“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.

The Nowruz celebrations were held at the Women’s University in Africa (WUA) main campus in Harare. The event was attended by a large multitude of students from various faculties, academics, and university staff as well as by the Cultural Counsellor of the Embassy of Iran in Zimbabwe, Mr. Hamid Bakhtiyar.

Nowruz, is a universal celebration of new beginnings: wishing prosperity and welcoming the future, and escaping from the past. Iranians take that as the beginning of the year. Nowruz with its’ uniquely Iranian characteristics has been celebrated for at least 3,000 years.

Unraveling the preparations in light of the upcoming spring holidays, Fars province’s tourism chief announced the reopening of the historic 2-year-500-year-old subterranean waterway of Iran’s Persepolis to holidaymakers.

Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei Aug 18, 2010 Among the characteristics that have been mentioned for the month of Ramadan... what particularly attracts my attention is "the month of penitence."

The process of political struggle should not be separated from self-sacrifice. No political struggle has ever been won without self-sacrifice. At the same time, the acts of self-sacrifice are known to take place in the context of ongoing conflict and a people’s resistance.