Press TV - A viral video showing local villagers helping a stork build its nest has been widely shared among Iranian social media users as an interesting and admirable demonstration of compassion and respect for nature. The short video, which has been largely viewed in the past week, shows a stork skillfully snapping sticks midair and using them ...

IRNA Head of Mahabad Department of Environment said on Sunday that sufficient rainfalls in the current spring season led to spillover of Kani Barazan Wetland after 10 years. Speaking to IRNA on Sunday, Farough Sokhanvar said that 16m cm capacity of the wetland is now full and its spillover water is now heading to Dash Khaneh, Faravan and Gerrus....

IRNA Head of Mahabad Blood Transfusion Office Davoud Nasr said on Monday that Mahabad base has European standard to produce and export blood products, and added that 3,000 liters of blood plasma had been exported from Mahabad to Europe last year. Nasr told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) that this amount of plasma was delivered to the Austrian ...

IRNA In the nine months of the Iranian year (starting March 20, 2017), the export from Mahabad border customs, West Azarbaijan Province, western Iran has increase by 60%, said the governor of Manhabad border customs. 'The export from Mahabad increased 60% and reached $ 17.158m in the nine months of the year,' said Ahmad Ahmadi. Ahmadi said that ...

Tasnim - Saholan cave is located 43km east of the city of Mahabad, in Iran's northwestern province of West Azarbaijan. Situated in a small hill of limestone the cave has two entrances.

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced a Friday night fighting between its forces and a group of armed outlaws in a northwestern border area has left 5 mobsters killed, including two ringleaders. The IRGC public relations department released a statement on Saturday evening, providing more details on Friday nights ...

Mahabad, West Azarbaijan, May 31, IRNA President Hassan Rouhani arrived in Mahabad, a city in the northwest of Iran, on Tuesday in his 28th visit to the country's provinces. Upon arrival, the president was welcomed by senior local officials. A number of cabinet members are accompanying President Rouhani during his provincial visit. Rouhani ...

TEHRAN, May 31 (Shana) Iranian Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh on Tuesday paid a visit to Mahabad Petrochemical Plant located in the northwestern Province of West Azerbaijan. The visit was made prior to the official inauguration of the facility by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday. The plant is the last unit that will be fed by ethylene ...

  TEHRAN, May 31 (Shana) Iran has bankrolled $800m for development of Sanandaj and Mahabad petrochemical plants, both located in the country's Kurdish regions, creating the country's biggest state investment in the region's history. Development of Kurdish regions is the message of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's visit to the north western ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Rouhani tells Iranians they will get a good nuclear deal Iranian President Hassan Rouhani gave a vigorous defense of nuclear negotiations to a domestic crowd on Sunday, pledging to reach a deal that would lift the hardship of sanctions as the talks enter their final weeks.  ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iran's Interior Ministry has scrutinized and closed a case on death of a young girl who fell off a hotel balcony in the city of Mahabad early in May, a deputy minister said, saying the detained suspect has been proven to have no connection with the country's security forces. Speaking to Tasnim on Sunday, Deputy Interior Minister ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:     Irans top MP opposes motion to halt nuclear talks The speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly has warned fellow MPs against getting carried away by a politically charged atmosphere over the nuclear issue. MPs urge foreign ministry to submit results of nuclear ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Sunday and picked headlines from 16 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Comments by President Rouhani that Saudi Arabia committed a strategic mistake by launching airstrikes against Yemen dominated the front pages of Iranian papers on Sunday....

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A deputy commander of Iran's Police Force said a suspect arrested over the death of a young girl who fell off a hotel balcony in the country's predominantly Kurdish city of Mahabad a few days ago is an ordinary local man with no connection with the security forces. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency on Saturday, General Montazer-...

Police say they have arrested a suspect in the death of a young girl who threw herself out of a hotel window in Mahabad a few days ago [presumably escaping sexual assault]. Tara Hotel in Mahabad, a city in West Azerbaijan Province, was set on fire on Thursday after a group of people gathered outside to protest the mystery death a day earlier of ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The governor of Irans northwestern city of Mahabad announced that the first phase of the huge petrochemical project in the city will be operational by the end of the current Iranian calender year (March 20, 2015). Fortunately, the process of completing the project has been satisfactory, Jafar Katani said in an interview with the Tasnim ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 10 (MNA) Sahoulan, a world under earth, is one of the largest water caves in Iran which attracts thousands of tourists to its natural beauties. Sahoulan Cave is located 35 km of Mahabad in Irans northwestern province of West-Azerbaijan. The cave consists of several big ponds connected by water halls, very similar to its sibling in Hamedan,...

TEHRAN August 10 (Shanaa)--The second phase of West Ethylene Pipeline (WEP) is expected to become operational later this year, director of the project said. Masoud Meysami said the second phase of the project 585 km long stretches from Kermanshah to Mahabad in western Iran. He added that the first phase of the pipeline which stretches from Assaluyeh ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced on Sunday that it has disbanded a terrorist cell which had conducted sabotage missions in various parts of the country. According to the Intelligence Ministry's public relations, members of the terrorist team affiliated to the foreign countries have been arrested in the Northwestern West ...