Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi called for speeding up supplying services to the quake-stricken areas in Khoy County. Irans presidents emphasis comes after the 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit Khoy County in northwest Iran that left at least three people dead and over 800 others injured. Raeisi stressed the immediate reconstruction of the quake-affected ...

With more than 70 water habitats, including seasonal and permanent wetlands, lakes, dams, and rivers, West Azarbaijan has become one of the safe passages for migratory birds in the west of the country. West Azarbaijan is one of the top three destinations for migratory birds in the country, much like Mazandaran and Golestan in the north and Khuzestan ...

As many as 100 people were imjured in a 5.4 magnitude quake that hit Khoy in West Azarbaijan in northwest Iran. A 5.4 magnitude on the scale of Richter on Wednesday morning struck Khoi city in the north of West Azarbaijan at3:51 a.m. Tehran Local Time. According to preliminary reports provided by the head of Crisis Management of Khoy County Salem ...

rans security forces have identified and dismantled a terrorist and counterrevolutionary team in the countrys northwestern province of West Azarbaijan. Two members of the team have been killed and a number of others arrested during armed clashes with the security forces. The team planned to carry out acts of terror against provincial military ...

Three Iranian border guards have been killed in a clashwith "terrorists"in the northwest of the country after inflicting heavy casualties among them. The incident, which also left two other guards injured,took place in the district of Targavar in West Azarbaijan Province on Friday, according to a report bythe Iranian Law Enforcement Force. The ...

MNA Irans Intelligence forces have identified and dismantled an international drug smuggling band in West Azarbaijan Province, northwest Iran. According to the released statement of the Iranian intelligence ministry, through extensive operations carried out by the Intelligence Ministry forces, an international drug smuggling gang has been identified ...

MNA Two Iranian border guards were martyred in a clash with gunmen in Sardasht County, West Azerbaijan province. Commander of West Azarbaijan province border guards, Second Brigadier General Hossein Khani, said late on Friday that the Iranian border guards entered into a clash with an armed group in the border regions of Sardasht County, during ...

IRNA - The head of the provincial office of the Headquarters for Revival of Urmia Lake in West Azarbaijan province said on Tuesday that Urmia Lake has become 3,163 square km wide. Speaking to IRNA, Farhad Sarkhosh said that volume of the lake has reached over 4,930,000,000 cubic meters, adding that the lake is now in good conditions compared with ...

IRNA President Hassan Rouhani inaugurated nine infrastructure projects of water and electricity in Bushehr Province, southern Iran, and one project in West Azarbaijan Province, northwestern Iran, through video-conference. A provincial official in Bushehr Province said that all the projects have been carried out by domestic engineers and 95% of ...

Financial Tribune - The highest and lowest average annual inflation rates were registered for Lorestan and West Azarbaijan provinces with 34.2% and 10.1% respectively The average Consumer Price Index for home rents in urban areas in the last fiscal year (ended March 19, 2020) increased by 23.2% compared with the corresponding period of the year ...

IRNA Some eight billion rials of donations of Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei have been distributed among the families of prisoners in northwestern Iranian province of West Azarbaijan, according to the director of the provincial prisoners affairs on Monday. Hamzeh Boroujani said that the Leaders donations ...

ISNA | Soheil Faraji: The water level of Lake Urmia, northwestern Iran, has increased considerably, thanks to the heavy precipitations during the past months. Shared between West Azarbaijan and East Azarbaijan provinces, it was once the largest salt-water lake in the Middle East; however, decades of long-standing drought spells and elevated hot summer ...

MNA The water level at Lake Urmia, northwestern Iran, currently stands at 1,271 meters above sea level, which is 35 centimeters more than the water level on the corresponding date in last year. Atabak Jafari, head of West Azarbaijan Regional Water Company said that despite the decrease in regional precipitation, water level of the lake has registered ...

IRNA - A 4.6-magnitude earthquake jolted Qotur district in West Azarbaijan province, Iran on Sunday morning with no damage or casualties. The earthquake occurred at 6:53 local time (2:23 GMT) 6 km below the earth's surface, according to the Seismological Center of the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University. The epicenter of the quake was located ...

Financial Tribune - To help restore Lake Urmia, close to 270 million cubic meters of water will be gradually discharged into the troubled lake from four dams in West Azarbaijan Province over the next two months, head of Urmia Lake Restoration Project said. Average rate of water flow into the lake is 61 cubic meters per second or five million cubic ...

Financial Tribune - Measures taken to revive Lake Urmia in recent years helped the flow of 4.6 billion cubic meters of water into the drying lake. The volume of water in the world famous lake now is almost double that of last years 2.5 bcm, the Energy Ministry news portal Paven reported. Located between the provinces of East and West Azarbaijan,...

Financial Tribune - Sardasht Hydroelectric Power Plant in Sardasht County, West Azarbaijan Province, was connected to the national grid on Tuesday. Adjacent to Sardasht Dam near the Iraqi border in the northwest, the power plant has installed capacity of 150 megawatts, and can generate 421 gigawatt-hours of electricity per annum, the Energy Ministry ...

MNA Iranian Basij (volunteer) Force commenced a large-scale war game, codenamed To Beit al-Muqaddas' (Towards al-Quds), on Thursday in west Azarbaijan province. Some 15,000 Iranian Basij (volunteer) Force from various parts of capital city of west Azarbaijan province, Urmia, started a two-day large-scale war game, codenamed To Beit al-Muqaddas' ...

Tehran Times Visits to historical and recreational sites in West Azarbaijan province rose 22 percent during the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year (started March 21) compared to the same period a year earlier. The provincial tourism department has registered 3,884,000 visits to historical and recreational sites across the northwestern ...

Tasnim - The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force conducted large-scale drills in mountainous regions of Northwestern Iran in West Azarbaijan province. The wargames dubbed as 'Qadir' (aslo Ghadeer) is meant to cleanse the region of terrorist groups that might be hiding at the bordering areas of Bouralan region near the town of Maku ...