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Iran Mall,The Grand Bazaar of Iran in Western Tehran
Ferdowsi

The Iran Mall complex brings together a wide range of commercial, recreational, accommodation, and entertainment services.

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Food Tahchin
Ferdowsi

Tahchin is one of the delicious and popular Iranian dishes that can be used in various programs to serve and entertain guests.

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Hafezieh or Tomb of Hafez
Ferdowsi

Hafezieh or Tomb of Hafez hosts many lovers of the Persian language and culture every year

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Khoda Afarin Archaeological Museums

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Parsian Esteghlal International 5-Star Hotel

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Kufteh Shorva : A Kurdish Dish Combining Sweet and Sour Flavors

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Tourism Learn More About Iran's Tourist Destinations

Khoda Afarin Archaeological Museums

Being rich in terms of water resources and farmable lands, Khoda Afarin has been a suitable place for human settlements since thousands of years ago.

Yazd

Having numerous historical, religious, and natural tourist attractions and being one of the most traditional Iranian cities in the post-Islamic era, Yazd is considered to be one of the best tourist destinations of Iran

Parsian Esteghlal International 5-Star Hotel

Parsian Esteghlal International Hotel, part of the Parsian International Hotels Group, is located on a 70,000-square-meter estate in Tehran’s Baghshahr area at the foot of the Alborz Mountains.

Kufteh Shorva : A Kurdish Dish Combining Sweet and Sour Flavors

Kufteh Shorva (also called Kufteh Shorba) is one of the favorite dishes of the people of Sanandaj. It is also prepared in other Kurdish regions and enjoys widespread popularity.

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Art

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Poosh Douzi (Canopy Making) Art of Yazd

.Poosh Douzi is an art and craft in which fabric and temporary canopy is sewn for different places

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Carpet tableau title and the reputation of Sardrud in its production

Artists implement the most beautiful patterns and designs in their tapestry paintings in an attractive and eye-catching way.

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Zilu

Zilu, is an Iranian handicraft, very similar to Gilim, with the difference that its texture is made of completely natural and plant-based materials.

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Tile and its production techniques and skills.

Tile is one of the most important decorative elements of Iranian architecture. Over the centuries, techniques and skills have been developed in the creation and design of tiles.

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Mehriz Knife

Knife making is one of the famous handicrafts of the historical city of Mehriz in Yazd Province and its products used to be sent all over Iran.

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The Iranian Kilim: A Textile Reflecting the Vast Diversity of Iran’s Heritage and Landscape

Although the fundamental structure of Kilim weaving is similar across the country, its designs and practical uses vary extensively according to local Iranian cultures and geographies

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Knockout

Mohammad, the hardworking student of the class, does not allow Bijan to cheat by looking at his answer sheet in one of their exams and because of this, he is threatened by Bijan; a boy who, despite being successful in Taekwondo, has problems in his studies and, therfore, is not encouraged by the teachers and the principal. In the meantime, Amir - another character in this movie - extends help to Muhammad and certain events happen that connect the fate of Muhammad, Amir, and Bijan together.

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Khaal Khaali

A hunter makes a bonfire in the forest and by continuous barking, Khaal Khaali tries to warn him about the possible danger. When the hunter’s tent catches fire, Khaal Khaali tries to put out the fire with the help of an elephant whose trunk acts as a fire extinguisher.

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Zoozoo and Friends

A little cute hedgehog who lives with his parents, traveling from place to place and learning all the possible things necessary for a kid! General storyline of this series is about Zoozoo going to gain knowledge or knowing something.

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Ahmed

Ahmed is the story of the early hours of Bam earthquake in 2002 and the arrival of General Ahmad Kazemi, the commander of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Air Force, at Bam airport and the process of transporting more than 10,000 injured people by this disaster in less than 24 hours.

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Hook

Shirhan loves boxing and with the guidance and encouragement of his brother Mirhan is planning to become a boxing champion. But something unfortunate happens to his brother, which costs Shirhan dearly. He continues boxing to fulfill his brother’s dream, but an incident changes the whole situation.

