Financial Tribune- A senior tourism official in East Azarbaijan Province has called for tempering expectations over Tabriz's selection as the capital of Islamic tourism in 2018. Morteza Abdar Bakhshayesh, the head of the provincial office of Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization, told Mehr News Agency that the event will ...

IFP- The director general of the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of East Azarbaijan [Province], Morteza Abdar, said that the art of making the traditional soap of Maragheh (in northwestern Iranian province of East Azerbaijan) was registered in the list of Irans national intangible cultural heritage items, in a meeting in Tehran ...