A total of 1.3 trillion rials (nearly $3.7 million) was earmarked to implement the technical and protection plan for forests in the northern part of the country. The implementation of the five-year plan has started a month ago with the cooperation of the Natural Resources and Watershed Management Organization, deputy head of the Organization Taqi ...

MNA | Mohammad Dashti: With its temperate climate and unique nature, Zomorrod waterfall in Gilan province, northern Iran, has the potential to become a top tourist attraction. Zomorrod waterfall is located 45 km north of Talesh, and nine km from the Bazaar of Hawiq town, Gilan province. It welcomes tourists and climbers from all over Iran in all seasons....

Financial Tribune - A total of 120,068 tons of goods worth $36.73 million were exported via Astara railroad in the northern Gilan Province last year. According to Rasoul Omidi, a local official, exports mainly included home appliances, ceramic kitchenware, clinker and cement, stones and fruit, ILNA reported. Some 227,158 tons of goods worth over ...

Tasnim The number of people contracting the novel coronavirus in Irans northern province of Gilan is on a downward trend, an official said. Gilan, on the coast of the Caspian, Sea was one of hardest-hit areas in Iran during the early days of COVID-19 outbreak. But the Iranian health ministers plenipotentiary representative in the province says ...

Tasnim Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami said the countrys northern province of Gilan will soon overcome crisis caused by the heavy snowfall that has paralyzed many areas. In an interview with Tasnim on Thursday, Eslami said efforts have been underway by the administrative organizations to plow snow and clean the roads ...

Tasnim Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ordered the administrative organizations to mobilize efforts to help the people in the northern provinces of the country suffering in heavy snowfall. In a weekly session of the cabinet on Wednesday, Rouhani ordered the ministries of Roads and Urban Development, Energy, Information and Communications Technology,...

MNA At least seven people have been killed and 85 others wounded in the heavy snowfall and avalanches in Iran's northern Gilan province. At least seven people died and 85 injured due to heavy snowfall and an avalanche incident that hit Gilan province in northern Iran, according to reports. The heavy snowfall in Gilan, with a height of up to ...

Tasnim An earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale struck an area in Irans northern province of Gilan on Wednesday afternoon but there are no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The temblor jolted an area in the city of Ahmadsargurab in Gilan Province at 2:23 p.m. (local time) on Wednesday. Speaking to Tasnim, the director-general ...

Tehran Times Foreign arrivals in the northern province of Gilan has increased by 10 percent since the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21), from the corresponding period a year earlier. About 26,000 foreign tourists stayed in resorts and hotels of Gilan since the beginning of the current Iranian year until August 22nd, showing ...

Tehran Times - Every year, by early June, rosewater festivals take center stage in Gildeh and several neighboring villages, attracting hundreds of travelers to Shaft county of the northern Gilan province. Shaft embraces some six hectares of very sweet smelling kind of roses, best known as Mohammadi roses in the country. The county, however, is ...

ILNA | Aboozar Hamidi: It seems winter is not going to leave the northern Iranian province of Gilan even though the spring blossoms are showing off their beauty. What follows are the face-off between winter and spring in Khorgam county of Rudbar in Gilan province:  

Tasnim | Mohammad Ranjbar: Gilan province, with mostly mountainous, green and forested areas, is located in the north of Iran and lies along the Caspian Sea. It is beautiful all year round, especially in autumn.  

IFP - The weekly markets of Gilan province in northern Iran have a long history as the first cities and towns of the province in the south of the Caspian Sea were formed based on weekly markets. The weekly markets of Gilan have long been considered as a major destination for both Iranian and non-Iranian tourists travelling to the region. Despite ...

Financial Tribune - Anzali Port in the northern Gilan Province will be connected, through a 3.8-kilometer rail route, to the national railroad system, according to the deputy minister of roads and urban development, Kheirollah Khademi. The route has been studied and designed. Once Anzali Port is connected to Rasht-Anzali Railroad, multimodal transportation ...

IRNA Different parts of Iran's northern Caspian Sea Province of Gilan have been burning since Saturday and the fire may spread due to the warm winds in the area, a provincial official announced. Local emergency forces are on the scene to tame the fire which is nearing the residential rural areas, Mehdi Valipour, managing director of Gilan Red Crescent ...

FNA- The second course of off-road competition was held in Langarud in Iran's Gilan Province. Off-roading is the activity of driving or riding a vehicle on unsurfaced roads or tracks, made of materials such as sand, gravel, riverbeds, mud, snow, rocks, and other natural terrain.    ...

IRNA President Hassan Rouhani said that providing recreation and tourism facilities at free trade zones is a must and Halal tourism in the Islamic Republic of Iran can turn into a global brand. Halal tourism is a subcategory of tourism which is geared towards Muslim families who abide by rules of Islam. The hotels in such destinations do not serve ...

IFP- According to a Farsi report by Mehr, Iranian freshwater resources, including the ones in Guilan province, northern Iran, are increasingly exposed to the harms of water hyacinth, an invasive species which is considered to be a bioterrorist because of serious damages it causes to the environment. Multiplying twice in less than a week, the water ...

Iranian farmers in Ammarloo village in Roodbar County, Gilan Province, have started harvesting their hazelnut gardens. 400 tons of hazelnut are expected to be harvested from the Countys gardens. 18,000 hectares of Gilan Province fields are used for cultivation of hazelnut, and the province produces 90% of the countrys total hazelnut production.  ...

The ecologically-rich Anzali Wetland in Gilan Province is now threatened by water hyacinth. The wetland had earlier been besieged by water ferns native to the tropical regions of the Americas, East Asia and Australia and extremely invasive outside its natural habitat. Water hyacinth, native to the Amazon basin, has begun growing in the wetlands ...