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2025-12-19 17:26
Iran’s Ilam, Iraq’s Karbala discuss joint tourism exhibition
TEHRAN - Iranian and Iraqi officials have reached an initial agreement to hold a joint handicrafts and tourism exhibition in Iraq, Ilam’s cultural heritage chief said, following talks between provincial authorities.
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2025-11-24 17:18
Mashhad hosting 4,000 pilgrims arriving on foot for Hazrat Fatemeh mourning
TEHRAN - More than 2,500 pilgrims arriving on foot entered Mashhad on Sunday to mark the martyrdom anniversary of Hazrat Fatemeh Zahra (SA), the daughter of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Local officials expect the number of pilgrims entering the holy city on foot may reach 4,000.
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2025-11-10 17:02
Iran tourism minister meets Chinese, Iraqi counterparts at UN Tourism General Assembly
TEHRAN — Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Seyyed Reza Salehi-Amiri met with China’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, Sun Yeli, and Iraq’s Minister of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities, Ahmed Fakak Al-Badrani, during the 26th UN Tourism General Assembly, which officially opened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday.
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2025-10-12 17:24
Iran, Iraq launch new phase of tourism cooperation
TEHRAN – Iran and Iraq have opened a new chapter in tourism cooperation with the launch of Iran’s first tourism roadshow in the country, featuring an 80-member delegation.
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2025-10-11 18:00
Iranians top list of pilgrimage tourists to Iraq
TEHRAN - Iranians remain the largest group of religious tourists visiting Iraq, particularly to the holy city of Karbala.
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2025-10-07 17:58
Basra roadshow: necessity of developing tourism and border cooperation between Iran and Iraq
TEHRAN-- Iraq roadshow was held on October 6 with the participation of more than 50 tourism and investment companies from Basra province.
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2025-09-23 17:25
Iran sees tourism roadshow in Iraq as key to boosting sector, deputy minister says
TEHRAN – Iran’s Deputy Tourism Minister Anoushirvan Mohseni-Bandpei said on Monday that a planned tourism roadshow in Iraq would play an important role in expanding different areas of tourism cooperation between the two countries.
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2025-09-20 17:22
Iran, Iraq to improve ties through tourism roadshow
TEHRAN— Iran-Iraq ties in cultural heritage, tourism and handicrafts fields are improving in spite of regional and international crises, Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts Minister Seyyed Reza Salehi-Amiri has said.
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2025-08-30 16:36
Iran seeks to expand tourism ties with Iraq
TEHRAN – Iran aims to broaden tourism cooperation with Iraq across four sectors, a senior industry official said.
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2025-08-24 16:43
Isfahan, birthplace of Alam making, one of Iran's ritual crafts
TEHRAN—Isfahan is the origin of one of Iran’s ritual crafts: Alam making. Processional Standards (Alams) are used in many parts of the Muslim world by the Shia community in processions marking the martyrdom of Imam Husain (A.S.), grandson of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), who died at the Battle of Karbala in 680 CE.
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2025/08/16
By Xavier Villar
Iran and Arbaeen: Memory, resistance, and legitimacy in motion
MADRID – Arbaeen, the pilgrimage that each year brings together millions of people on the road to Karbala, has transcended any reading reduced to mere ritual to become the core of a political and historical-discursive pedagogy central to 21st-century Islam.
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2025-08-15 20:18
By Fatemeh Jahanbakhsh
The common language of Arbaeen pilgrims is tears
Karbala—An eighty-year-old woman sits beneath a bridge, her face deeply lined with wrinkles, an Arabic beauty mark between her brows, strands of white hair peeking from beneath her scarf, and a pair of round glasses perched on her nose. Amid the sea of people, you’d have to look closely to spot her, sitting with a tray of dates on a small stool, waiting to meet your gaze.
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2025-08-15 20:10
By Wesam Bahrani
Arbaeen: A sociopolitical symbol of resistance
TEHRAN – For many outside the region, Arbaeen is unfamiliar. It often surfaces unexpectedly while scrolling through headlines about West Asia accompanied by striking images of massive crowds walking toward Iraqi cities.
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2025-08-09 17:38
Over 2.6 million Arbaeen pilgrims exit Iran via land borders; Mehran most crowded
TEHRAN – More than 2.6 million pilgrims crossed Iran’s six land borders to enter Iraq for Arbaeen between July 26 and August 8, Iranian road management officials reported on Saturday.
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2025-07-08 17:47
Sistan-Baluchestan ready to host Pakistan’s pilgrims traveling to Karbala
TEHRAN—Sistan-Baluchestan people are famous for their hospitality. Every year, as Arbaeen approaches, they prepare to welcome and host Pakistani pilgrims on the Arbaeen pilgrimage of the son of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Karbala, Iraq.
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2025-07-01 17:35
Iraq pilgrimages proceed by land due to flight restrictions
TEHRAN - Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization has announced that pilgrimage trips to Iraq during the sacred lunar months Muharram and Safar are proceeding as planned, with land routes remaining operational despite ongoing flight limitations at several Iranian airports.