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Junior Iranian females crested in Asian taekwondo championship
Junior Iranian female taekwondo practitioners have featured praiseworthy displays of spinning kicks and fast kicking techniques at the 9th edition of the Asian Junior Taekwondo Championships in Kazakh...
Iranian children suffering from butterfly disease
photos/ London, 12 Apr - Photos from Iran show children suffering from Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), also known as butterfly disease for its effect on the strength of the skin. The pictures have been pu...
Cultural programs to highlight Yalda Night
TEHRAN – A wide variety of cultural programs have been arranged inside and outside the country to celebrate Yalda Night, the longest night of the year. Yalda Night, which falls on December 21, is cons...
Iranians celebrate Yalda night in Tehran
Iranians start preparing for Yalda night celebrations in Tehran. Yalda night, (Shab-e-Yalda) is a traditional Iranian celebration of the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. This Peri...
Iranians to celebrate Yalda Night
Yalda Night (Yalda Eve), as the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, is commemorated on or around December 20 or 21 each year./ In most ancient cultures, including Persia, the start o...
Moderate cleric Rohani leads early Iran election results
Presidential candidate Hassan Rohani casts his ballot during the Iranian presidential election in Tehran June 14, 2013. REUTERS/Yalda Moayeri/ took a commanding lead ahead of conservative rivals in , ...
Khaneye Doost (Friend's House)
I am always surprised by how few Iranians know or have even heard about Golestan Kids. While Golestan is located in Berkeley, on a busy stretch of galleries, independent pottery studios and shops, man...
The Iranian Yalda and the Fateful Choice of Light Over Darkness
Just a few days ago was the longest night of the year. Another way of looking at is that this was night in which the tide of darkness began to turn back in favor of light. Bunched around this time are...
Farewell to fall, salute to snow: Yalda and the advent of winter in Iran
The traveller may stop anytime but the road never really ends. If it does, then perhaps it was not a road in the first place, but a dead-end. From the fragile window of hope, nothing in life ever real...
Iranians preparing for Yalda Night ceremonies
Iranians are preparing for celebration of Yalda Night on December 21, the longest night in the Iranian solar year. Yalda Night as called in the Persian solar calendar is a night with especial ceremoni...