TEHRAN – Over 277,000 jobs have been created for financially-struggling individuals since the beginning of the current [Iranian calendar] year (March 21), Morteza Bakhtiari, head of the Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation, has said.

This year, 50 percent of the employment budget has been allocated to job seekers, he stated, IRNA reported on Saturday.

The

TEHRAN – Tourism in the west of the country will benefit from the possible inclusion of ancient Hegmataneh on the UNESCO World Heritage list.

The possible global registration of ancient Hegmataneh in west-central Hamedan province will lead to double prosperity for the tourism axis in the west of the country, a local tourism official said on

TEHRAN – The Iranian police have recently arrested six illegal excavators in Sari, the capital of the northern province of Mazandaran, a senior police official in charge of protecting cultural heritage, has said.

The accused people were traced and finally arrested after police received reports from cultural heritage aficionados and local people

TEHRAN – Jameh Mosque of Dezful, a centuries-old congregational place of worship that stands tall in the southwestern Khuzestan province, is in need of urgent restoration, a local tourism official has said.

Due to the damage to the sewer pipes, the eastern and western sides of the mosque need to undergo urgent restoration, Abbas Cheragh-Cheshm