Google Inc has created a tool that converts blogs, news and text messages from English to Persian.

University of Chicago scientists they've digitally recorded thousands of ancient Persian tablets that tell an unusually detailed story of the Persian Empire. Researchers from the university's Oriental Institute, led by institute Director Gil Stein, said the tablets present texts in impressed cuneiform characters, while other have inked texts in Aramaic.

Coinciding with the arrival of the Persian New year, the much anticipated historical documentary film "IRAN, The Forgotten Glory" directed by Makan Karandish and produced by Mystic Films Intl.

Iran has declared the recently established BBC Persian TV illegal and banned Iranian journalists and artists from working for the station, CNN reported. Considering the BBC's history of creating chaos in Iran, and its efforts to set the various strata of Iranian society against each other, the presence of the BBC Persian TV in the Islamic Republic is deemed to be illegal, Mohammad Hossein Saffar Harandi, the minister of culture and Islamic guidance, has announced, adding that plans for the BBC Persian TV channel were not carried out with good will. However, a spokesman for the English broadcaster insisted to CNN the BBC's latest operation -- which began airing programs in Farsi in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan last week -- isn't breaking any Iranian laws. The BBC representative said the company adheres to an Iranian law that says it is illegal for the channel to report and gather news in Iran.

Text of report by leading moderate reformist Iranian daily E'temad website on 28 August More than a month after the official launch of the Persian MBC television network, which broadcasts American movies with Persian subtitles on a 24-hour basis and free of charge, officials at the Iranian Voice and Vision [Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting] are taking steps to launch an independent 24/7 network in response to MBC's Persian channel.