updated Wed. March 27, 2024
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RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 25, 2018
Miresmaili said he had written the tweet in reaction to the suggestion by Mashhad Friday Prayers leader Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda that holding concerts is an insult to the Shi'ite imam, known as Imam Reza. The journalist had said in a subsequently deleted tweet that Imam Reza was "one of us,"Ãâà...
IFP News
April 25, 2018
Keyvan Hosseini told a press conference on Tuesday that “the main contents of this memorandum of understanding are in the field of research on earthquake data, especially quakes occurring around the city of Mashhad.” He added that the School of Geosciences at the University of South Florida is one ofÃâà...
PRESSTV
April 24, 2018
UAE's Emirates Airline says it is expanding operations in Iran which the company described “a very important market”. The airline currently operates flights to the Iranian capital of Tehran and the holy city of Mashhad which is an extremely popular destination for Shia pilgrims. “We are looking atÃâà...
Financial Tribune
April 20, 2018
Iran launched a national Internet Exchange Point in the western city of Qasr-e Shirin in Kermanshah Province, near the Iraqi border. The IXP, which was inaugurated by ICT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi on Wednesday, in addition to improving provincial communications, will offer internationalÃâà...
BBC News
April 19, 2018
The head of the department of Islamic guidance in the Iranian city of Mashhad has been arrested after people danced at an event in a local shopping centre. A video showed a crowd of men and women enjoying a performance by a singer. Mixing between the genders and dancing in public are severelyÃâà...
BBC News
April 19, 2018
The head of the department of Islamic guidance in the Iranian city of Mashhad has been arrested after people danced at an event in a local shopping centre. A video showed a crowd of men and women enjoying a performance by a singer. Mixing between the genders and dancing in public are severelyÃâà...
Financial Tribune
April 19, 2018
The Sixth International Conference on Powder Metallurgy for Automotive Parts, also known as PM Auto 2018 concluded in Isfahan Province on Wednesday. The two-day conference was jointly held by Mashhad Powder Metallurgy Company, Sadjad University of Technology and Austria's TechnischeÃâà...
Frontera
April 19, 2018
The latest protests, which began in Mashhad on 28 December last year as a backlash to the economic climate in Iran, quickly intensified in nature and in geographical reach, spreading to Kashmar, Isfahan and several other places and lasting well into January 2018. As the Washington Post explained, thereÃâà...
JAMnews (blog)
April 17, 2018
Beginning from 15 April, trains from the Azerbaijani city of Nakhchivan to the Iranian city of Mashhad will run only once a week, and not twice a week as earlier, says a statement from Azerbaijan Railways. The train will depart from Nakchivan on Sundays and arrive in Mashhad thirty-one hours later. The tripÃâà...
Tehran Times
April 17, 2018
TEHRAN – The city of Mashhad will be the subsequent destination of a landmark Louvre show, which is currently underway at the National Museum of Iran in Tehran. Upon an agreement reached between the Louvre and the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Organization, the exhibit will beÃâà...
IFP News
April 16, 2018
Mohammad-Reza Kargar, a senior official at Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organisation (ICHTO), noted that the exhibit is set to be held in Khorasan Grand Museum in Mashhad. “Based on the order of ICHTO Chief Ali Asghar Moonesan, we began a series of talks with the French culturalÃâà...
Tehran Times
April 16, 2018
Thousands of Muslims came together in the holy shrine of Imam Reza (AS) in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad on the eve of the Eid al-Mabath on April 13, 2018 to celebrate the anniversary of the appointment of Hazrat Muhammad (S) to prophethood. (IRNA/Mohsen Bakhshandeh)Ãâà...
The Nation
April 9, 2018
The REAP chairman will also call on the Pakistan commercial counsel in Mashhad. REAP chairman hoped that visit of the delegation will not only bring Pakistani and Iranian businessmen closer but would also open doors for boosting the rice export to Iran which is going to be a great market for Pakistan.
