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 10/29/2009 Great sand dunes and the beautiful landscapes are among the attracting phenomenon of Maranjab Desert. It is in one of the outstanding unique regions of Iran. It is fantastic to walk on moving sand hills with bare feet and explore the sand pattern and their form under early morning light, before sun goes up. Photo by Mehdi Roudaki |
 10/29/2009 Great sand dunes and the beautiful landscapes are among the attracting phenomenon of Maranjab Desert. Photo by Mehdi Roudaki |
 10/29/2009 Great sand dunes and the beautiful landscapes are among the attracting phenomenon of Maranjab Desert. It is in one of the outstanding unique regions of Iran. It is fantastic to walk on moving sand hills with bare feet and explore the sand pattern and their form under early morning light, before sun goes up. Photo by Mehdi Roudaki |
 10/29/2009 Great sand dunes and the beautiful landscapes are among the attracting phenomenon of Maranjab Desert. It is in one of the outstanding unique regions of Iran. It is fantastic to walk on moving sand hills with bare feet and explore the sand pattern and their form under early morning light, before sun goes up. Photo by Mehdi Roudaki |
 10/29/2009 Great sand dunes and the beautiful landscapes are among the attracting phenomenon of Maranjab Desert. It is in one of the outstanding unique regions of Iran. It is fantastic to walk on moving sand hills with bare feet and explore the sand pattern and their form under early morning light, before sun goes up. Photo by Mehdi Roudaki |
 10/29/2009 Great sand dunes and the beautiful landscapes are among the attracting phenomenon of Maranjab Desert. It is in one of the outstanding unique regions of Iran. It is fantastic to walk on moving sand hills with bare feet and explore the sand pattern and their form under early morning light, before sun goes up. Photo by Mehdi Roudaki |
 10/29/2009 Great sand dunes and the beautiful landscapes are among the attracting phenomenon of Maranjab Desert. It is in one of the outstanding unique regions of Iran. It is fantastic to walk on moving sand hills with bare feet and explore the sand pattern and their form under early morning light, before sun goes up. Photo by Mehdi Roudaki |
 10/29/2009 Great sand dunes and the beautiful landscapes are among the attracting phenomenon of Maranjab Desert. Photo by Mehdi Roudaki |
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 03/19/2009 A plate or bowl of Samanu is a traditional component of the Haft sin table. By Behzad N. |
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 03/18/2008 By Rob & Ale There are two antechambers beside the main hall of Chehel Sotun. This fresco, found in the southern antechamber, depicts Chaharshanbe Suri, or 'Red Wednesday', as held on the last wednesday of the year. Dating back to Zoroastrian times, it is a celebration of the light winning over darkness. The flames that seem more like an eruption on the horizon can be related to the ritual of making fires and jumping over them, whilst singing traditional songs. |
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 01/29/2009 Considered one of the biggest Persian festivities in ancient times, Jashn-e-Sadeh is still celebrated by Zoroastrians throughout the world. Sadeh is a mid winter festival celebrated fifty days before Nowruz (the Persian New Year) to honor fire and to defeat darkness, frost and cold. More about Jashn-e Sadeh
Photo by Farshad Palideh |
 01/29/2009 Considered one of the biggest Persian festivities in ancient times, Jashn-e-Sadeh is still celebrated by Zoroastrians throughout the world. Sadeh is a mid winter festival celebrated fifty days before Nowruz (the Persian New Year) to honor fire and to defeat darkness, frost and cold. More about Jashn-e Sadeh
Photo by Farshad Palideh |
 01/29/2009 Considered one of the biggest Persian festivities in ancient times, Jashn-e-Sadeh is still celebrated by Zoroastrians throughout the world. Sadeh is a mid winter festival celebrated fifty days before Nowruz (the Persian New Year) to honor fire and to defeat darkness, frost and cold. More about Jashn-e Sadeh
Photo by Farshad Palideh |
 01/29/2009 Considered one of the biggest Persian festivities in ancient times, Jashn-e-Sadeh is still celebrated by Zoroastrians throughout the world. Sadeh is a mid winter festival celebrated fifty days before Nowruz (the Persian New Year) to honor fire and to defeat darkness, frost and cold. More about Jashn-e Sadeh
Photo by Farshad Palideh |
 01/29/2009 Considered one of the biggest Persian festivities in ancient times, Jashn-e-Sadeh is still celebrated by Zoroastrians throughout the world. Sadeh is a mid winter festival celebrated fifty days before Nowruz (the Persian New Year) to honor fire and to defeat darkness, frost and cold. More about Jashn-e Sadeh
Photo by Farshad Palideh |
 01/29/2009 Considered one of the biggest Persian festivities in ancient times, Jashn-e-Sadeh is still celebrated by Zoroastrians throughout the world. More about Jashn-e Sadeh
Photo by Farshad Palideh |
 01/29/2009 Sadeh is a mid winter festival celebrated fifty days before Nowruz (the Persian New Year) to honor fire and to defeat darkness, frost and cold. More about Jashn-e Sadeh
Photo by Farshad Palideh |