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Queen of Beggars

Alborz is an Iranian chemist living in Germany. His father Khosrow and his mother Khorshid live in Iran. Alborz meets a girl named Sara who lives in Iran and has brought her father to Germany for treatment and gets engaged to her. He is going to marry Sara in Türkiye. Everything is ready for a memorable ceremony when the news comes that Sara’s father has gone into a coma. Having a vague past, Alborz is afraid of returning to Iran but to have a last meeting with his father, he has no choice but to return. He has to smuggle himself into his country. Despite his mother’s insistence for Alborz not to return to Iran, he has made his decision and when he returns, no one recognizes him and everyone calls him Farhad Babaei.

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Iranian Gardens

The gardens of Iran are stories of tranquility. They tell of how people, even under the harshest conditions, created some of the most beautiful things—not for display, but simply to breathe. When you look at a garden, you can see what its creator had in mind: water, shade, symmetry, and the chance to simply be surrounded by nature.

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The Achaemenid Palace of Bardak Siah Palace

Bardak Siah Palace is the name of the site of an ancient palace situated near the Borazjan county in the northern part of Bushehr Province of Iran that is said to have been the winter palace of the Achaemenid king, Darrius I, popularly known as Darrius the Great.

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Shushtar: The Architecture of Water , When Ancient Infrastructure Becomes a Cultural Landscape

Among all the architectural masterpieces of Iran, there is one that was built not with bricks and tiles, but with water. This masterpiece is the Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System—a vast hydraulic machine from antiquity that, remarkably, has transcended its role as mere technical infrastructure and evolved into a magnificent cultural landscape. Shushtar, in Khuzestan Province, on the Karun River, tells a story of how engineering and architecture, when placed in the service of life and community, can become a form of poetry.

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Qasabeh Qanat of Gonabad One of the World s Oldest and Deepest Qanats An Achaemenid Masterpiece Beneath the Earth

One of the most remarkable aspects of the Qasabeh Qanat of Gonabad is its continued operation for more than 2,500 years. Despite earthquakes, floods, wars, and climatic changes, the qanat is still flowing and continues to supply water. Today, its discharge is approximately 150 liters per second, enough to irrigate parts of Gonabad’s agricultural fields and orchards. This remarkable continuity and resilience reflect the quality of its construction, the sophistication of its engineering knowledge, and the extraordinary skill of its builders.

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Shah Nematollah Vali Mausoleum: A Garden Embraced by the Desert, a Journey from Earth to the Heavens

This multifunctionality is one of the defining characteristics of Iranian funerary gardens. Unlike many Western mausoleums, which often function primarily as memorial structures, Iranian garden-tombs have traditionally been living and dynamic spaces for community, education, worship, and everyday life. The Mausoleum of Shah Nematollah Vali, through the integration of these functions, suggests that in Iranian culture, death is not necessarily conceived as a tragic ending separate from life, but as part of the broader fabric of everyday and spiritual existence.

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Iran s Ice Houses Masterpieces of Sustainable Architecture in the Heart of the Desert

Iran’s traditional ice houses are a powerful manifesto against the notion that sustainable and climate-responsive technologies are modern, imported concepts. Centuries ago, Iranian architects were already putting these principles into practice in the heart of the desert, taking them far beyond theory and perfecting them through the construction of monumental and highly efficient structures. These forgotten mud-brick domes are silent yet powerful reminders of the ingenuity, creativity, and sustainability embedded in Iranian architecture.

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Ali (AS) and Divine Philosophy, an attempt to reconcile religion and philosophy

The book Ali (as) and Divine Philosophy attempts to explain divine philosophy from the perspective of Imam Ali (as).

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Religious Democracy, an answer to doubts about Iran's political system

The topic of religion and politics has always been a challenge for thinkers. Religious democracy tries to provide an answer to this challenge.

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Analytical History of Islam: An Analytical Look at Early Islamic History with a Critical Approach

History is a subject in whose analysis impartiality comes first, a perspective that has been well implemented in Analytical History of Islam.

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Islam and education a path to reforming oneself and society.

Great people always have a big question before them: How can we lead ourselves and society towards salvation The answer that Islam and Education seeks to find.

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Sages of the Isfahan School and the Issue of the Origin of the World, an examination of the Isfahan School philosophers view

The book Sages of the Isfahan School and a Study of the Creation of the World ex Nihilo is one of Dr. Nazari Tavakkoli’s well known books.

