TEHRAN — Majlis (the Iranian parliament) has mandated Tehran municipality to spend traffic fines on implementing measures to abate air pollution in the capital, ISNA reported on Tuesday. MP Ali Asghar Yousefnejad has explained that traffic fines pertaining to cars which have failed to pass vehicle inspection are bound to be spent on carrying out […]

TEHRAN — Air pollution, the recurring nightmare of Tehraners from which there is no waking, is a complicated saga of the busy capital of Iran. Tehran, a city with some 9 million residents, is experiencing its worst days with the lowest precipitation amounts and subsequently most polluted days with no rain or snow. Schools are […]

TEHRAN – Unsteady earth and grey sky is making many people living in Tehran to spend heavy days. While Tehran has been grappling with persisting air pollution in recent weeks, a magnitude 5.2 earthquake hit the city on December 21. The face of the city has not changed after all. Tehran’s streets are still full […]

A minor earthquake hit Tehran Province and nearby cities in early hours of Wednesday local time. Border between Tehran and Alborz provinces was announced as the epicenter of the earthquake which was felt at 12:54 a.m. Iran local time. Reports revealed that the light quake, which occurred in the depth of 12 kilometers, had a […]

TEHRAN — The magnitude 5.2 tremor on December 20 near Tehran once again has heightened serious concerns over the city’s resistance to an imminent and most probably destructive earthquake. The some parts of country have been affected by recurrent strong quakes over the past 40 days and suffered damages to a certain extent. Tehran, the […]

TEHRAN – Some 6,500 overseas tourists toured Carpet Museum of Iran over the first nine month of the current Iranian calendar year, which started on March 21. It drew over 4,000 domestic museumgoers during the cited period as well, the museum director Parisa Beyzaei told IRNA on Wednesday. The number of foreign visits to the […]

TEHRAN — After a week of suffering from suffocating air pollution people in the metropolis of Tehran can finally breathe clean air on the first day of winter.  Temporary and ineffective solutions such as shutting down the school didn’t change the pollutant levels for a week in Tehran and the wind and rain eventually came […]

Head of the Relief and Rescue Organization of the IRCS Morteza Salimi said the 5.2 magnitude earthquake left 1 dead and 97 casualties in different parts of the country which the earthquake was felt. A magnitude 5.2 earthquake hits the Iranian city of Malard in Tehran province last night.The quake was also felt in the […]

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake hits the Iranian city of Malard in Tehran province. According to the Seismological Center of the Institute of Geophysics of Tehran University, the quake hit on Wednesday at 23:27 local time (1957 GMT) at a depth of seven kilometers on the border of Tehran and Alborz provinces. The epicenter of the tremor […]

TEHRAN – The Italian musician sisters, violinist Natascia Gazzana and pianist Raffaella Gazzana, will perform a duet at Tehran’s Niavaran Cultural Center on Saturday. A repertoire of pieces by Estonian musician Arvo Part, German composers Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann, Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg and Italian violinist Niccolo Paganini will be performed the concert. The […]