Press TV - A senior official at Irans agriculture ministry says the country is increasing its cultivation area for saffron by 5,000 hectares a year as global demand for the Iranian red gold keeps surging. Ali Tahmasebi, a deputy to Irans minister of agriculture, told the state TV on Saturday that planting saffron was no longer restricted to the ...

Mizan - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei met with staff and personnel of the Congress of Martyrs of South Khorasan province on 5 November 2018.        

Financial Tribune- An image of a Persian leopard has been captured by camera traps in Shaskouh Protected Area in South Khorasan Province. That is the second time a Persian leopard has been spotted in the area in recent months," Parviz Aramanesh, the head of the provincial office of the Department of Environment, was quoted as saying by IRNA. It ...

MNA- Radiocarbon dating by Carbon-14 indicates Samalghan site in Khorasan has been settled from Iron II down to Islamic periods. Mohammad Javad Jafari, the head of an expedition to two archaeological sites, Rivi 1 and 2 in Samalghan plain in North Khorasan told Mehr News local correspondent that the site had been uncovered first by Irans most ...

Makhunik is a village in South Khorasan province, just 20 km from the Iranian border with Afghanistan. The village is popularly known as the "village of lilliputians," and although you wont meet dwarfs there now, locals say they really used to exist. If you take a look atMakhunik fromthe nearestmountain, it will remind you a meadow dotted withmushrooms....

Ashkhane, north Khorasan, June 13, IRNA Iranian and German excavators will jointly conduct seven-year excavations at cultural heritage site of Mane and Samalghan district, north Khorasan province. Director General of Iran Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) in North Khorasan Mohammad Soveidanlouee told IRNA on Monday ...

Mashad, April 19, IRNA - Director General of Razavi Khorasan Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Department Hossein Zare Sefat said that foreign tourists' entry in the province increased by 5.5% compared to last year. Zare Sefat told IRNA on Tuesday that 1,038,000 foreign tourists entered Razavi Khorasan from Lotf Abad, Sarakhs, Dogharoon,...

Ninety-four percent of the world saffron production comes from Iran, according to deputy agriculture minister, Mitra Majdzadeh, as reported by Mehr news agency. She added that more than 280 metric tons of saffron was produced domestically over the past Iranian calendar year (ended March 20). Despite increase in saffron cultivation last year, production ...

[caption id="attachment_156368" align="alignright" width="177"] Shrine of Imam Reza, Mashhad[/caption] TEHRAN (FNA)- Thousands of tourists each year arrive here in Iran to see the country's natural beauties and get more familiar with sub-cultures while enjoying an unforgettable vacation. March 21 marks the start of Spring and the turn of ...

MASHHAD, Dec. 08 (MNA) Khorasans veteran Dotar player Zolfaghar Asgarian, after having been hospitalized in ICU for a month, passes away. Master Asgarian had been hospitalized for lung infection, and due to a drop in his blood plates, he gradually began to lose awareness, and after spending a month in an intensive care unit, he passed away on Sunday ...

TEHRAN, Aug. 30 (MNA) Iran is the home to most of world saffron and it is recognized for the best quality of saffron in the world. Northeastern provinces of Iran are known for being saffron producers in Iran while the most expensive spice of the world is planted in four corners of the country, wherever the climate agrees with its requirements. Hamedan,...

A poacher in Northern Khorasan, who was arrested while sellingleopard skin, has been sentenced to three years in jail. IRNA reports that the leopard was hunted down last winter in a protected area. The head of the Northern Khorasan Department of the Environment said the individual had been under surveillance by investigators for some time. The ...

Tehran (AFP) - Floods have killed three women in northeastern Iran and emergency workers rescued 600 people from a neighbouring region hit by a landslide, media and the Red Crescent reported Saturday. Heavy rains hit Iran hard in the past week, with the fatalities being recorded in Khorasan province. "Following the floods in the province, three women ...

TEHRAN, April 14 (MNA) April 14 is national day for commemoration of Farid ud-Din Attar Nishapuri in his turquoise dome in Razavi Khorasan province. It is a ceremony to pay homage to a man who expressed his mysticism in a voice unadorned and devoid of any embellishment. According to the literary history, Attar inspired Rumi and Jami. The ceremony ...

130 university teams from all 31 Iranian provinces have competed at the National Autonomous Robot Racing in north-eastern province of Khorasan for three days.     By Mehr News Agency�

Lagoon Residents is name of a play which was performed in Mashahd city of �province, north east of Iran; all of the actors in the play are blind artists.   By Mehr News Agency�

Tehran, Dec 18, IRNA Iranian airline Iran Air is to resume its direct flight from holy city of Mashhad in the northeastern province of Khorasan Razavi to Bahrain as of Wednesday. According to an agreement inked between Iranian and Bahraini officials, Iran Air handles direct flights from Mashhad to Bahrain and vice versa every week. By IRNA  ...

Tehran, Nov 18, IRNA The First International Holy Quran Congress with Special View to Humanity and Society will be held in Mashhad, Razavi Khorassan Province, on November 20-21. Executive Secretary of the Congress Hojjatoleslam Mohammad-Hossein Mohtashami said the congress aims to share knowledge and ideas about the theme: New Directions of Research ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iran's Khorasan Province, northeastern part of the country, was hit by a mild earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale. The earthquake shook southern part of Khorasan Province. Iran sits astride several major faults in the earth's crust, and is prone to frequent earthquakes, many of which have been devastating. The worst in recent ...