africa (AP) The comparisons are perhaps inevitable. President Barack Obama and former South African leader Nelson Mandela each served as their nation's first black president, living symbols of struggles to overcome deep-seated racial tensions. Each was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. But as Obama prepares to honor Mandela at a memorial ...