The Head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage Organization has announced the news that Iran is compiling a file to submit to the Unesco World Heritage Site for the registration of the 4500-year old cedar of Abarkuh as Iran’s oldest lifeform.
The 5,000-year-old skeleton of a teenage girl has been unearthed during archeological excavations in the historical mound of Boz Roudpey near the city of Babol in northern Iran. The skeleton belongs to a 13 to 14-year-old girl buried with an awl and a necklace made of shells, stones and tar.
The Iranian short film Tattoo by Farhad Delaram won a Crystal Bear award at the 69th Berlin Film Festival in the German capital from a young jury of the Generation 14plus section.
“Finding Farideh” produced by Azadeh Mousavi and Kourosh Ataee from Iran will be screened on Friday 22 February 2019 at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in the US.
The first album of the “Opium Moon” ensemble has won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album at the 61st edition of the awards.
The 37th edition of the Fajr International Theater Festival (FITF) started in Tehran on February 11, 2019.
On the anniversary of the Popular Uprising of the People of Tabriz, which took place on February 18, 1978, thousands of people from the East Azerbaijan Province met with Ayatollah Khamenei— the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution— this morning, February 18, 2019.
The former director general of Middle East Affairs at Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs believes: “Tel Aviv is presently seeking to provoke Iran to show a military reaction so that it would lead to a US involvement in the conflict and eventually, help Israel solve its problem in the Middle East. But Iran can boost its position in the region through peace and stability and has no need for this conflict.”
The Iranian Minister of Science Research and Technology has announced that Shahid Beheshti University (SBU) and Sharif University of Technology (SUT) have been sanctioned for their scientific activities in nuclear energy.
An Iranian reformist believes: “The opposition has presented a motion to impeach the President under the present circumstances in order to lay the groundwork for the acceptance of their own candidates in the next presidential elections and tie the government’s hands in implementing certain policies such as the FATF.”
Iran’s foreign minister said on Sunday Israel was looking for war and the way Israel and the United States were acting made the prospect of war great, reports Reuters.
Commander of the IRGC Navy has confirmed the presence of Chinese trawlers in the Persian Gulf, saying: “The IRGC cannot remain silent when the rights of our fishermen are being trampled on.”
Iran is trying to solve the problems tourists have in having to bring cash to Iran instead of credit cards via banking platforms and put an end to the difficulty.
The tomb of Cambyses II, conqueror of Egypt, is one of the beautiful structures of Pasargadae complex in southern Iran which was constructed in the early days of the Achaemenid era. It is an almost 14-meter high tower-like quadrilateral structure placed on a three-step platform.
India will be working with the Cultural Heritage Organization of Hormozgan Province in southern Iran for the reconstruction of a Hindu temple in Bandar Abbas Port.
The 12th Tehran International Tourism Exhibition has opened in Tehran today, 12 February 2019.
The Sarvestan Palace complex is located in Fars Province, 9kms south of Sarvestan town. It is home to Iran’s oldest brick dome and was constructed under the rule of Bahram Gor (V), the 15th Sassanid king.
Bishapur is an ancient city in Fars Province, southern Iran, on the banks of Shapur River.
Due to unsuitable economic conditions, the Supreme Leader has ordered the share of the National Development Fund from oil revenues to be reduced to 20 percent for the next fiscal year.
Iran has become an exporter of petrol with a production of 105 million liters per day.
Iran’s Minister of Petroleum has said: “Although 81 percent of the South Pars 11 gas field project has been officially transferred to China’s CNPC, this company has made no efforts to develop the project.”
Rising red meat prices in Tehran have led to the closure of a quarter of its restaurants.
Following unprecedented rises in the price of red meat in recent years, the Iranian government has taken measures such as importing livestock and reducing customs tariff to zero to adjust market prices.
