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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.
Environment

An animal charity center in Iran’s city of Qom

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Akbar Bozorgzadeh, an Iranian man who cares about the environment, has voluntarily allocated a 2,000-square-meter space in the city of Qom to taking care of birds and animals, which have been injured or seized from hunters, and preparing them for returning to the nature.
Tourism

Iran tourism: Hamedan’s Tarik Darreh ski resort

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Tarik Darreh Ski Resort in the western Iranian city of Hamedan is one of the international ski resorts of the country.
Cultural Heritage

5,000-year-old relic discovered in southeast Iran

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An antiquity dating back to the 3rd millennium BC has been dug out in southeastern Iran.
Cultural Heritage

Iran cultural heritage: 200-year-old Marvi Alley in Tehran

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Kouche Marvi – Marvi Alley – is one of the oldest passageways in the Iranian capital Tehran. It is a historical alley in Nasser Khosrow street, in southern Tehran, that goes back 200 year ago.
Agriculture

Sheikh al-Raees Ibn Sina mausoleum under a blanket of snow

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Hamedan is one of the most beautiful cities of Iran, with a long history that goes back to thousands of years, as the capital of different Iranian dynasties, including Medes.
Art

Iran hosts exhibition of compound sculptures

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The Iranian capital, Tehran, is hosting an exhibition of compound figures made of wood and terracotta.
Agriculture

Iranian saffron very high-quality, tasty: Brazilian minister

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The Brazilian agriculture minister has commended the excellent quality of Iranian saffron, praising it as outstanding and ambrosial.
Human Rights

A secret police prison turned museum in downtown Tehran

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The Ebrat Museum, located in downtown Tehran, once served as a prison facility run by the highly-notorious SAVAK secret police prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.
Theatre

Fajr fest: Tehran’s City Theater hosts stage, street performances

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On Saturday, the seventh day of the 40th Fajr International Theater Festival, the City Theater complex of the Iranian capital, Tehran, was the scene of several street and stage performances.
Music

Nine Iranian provinces host 37th Fajr Music Festival

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The 37th Fajr Music Festival is being held in 9 other provinces of Iran in addition to the capital.
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