Muslims believe that the three-night prayers on the 19th, 21st, and 23rd of the holy fasting month of Ramadan will cleanse their souls of their sins.
Laylat al-Qadr is also concurrent with the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Ali, the first Shia Imam.
Below you can find the pictures of the spiritual ceremony at Imamzadeh Saleh in Tehran’s Darband neighborhood:
The head of the traffic police General Ahmad Shirani also reported that over 17,400 people have been injured in the accidents since March 20.
The highest number of the deaths happened in Kerman, Fars, Sistan and Baluchestan, Isfahan, Khorassan Razavi, and Khuzestan provinces.
Meanwhile, the police have imposed restrictions in the highly congested road from the northern city of Chalus to the capital Tehran to facilitate the return of the travelers in the final days of the 13-day holidays.
Iran has one of the world’s worst records of tragic incidents on the roads mainly due to poor maintenance of the roads and reckless driving.
The largest mass prayers in Iran was held in the northeastern holy city of Mashhad at the shrine of Imam Reza, the eighth Shia Imam, which hosted millions of worshippers from across the country and even abroad.
In Laylat al-Qadr, which is a night believed to be worth more than a thousand months, worshippers pray and ask God for forgiveness.
According to religious texts angels descend on the earth on this night to listen to the prayers of the worshippers.
The exact night of Laylat al-Qadr is a matter of dispute based on religious documents, so people hold mass prayers on three different nights, the 19th, 21st, and 23rd of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
The source, talking to IRNA, referred to trend of positive developments in the relations between Tehran and Baku, saying some good agreements have been reached by the two sides in this regard.
The source added that Iran and Azerbaijan plan to hold diplomatic meetings after the reopening of the Azeri embassy in Tehran.
According to the source in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as part of the existing agreements, Iran will send a new ambassador to Baku as the tenure of outgoing ambassador Mr. Mousavi has already ended.
The Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran closed after an armed man attacked it on January 27, 2023, killing an embassy staffer.
The man was immediately arrested by Iran’s police. But the Azeri government criticized Iran over the attack and recalled its ambassador to Tehran.
The attacker identified as Yasin Hosseinzadeh was however put on trial by Iran and was sentenced to death in February 2024.
Nasser Kanaani called on the international community and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to move beyond condemning “these aggressive invasions” and take preventive measures and hold the Israeli regime to account.
The spokesperson said, “These attacks are a clear violation of international law and regulations, and breach Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and are a serious threat to regional and international peace and security.”
The senior Iranian diplomat noted that the attacks synchronized and were simultaneous with the attacks by the terrorist groups on the ground in other parts of Syria.
He said, it is a clear evidence that Israel supports terrorist groups and currents in Syria, which for many years have targeted the national security of Syria and the security of the region and have claimed the lives of thousands of innocent people.
He also expressed his condolences to the Syrian government and nation, as well as the families of the dead. At least 42 Syrians including 36 troops were killed in Israel’s raids on Aleppo.
Meanwhile, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson referred to Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, adding, “The aggressive strikes on Syria are a desperate and shameful attempt to continue and expand the crisis in the region aimed at restoring the regime’s failed image in front of the Palestinian nation and the resistance groups.”
“It is an international and global responsibility to deal with the dangerous adventurism that breaches the security and stability of the region,” he said.
In an interview with Fars news agency, Ali Noroozi touched on the AEOI’s achievements during the past Iranian year, which finished on March 20.
He said, “In the past year, the Department of Advanced Technologies introduced two products, the first one is related to the separation of tellurium isotopes, and the other one is the manufacture of spectrophotometer equipment, which is used in nuclear fusion.”
Noroozi explained that spectrophotometer is a highly accurate advanced diagnostic tool in nuclear fusion, and since the device is indigenously built, it puts Iran among the few countries in the world that possess the technology.
The atomic agency organization’s deputy head said Iran is planning to expand its peaceful nuclear programs in the Persian New Year, adding “We expect to gain a deserved status in the field of nuclear fusion in the next few years.”