Chairman of the joint Iran-Syria Economic Commission commented on a recent visit to Syria by an Iranian trade delegation headed by First Vice-President Eshagh Jahangiri, and said: “The MoUs and talks which have been respectively signed and held during the visit had two dimensions. One was the political dimension which was taken care of by Mr Jahangiri, Mr Mohammad Eslami, Minister of Roads and Urban Development, and Mr Abdolnaser Hemmati, Governor of the Central Bank of Iran; the other dimension was economic during which Iran’s private sector supervised by the Chamber of Commerce held talks with its Syrian counterparts. The latter led to the signing of a major agreement with several important provisions between the two sides.”
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Guilan Province has always received the attention of both domestic and foreign tourists because of its huge variety of dishes; the traditional cuisine of this province has a global reputation.
Ardabili badam (Almond) stew is a delicious, local dish of Ardabil cooked for large parties and gatherings.
The Khalal (Slivered almond) stew is a delicious, traditional dish from Kermanshah in western Iran.
Bozghormeh is a delicious homemade dish from Kerman, eastern Iran, which is also very nutritious because it contains meat and peas.
Yoghurt stew is an original dish of Isfahan. Although it is called stew, it is in fact served either as a desert or an entrée. It is sweet-tasting and delicious.
Local foods in the northern regions of Iran are among the healthiest and most popular foods that are easy to cook, yet tasty and delicious. One of Guilan's gourmet dishes is pomegranate stew (anaar mosamma), which has a lot of fans due to its sweet-sour flavor and because it can easily be served at parties. It is suggested that you always have pomegranate seeds stored in the fridge in the pomegranate season.
On the anniversary of the Popular Uprising of the People of Tabriz, which took place on February 18, 1978, thousands of people from the East Azerbaijan Province met with Ayatollah Khamenei— the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution— this morning, February 18, 2019.
The Head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage Organization has announced the news that Iran is compiling a file to submit to the Unesco World Heritage Site for the registration of the 4500-year old cedar of Abarkuh as Iran’s oldest lifeform.
Iranian lawmakers have assigned the country’s Ministry of Sport and Youth to prepare the groundwork for adding the Persepolis and Esteghlal football clubs to the Farabourse off-exchange trading by mid-September 2019 in cooperation with the Tehran Stock Exchange and Iranian Privatization Organization.
The former director general of Middle East Affairs at Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs believes: “Tel Aviv is presently seeking to provoke Iran to show a military reaction so that it would lead to a US involvement in the conflict and eventually, help Israel solve its problem in the Middle East. But Iran can boost its position in the region through peace and stability and has no need for this conflict.”
Iranian lawmakers have assigned the country’s Ministry of Sport and Youth to prepare the groundwork for adding the Persepolis and Esteghlal football clubs to the Farabourse off-exchange trading by mid-September 2019 in cooperation with the Tehran Stock Exchange and Iranian Privatization Organization.
An Iranian woman skier spoke about declaring her fault to the judges at the World Ski Championships which resulted in her elimination, and said: “I did it for my moral beliefs and ethics.”
Iran is the country of four seasons. You can experience cold, snowy days as well as warm and sunny weather on the same day. You can walk in its rainforests or reflect in its hot, dry deserts. If you travel to Iran in the winter, you can visit the largest resort in the Middle East for skiing and other winter sports. On the same day and within a few hours, you can travel to Kish or Chabahar in the South and swim in the sea or ride a jet ski. These are some of the advantages of traveling to Iran, enjoyed by few countries.
Kish Island will be hosting a marathon on 1 March 2019.
Following the defeat of Iran’s national football team against Japan in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup semi-final match, the director of the Public Relations Office of Iran’s Ministry of Sport and Youth has made a strange claim about replacing the Iranian team’s head coach, Carlos Queiroz.
Yuya Osako returned to Japan’s starting line-up to score a second-half brace and seal the Samurai Blue’s spot in the final of the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 as Hajime Moriyasu’s side defeated the Islamic Republic of Iran 3-0 at Al Ain’s Hazza bin Zayed Stadium on Monday.
