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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.
Food

Recipe for Gheymeh stew

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The recipe for Gheymeh, a dish that has made a name for itself as a fixture of religious functions.
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.
Iran in Pictures

Nowruz Khani, a tradition marking arrival of spring in Guilan

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One of the traditional customs and rituals in Guilan Province is Nowruz Khani – or singing to mark Persian New Year, Nowruz.
Custom

Noruz Khani ancient tradition in Iran’s Mazandaran Province

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Noruz Khani is a traditional song that has been sung since ancient times in many Iranian cities since the middle of the Persian month of Esfand (around March 6).
Iran in Pictures

Pics: Iran villagers begin spring house cleaning before Nowruz

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With Nowruz or the Persian New Year just around the corner, Iranian villagers, like other compatriots, begin spring house cleaning, called Khooneh Tekooni in the Persian language, a national tradition marked by almost all Iranians every year prior to the turn of the season.
Food

Recipe for Tahchin

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Tahchin, which is usually served as a main dish, can be cooked with different fillings.
Tourism

Sa’adat, a historical school in Iran’s Bushehr

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The National Day of Bushehr coincides with the anniversary of the founding of Sa’adat School in the southern Iranian port city.
Iran in Pictures

Tabriz hosts giant colored eggs festival

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A park in the Iranian city of Tabriz is hosting a festival of large colored Nowruz eggs.
Tourism

Tajrish bustling in run up to Nowruz

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The Iranian New Year is fast approaching and the festive mood can be felt in the streets of the capital in the run up to Nowruz.
Nature and Wildlife

Red Beach of Hormuz Island in the Persian Gulf

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Hormuz Island spans an area of 42 square kilometers and is located in the Persian Gulf, 16 kilometers off the coasts of Bandar Abbas.
Nature and Wildlife

Iran tourism attractions: Beris, a port village in southeast

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Beris is a village 60 km east of Chabahar in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan Province.
Nature and Wildlife

Wives of foreign ambassadors in tree planting day ceremony

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The tree planting day ceremony was held on Sunday at the Center for Political and International Studies of Iran’s Foreign Ministry. The Iranian foreign minister’s wife, the families of the Foreign Ministry’s martyrs and the wives of foreign ambassadors residing in Tehran attended the event.
Cultural Heritage

Get to know Iran’s historical ‘Burnt City’ museum

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Across from the ruins of Shahr-e Sukhteh (the Burnt City) near Iran’s southeastern city of Zahehdan, there is a museum that puts on display archeological finds uncovered in excavations of the ancient site such as clay and stone artifacts, statuettes, beads and reconstructed graves with skeletons.
Society

Iran and its feasts in month of Esfand

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Preservation of nature and environment was the most important principle of life for ancient Iranians and they always performed rituals of joy under the pretext of giving thanks to God.
Music

Amir-Reza: On the path to a dream

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Amir-Reza was diagnosed with pineoblastoma (brain tumor) at the age of 5 and recovered after 2 years of treatment. His parents, being aware of Amir-Reza’s interest in singing, decided to introduce him as a singer to perform at events organized by a cancer-stricken children’s charity.
Culture

Iran national heritage: Gorgan’s historic district

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The historic district of the city of Gorgan, which spans an area of 162 hectares, was the first urban such districts countrywide to enter the national list of heritage sites in 1931.
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