 01/29/2009 Considered one of the biggest Persian festivities in ancient times, Jashn-e-Sadeh is still celebrated by Zoroastrians throughout the world. More about Jashn-e Sadeh
Photo by Farshad Palideh |
 01/29/2009 Considered one of the biggest Persian festivities in ancient times, Jashn-e-Sadeh is still celebrated by Zoroastrians throughout the world. More about Jashn-e Sadeh
Photo by Farshad Palideh |
 01/29/2009 Considered one of the biggest Persian festivities in ancient times, Jashn-e-Sadeh is still celebrated by Zoroastrians throughout the world. More about Jashn-e Sadeh
Photo by Farshad Palideh |
 01/29/2009 Sadeh is a mid winter festival celebrated fifty days before Nowruz (the Persian New Year) to honor fire and to defeat darkness, frost and cold. More about Jashn-e Sadeh
Photo by Farshad Palideh |
 01/29/2009 Considered one of the biggest Persian festivities in ancient times, Jashn-e-Sadeh is still celebrated by Zoroastrians throughout the world. Sadeh is a mid winter festival celebrated fifty days before Nowruz (the Persian New Year) to honor fire and to defeat darkness, frost and cold. More about Jashn-e Sadeh
Photo by Farshad Palideh |
 01/29/2009 Considered one of the biggest Persian festivities in ancient times, Jashn-e-Sadeh is still celebrated by Zoroastrians throughout the world. More about Jashn-e Sadeh
Photo by Farshad Palideh |
 01/29/2009 Considered one of the biggest Persian festivities in ancient times, Jashn-e-Sadeh is still celebrated by Zoroastrians throughout the world. More about Jashn-e Sadeh
Photo by Farshad Palideh |
 01/29/2009 Considered one of the biggest Persian festivities in ancient times, Jashn-e-Sadeh is still celebrated by Zoroastrians throughout the world. More about Jashn-e Sadeh
Photo by Farshad Palideh |
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 02/21/2005 Persian Women dancing. From a wall painting at "Hasht Behesht Palace" (Palace of 8 heavens), Isfahan, Iran. Photo by User Zereshk - Wikipedia |
 11/01/2008 Young Shepherd Dancing, Autumn in Iran - Toshan Village, Gorgan Province Photo: Mannan Khorasani |
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 09/02/2008 Iran enjoys significant potentialities in tourism, with the 70-degree Lout Desert, the world's hottest place, being a case in point. Some 70 degrees Celsius (158 degrees Fahrenheit) in the shadow is the hottest temperature recorded for a desert - and the spot happens to be in Iran. The desert is so awe-inspiring that penetrating its unfathomable charm and mystery has turned out to be an unattainable desire of nature travelers. (Photo: Abbas Jafari) |
 09/02/2008 Iran enjoys significant potentialities in tourism, with the 70-degree Lout Desert, the world's hottest place, being a case in point. Some 70 degrees Celsius (158 degrees Fahrenheit) in the shadow is the hottest temperature recorded for a desert - and the spot happens to be in Iran. The desert is so awe-inspiring that penetrating its unfathomable charm and mystery has turned out to be an unattainable desire of nature travelers. (Photo: Abbas Jafari) |
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 08/18/2008 Turquoise is rare and valuable in finer grades and has been prized as a gem and ornamental stone for thousands of years owing to its unique hue. In recent times turquoise, like most other opaque gems, has been devalued by the introduction of treatments, imitations, and synthetics onto the market, some difficult to detect even by experts. Iran, for at least 2,000 years, the region once known as Persia, has remained the most important source of turquoise, for it is here that fine material is most consistently recovered. This "perfect colour" deposit, which is blue naturally, and turns green when heated due to dehyration, is restricted to a mine-riddled in Neyshabur,[5][6][7] the 2,012-metre mountain peak of Ali-mersai, which is tens of kilometers from Mashhad, the capital of Khorasan province, Iran. A weathered and broken trachyte is host to the turquoise, which is found both in situ between layers of limonite and sandstone, and amongst the scree at the mountain's base. These workings, together with those of the Sinai Peninsula, are the oldest known. Iranian turquoise is often found replacing feldspar. Although it is commonly marred by whitish patches, its colour and hardness are considered superior to the production of other localities. Iranian turquoise has been mined and traded abroad for centuries, and was probably the source of the first material to reach Europe. Photo by Horizon (flickr.com/photos/horizon/) |
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 08/01/2008 Iranian Leopards are very hard to see. After 6 months try for photography of this very hard subject, in early morning of November 2005 in one quick sighting, I shot the photo. (November 2005) Tandoureh National Park and Protected Area (Northeastern of Iran) Daregaz City, Razavi Khorasan Province Photo: Seyed Babak Musavi |
 03/25/2007 Saraye Moshir, an old caravansary in the Bazaar-e Vakil, at Shiraz, Fars province, Iran Photo: Ehsan Mohammadi (picasaweb.google.com/ehsanm1986/) |
 03/25/2007 Golabgiri (Niyasar, Isfahan) Photo: Ehsan Mohammadi (picasaweb.google.com/ehsanm1986/) |