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The Bakhshi Music of Khorasan

The Bakhshi music of Khorasan, which has its own special characteristics expresses the rich and noble culture of the people of the region.

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Bakhshu Khwani

Bakhshu Khwani is a style of eulogy that Jahanbakhsh Kurdizade performed with his special musical technique and sad tone.

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Nay

Ney or Nay is a woodwind Persian musical instrument

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Bakhtiari Music in Nowruz

Bakhtiari folk music is the manifestation of Bakhtiari culture and the one played to welcome the spring and Nowruz is full of joy and delight.

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Javad Maroufi

Javad Maroufi was a famous Iranian pianist who tried to introduce Iranian music to the world through his works.

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Daf

The history of Daf goes back to ancient times when it was played in old Persia, different parts of Asia & North Africa

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Iranian Pottery and Ceramics: A Cohesive Union of Art and Craft

Pottery and ceramics constitute important branches of the visual arts. Pottery, one of the earliest ceramic products, is made of a porous and colored body.

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Iranian Sculpture: From Ancient Reliefs to Heroic Statues Iranian sculpture spans a long and varied history, from the ancie

Sculpture is a branch of the visual arts in which the artist, inspired by both nature and imagination, shapes a variety of materials such as stone, wood, clay, plaster, metal, glass, wax, or paper. Through the use of hands, tools, and diverse techniques—including addition, subtraction, cutting, and reshaping—the artist creates a tangible, three-dimensional form.

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Traditional Persin Design

Traditional Persian design earmarks the independent identity of Iranian arts and crafts

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Seyed Mohammad Ehsai: The Painter with a Refined Sense for Words

Seyed Mohammad Ehsai is a renowned and accomplished figure in contemporary Iranian visual arts and is regarded as one of the pioneers of Naqqashi-Khat (calligraphic painting) in the country. Through his distinctive body of work in this field, he has gained international recognition and acclaim among art enthusiasts. One of the main reasons for Ehsai’s prominence lies in his pivotal role in establishing calligraphic painting in Iran. He was among the first artists to employ letters as a medium for personal artistic expression.

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Gholamhossein Amirkhani: The Father of Contemporary Iranian Calligraphy

Master Gholamhossein Amirkhani is considered one of the enduring figures of Iranian calligraphy in the Nasta‘liq style and the most renowned contemporary calligrapher, having played a significant role over the past forty years in the development and promotion of this authentic Iranian-Islamic art.

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Kamal-ud-Din Behzad: The Second Mani or the Raphael of the East

Kamal-ud-Din Behzad was a renowned and highly skilled Iranian painter who opened a new path in the realm of Persian miniature painting and left a profound and widespread influence on the work of later artists in Iran, India, Turkey, and Central Asia.

Celebrities

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Ferdowsi and His Shahnameh, the Pride of Iran

Ferdowsi is celebrated as a guardian of national identity and culture by the people of Iran

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Nezami Ganjavi

Born in Ganjeh in the year 1141 CE, Jamal al-Din Abu Mohammad Ilyas bin Yusuf bin Zaki bin Mu’ayyad, popularly known as Nezami Ganjavi, was a great Iranian poet of epic poetry - originally from the Tafresh City - who introduced a colloquial form of story writing in the Persian literature and poetry. He is, thus, known as the pioneer of poetic story writing.

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Qeysar Aminpour (Khuzestan)

Qeysar Aminpour is one of the most influential poets of the post-Iranian Revolution period. He has written poems about Iran-Iraq War, as well as poems in classic and modern style. Some believe that he shifted from poems about the war to poems about love, and others know him to be the greatest poet of Iranian Revolution.

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Jabbar Baghtcheban: The Teacher of Iranian Deaf Children

Jabbar Baghtcheban established the first Iranian kindergarten and school for deaf children in Iran.

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Baba Tahir’s Persian Quatrains: Vintage Poetry

Baba Tahir Oryan is mainly admired by both elites and others for his phenomenal do-beytis (quatrains).

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Mehdi Azaryazdi: The Father Iranian Child and Teenage Literature

Mehdi Azaryazdi’s writing style is very attractive for children.

Customs of Iran

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Bayatilar, the folk couplets of Azerbaijani speakers

Bayatilar is an important part of the oral culture of the people of Azerbaijan, which has been formed over the centuries and passed down from generation to generation.