IFP News
March 27, 2018
Young Iranian artists have painted murals depicting inspirational Shahnameh (Book of Kings) designs at the Ferdowsi Boulevard in Iran's northeastern city of Mashhad. The Shahnameh, “The Book of Kings”, is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is theÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 22, 2018
During his annual Nowruz speech from the city of Mashhad, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressed the important issues of the year that has passed and discussed the upcoming year. One segment of his speech, however, stood out among others, which received a large reaction online.
Xinhua
March 21, 2018
Members of an Iranian family pose for photos as they celebrate the Iranian New Year Eve in Mashhad, northeastern Iran, on March 20, 2018. New Year festival of Nowruz celebrations, meaning literally the new day, began on March 21 to greet the coming of a new year for Iranians. (Xinhua/AhmadÃâà...
RadioFarda
March 12, 2018
As soon as the uprising broke out on December 28, 2017, in the city of Mashhad and spread to more than 100 other cities across Iran, allies of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, including the prosecutor-general and other conservatives, accused the C.I.A. of directing the protests in cooperation withÃâà...
Financial Tribune
March 12, 2018
Iran's waste-to-energy plants can now generate 11 megawatts of electricity daily, the managing director of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organization (aka Satba) announced. "Five WTE plants located in the cities of Tehran, Shiraz and Mashhad are currently active, and plans are underway toÃâà...
Iran Human Rights Monitor (blog)
March 11, 2018
The State police raided a night party, arresting 60 people including 22 young men and 38 women in northeastern Khorasan Razavi Province, the state-run IRNA news agency reported on March 9, 2018. “Following the news of a mixed gender party in Shahnameh Boulevard, after judicial coordination andÃâà...
Tehran Times
March 4, 2018
TEHRAN – A number of Persian scholars gathered at the University of Ferdowsi in Mashhad on Saturday to pay tribute to the Lebanese professor of Persian literature, Victor El-Kik (1936-2017). The professor showed interest in Persian literature after he received a bilingual Arab-Persian book of theÃâà...
Iran Press Watch
February 28, 2018
HRANA News Agency – Five Baha'i citizens were sentenced to one year in jail, each, by Branch 3 of the Revolutionary Court of Mashhad in recent weeks. According to HRANA (Human Rights Activists' News Agency in Iran) Branch 3 of the Revolutionary Court of Mashhad, resided by Judge Soltani,Ãâà...
Tehran Times
February 21, 2018
TEHRAN – The modest mausoleum of Nader Shah in downtown Mashhad is well worth a visit while traveling to the northeastern Iranian metropolis. The grey-granite mausoleum, which is encircled by a small manicured garden, is where Nader Shah (1688 -1747), the founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is laidÃâà...
Tehran Times
February 17, 2018
TEHRAN – On February 23, the Touring and Automobile Club of Iran will kick-start a family car rally, which its detailed itinerary spans some 2,000 kilometers from Mashhad, northeast Iran, to Karbala, central Iraq. “This rally will take place along a major pilgrimage route that is starched from the holy shrine ofÃâà...
The Nation
February 12, 2018
MASHHAD - The Iranian city of Mashhad is ready to welcome people from all religions to visit the holy shrine of Imam Ali Reza (AS) to enjoy its grandeur, the top city official said. In an exclusive interview with The Nation at his office here, Mashhad Mayor Taghizadeh Khamsei said he was working to multiplyÃâà...
The Guardian
January 22, 2018
It's been rumoured that hardline rivals to Iran's reformist president Hassan Rouhani orchestrated the street protests from their nationalist-religious base of Mashhad. Azar Tashakor, a 50-year-old urban sociologist whose father made pilgrimages to the city and who later studied there, thinks thisÃâà...
Dove Medical Press
December 31, 1999
Afshin Taheriazam,1 Amin Saeidinia,2 Faeze Keihanian3,4 1Department of Orthopedics Surgery, Tehran Medical Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran; 2Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran; 3Cardiology Department, Imam Reza and Ghaem Hospitals, Faculty ofÃâà...
