Photo: Rasoul Shojaei

International Physics Olympiad 2024

The theoretical exam of the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) 2024 was held at Isfahan University of Technology on Thursday (July 25). The competition, which is the 54th edition of the IPhO, has two parts -- theoretical and practical exams. 198 elite students from 46 countries are taking part in the international competition underway in Iran’s historical city of Isfahan.

Photo: Payam Sani

Under-20 Men's Volleyball Championship of Asia; Iran and Chinese Taipei

The match between the Iranian and Chinese Taipei youth volleyball teams in the Asian under-20 men's championship was held at noon on Wednesday (July 24, 2024) in Surabaya, Indonesia, and ended with Iran winning 3-0.

Photo: ALi Moaref

Ahvaz, 48 degrees

The maximum temperature of Ahvaz city in southern Khuzestan province of Iran has reached 48 degrees Celsius and the minimum temperature has reached 30.2 degrees Celsius. The heat has reached such an extent that all branches of state banks in the province were closed on Thursday (July 25, 2024). The Khuzestan Meteorological Department has issued an orange level warning regarding the occurrence of temperatures of 48 and 49 degrees and above from Wednesday of this week to Sunday of next week.

Photo: Rasoul Shojaei

Kashan, City of Historical Houses

Kashan is a historical city more than seven thousand years old, located in the central desert of Iran. This city has many historical houses from the Qajar and Zandiye periods. By visiting these houses, tourists travel to history and learn about the lives of the people of that time.Each part of the historical houses of Kashan has a separate purpose and use and has its own decorations. The exterior of the house was for public work and daily commuting, the interior was for the daily life of family members and there were special rooms for guests.

Photo: Payam Sani

Warm-up games of Iran’s U-20 national volleyball team

Iran’s volleyball players, who have traveled to Surabaya, Indonesia, to participate in the Asian Men’s U20 Volleyball Championship, continued their training under the supervision of the team’s head coach, Gholamreza Momeni-Moghadam. They played three matches against the national teams of Indonesia and Australia, and Samator’s juniors. The 22nd Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship will be held from July 23-30 with the participation of 16 teams.

Photo: Akbar Tavakoli

Launching Iran-China Container Train

Iran-China double overhead container train and the first phase of the China-Iran-Europe rail corridor were put into operation before noon on Sunday (July 21, 2024) with the presence of a group of officials from Iran, China and Kazakhstan at Aprin rail dry port in Islamshahr city.

Photo: Payam Sani

Training session of Iran’s U-20 volleyball national team in Indonesia

Iran's volleyball players, who have traveled to Surabaya, Indonesia, to participate in the Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship, held their training session under the supervision of the team's head coach Gholamreza Momeni-Moghadam. The 22nd Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship will be held from July 23-30 with the participation of 16 teams.

Photo: Mehdi Mohebi Pour

Yaylak in mountains

Every year at the beginning of summer, ranchers move to the heights of Mazandaran to use the green pastures, and the pastures of the province host nomads and thousands of their livestock. Many pasture fodder consists of medicinal plants. Therefore, in addition to animal husbandry activities, nomads earn money by harvesting and selling medicinal plants.

Hosseynia of Iran

The mourning days of the martyrdom of the third Shia Imam Hossein (AS) were held in the first ten days of Muharram with a special mood throughout Iran, in different cities and villages. The following pictures are a selection of the efforts of the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) photographers in different parts of the country.

Photo: Ali Abak

Mourning ritual in the desert

The mourning ritual in the desert is considered one of the special ceremonies of the month of Muharram in Semnan, which has particularly gained a lot of attention in recent years. In this ceremony, a group of people go to a desert near Semnan and mourn the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (AS) in the Battle of Karbala (680 AD).

Photo: Ali Hamed Haghdoust

Shakhsi-Goyan mourning ritual in Tabriz

The Shakhsi-Goyan is a traditional mourning ritual of Muharram and part of the Azeri culture of Tabriz. All neighborhoods in the northwestern city have Shakhsi-Goyan processions, where mourners hold long, cylindrical wooden staffs in their hands and they chant Shakhsi (Shah Hossein) and Vakhsi (Oh Hossein) as they process along mourning routes. The processions move in rhythm with drums, with mourners placing their hands on the shoulders of the person next to them.

Photo: Hamid Abedi

Torch-carrying ceremony

The torch-carrying ceremony, held by the people from Iraq's Najaf residing in Qom, central Iran, serves as a reminder and commemoration of the historical event when the tents of Imam Hussein (AS) were set on fire after he and his 72 companions were martyred on Ashura. Imam Hussein (AS), the third Shia Imam and a grandson of Islam's Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), and his companions, were martyred in the Battle of Karbala, in southern Iraq, in 680 AD after fighting courageously for justice against the much larger army of the Umayyad caliph, Yazid I. The tenth day of the Arabic month Muharram is known as Ashura.

Photo: Ali Abak

Ya Abbas, Ya Abbas ceremony in northern Iran

A special ceremony named “Ya Abbas, Ya Abbas” was held, in the historical bazaar of Shahrud, Semnan province, east of Tehran, on July 11, 2024. This ritual is about 200 to 300 years old and has been passed down from generation to generation. The ceremony commemorates the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (AS) – the third Shia Imam – and his 72 companions, including his brother Abbas (AS).

Photo:Bahman Zarei

Iran, Iraq interior ministers visit shared border point

Iranian and Iraqi Interior Ministers, Ahmad Vahidi and Abdul Amir al-Shammari, visited the Khosravi border crossing in western Iran and the Manzarieh border crossing in eastern Iraq on July 11, 2024, to assess the level of preparation and infrastructure for providing services to Arbaeen pilgrims. Arbaeen rally, which commemorate the 40th day after the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (AS), the third Shia Imam, is one of the largest religious gatherings in the world. Pilgrims from around the globe, mainly from Iraq and Iran, travel long routes on foot to Karbala, where the holy shrine of Imam Hussein (AS) is located.

