During the past month, Iranian scientists have broken new grounds in nuclear energy as well as defense and security industries, thus, flaunting perseverance and diligence of Iranians at the rest of the world. On the occasion of the “Government Week” Tabnak news website has prepared a report on those achievements.

Iranian researchers have succeeded in developing a new herbal medication effective in treating gastrointestinal tumors for the first time in the world.

An Iranian mathematics instructor has been announced as one of the winners of the prestigious Paul Erdِs Award for 2010 by the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions (WFNMC).

The 2010 edition of the Cervino CineMountain Festival in Italy has awarded first-time Iranian director Esmail Monsef short film Oyan. Academy-Award-winning Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami has been appointed to lead the Asian Film Academy at this year's Pusan International Film Festival. Iranian cartoonist and animator Ali Derakhshi has been awarded at the 2010 edition of the annual Asian Youth Animation & Comics Contest, held in Guiyang, China.

Iranian artist Mostafa Aqamiri has been awarded at the 4th edition of the Sharjah Biennial for the Art of Arabic Calligraphy held in the United Arab Emirates. Iran's Mohammad-Ali Khalaji has won the first prize of the 2nd International Comic Artist Conference (ICC) awards on the theme of 'The Rapprochement of Cultures.' Iranian puppet designer Sima Mirza-Hosseini has been granted Canada's 2010 Arlyn Award for creating the puppets for the Arash puppet play. Iranian productions received two international awards at Portugal’s Avanca Film Festival that took place from July 23 to August.

The Iranian team ranked fifth in the 42nd International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) in Tokyo, Japan, by winning one gold and three silver medals in the event. The Iranian team comprised Mohammad Reza Amirmoshiri from Tabriz, Hussein Dadashazar from Tehran, and Hanieh Safari and Amir Hossein Nasseri from Karaj.

The Tehran Vocal Ensemble Iran has won additional medals at the World Choir Games 2010 in China. The Iranian film “Mirror and Water” won the Best Short Film Award of the 3rd Wimbledon Shorts, a London short film festival that took place in England on July 10 and 11.

Iranian surgeons have achieved to successfully perform the country's first multi-organ transplantation in a 31-year-old man suffering from cancer.

Three Iranian productions have been awarded and praised at the 2010 edition of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival held in the Czech Republic. A painting by an eight-year-old Iranian boy has won the honorary diploma of the 2010 United Nations International Children’s Painting Competition. Kurdish-Iranian filmmaker Shawkat Amin Korki's Kick Off has received the top award of the 2010 edition of Taipei Film Festival in the Taiwanese capital. The 2010 edition of Austria's Festival of Nations has awarded three feature-length and short films directed by young Iranian filmmakers.

Dr. Freydoon Shahidi, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, has been elected to the 2010 Class of Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the first Iranian-American mathematician to receive this honor.