Some 140,000 houses to be built for villagers
The Housing Foundation will construct around 140,000 houses for underprivileged families residing in villages across the country by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 2022).
‘Back to the Village’ to help reverse rural-urban migration
The Barekat Charity Foundation, affiliated with Headquarters for Executing the Order of the Imam, will launch a plan to generate 15,000 jobs in villages, aiming to help reverse rural-to-urban migration trend.
Hanam Village: One of the Beauties of Zagros Mountains in Lorestan Province
With its hardworking and hospitable people Honam is mostly an agricultural town and one of the most beautiful countrysides in Lorestan Province, west of Iran. The village is next to the Garrin Mountain, or Kuh-e Garin, and is a vast high-elevated mountain of the Zagros Mountains. The valley has an approximately 3623 meters high peak […]
Electricity to be supplied to 400 villages by late Mar.
TEHRAN- Electricity will be supplied to some 400 villages, with population of less than 10 families, by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2018), an official from Iranian Energy Ministry announced in a conference on Tuesday. “Some 900 billion rials (about $19.7 million) of finance is to be granted for supplying electricity […]
Basaeedo Village, A Site Worth Seeing in Iran’s Qeshm
TEHRAN – Basaeedo is an ancient village located in the westernmost part of Qeshm Island, Hormuzgan Province, south of Iran. Although the village has not witnessed the same level of development as the rest of Qeshm Island, it is of great historical importance. The history of Iran-UK dispute can be traced back to the village […]
Kalpourgan to celebrate becoming world village of pottery
TEHRAN – Kalpourgan, a village located in southeastern Iran, will be named a world village of pottery in a ceremony which is scheduled to be held on December 14. Located in Sistan-Baluchestan province, the village is widely famous for being a living museum of potteries, where the in-house expertise has been passed down generations to […]
Iran’s Farsian: A Village on Rooftops
TEHRAN – Farsian is a village on the rooftops in Azad Shahr, northern province of Golestan. Its unique architecture mirrors the intelligence and creativity of past architects. Close to 13 villages on the rooftops have been identified in Iran such as Masouleh in Gilan Province and Sar Aqa Seyyed in Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari Province. Farsian has been […]