India has committed $500 million to Chabahar Port development as a way to bypass rival Pakistan and crack open a trade and transport route to landlocked Afghanistan, as well as the resource-rich countries of central Asia.
Purchasing €2.9 billion of goods from Iran, Italy was the biggest importer of Iranian products in 2018, Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday, citing the data released by European Union’s statistics agency Eurostat. The country’s imports from Iran in 2018 was 31 percent of the total of European countries’ imports from Iran. However, the figure…
A total of 6,074,000 foreign tourists visited Iran’s tourist attractions in the nine months from March 21 to December 21, 2018.
The output from the giant South Pars Gas Field in the Persian Gulf has been doubled in the past five years, the managing director of Pars Oil and Gas Company said. “Iran is now extracting around 600 million cubic meters per day of natural gas from the field, twice the amount five years ago,” Mohammad…
French photographer Alain Ceccaroli and his wife, who visited Iran to hold a photography exhibition, said they were charmed by Iranian culture and hospitality. Ceccaroli said that he plans to return to Iran in the coming months and enjoy its special attractions. A collection of 20 black-and-white photographs featuring mountain landscapes was on view at…
But if there’s one thing that defines Iran, it’s change. It’s not a scary place. The treasures of ancient Persia still stand and have not been bulldozed in the way we have seen with other extreme ideological societies. The people are not extreme and outsiders are welcomed, albeit some nationalities with more restriction.
The Eidi-Baran ceremony will be celebrated at Eid and holiday. In this ritual, gifts in large trays carry by the ladies of the groom’s family to the bride house. This historical tradition is held in Gilan province in northern Iran. Related posts: A traditional wedding ceremony in Gilan Photos: Snowfall in Gilan Province Photo:…
Iranian women table tennis national team training for participating in the 18th Asian Games in Indonesia. The 2018 Asian Games, officially known as the 18th Asian Games and also known as Jakarta Palembang 2018, is a pan-Asian multi-sport event scheduled to be held from 18 August to 2 September 2018 in the Indonesian cities of…
Iran’s Persian Gulf Star Refinery in the southern province of Hormozgan is the first of its kind designed based on gas condensate feed-stock recovered from South Pars gas field which Iran shares with Qatar in the Persian Gulf. Construction of the refinery started in 2006, but the project was delayed as the result of some …
The 21st century’s longest total lunar eclipse was observed in Iran’s Persepolis (Takht-e Jamshid in Persian), the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (ca. 550–330 BC), located 60 km northeast of the southern city of Shiraz. Persepolis (Takhte Jamshid) Persepolis (Old Persian: ‘Parseh’, New Persian:Takht-e Jamshid’) was an ancient ceremonial capital of the Persian…
