IFP - Shah Hussein Gouyan is one of the most important religious ceremonies held in Irans Azarbaijan province during the holy month of Muharram. During the mourning ceremony, people shout the name of the Third Shiite Imam, Hussein Ibn Ali (AS), and praise him as the leader of all martyrs. The ritual is held in most parts of Azarbaijan province ...

Tasnim Armed assailants killed an Iranian border guard in the northwestern province of West Azarbaijan early Sunday. During an exchange of fire in the border region of Piranshahr in the early hours of Sunday, armed outlaws killed a Border Police soldier. Two attackers were also killed in the incident, which occurred at Tamarchinborder post. The ...

IRNA Iran's East Azarbaijan Province has exported two billion dollars worth of products in the previous 11 months of the current Iranian calendar year (ending on March 20), a provincial official said. The figure experienced 8.6 percent of rise compared to the same period last year, Deputy Governor of the northwestern Iranian province, Ali Jahangiri,...

IFP - Qayqanaq is an Iranian snack made with flour, eggs and sugar, almost similar to the common pancakes made in other parts of the world. Qayqanaq is cooked in the cities of Zanjan and Tabriz. The recipe for, and appearance of this Iranian desert is very similar to foreign pancakes eaten as breakfast.   Ingredients Flour: 4 spoonfuls Eggs:...

Press TV - At least eight Iranian border guards have been killed in heavy clashes with terrorists in the countrys northwestern province of West Azarbaijan, a local official says. The incidents occurred in Chaldoran border area on Friday, Alireza Radfar, the deputy governor general of West Azarbaijan for political and security affairs, told IRNA....

Financial Tribune- Following heavy rainfall in West Azarbaijan Province over the past several days, some 80 million cubic meters of water have flowed into Urmia Lake. According to Kamran Daneshjou, director of West Azarbaijan's Regional Water Company, this amount is expected to reach 100 mcm should the trend hold. "The lake's inflow in the past ...

Iranian security forces have killed 12 counter-revolutionary militants in the northwest of the country near the border with Iraq. In a statement on Wednesday, the Iranian Intelligence Ministry said that the militants were killed in the city of Sardasht in West Azarbaijan province. A group of 12 gunmen, who sought to carry out acts of sabotage ...

Tehran, December 23, The Iran Project- Irans minister of communication and the visiting Azeri minister of economic development received the title of Tabriz Honorary Citizen conferred by Tabriz Municipality in a ceremony in Tabriz on Tuesday. During the ceremony on the sidelines of the 10th Iran-Azerbaijan joint economic commission in Tabriz, Sadegh ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Rouhani to travel to China on 3-day visit Irans President Hassan Rouhani is set to travel to China on a three-day visit, during which he will attend the fourth summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA).   Iran-Pakistan Security ...

[caption id="attachment_49711" align="alignright" width="180"] The statue of renowned Persian poet Nezami Ganjavi in Ganja, Azerbaijan[/caption] Tehran, Oct 12, IRNA - Vice president and head of the Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization (CHTHO), Mohammad Ali Najafi protested to replacement of the Persian inscriptions on the tomb ...