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Driving in the centre of Tehran can always be a confusing task for locals, let alone foreigners living in the city. For a traffic-hit metropolitan Tehran, managing traffic and pollution has for years been a challenge to the city’s…

Iranian officials have said the next public holiday Eid e-Ghorban (Feast of the sacrifice) will be on Tuesday, August 21. Eid e-Ghorban (Aid al-Adha in Arabic speaking countries), falls on the tenth day of Dhu al-Hijjah, the final month…

The Safir Language Academy is holding a one-day tour to Iran’s first modern university and one of the most beautiful historical mansions of the Qajar dynasty this weekend. Dar ul-Funun Established in 1851, Dar ul-Funun (a polytechnic)…

Living in Tehran one can see many people in tribal clothing around junctions especially around the Western and northern main road junctions in the city. Now, according to the Tehran Municipality, a plan to relocate these people will be…

The Art Bureau, a Tehran-based centre affiliated with the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization, is currently playing host to two art exhibitions on Hajj, Tehran Times reported on July 22. The bureau’s Gallery No. 1 is displaying a…

The first phase of Line 7 of Tehran Metro has been inaugurated at a ceremony attended by Tehran’s mayor, Mohammad Ali Afshani, Chairman of Tehran’s City Council Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani among other officials. The first phase of this new…

Since October 2017 Iran implemented its National Mobile Registry Scheme under which all new mobile phones must be registered to be eligible for using Iranian SIM Cards. In our previous report, we published a guide on how to do the…

July 9, 2018, is a bank holiday in Iran commemorating the martyrdom of Imam Sadeq (SA) who died in 765 due to a poisoning by Al-Mansur. Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣādiq commonly known as Jaʿfar al-Sadiq or simply al-Sadeq (The Truthful), was…

As work hours in Tehran province changed from July 7, the province’s subway and bus services announced new operating hours to help. The Tehran Metro Company has announced that the working hours of all 5 lines will begin at 5:00 AM and…

 I often get asked what the time in Tehran is, and I have to explain that Iran, along with India is one of the few countries with a clock which is thirty minutes off the hour. Tehran to Europe  For example, if you’re basing your time on…