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Danger Zone, the adrenalin-pumping title song of the original Top Gun film, spawned a whole generation of American patriots willing to do or die for their country. Perhaps no other film has done more for American patriotism than Top Gun. Those were heady days, before Iraq, before 9/11 and before COVID-19, when America was seen as invincible and immortal – the quasi-mythical “shining city upon a hill.” In those heady days, everyone wanted to be American. The duo of Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer saw the future in Tom Cruise, a fresh-faced actor in his early 20s, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Crystal Guo says she typically works for about six months to a year before quitting. It’s what the 30-year-old describes as her new lifestyle of “intermittent working and persistent lying flat.” 

Tel Abyad Festival for Culture and Heritage was launched on Wednesday, in the town of Ain Issa north of Raqqa in northern Syria wiith teams from the cities of Raqqa and Kobani participating in the event.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for amplifying the voices of Indigenous women, which is critical to achieving a just future for all people.  

Regarding the number of sacrificial animals slaughtered during Muharram month, the Great Husseiniya of Zanjan is the first altar in the Shia world and the second altar in the Islamic world after Mina in Mecca holy city.

Iranian animation "Far Away" by Behrouz and Shirin Soleimani Nazir and Farnaz Moazen won the grand prize of the International Animated Film Festival "Constantine’s gold coin" in Serbia.

The Azerbaijani culture visited the Mausoleum of Imam Khomeini on Monday as part of his state visit to Iran.

There is a host of historical Persian rugs on display in museums all across the world, but the oldest of the kind dating back to 2,500 years ago is kept in State Hermitage Museum in the Russian Federation.

A group of foreign journalists visited Kerman, southeastern Iran, getting familiar with some of the economic, touristic, and handicraft capacities of the city.

The first exhibition of Iranian hand-woven carpets and rugs was opened in Sao Paulo in the presence of Hossein Gharibi, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Brazil.