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Vassunak

Vassunak is a traditional folklore song in the Fars Province of Iran, the content of which is composed of short common lyrics and is usually sung at weddings.

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36th Day of the Spring in Esfanjan

The people of Esfanjan celebrate the 36th day of the spring by sacrificing a cow and making Kooftef Tabrizi (Tabrizi Meatball) with its meat.

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(Chest-beating (sineh-zani

Chest-beating (sineh-zani) is a traditional act of mourning performed in mourning groups or in mosques and tekyeh (religious halls)

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Traditional Attire of the People of Azarbaijan

The traditional attire of the people of East Azarbaijan people of Iran is the manifestation of various aspects of the culture of the nomads and rural people of this province

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Traditional Clothing of Iranian Zoroastrians

Zoroastrian men often wear white clothes, while the traditional garments of Zoroastrian women are quite colorful

University

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Kousha University of Applied Science and Technology: Bridging Skills-Based, Industrial, and Practical Education with Labor Marke

Kousha University of Applied Science and Technology: A higher education institution dedicated to enhancing students’ scientific and technical knowledge and equipping them with the skills needed to undertake practical and industrial projects.

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Karaj Sugar Applied Science and Technology Center: One of the Modern Institutions of Skills-Based and Industrial Higher Educatio

Karaj Sugar Applied Science and Technology Center: Bridging Skills-Based Education, Industry, and Entrepreneurship to Meet the Needs of the Country’s Industries

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Isfahan City Center Comprehensive Center for Applied Science and Technology: Integrating Skills-Based Education, Employment-Orie

Isfahan City Center Comprehensive Center for Applied Science and Technology: A Modern Institution for Skills-Based Higher Education, Adopting a Practical Approach Aligned with Labor Market Standards.

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Kermanshah University of Technology: Bridging Engineering Education, Research, and Technological Development in Western Iran

Kermanshah University of Technology aims to train specialized professionals, meet the needs of industries in Kermanshah Province and western Iran, and advance the development of modern technologies across various industries.

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Qom University of Technology: Bridging Engineering Education, Research, and Industrial Development in the Province

Qom University of Technology: A University Focused on Engineering and Technology Education, Fostering an Innovative Environment for Training Professional Engineers

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Shahid Ashrafi Esfahani Non-Profit University: Connecting Education, Research, and the Development of Academic Skills

Shahid Ashrafi Esfahani Non-Profit University: Providing Quality Education, Advancing Academic and Research Activities, Enhancing Society’s Cultural Standards, and Educating Competent Graduates

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Kerman: A museum illustrating various periods of Iran history

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“Conqueror of Khaybar” monument unveiled at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Square

Coinciding with the blessed birth anniversary of Imam Ali (AS) and the anniversary of the martyrdom of General Qassem Soleimani, a large monument titled “Conqueror of Khaybar” was unveiled at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Square on Saturday.

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Celebrations On The Birth Anniversary of Imam Ali (as)

HARARE: 2 January 2026 On the evening of Thursday, 01 January, 2026, the Cultural Center of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran hosted an inspiring gathering to commemorate the birth anniversary of Commander of the Faithful, Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (as), with the theme, “Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib the bright path of life (as)”. As a pivotal figure in Islamic history, Imam Ali (as) is revered by Muslims worldwide for his unwavering justice, profound knowledge, and exemplary piety. As the cousin and son-in-law of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), and the first Shia Imam, his life and teachings on governance, spirituality, and ethics continue to serve as a guiding light for millions, transcending sectarian boundaries.

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Imam Khomeini (RA) World Award, 2025

End of the Imam Khomeini (RA) World Award; Imanipour: Imam Khomeini (RA) is the most oppressed element of the Islamic Revolution

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An inside look at Gorgan’s tribal festival

The 17th International Festival of Tribal Culture, scheduled to take place in Gorgan, the capital of Iran’s Golestan province, from Dec. 16 to 19, is often described as a celebration. But to see it only as a cultural event is to miss its deeper significance.

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Iran marks birth anniversary of Hazrat Fatima, Mother’s Day

Every year, Iranians commemorate Mother’s Day on the 20th day of the lunar Islamic month of Jamadi al-Thani, which marks the birthday anniversary of Hazrat Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet of Islam (PBUH).

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