The Iranian capital of Tehran and the city of Lahijan in Gilan province have played host to celebrations of ice artworks created by citizens during the recent snowy days.
The runways of Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport were dug out from under 70 centimeters (more than two feet) of snow, letting flights resume on Sunday morning.
Heavy snowfall in Iran’s capital has shut the two main airports of the city while the authorities have announced that all schools across Tehran will also be closed on Sunday.
The city of Khalkhal in Iran’s northwestern Ardabil province is covered with snow while many other parts of Iran are spending an unprecedentedly dry winter.
Ganjnameh waterfall, located in Iran’s western city of Hamadan, is one of the most famous and attractive waterfalls of the country which becomes more beautiful when frozen in the winter.
Interesting scenes have been created following the sharp decline in temperature within the past days that has frozen parts of the lake of the Mahabad Dam in West Azerbaijan province.
Heavy snowfall and rainfall affected some 28 provinces, mainly in northern and western parts of Iran, on Monday with temperatures plunging to below zero.
Iran’s Volleyball Federation will stage a snow volleyball tournament for the first time at the Dizin resort in the Alborz mountain range near Tehran, the Iranian capital.
People in northwestern Iranian province of East Azarbaijan are used to heavy snowfalls in late autumn and early winter. This year, a snowman festival has attracted many people in the provincial capital of Tabriz.
In the first days of winter, several Iranian provinces were covered with snow, and many schools were shut down in such provinces as Ardabil, East Azarbaijan, Zanjan, and Kordestan in Northwestern and Western Iran.