Noroozi further noted that Iran is planning to unveil the stable isotope separation chain of iridium in the New Year, which he said is an important matter and a big step forward in radiography and diagnostic issues that have been hit hard by US-led Western sanctions.
Upon arrival in Tehran, Amirabdollahian told reporters on Friday that during his meetings with Turkmen officials, “We reviewed the progress and implementation of the latest agreements between the heads of the two countries during the recent visit of the high-ranking officials of Turkmenistan to Tehran.”
Amirabdollahian met top Turkmen officials, including President Sardar Berdimohamedov, his counterpart Rashid Meredov, and chairman of the People’s Council of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.
The Iranian foreign minister said, “One of the objectives of my trip to Turkmenistan was to make the preparations for the visit by the Iranian president to Turkmenistan by reviewing what was agreed between the two countries in the past and evaluating the progress of the relations.”
Amirabdollahian said both sides agreed to step up cooperation in various areas, including energy, transit, transportation, science and technology.
The top Iranian diplomat expressed hope the volume of trade between the two neighbors will experience a jump in the coming weeks.
The two countries have implemented joint infrastructure projects, including cross-border gas pipelines and power lines, the Friendship Dam, and the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway.
The mourners in the city of Karaj, near the capital Tehran, carried the body of Behrouz Vahedi who was assassinated in an Israeli attack in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria, on Tuesday morning.
Vahedi was a member of the Quds Force’s Holy Shrines Defenders in the city to help the Syrian government in its anti-terror operations.
He is survived by his 2-year-old son and his wife.
Israel occasionally carries out airstrikes against Iranian forces in Syria who are on an advisory mission in the country at the request of the Syrian government to confront the remnants of militant groups including Daesh.
During the meeting, held in the Turkmen capital city of Ashgabat, the two sides specifically explored ways of restoring peace and stability to Afghanistan.
The top Iranian diplomat pointed to the agreements reached between the two states in the fields of gas, electricity, water management, transportation, and transit and called for their full implementation.
The President of Turkmenistan also expressed satisfaction with the high level of friendly and fraternal interactions between the two countries and described these cooperation as a symbol of friendly relations in the region.
Berdimuhamedow also invited the Iranian companies to work more in his country, given “the positive experiences of the implementation of infrastructure projects by Iranian companies in Turkmenistan.”
Amirabdollahian, also in a meeting with his Turkmen counterpart, Rashid Meredov, emphasized the expansion of cooperation between the two countries in the fields of energy, transit, and transportation.
Amirabdollahian referred to the Caspian Sea as an area for constructive cooperation between the coastal countries, and
considered the continuation of discussions on legal, security, and economic issues of the Caspian Sea necessary.
He expressed Iran’s readiness to host the third economic conference of Caspian coastal countries at the level of prime ministers.
The top Iranian diplomat also said the military presence of third parties in the Caspian Sea goes against the interests of the region.
Meredov, for his part, described the Caspian Sea as a sea of peace, understanding, and cooperation.
The Iranian foreign minister also in a meeting with the chairman of the People’s Council of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, said relations between the two countries are growing based on various commonalities and mutual interests, adding Iran and Turkmenistan
have similar positions and cooperate well in regional and international assemblies.
For his part, the chairman of the People’s Council of Turkmenistan described bilateral ties as excellent.
“After hours without any information about my brother, who had gone to visit my father… we realized that Majid has been apparently arrested by Sweden’s police. We are not aware of the details of the incident for now.” Atieh Nouri, daughter of Hamid Nouri, said in a post on X social media platform on Friday.
The Swedish police have arrested Hamid Nouri over a lawsuit filed by the anti-Iran terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) with the blood of over 17,000 Iranians on their hand.
Nouri, who has been given a life sentence, was accused by Swedish authorities of involvement in the execution and torture of MKO members in the 1980s. He has been in solitary confinement since his arrest.
Iranian officials have criticized his ‘politically-motivated’ detention and life sentence as illegal.
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