Iranian people across the country took to the streets to celebrate the reelection of President Rouhani in Presidential elections, announced on Saturday. Cars packed the streets and horns sounded in celebration, as people of Tehran carried flags and portraits of President Rouhani who swept to victory on Saturday and will now begin a second term…
Hassan Rouhani has won Iran’s 12th presidential election, receiving a popular mandate for another four years in presidential office. Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli appeared at a press briefing on Saturday to declare Rouhani the winner of the Friday election with 23,549,616 votes, or 57 percent of the total ballots. Rahmani Fazli said that…
Iranians mark the birth anniversary of the twelfth Shia Imam, Imam Mahdi (AS), who is regarded as the ultimate redeemer. Imam Al-Mahdi’s Identification The Shi’a believe that Imam al-Mahdi is the only son of Imam Hasan al-Askari (the 11th Imam) who was born on the 15th of Sha’ban 255/869 in Samarra, Iraq. He became…
Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Iran on 19 May 2017. It will be the twelfth presidential election in Iran. Local elections will be held alongside of this election. Candidates started official campaigns on 21 April 2017 and campaigns ended on 17 May 2017, 1 day before election. list of presidential candidates The…
The first debate among the six candidates of the 12th Iranian presidential election has been aired live on state television. The candidates outlined their plans for the post. They were given an equal time to garner as many votes as possible in order to win the ticket to the office. The live broadcast, which lasted for…
Iran women athletic championships held in Shiraz on 11 April 2017. In this competitions Fars province team become champion and Khorasan Razavi and Tehran placed in 2nd and 3rd rank. Related posts: Photo: Iranian girls play basketball with Hijab Iranian woman performance second best in Rio 2016 Report: Social Media Demographics in Iran Iranians gathering…
The Iranians come to Shiraz for celebrating Nowrouz. Some people say that it’s the 5,774th time that Iranians across the world are celebrating the ancient Persian New Year festival, Nowruz. However, some history experts believe that Nowruz has been enshrined and observed for more than 15,000 years, well before the official establishment of the Persian…
Street musicians are performing in Tehran to introduce their music bands or earning money. Although Tehran is not Iran, but without this great metropolis, which is the focal point of Iran’s transportation network and the center in which more than 40% of the nation’s economic activities takes place, it would not be possible to fully…
Tens of thousands of Iranians poured onto the streets of Tehran on Monday for the funeral of 16 firefighters killed when the city’s oldest high-rise collapsed during a blaze. Black flags flew outside the Grand Mosalla Mosque, while high-ranking officials including Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani, First Vice-President Es’haq Jahangiri,…
Different groups of Iranian people gathered at the fire stations all over the Iran and donated flowers commemorating martyred firefighters. All Tehran fire stations are dressed in black. Regarding Tehran Plasco tower blaze at least 25 firefighters are under the debris. Up Saturday noon 3 firefighters’ body recovered. Plasco tower, the 17-story structure crumbled after…
