Iran in Photos

A collection of the most beautiful photos of Iran, including the country’s natural attractions, cultural heritage, handicrafts, and important sites

Architecture

Festival honors traditional cultivation, drinking of tea in Iran’s north

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A tea festival has been held in Iran’s northern Caspian-littoral Gilan Province, which is home to the country’s largest tea estates, and where the Iranian tea drinking ritual runs deep.
Nature and Wildlife

Spring on road to Prophet Khaled

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When spring begins, colorful wild flowers fill the plains and pastures north of the city of Gonbad Kavous and along the shrine of the Prophet Khaled ibn Sinan (Prophet Khaled). The region, in Iran’s northern province of Golestan, is unique thanks to its beautiful and gorgeous green hills and its tranquility.
Environment

Tehran’s 18th International Exhibition of Flowers and Plants

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The 18th International Exhibition of Flowers and Plants, Park Equipment and Related Industries is under way in Tehran's Goftegou Park.
Tourism

Iran tourism: Estakhrgah village, the hidden paradise near Rudbar

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Estakhrgah is a small village in the Iranian province of Gilan. It is known as the hidden paradise.
Tourism

Iran tourism: National Festival of Citrus Aurantium in Shiraz

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The National Festival of Citrus Aurantium was held in Shiraz, the capital city of the southern province of Fars, with an emphasis on the importance of the fruit in the city and its prominent role in the tourism attraction.
Nature and Wildlife

Iranian plain abounds with snake’s head flowers

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Fritillaria, more commonly called snake’s head or leper’s lily, is one of the most unique plants local to Iranian mountains. A genus of spring flowering herbaceous bulbous perennial plants in the lily family, it is bell-shaped and bends downward, hence its name in Persian Laleh Vazhgoon (upside down tulip).
Art

Marmar Palace, Iran’s Museum of Art

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Marmar Palace, is one of the historical palaces of Tehran and a major tourism attraction, which was built in 1934 on an order by the then Iranian ruler Reza Shah.
Tourism

Beautiful Iran: The wonderland of Chabahar, lost paradise

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Chabahar is Iran’s only oceanside port which sits off the Sea of Oman and the Indian Ocean. In the first description of Chabahar, it could be said that it is Iran’s lost paradise.
Iran in Pictures

Symbolic polo game played in Isfahan’s iconic field

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Symbolic polo competitions have been held at Naqshe-Jahan, a major square in the central Iranian city of Isfahan to commemorate Nowruz, which marks the beginning of the Persian New Year.
Photo of the Day

Along Karoun

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Karoun is the longest and largest rive in Iran and a large proportion of it flows through the southwestern province of Khouzestan.
Tourism

Nowruz mood in Isfahan’s historical Naqsh-e Jahan Square

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Naqsh-e Jahan Square is one of the main tourist attractions of Iran’s central city of Isfahan.
Custom

‘Carnival of Joy’ marks Nowruz across Iran’s Semnan Province

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A festive carnival, called the Carnival of Joy, has been travelling across Iran’s north-central province of Semnan, as Iranians are celebrating the start of spring and the Persian New Year.
Tourism

Rally of classic cars in Isfahan

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A classic car rally was held on Tuesday simultaneously with Nowruz from Isfahan’s Khaju Square to Chaharbagh Abbasi, and these cars were put on display after drawing up Chaharbagh.
Tourism

Iran tourism: Golestan Province in full spring bloom

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These days, every corner of the northern Iranian Province of Golestan is covered with pink, blue, purple, yellow and green blooms and scents of trees are everywhere in the air.
Custom

Nowruz in Kurdistan’s Poloureh Village

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Poloureh is a village in the Sarshiv area of Marivan County in the western Iranian province of Kurdistan.
Tourism

Iran tourism: Chabahar’s Martian Mountains

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Chabahar’s Martian or Miniature Mountains, which are called Kalani or Aria in the local dialect, are located 35 to 40 kilometers off the southeastern Iranian port city of Chabahar.
Custom

Iran’s capital celebrates start of New Year with fireworks

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Firework displays have been held at several landmarks across the Iranian capital, Tehran, to celebrate the start of Nowruz or the Persian New Year.
Iran in Pictures

Nowruz feast for working children

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A Nowruz feast was held for working children in brick kilns near Shahr-e-Rey, southern Tehran.
Iran in Pictures

New Year shoppers throng Grand Bazzar of Tehran in last-minute shopping sprees

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Iranians are getting ready to ring in the Persian New Year, Nowruz. Shopping centers, in particular, are seething with people, who are bustling around stores to buy the items they need.
Iran in Pictures

Iranians on shopping sprees as countdown to Persian New Year begins

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With the Persian New Year, Nowruz, just around the corner, Iranians go on shopping sprees and spend much time outdoors at bazaars and markets.
Iran in Pictures

Chaharshanbe Suri and spoon-banging-Hamedan

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Chaharshanbe Suri is one of the most ancient and beautiful traditional festivals of Iran. This festival has been celebrated on the eve of the last Wednesday of the year since ancient times up until now. Chaharshanbe Suri is very popular among Iranians and is marked across the country.
Iran in Pictures

Nowruz Global Ritual held in western Iran

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A ceremony dubbed Nowruz Global Ritual has started in the tourism route of western Iran aimed at introducing the customs of this ancient occasion in the presence of different Iranian ethnic groups and guests from UNESCO in Hamadan as the capital of Iranian history and civilization.
Iran in Pictures

Iran’s Kurdish village welcomes spring

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Locals in the western Iranian village of Palangan, in Kurdistan Province have held their annual spring festival to mark the coming of the Persian New Year.
Iran in Pictures

Tehran holds ceremony celebrating Nowruz

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The Iranian capital Tehran has held a ceremony featuring traditional music and arts to celebrate Nowruz, a festival that marks the Persian New Year.
Iran in Pictures

Nowruz traditions: Goldfish, guests at Haft Seen tables

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Nowruz is one of the most beautiful and lasting traditions of Iranians and ethnic Iranians, which is marked across the world. Nowruz rituals ranging from Haji Firuz, Chaharshanbe Suri and New Year house-cleaning to Haft Seen and visits to relatives’ houses and Sizdah Bedar have evolved over a span of thousands of years and are observed with slight differences at each corner of the Iranian lands.
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