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]]>She wrote: 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 (yet still let in).
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Decorated trees, along with Nativity scenes of the Virgin Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus, can also be seen in shops along Mirza Shirazi Avenue and Ostaad Nejatollahi (Villa Avenue) and its surrounding neighborhoods in central Tehran, where many Iranian Christians reside.
Some Iranian Christians celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25 and New Years’ on Jan. 1, while Armenians celebrate Christmas at the same time as the Epiphany on Jan. 6.
Despite being a minority, Iran’s Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians are recognized as established religious minorities and are represented in parliament, and also enjoy freedom to practice their religions and perform their religious rituals.
Unlike other countries in the region where public celebration of Christmas is limited to hotels frequented by foreigners, there is no such restriction in Tehran. The sale of Christmas ornaments, which during the first years of the Islamic Revolution was limited to Christian districts, can now be seen around town.
In fact, festive Christmas decoration and celebration take place throughout the country, specifically in major cities such as Isfahan, Shiraz, Tabriz and even religious cities such as Mashhad.
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Nomads Tour in Iran
There are about one and a half million nomads in Iran, extending from the border of Turkmanistan to the warm waters of the Persian Gulf. Most of these tribes, the Kurds, the Lurs, the Bakhtiaris, the Guilaks (on the Caspian Coast) and the Baluchis are the original invaders who, in the first millennium BC, swept down from Central Asia and settled in various parts of the Iranian Plateau. Most of the tribes in central Iran are from pure Aryan stock, while other tribes such as the Arabs of Khuzestan and Khorassan, the Turkish tribes of Quchan, the Qashqai tribes, the Shahsevan and Afshar tribes of Azerbaijan and the Turkmens are remnants of races that have passed through Iran at various periods of history.
Traditionally, there has always existed a close link in Iran between the ruling dynasty and the domination of one particular tribe or ethnic group./ More
QASHQAI PEOPLE: MEETING THE AUTHENTIC IRANIAN NOMADS
Iran has with one of the biggest nomad populations of any country. And not only this, but these Iranian nomads are also classified into different sub-groups, according to their ethnicity, origin and even language. Around Shiraz, there’s one group of nomads called Qashqai. Originally, they came from Turkey but, even though Turkish is their first language, most of them speak fluent Persian as well. Like most Iranians, they are Shia Muslims.
Qashqai people, also known as Ghashghaei, are one of the Iranian nomadic tribes that keep on moving across the Zagros Mountains. In winter they live in the southern part but, as soon as the summer comes and the heat starts to become unbearable, they start moving north. Their flocks of sheep and goats are their main source of income. From these animals, they get meat, cheese, and milk. They also sell the newborns at the markets of Shiraz.
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]]>Firouz Naderi, a former Iranian director of Solar Systems Exploration at NASA, had also announced her death in an Instagram post earlier in the day.
Mirzakhani had recently been taken to hospital as her health condition worsened due to breast cancer. Cancerous cells had recently spread to her bone marrow. She had already been battling the disease for several years.
In 2014, Mirzakhani was awarded the coveted Fields Medal, also known as the Nobel Prize of mathematics. The 40-year-old, who used to teach at Stanford University, was also the first Iranian woman to be elected to the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in May 2016 in recognition of her “distinguished and continuing achievement in original research.”
Mirzakhani was born in Tehran in 1977 and brought up in the Islamic Republic.
She scored the International Mathematical Olympiad’s gold medal twice — in 1994 and 1995. In the second competition, she received the contest’s full 42 points.
She then earned her bachelor’s degree from Iran’s prestigious Sharif University of Technology in 1999, and followed up the rest of her education in the United States, where she earned a doctoral degree from Harvard University in 2004 and became full professor of mathematics at Stanford at the age of 31.
She is survived by husband Jan Vondrák, a Czech theoretical computer scientist, and their daughter Anahita.
Condolences pouring in over Mirzakhani’s death
In a message, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Mirzakhani’s “doleful passing” has caused “great sorrow.”
The president praised her scientific achievements, saying the “unprecedented brilliance of this creative scientist and modest human being, who made Iran’s name resonate in the world’s scientific forums, was a turning point in showing the great will of Iranian women and young people on the path towards reaching the peaks of glory and in various international arenas,” read part of the message.
In a post on Instagram, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif also offered his condolences over Mirzakhani’s death.
He said that the death of the young Iranian math genius has caused grief for all Iranians who take pride in their country’s prominent scientific figures.
