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2021-09-07 19:25
Virus causes $119 million damage to tourism earnings of Iranian province
TEHRAN – Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari has lost more than five trillion rials (about $119 million at the official exchange rate of 42,000 rials per dollar) in earnings from tourism as many potential visitors have stayed away from the Iranian province since the novel coronavirus restrictions began in early 2019.
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2021-03-14 22:31
COVID-19 inflicts $1.1 billion in losses on Isfahan tourism
TEHRAN – The tourism industry of Isfahan province has suffered a loss of some 48,000 billion rials (about $1.1 billion at the official rate of 42,000 rials per dollar) since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, a provincial tourism official announced on Sunday.
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2021-02-23 18:22
Virus causes $5.2 billion damage to Iran’s tourism, minister says
TEHRAN – Iran’s tourism industry has suffered a loss of some 220 trillion rials (about $5.2 billion at the official exchange rate of 42,000 rials per dollar) since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts Minister said on Tuesday.
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2021-02-19 20:03
No harm to Fars historical sites by quake
TEHRAN – No [noticeable] damage has been reported to cultural heritage sites across Fars province as the result of the medium-sized quake hit southwest Iran late on February 17, the provincial tourism chief has said.
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2021-01-05 11:09
4.1 magnitude quake strikes Caspian Sea
TEHRAN- An earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale occurred on Tuesday morning in the Caspian Sea, shaking nearby regions in Iran and other littoral countries.
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2021-01-04 22:10
Taq Kasra, Sassanid masterpiece of architecture, partly collapses in modern Iraq
TEHRAN – Segments of Taq Kasra, which is an architecturally-important Sasanian-era Persian monument in modern Iraq, has recently been collapsed, Mehr reported based on Iraqi sources.
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2020-12-20 19:45
1.5 million lose work in Iran as COVID hits tourism market
TEHRAN – The coronavirus epidemic has ruined more than 1.5 million jobs in Iran’s travel sector, tourism minister Ali-Asghar Mounesan said on Saturday.
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2020-09-30 18:22
Cinema manager warns COVID-19 could cause irreparable damage to entertainment market
TEHRAN – The manager of Tehran’s Azadi Cineplex has said that coronavirus has caused the most irreparable damage to the entertainment industry.
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2020-06-26 19:28
COVID-19 inflicts $1.4 billion in losses on Iran’s hotels
TEHRAN – The outbreak of the new coronavirus has inflicted a loss of 60,000 billion rials (about $1.4 billion at the official dollar rate of 42,000 rials) on Iranian hospitality industry during the past four months, the president of Iranian Hoteliers Association said on Friday.
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2020-05-25 18:22
Quake damages historical neighborhood in southwest Iran
TEHRAN – A magnitude 5.2 earthquake on Sunday caused minor harm to the historical neighborhood of Dehdasht, a city in Kohgiluyeh-Boyer Ahmad province, southwest Iran.
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2020-05-06 23:08
No major harm to Sassanid-era fortress by quake
TEHRAN – No serious damage was inflicted on the centuries-old Falak-ol-Aflak Fortress as a medium-sized quake struck Iran’s western province of Lorestan on Wednesday, according to a group of assessors dispatched by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts.
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2020-04-15 22:36
Flash floods harm historical sites, monuments across Kerman
TEHRAN – Heavy rainfalls have inflicted considerable damage to some historical sites and monuments across southeastern Kerman province.
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2020-04-08 01:12
Drilling wells near Naqsh-e Rostam banned over probable damage
TEHRAN – Drilling deep wells near Naqsh-e Rostam, a royal rock-hewn necropolis in Fars province, southern Iran, has been banned over probable subsidence of land and damage to the ancient site.
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2020-02-08 18:10
Tricky waterproof repairs cast doubt over fate of Iranian architecture masterpiece
TEHRAN – Many visitors to the 17th-centyry Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque, a top masterpiece of Iranian architecture that stands tall in Isfahan, witnessed last month that its picturesque creamy dome was emerged split-face from a snowfall.
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2019-12-01 18:23
Vandalized prehistorical bas-relief restored in western Iran
TEHRAN – A 3rd-millennium-BC bas-relief, vandalized on a rock surface in western Iran earlier in September, has been restored without damaging its other undestroyed sections.
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2019-07-27 18:20
Flood-hit ancient bridge being restored
TEHRAN – A new round of restoration work has been commenced on the historical Kashkan Bridge, which suffered damage from a heavy flooding in March.
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2019-07-24 20:10
Fire damages 1,000 Sq. m of historical texture in Tehran
TEHRAN – Recent assessment shows that fire has destroyed some 1,000 square meters of historical buildings encircling Hassanabad Square in downtown Tehran.
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2019-07-09 20:42
No major harm to Khuzestan historical sites by quake
TEHRAN – No serious damage has been reported to museums and cultural heritage sites across Iran’s Khuzestan province hit by a medium-sized quake on Monday, according to the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization.
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2019-05-11 20:08
Fire incurs $1.3 million loss to historic bazaar of Tabriz
TEHRAN – A blaze which erupted late on Wednesday at the historic bazaar of Tabriz, northwest Iran, is estimated to have caused about 200 billion rials ($1.33 million) to the UNESCO-registered site.
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2019-04-12 11:34
144 psychological screening teams in flood-hit areas
TEHRAN — 144 teams specialized in psychological health have been sent to the areas hit by the recent flash flood in Iran, said Deputy Health Minister Alireza Raisi.
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2018-10-10 07:27
Flood haunting northern Iran brings $166m of loss
TEHRAN – Flash floods hitting Mazandaran province, northern Iran, have caused an estimated 7 trillion rials (about $166 million) worth of damages, destroying infrastructures, residential units, roads and huge tracts of farmlands, the province’s governor has said.
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2018-07-24 09:34
Kermanshah historical sites unharmed by quake
TEHRAN – A magnitude 5.9 quake that rattled parts of the western province of Kermanshah on Sunday caused no damage to historical sites across the province.
