The elderly, war-disabled getting COVID-19 vaccine
Friday, 26 February 2021 14:44
Tehran times
TEHRAN – The vaccination against COVID-19 of the elderly and the disabled war veterans being kept in nursing homes across Iran began on Thursday, ISNA reported....
Poaching drops thanks to coronavirus lockdown: DOE official
Friday, 26 February 2021 14:40
Tehran times
TEHRAN – The number of animals killed by poachers has decreased by 15 percent over the past 11 months compared to the same period last year, helped by the nationwide coro...
TEHRAN – Goods worth 146 billion rials (nearly $3. million at the official rate of 42,000 rials) have been seized from smugglers in the country over the past week, police...
TEHRAN – Some 6,700 mobile, semi-mobile and fixed nomadic schools are providing education in 27 provinces of the country, the director of the office for the development o...
Botulism kills 10,000 birds in Miankaleh peninsula, Gorgan Bay
Tuesday, 23 February 2021 14:35
Tehran times
TEHRAN – Some 10,000 bodies of lifeless migratory birds died as a result of botulism poisoning have been found so far around the Miankaleh peninsula and Gorgan Bay, locat...
Naderi cookies (Koloocheh) were reported to be carcinogenic in the foreign (international) Persian-language media, according to a German publication. After the necessary ...
Iran proposes creating intl. fund for climate change
Monday, 22 February 2021 15:19
Tehran times
TEHRAN – Iran has proposed setting up an international fund to tackle climate change and taxing all countries in proportion to their share of environmental pollution, IRN...
Mount Damavand is the highest peak in Iran and the highest volcano in Asia.
Travel tips
Things to Know Before Trip One of the most important things to remember is that Iranians aren’t Arabs, they’re Persian. They speak Farsi (and other dialects), not Arabic, and some people might feel offended if you great them with Arabic words.