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Sport

Iran’s female taekwondo athlete wins gold medal at World Championships

IFP Media Wire -
Iranian female athlete Nahid Kiani has made history by grabbing the gold medal at the 2023 Taekwondo World Championships held in Baku, Azerbaijan Republic.
Sport

Iran holds Purebred Arabian Horse Competition

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Iran holds the 33the edition of the Purebred Arabian Horse Competition, with 100 beautiful high-quality horses from across the country taking part.
Food

Iran’s traditional ice cream tops Taste Atlas list of world’s best frozen desserts

IFP Editorial Staff -
Iran’s traditional ice cream, known as Bastani Sonnati, has topped the list of the world’s 50 best frozen desserts released by Taste Atlas, a popular encyclopedia of local food, traditional restaurants, and authentic recipes across the world.
Tourism

Iran tourism: Spring face of nature in Tuyserkan

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Tuyserkan is the fourth largest city in Iran’s Hamadan Province. It is a mountainous city with a moderate climate in western Iran.
Tourism

Iran deputy culture minister slams arrests of Hafezieh officials over viral proposal video

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The Iranian deputy minister of cultural heritage, tourism and handicrafts criticizes the arrests of two cultural officials in Shiraz after a video went viral of a young man proposing to a woman without mandatory hijab near the tomb of the 14th century poet Hafez.
Tourism

Iran tourism: Breathtaking oak forests of Lorestan Province

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Lorestan Province, which sits in the middle of the Zagros Mountains in western Iran, is covered with 1.2 million hectares of spectacular oak forests, making the region, along with its other unique characteristics, a popular tourist attraction.
Sport

Iran’s Taremi clinches top scorer title in Portuguese Primeira Liga

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Iranian striker Mehdi Taremi has emerged as the leading goal scorer in the Portuguese Primeira Liga with 22 goals he scored for his team, FC Porto.
Tourism

Iran tourism: Rig-e Zarrin sand desert in Yazd

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The Rig-e Zarrin sand desert is one of the most spectacular tourist destinations in Yazd Province of Iran.
Tourism

Unique Souvenirs and Handicrafts of Iran’s Qeshm Island

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Qeshm is an Iranian island in the Persian Gulf with many natural, cultural and tourist attractions. The island is considered a tourist hub with great capacity to attract more domestic and foreign travellers.
Nature and Wildlife

Harvesting spring-time chai (tea) plants in Iran’s north

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It’s already mid-spring, and the chai (tea) farmers in Iran’s bountiful north are harvesting what is known as spring-time chai plants.
Food

Two Iranian dips classified among world’s 50 best: Taste Atlas

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Taste Atlas, a well-known encyclopedia of local food, traditional restaurants, and authentic recipes across the world has named Iranian ‘Kashke Bademjan’ and ‘Mast-o-Khiar’ on its list of the world’s 50 best dips.
Tourism

Tourist visits to Iran increased four times in 2022: Tourism body

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Figures released by the World Tourism Organization show a 315-percent rise in the number of tourist visits to Iran last year.
Tourism

Iran tourism: Saqalaksar in Iran’s littoral spells visitors

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Saqalaksar Village, 15 kilometers to the south of the Iranian city of Rasht, in Gilan Province, has a particular feature. An embankment dam in the village in northern Iran, has provided an exquisite tourist attraction, looking almost like a natural lake.
Handicrafts

Ikat, an 800-year-old art, in Iran’z Yazd

Fatemeh Askarieh -
Ikat (Daraee, Persian word for asset) is one of the beautiful and unique hand-woven fabrics produced in the Iranian city of Yazd. The industry is known as Ikat weaving. They make the fabric using natural silk and very beautiful geometric designs and pictures.
Culture

Iran’s Ferdowsi, poet of Book of Kings, commemorated in Tous

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Abolqassem Ferdowsi, the late tenth-century Persian poet who composed the great epic The Book of Kings, or Shahnameh, has been commemorated during an event at his tomb in the historical city of Tous, in northeastern Iran.
Tourism

Iran tourism: Behind the dam, an island

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Shahid Abbaspour Dam, or Karoun 1 Dam, is one of Iran’s biggest, built on the Karoun River in Khouzestan Province in southwestern Iran.
Tourism

Iran tourism: World’s largest fresh water spring in Marivan

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Marivan, a city in Iran’s western province of Kordestan, is home to the world’s largest fresh water spring.
Sport

Iran crowned champions at 2023 Asian Weightlifting

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Iran's weightlifting team became champion at the 2023 Asian Weightlifting Championships held in South Korea.
Society

Iranians celebrate national festival of twins in Zanjan

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Large numbers of Iranian twins, triplets, and multiples gather in the city of Zanjan, northwest of the capital Tehran, to celebrate the national festival of twins.
Books

‘Future is readable’: Iran capital hosts 34th edition of Tehran Int. Book Fair

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The 34th edition of the annual Tehran International Book Fair opens doors to reading enthusiasts and book lovers in the Iranian capital, bringing together thousands of Iranian and foreign publishers.
Music

Iranian pop singer Hossein Zaman dies of cancer at 63

IFP Editorial Staff -
Iranian pop music singer Hossein Zaman loses his battle with cancer and dies at the age of 63.
Sport

Intl. Wrestling Tournament, Takhti Cup

IFP Editorial Staff -
The 43rd round of the Takhti Championships was held on Monday morning (May 8, 2023) in the Iranian capital Tehran.
Sport

Iran runners-up at IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s Asia

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The Iranian women's ice hockey team won the vice-champion title of the 2023 Asian championships in Thailand after conceding defeat against the host.
Nature and Wildlife

Tehran International Exhibition of Flowers and Plants

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Tehran International Exhibition of Flowers & Plants-19 kicked off on Saturday afternoon (May 6, 2023) in the Gofetgoo Garden in the Iranian capital.
Nature and Wildlife

Snow whitens Iranian town in spring

IFP Editorial Staff -
It is mid-spring in Iran and yet, this northern town in Mazandaran Province has turned white with snow. Savad-Kooh is a mountainous town abounding in wild flowers. Now covered in unexpected snow, the scenery is even more pleasing to the eye.
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