Photo: Mohammad Attaei

Terraced cultivation of rice in northern Iran

Terraced cultivation of rice covers more than 65,000 hectares of Golestan province’s agricultural lands, northern Iran. About 2% of these rice fields are located along the Khormarud River. Due to the use of river water, springs, and the warmth during the day and the cool at nights, the rice produced in this village is one a kind in Golestan province. It is very fragrant and of high quality.

Photo: Asghar Khamseh

U-18 basketball match between Iran and Turkiye

The U-18 basketball match between Iran and Turkiye took place during a trilateral basketball tournament. The game was held on Sunday evening, July 7, 2024, at the Mahmoud Mashhoun Basketball Hall in the Azadi Sports Complex in western Tehran. Turkey emerged victorious with a final score of 96-93.

Photo: Ali Sharifzadeh

Press conference of New Head Coach of Persepolis

The joint press conference of Juan Carlos Garrido, the new head coach of the Persepolis football team, and Reza Darvish, the CEO of the club, was held on Sunday morning (July 7, 2024) in the central building of City Bank.

Supreme Leader Receives Members of 13th Government of Matryr Raisi

Iran's Acting President Mohammad Mokhber and members of the 13th government met with Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei before noon on Sunday (July 7, 2024) at Imam Khomeini Hosseiniya.

Photo: Mehdi Ghorbani

Servants change dome flag at Imam Reza (AS) shrine

Servants of Imam Reza (AS) shrine in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad changed the dome flag in the holy shrine on July 6, 2024 after a ceremony known as Izn Aza in which servants asks for Imam Reza’s permission to start a 10-day mourning period for Third shia Imam Hussein (AS) and his companions who were martyred in in 680 AD in Iraq’s Karbala.

Masoud Pezeshkian; 9th President of Islamic Republic of Iran

Masoud Pezeshkian, the 9th president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, was born on September 29, 1954, in Mahabad city of West Azarbaijan province. Pezeshkian was the minister of health in the second government of Seyed Mohammad Khatami and in the eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth terms he continuously served as a representative Tabriz in the Iranian parliament. He was also the first vice-speaker of the Iranian parliament in the 10th parliament. Masoud Pezeshkian became the elected president of the people with 16,384,403 votes in the second round of the 14th presidential election. The images of this collection are a selection of the activities of IRNA photographers from the election programs and trips of the 14th President of the 14th government Masoud Pezeshkian from registration to the last minutes of election campaigns.

14th presidential election runoff in Iran

The runoff of the 14th presidential election in the Islamic Republic of Iran started at 8 a.m. on Friday, July 5, 2024, at polling stations across the country. According to the law, all Iranian citizens who are 18 years of age or older can participate in this national event.

Photo: Akbar Tavakkoli

Supreme Leader casts his vote in Iran’s runoff presidential election

Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, cast his vote in the runoff presidential election of Iran at 8 a.m. on Friday (July 5, 2024).

Photo:Ahmad Moeini Jam

Mokhber, Putin meet on sidelines of SCO summit

Iran’s Acting President Mohammad Mokhber, who is in Kazakhstan's capital Astana to attend the 24th Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, has held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the SCO meeting on Thursday.

Photo:Ahmad Moeini Jam

SCO Summit in Astana

The 24th summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is being held in the capital of Kazakhstan, with the presence of Iran’s Acting President, Mohammad Mokhber as well as the heads of state and officials from other member countries.

Photo: Amin Jalali

Iran commemorates 1,757 years of higher education

A ceremony was held in the University of Tehran on July 2, 2024 to mark the 90th anniversary of the approval of the institute’s founding charter and to commemorate some 1,757 years that have passed since the launch of higher education system in Iran.

Photo: Akbar Tavakoli

Families of Gaza martyrs welcomed in Tehran

A ceremony dubbed “Storm Companions” was held in the Iranian capital Tehran on July 2, 2024 with the presence of families of martyrs and survivors of the war in the Gaza Strip.

Photo: Asghar Besharati

Iranian wounded veterans mark Flight 655 shot down by US

A group of wounded-in-action soldiers swam in the Persian Gulf on July 2, 2024, to commemorate the martyrdom of 290 passengers of Flight 655 shot down by the US Navy in 1988. The Airbus A300 passenger airliner, carrying 290 people, fell victim to two surface-to-air missiles fired from the USS Vincennes. Among the victims were 66 children, 53 women, and 16 crew members. Additionally, 36 foreign nationals from six countries were also on board. The aircraft’s black box was never recovered. Iran Air Flight 655, a regular route to Dubai, met its tragic end shortly after departing from Bandar Abbas. After the tragic incident, Will Rogers III, the captain of the US Vincennes, was eulogized and awarded, which proved that the US Navy’s attack on an Iranian passenger plane had been a premeditated crime.

Photo: Reza Ghaderi

Alireza Qorbani Music Concert in Persepolis

Alireza Qorbani music concert was held as the first experience of live stage music performance in Persepolis, Monday evening (July 2, 2024) at Persepolis International Complex, Shiraz.

EleComp 2024

The 27th International Exhibition of Electronics, Computers and Electronic Commerce (EleComp 2024) is underway (from June 29 to July 2, 2024) at the permanent grounds of Tehran International Exhibitions.

Photo:Asghar Khamse

Minister of Sports Tours Camp of National Teams

Iran's Minister of Sports and Youth, Kiomars Hashemi, while attending the shooting federation and the camp of the national wrestling teams, visited the training of the athletes to be sent to Paris Olympics.