In a tweet, Gary Lewis, UN Resident Coordinator for the Islamic Republic of Iran, also expressed his sorrow over Mirzakhani’s death. “Sad to learn about the passing of #MaryamMirzakhani – the intelligent #Iranian daughter, wife, mother, professor. May her eternal soul RIP.”
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]]>It served as an opportunity for FIBA representatives to witness a game with players wearing the hijab.
This comes ahead of next month’s Mid-Term Congress, when FIBA will receive a proposal from its Technical Commission that would allow headgear to be worn safely by athletes as basketball’s world governing body favors a modification of its current headgear rule.
“This is a historical moment for women’s sport in Iran. I would like to thank the federation and the Iranian authorities for making this unprecedented event take place,” Baumann said.
Head of Iran Basketball Federation Mahmoud Mashhoun also thanked FIBA for supporting them to give the chance the Iranian women playing with hijab.
“I would like to thank FIBA for this opportunity and for supporting us for all these years. It is an historical day not just for Iran but for the whole Muslim world. We are hopeful that FIBA will come up with a positive decision regarding the matter of headgear,” Mashhoun said.
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]]>Iran women football national team has been drawn in Group D of the meet along with host Vietnam, Myanmar, Syria and Singapore.
The squads to take part in the tourney are the Korea Republic, Thailand, Vietnam, Jordan, Myanmar, Chinese Taipei, Uzbekistan, Philippines, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Bahrain, Islamic Republic of Iran, India, Palestine, DPR Korea, Guam, Iraq, Singapore, Syria, Tajikistan and the UAE, the-afc.com reported.
Draw result of AFC Women’s Asian Cup Jordan 2018 qualifiers
Groups are as follows
Group A: A1. Jordan, A2. Philippines, A3. Bahrain A4. Iraq, A5. UAE, A6. Tajikistan (host)
Group B: B1. Korea Republic, B2. Uzbekistan, B3 Hong Kong, B4. India, B5. DPR Korea (host)
Group C: C1. Thailand, C2. Chinese Taipei, C3. Lebanon, C4. Palestine (host), C5. Guam
Group D: D1. Vietnam (host), D2. Myanmar, D3. IR Iran, D4. Syria, D5. Singapore
The three highest-ranked women’s national teams from the last AFC Women’s Asian Cup — Japan, Australia and China PR — received automatic qualification into the eight-team finals. The group winners of each of the four qualifying groups will qualify for the finals in Jordan.
Jordan as host also received automatic qualification, but it has expressed interest to participate in the qualifiers. Therefore, in case it finishes top of its qualifying group, the runner-up team will also advance to the final competition. The qualifiers will kick off on April 3, 2017.
The finals, which will be held from April 7 to 22, 2018, will also serve as the Asian qualifiers for the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019.
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]]>Social Media in Iran is a hot topic around the world, even based on TechRasa’s statistics, a big number of readers are coming to the website to read about social media in Iran. The good news is your prayers has been answered since Iranian Students Polling Agency (ISPA) held a survey to find out more about social media demographics in Iran. This survey started last December and its statistical population was based on 4,400 participants. All of the participants were under 18 years old and from all 31 provinces of Iran. The goal of this survey was to find out about the relationship between sex, age, education, job and other characteristics of Iranian users on social media platforms.
The most popular social media platform in this survey was Telegram with over 20M users.
Based on the results of this survey, 53% of the population who are over 18 years old are active on at least one social media platform and there are 54M people who are over 18 years old in Iran.
With a simple calculation, we can deduct that 28.5M people over 18 years old are using social media in Iran. The most popular social media platforms in this survey were Telegram, Instagram, WhatsApp, Line, FaceBook, Twitter, WeChat, Tango and Google Plus. The most popular social media platform in this survey was Telegram with over 20M users.
47% of the participants are from Tehran and are also using this app. WhatsApp, Instagram and Line were the most used apps in this category respectively after Telegram.
According to this survey, people who are single show more interest in using social media platforms compared to married ones. But the married people are the majority of social media users since their population is the biggest. According to this survey 62.7% of the Iranian users on these social media platforms are married and 27.4% are single.
Age is also an important parameter in this survey and has an inverse relationship to social media usage, meaning that older people tend to use social media less. 34.3% of the Social Media users are between the age of 18 to 29, 41.8% between 30 to 49 and 23.9% are over 50 years old. According to ISPA, 55% of men and 51% of women are using social media platforms.
Another important key parameter is education. People who have higher education are also using social media more than the others to the point that 75% of the educated people are using various social media platforms. The most hardcore social media users are the housewives with 28.2% of social media users and the least are the soldiers and workers./techrasa.com:
You can check the infographic of Iranian Social Media users Demography below:
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