In a meeting held on Sunday, Iran’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts announced its programs to celebrate the upcoming World Heritage Day. Along with various meetings and workshops, entry to historical sites and monuments will be free of charge on April 18, said Fatemeh Davari, who presides over the department for preservation and restoration of historical buildings at the tourism ministry.

Muslims in Zimbabwe this Friday 05 April 2024 unequivocally called out on barbaric and heinous acts being perpetrated on the heroic, struggling and suffering people of Palestine by the Zionist apartheid regime of Israeli that has the backing of Western countries, especially America.

Today, the last Friday of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, also known as International Quds Day, is observed by the Islamic Republic of Iran and is dedicated to the Palestinian people suffering at the hands of Israeli bombardments, starvation and genocide. This day also has to be understood from an African perspective. Nelson Mandela once remarked: “But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”

Imam Khamenei made the remarks in the Imam Khomeini Hussainiyah on April 3, 2024. During the meeting, he described the crimes of the Zionist regime such as genocide and mass killings and attacks against women and children, patients and hospitals as unprecedented in contemporary history. He asserted that the magnitude of the crimes is so immense that even individuals raised in Western culture, Europe and the US have cried out in protest.

Gaza is a land that has experienced the relentless oppression of the Israeli regime for generations. The small strip of land in the occupied Palestinian territories is home to numerous tragic and terrifying memories, making it the focus of many documentaries over the years. One of these documentaries is "Tears of Gaza," directed by Norwegian actress and film director Vibeke Lokkeberg, which was released in 2010.

“If people had not come to me and supporters had not exhausted the argument and if there had been no pledge of Allah with the learned to the effect that they should not acquiesce in the gluttony of the oppressor and the hunger of the oppressed, I would have cast the rope of Caliphate on its own shoulders, and would have given the last one the same treatment as to the first one. Then you would have seen that, in my view, this world of yours is no better than the sneezing of a goat.” [Nahjul Balaghah, Sermon 3]

Over the years, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Iran, in collaboration with both national and international partners, has taken significant steps toward empowering women economically through various initiatives.

The Israeli army continues to carry out strikes against the besieged Gaza Strip in defiance of a UN Security Council resolution that called for an immediate ceasefire. The UN Security Council adopted the resolution on Monday after the United States abstained from the vote. During the past 24 hours, the Israeli army killed 81 Palestinians and wounded 93 others, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said.

According to the general directorate of museums at the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts, a total of 2,787,200 visits were made to Iranian museums from the 24th of Esfand, 1402 to the 5th of Farvardin, 1403. Provinces witnessing significant visits included Fars with 658,879 visits, Isfahan with 298,387 visits, Tehran with 176,221 visits, Khuzestan with 120,821 visits, and Khorasan Razavi with 105,880 visits, topping the list of visitors.