Ayatollah Saanei passes away

TEHRAN - Ayatollah Yousef Saanei passed away on Saturday at the age of 83.

Yazd, Qom, Firouzeh to join national cities of handicrafts

TEHRAN- Yazd, Qom, and Firouzeh are planned to be named the national cities of jewelry, ring, and turquoise respectively, CHTN reported on Tuesday.

Qom to promote lesser-known tourist attractions

TEHRAN – The tourism department general of Qom province plans to promote unknown or lesser-known tourist sites with the aim of introducing tourism capacities of the province, CHTN reported.

Excavations reveal rare find of Bronze Age culture in Iran

TEHRAN – Iran has recently unearthed a rare Bronze Age culture, related settlements and relics following to rounds of excavation in a plain near the north-central city of Qom.

Foreign investors invited to Qom tourism projects

TEHRAN – Qom tourism department welcomes foreign investors to participate in its tourism projects, provincial tourism official Hamid Yazdani said on Saturday, CHTN reported. 

Ambassador lauds services to Indian nationals in Qom amid COVID-19

TEHRAN - The Indian ambassador to Iran has lauded the performance of the Iranian Foreign Ministry as well as the local offices of the health and interior ministries for taking care of the Indian nationals in the shrine city of Qom.

By Samaneh Aboutalebi

Iranian filmmakers cover selfless devotion of coronavirus frontline workers

TEHRAN – Iranian documentarians Javad Yaqmuri and Mehdi Amini have teamed up to make a feature-length documentary and a number of shorts on coronavirus in the Kamkar Hospital in the city of Qom, where the first cases of the new virus infection in two Iranian men were reported.

By Salman Parviz

Repatriation of Indian pilgrims, students in Qom ongoing

TEHRAN - Thousands of travelers have been stranded throughout the world unable to return back to their country of origin due to flight cancellations and border restrictions amid Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. This is the story of more than 1,200 Indian pilgrims and seminary students stranded in the holy city of Qom during the Nowruz holidays.

Some 35% of COVID-19 patients in Iran recovered so far

TEHRAN - Some 35 percent of people infected with the novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19, in Iran have so far recovered.

Larijani thanks Iranians for coop. in battle against coronavirus

TEHRAN– Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani hailed people of the country for cooperation with the Health Ministry in the fight against the novel coronavirus.

Expediency Council member Mohammad Mirmohammadi dies

TEHRAN – Seyed Mohammad Mirmohammadi, a member of the Expediency Council, died on Monday morning at Masih-e Daneshavari hospital in Tehran, Tasnim reported.

By Huda Z

Foreign students in Qom mark anniversary of Islamic Revolution

QOM - ‘We have witnessed in the last forty years that the Islamic Revolution has grown from a green sapling into a mighty strong tree which no storm can ever uproot,’ said Sayyid Shahryar Naqvi facing an assembly of international seminary students from more than a dozen countries, including those from the US, UK, Australia and Canada.

By Mohammad Ghaderi

Has the Iranian Health Minister lied about Coronavirus?

TEHRAN - Health Ministry’s delay to announce Coronavirus outbreak in Qom city is justifiable.

COVID-19 cases in Iran rise to 28, death toll hits 6

TEHRAN – The number of people diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19, in Iran has increased to 28, of whom six have so far lost their lives.

Two patients infected with coronavirus in Iran die

TEHRAN - The Health Ministry confirmed on Wednesday that two persons diagnosed with the coronavirus outbreak have died.

Iran confirms first 2 test positive for coronavirus

TEHRAN - Iranian authorities confirmed on Wednesday two cases of the new coronavirus, the first in the country.

Qom clerics slam Zakzaky’s imprisonment in Nigeria

TEHRAN — The Qom Seminary Teachers Society on Saturday denounced the illegal imprisonment of Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky, a top Shiite cleric and leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN).

By Afshin Majlesi

Hoz-e Sultan: Discover huge natural mirror in central Iranian plateau

TEHRAN – Iranian landscape, as you probably know, changes dramatically from region to region; snow-capped mountains, barren plains and deserts, green valleys, coastal lands and various-sized islands to name a few.

By Huda Z

Six-day sacred defense exhibition in Qom ends in all its glory

QOM - One thing I absolutely love about Iran is how the Iranians remember their history and retell it over and over again.

Iran and its enormous potential for religious tourism

TEHRAN – Iran is growing into a major destination for religious tourism despite U.S. sanctions on its economy, some experts say. 

Army brigade hold firing range session near Qom

TEHRAN – Islamic Republic of Iran Ground Force Quick Reaction Force Brigade 223 hold training session in their outdoor shooting range in Aliabad, near Qom, central Iran on Tuesday morning.

Nigerian seminary students in Qom show solidarity with Sheikh Zakzaky

TEHRAN – Nigerian seminary students in Qom have expressed their solidarity with the imprisoned leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky.

Imam Reza (AS) Intl. Festival to open in Qom

TEHRAN – The 17th edition of the Imam Reza (AS) International Festival will open tomorrow with the birthday celebration of Hazrat Masumeh (SA), the sister of the Imam (AS), at her holy shrine in Qom.

Birth anniversary of Imam Mahdi (AS) named national heritage

TEHRAN –Celebration of the birth anniversary of the twelfth and last Shia Imam, Imam Mahdi (AS), at Jamkaran Mosque in the central city of Qom, has been added to the national heritage list, the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Organization announced on Friday.

Mirror of the sky: Visit Hoz-e Sultan in central Iranian plateau

TEHRAN – Salt lakes sometimes appear like giant expanses of mirror, making it hard to differentiate between the sky and the ground. Hoz-e Sultan, a lonely salt lake in the heart of Iran, is one of those.

BIB winning illustrations to go on display in Qom

TEHRAN – An exhibition of 42 winning works from the Biennale of Illustrations Bratislava (BIB) will open at Eshraq Gallery in Qom on Thursday.

Restoration underway on Mulla Sadra’s home in Kahak

TEHRAN- On a day in the 17th century in Iran’s Kahak, one might have heard the mellow tone of Mulla Sadra teaching his pupils at his home, where it is now teemed with sounds of hammering or the scraping of paint to be restored in honor of the influential Iranian philosopher.

‘It’s simplistic to believe that recent floods recharge groundwater resources’

TEHRAN — Believing that groundwater resources will be simply recharged after recent floods is simplistic and unscientific, head of groundwater resources department at Qom Province Regional Water Company has said.

By Syed Zafar Mehdi

Scholars, students gather in Qom for Mahdism conference

QOM - The two-day 15th International Conference on the Mahdaviat Doctrine kicked off in Qom on Thursday with many eminent personalities from various fields in attendance.