TEHRAN- The underground city of Samen in Malayer, Hamedan province, is poised for tourism enhancement, the provincial tourism chief has said. 

The Samen underground city holds significant tourism potential for both Malayer and the surrounding region, Mohsen Masoum Alizadeh said on Saturday, CHTN reported. 

With government support and its growing

TEHRAN- A ceremony commemorating the third anniversary of Yalda Night's listing on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list was attended by Iranian Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts, Seyyed Reza Salehi-Amiri, along with a number of cultural heritage officials and foreign ambassadors in Tehran on Saturday.

During the

TEHRAN- The Hindu Temple in Bandar Abbas, southern Hormozgan province, is scheduled to host a handicrafts exhibition from December 25 to 27. 

This exhibition is a valuable opportunity to showcase the traditional arts of the talented women of Hormozgan and to acknowledge their role in preserving and promoting local culture and art, a provincial

For the second time in as many days, Pope Francis has denounced the “cruelty” of the Israeli attacks on Gaza

“And with pain I think of Gaza, of so much cruelty, of the children being machine-gunned, of the bombings of schools and hospitals. What cruelty,” he said after his weekly Angelus prayer, according to Al Jazeera.

On Saturday, the pope had