
TEHRAN – The tourism chief of Mazandaran province has announced a joint plan for specialized handicraft training courses in collaboration with the Italian international company Cheche. The initiative aims to help enhance skills and boost export opportunities for local artisans, CHTN quoted Hossein Izadi as saying on Friday. Izadi added that a memorandum of understanding

TEHRAN – Dehloran, as one of the significant regions in western Iran, has been settled in prehistoric times and contains signs of civilization, said Habibollah Mahmoudian, a faculty member at Islamic Azad University of Ilam. He told ISNA that Ilam’s pre-civilization era is called the Proto-Elamite era, adding that numerous artifacts have remained from this

TEHRAN – Local experts have confirmed the originality of a 200-gram meteorite found by farmers around Mobarakeh city, Isfahan province, said a technician of the Electron Microscope Laboratory at Isfahan University of Technology. Raouf Rahimzadeh explained that days ago, a meteorite sample, along with several precious stones, was sent by Dr. Mohammadali Makkizadeh, one of

TEHRAN – Iran seeks to establish a special museum dedicated to various types of bread traditionally baked across the country. Concurrent with Iran’s national Bread and Wheat Day on April 20, the details of a project for the construction of the museum, which is designed by a group of young architects, were explained by Ali

TEHRAN – Iran has formally submitted two major cultural heritage dossiers to UNESCO for potential inscription on the World Heritage List: the ancient decorative art of mirrorwork, known as Ayeneh-kari, and the historic Falak-ol-Aflak Fortress along with its surrounding cultural landscape in Lorestan province. Ali Darabi, Deputy Minister of Cultural Heritage, announced the development in

TEHRAN- The First Action Plan of the Islamic Republic of Iran against money laundering and financing terrorism has been announced by the country’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). This plan was developed in compliance with Article 4 of the Executive Regulations for Article 14, Supplementary to the Money Laundering Act, for the Iranian calendar years 1403-1406

TEHRAN – Iran and India are poised to enhance their agricultural trade volume beyond the current $1.0 billion, as announced by Iran’s Agriculture Minister Gholamreza Nouri Ghezeljeh following a meeting with India’s Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan during the BRICS agriculture ministers’ summit in Brazil. The ministers reviewed previous agreements and reaffirmed their countries’ longstanding

TEHRAN – The Department of Environment (DOE) will observe the national clean earth day under the theme ‘clean energy, clean earth’, highlighting the critical role of renewable energies in saving the planet. The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 22 April as International Mother Earth Day in 2009. The Day recognizes the Earth and its ecosystems