 03/25/2007 Rishkhar Village, near Kabkan and Darbandi Zhour (Daregaz City, Razavi Khorasan) Photo: Ehsan Mohammadi (picasaweb.google.com/ehsanm1986/) |
 07/27/2008 The Shooshtar Waterfalls are considered to be an attractive historical site. They are located alongside a branch of the Gerger, near Sika. These waterfalls were constructed in the year 1233 AH, in order to protect the Mizan Dam. In the same year in order to prevent the destruction of the dam, another dike was constructed. Thence outlets of the Mizan Dam was blocked and the course of Gerger River dried up. The Gerger Dam was also constructed on the course of this river and some holes were constructed on the top of this dam, between the two scarps of the river overlooking the valley of Gerger River in the midst of the rocks in order to conduct the water to flow through the holes, thus creating the present waterfalls. In this way the probability of the destruction of dam decreased. Since the construction of the Koohrang Tunnel which transfers the water from the Karoon to the Zayandeh Rood River, and with the construction of Shahid Abbaspour Dam, the flow of the waterfalls have considerably decreased. But need less to say that these waterfalls are still interesting and wonderful, and account for as one of the most important attractive sites of Shooshtar city. Photo: Ehsan Mohammadi (picasaweb.google.com/ehsanm1986/) |
 07/27/2008 The Shooshtar Waterfalls are considered to be an attractive historical site. They are located alongside a branch of the Gerger, near Sika. These waterfalls were constructed in the year 1233 AH, in order to protect the Mizan Dam. In the same year in order to prevent the destruction of the dam, another dike was constructed. Thence outlets of the Mizan Dam was blocked and the course of Gerger River dried up. The Gerger Dam was also constructed on the course of this river and some holes were constructed on the top of this dam, between the two scarps of the river overlooking the valley of Gerger River in the midst of the rocks in order to conduct the water to flow through the holes, thus creating the present waterfalls. In this way the probability of the destruction of dam decreased. Since the construction of the Koohrang Tunnel which transfers the water from the Karoon to the Zayandeh Rood River, and with the construction of Shahid Abbaspour Dam, the flow of the waterfalls have considerably decreased. But need less to say that these waterfalls are still interesting and wonderful, and account for as one of the most important attractive sites of Shooshtar city. Photo: Ehsan Mohammadi (picasaweb.google.com/ehsanm1986/) |
 07/23/2008 Kaboodwall Waterfall, Near Ali Abad Katool, Golestan Province Photo by Ehsan Abbasi |
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 07/23/2008 Iran's biggest ancient brick and stone castle. Rudkhan Castle, located 25 km southwest of Fooman city north Iran, is a military complex which had been constructed during the Seljuk Dynasty. The Castle is built on two tips of a mount, with an area of five hectares. Its architects have benefited from natural mountainous features in the construction of the fort. Also a river known as 'Rudkhan Castle River' exist on the right side of the castle, which originates from the heights and flows from south to north. Rudkhan Castle occupies an area of about 5 hectares and sits at the two peaks of a mountain at elevations of 715 and 670 meters and is fortified by strong fortifications and battlements at a length of 1,550 meters. The castle's 42 towers still stand intact. After crossing a mountainous winding route and passing dense and very beautiful jungles, the first thing that the traveler discovers is the castle's big entrance gate which is grand and huge. Photo by Hossein Karimi |
 07/09/2008 Qara Kelisa (The black Church) near Chaldoran, West Azerbaidjan, Iran. Photo: Novecentino (flickr.com/photos/novecentino/) |
 07/09/2008 Iran's Black Church, an ancient Armenian Christian place of worship, stands near Chaldoran, 650 km (404 miles) northwest of Tehran, close to the borders of Turkey and Armenia. Photo: fabdany (flickr.com/people/fabdany/) |
 07/09/2008 Qara Kelisa (The black Church) near Chaldoran, West Azerbaidjan, Iran. Picture taken in June 2005 by F.Dany |
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 06/29/2008 Harandeh, Tehran-Firouzkouh Road Photo: Ehsan Mohammadi (v-n.ir) |
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 06/01/2008 The glorious architecture of Iran, like a piece of gem, has been constantly glittering among other architectural monuments of the world and has occupied a worthy place in the world of art. It was in the reign of the Safavids, that the city of Isfahan reached such a renown and elegance which was called " half of the world". Among what has remained from the age of the Safavids, there still exists a school, bazaar and caravansaray complex which sparkles like a piece of jewelry at the side of Chahar Bagh street. This complex was built at the time of king Sultan Hossein of Safavids about 300 years ago. King Soltan Hossein attributed this magnificent complex of building to his mother. That is why; it is called "the school and caravansaray of Madar-shah" (which means king's mother). |
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