The US-based Educational Testing Service (ETS) has formally suspended administration of the TOEFL and GRE exams in Iran.

Iranian Minister of Science, Research, and Technology Hossein Simaei Saraf has strongly condemned international sanctions barring Iranian nationals from taking standardized tests such as TOEFL, describing the restriction as primitive and uncivilized.

From communications infrastructure and data-exchange capacity to cybersecurity, the digital economy, new technologies and tech-company partnerships, ties between Iran and Iraq in telecommunications and IT are moving beyond occasional cooperation toward a broader, more durable framework — a shift that gained momentum in recent months with visits by Iran's communications minister to Baghdad and Iraq's communications minister to Tehran.

Spiral galaxy M74, with its luminous spiral arms and numerous blue star clusters, is regarded as one of the most photogenic galaxies in the sky, with a Hubble Space Telescope image revealing remarkable details of its star-forming regions and cosmic dust lanes.

According to Iran’s Natural Resources and Watershed Management Organization, the proposals were approved during the closing meeting of Asian countries party to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), held on Friday on the sidelines of the 17th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Meta has agreed to pay up to $18 billion and implement sweeping changes to its platforms to settle a landmark lawsuit over teen addiction and the alleged harm its apps cause to children.

The US Department of the Treasury has indefinitely revoked a license that permitted student exchanges, scholarship grants, and the administration of certain academic and professional examinations between Iran and the United States. The decision has cast uncertainty over the fate of tests such as TOEFL and GRE in Iran.

Researchers at Iran’s Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute have proposed three different strategies for re-enriching depleted uranium (DU), an approach that could significantly reduce the consumption of natural uranium in nuclear power plants.

The latest Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities for 2026 has placed six Iranian universities among the world's top 1,000 institutions, with Tehran University of Medical Sciences and the University of Tehran jointly securing the highest position among Iranian universities.

Iran’s Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref has underlined the need for the Islamic Republic to improve its position in the fields of cybersecurity and passive defense to foil the enemy’s conspiracies.