Society and Culture

Twenty-eight ancient Iranian relics illegally smuggled out of Iran have been returned home from Austria.

The historical Nasser-ad-Din-Mirza House is one of two dome-shaped monuments in the Iranian capital, Tehran.

The Little Iran Park is a site located in the city of Karaj, west of Tehran, which showcases Iranian culture and history on a small scale.

As a common practice among the people of different religions, cultures and nationalities around the globe on the eve or first days of the New Year, Iranians serve their traditional dishes on the initial days of Nowruz. Reshteh Polo is one of these popular dishes which is made on the first Saturday of the new year.

Love has been the driving force behind the formation of a man-made cave in Jahrom, southern Iran.

The people of Sisakht city in Iran's Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province whose houses were destroyed in a recent earthquake celebrated the Persian New Year by arranging the Haft Seen table in their tents and destroyed houses.

Alleys in the city of Bushehr in the southern Iranian Bushehr province smell of spring.

Photos by Mohammad-Reza Dehdari, ISNA

Despite the coronavirus outbreak, Iranian people from all walks of life are preparing themselves for the Persian New Year or Nowruz, which marks the beginning of the new solar year.

Godeh Aubergine is an Iranian food usually cooked in northern Gilan province. This food is made with aubergine, walnuts and pomegranate paste.

The 6th Tehran Annual Urban Arts Festival has opened in the run-up to the Persian New Year which starts on March 21, 2021.

A collection of rarely-seen Persian artworks and crafts is to be displayed at Australia’s Powerhouse Museum, a major branch of the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences in Sydney.

Kish Island, a Persian Gulf resort in southern Iran, hosted a water ski and wakeboard tournament on Sunday, February 28, 2021.

Ancient rock carvings have been newly discovered in the western Iranian province of Lorestan, according to the province’s Department of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts.

Iranian artist Ali Vaziri has displayed at an exhibition called “hanging roots” his works of art which depict the trend of decline among human beings.

The novel coronavirus has led to the death of a pregnant Iranian nurse before she delivered her baby.

The Iranian minister of culture and Islamic guidance says the country will exchange its “poetic” experience of coronavirus with the world.

Iran’s minister of science, research and technology says Iranian women have had a brilliant performance in the higher education domain.

The Iranian foreign minister has congratulated the Chinese government and people on the advent of their near year and their brilliant achievements in the fight against coronavirus.

The ancient Gate of Cyrus the Great has been discovered near Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (c. 550–330 BCE), in southern Iran.

Ali Ansarian, a former defender playing for the Iranian national team and Persepolis and a popular public figure, has died of COVID-19 at the age of 43.

The town of Dahaneh-Gholaman in southeastern Iran was discovered by Italian archaeologists in 1959.

A historical qanat, an underground channel to transport water, in the city of Yazd in central Iran has been successfully revived.

Former Iranian football player Mehrdad Minavand passed away because of COVID-19 on Wednesday night at the age of 45.

Iran says it will help restore the Persian archaeological masterpiece Taq Kasra (also known as the Arch of Ctesiphon), located in modern-day Iraq, only if Baghdad officially asks Tehran to do so.