No.1218,Sunday,18 December,2016
Iran’s Ambassador to Russia Mehdi Sanaei said Tehran is ready
to fully abolish its visa regime with Moscow.
“No consultations have been held yet (between Tehran and
Moscow) on complete removal of visa requirements and its implementation,” Sanaei told Rossiya-24 television.
However, he added that Iran is fully prepared to completely lift
visa requirements for Russian citizens.
Russians are interested in gradual removal of visa requirements
for Iranian and Russian travelers using package tours, Sanaei
further said.
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W. European, Indo-European Carpet Exhibition to be held
he Research Institute of Cultural Heritage
and Tourism (RICHT) will organize the first
exhibition of West European and Indo-European carpets in Iran simultaneous with the Research
Week. Shokoufeh Mesbahi, the scientific and executive secretary of the exhibition said the aim of the
exhibition, with the focus on Savonnerie carpets of
France, is to introduce European carpets and provide an opportunity for the recognition of carpet
weaving in other countries.She further said that the
collection on display in the exhibition includes seven
French, three Indo-European and one British carpet.
Mesbahi noted that in the course of time and with
cultural exchanges, the art and knowledge of carpet weaving transferred from Iran to the neighboring countries, adding that Persian carpets during the
Achaemenid, the Sassanid, and the Safavid eras
were introduced through the ancient Greek historians, the Eastern geographers, tourists and envoys
of the European courts as a gift of the kings of Iran
to the European kings and other countries.
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Aash E Aaloo
A rich soup made with various herbs, rice,
meat and prunes.
Ingredients:
Servings 4-6 Yield 4-6 Units US
■ 100 g basmati rice or 100 g long-grain
rice
■ 500 g herbs (parsley, mint, coriander,
spring-onion ends)
■ 250 g ground lamb or 250 g beef
■ 300 g pitted prunes
■ 4 large onions
■ cooking oil
■ salt
■ black pepper
She said the interest of the European kings in the
oriental carpets, especially the fluffy carpets, led to
the support and production of carpets in Europe and
as a result royal workshops were set up in different
European countries in order to produce carpets for
covering the floor of their palaces in accordance with
their needs and tastes.According to Mesbahi, the
raw materials, the method of weaving and other features of design are directly or indirectly indebted to
Iran but carpets woven in Europe are different from
the oriental products in their design, coloring and
weaving density.She said that at the time when India was a British colony, carpet-weaving workshops
became operational in prisons in order to weave
carpets for the British palaces. Those carpets are
known as the Indo-European and their designs are
mainly similar to that of oriental carpets, in particular
Persian carpets.The carpet exhibition will be open
to the public for a period of 20 days from December
18 up to January 6 at the upper hall of Iran Carpet
Museum.
Photo & News
Milad Tower Hosts intl. Stair
Climbers
nternational stair climbers competed on 1,693
steps of Milad Tower at the first edition of International Stair Climbing Competitions morning in
Tehran to honor the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
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Indian Shias, Sunnis Celebrate
Prophet Mohammad Birthday
Qazvin under Snow
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now in the last days of autumn whitened Qazvin’s nature.
n the occasion of the birthday anniversary of
Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), both Shia and
Sunni Muslims organized religious rallies and
gatherings amidst bone chilling cold in Srinagar and
Kashmir in India.
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High-profile Tehran Conference
to Convene Leading intl. Hoteliers, Investors
ran Hotel & Tourism Investment
Conference, as a melting pot
for tens of national and international officials, investors, owners, operators, and decision-makers, will be
held at Tehran’s Parsian Evin Hotel on
7-8 February 2017. The London-based
Bench Events, a hospitality investment
conference organizer which partners
with the British Hospitality Association,
sponsors the conference under the auspices of the Cultural Heritage, Tourism
and Handicrafts Organization.
CHTHO Director Zahra Ahmadipour,
Deputy Economy Minister Mohammad
Khazaei, Minister of Youth Affairs and
Sports Masoud Soltanifar, and Tourism
Financial Group CEO Mehdi Jahangiri
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are amongst the Iranian speakers to the
event, ISNA reported on Wednesday.
The international lecturers include Michael Johnston form the Regional Hotel
Chain LLC; Christopher Hewett from
TRI Hospitality Consulting; Christophe
Landais from AccorHotels; Eric Callender from Ecosign Mountain Resort Planners Ltd; Christopher Hewett from TRI
Hospitality Consulting, as well as Anita
Mendiratta and Alla Peressolova both
from the UNWTO.
According to the Bench Events, only 13
out of the 96 hotels in Tehran are classified as four or five-star, although it is
widely acknowledged that these would
not meet internationally recognized standards for such
classification. Iran has launched extensive plans to bolster its tourism sector.
Under the 2025 Tourism Vision plan,
Iran is expecting to increase the number of tourism arrivals from 4.8 million in
2014 to 20 million by 2025.
The 4.8 million tourists brought around
$6.5 billion in revenue to the country despite sanctions and limitations imposed
by the EU, the UN and the U.S.
With the easing of sanctions following
the landmark nuclear deal in 2015, it is
expected that by 2025 the country will
receive $30 billion from tourism income.
In 2015, the CEO of French multinational hotel group AccorHotels, Sebast-
ien Bazin, said “The Iranian market is a
top priority for AccorHotels, as are Africa
and India”. “They have a lot of things
in common: civilization, architecture,
demography, booming medium-sized
enterprises, lack of supply, lack of infrastructure and lack of low-cost airlines”.
Meanwhile, Nikola Kosutic, the head
of research for the Middle East region
at international market research firm,
Euromonitor, has referred to Iran as “a
bright star”. “The potential is enormous
when you consider where they are now,
and what they could achieve in the near
future. Iran is likely to become the leading tourism market in the Middle East
and North Africa Region, provided the
infrastructure is able to develop and
cope with changes.”
An undated photo above depicts tourists
visit the magnificent ruins of Persepolis
in southern Iran. Inscribed
on the UNESCO World Heritage list, Persepolis was
once the ceremonial capital
of the Achaemenid Empire
(550 –330 BC).
Directions:
1.Soak prunes in warm water for two
hours.
2.Peel and slice two onions and fry in oil
until slightly golden.
3.Make ground meat into 2 cm balls and
fry with onions until colour changes.
4.Add 3-4 glasses of water, and bring to
a boil.
5.Finely chop herbs.
6.Wash rice once with warm water.
7.Add herbs, rice, prunes (including the
water it was soaked in), salt and black
pepper to meat balls.
8.Mix well and cook over medium heat for
about 20 minutes.
Ilam, Kut, Numaniyah
become Sister Cities
ayors of three Iranian and Iraqi
cities signed Memorandum of Understanding for sisterhood of the
three cities.
Ilam’s Mayor Mennat Mohammadi said
that joint meeting of mayors of cities of
Ilam, Kut and an-Numaniyah was held
with aim to share experiences in the field
of urban development and services and
signing MoU on sisterhood.
Mohammadi said that Ilam province is
ready for joint venture investment, especially for production and recycling of organic materials as well as urban tourism
with the private sector of the two Iraqi cities. Mayor of Kut, capital of Wasit province
in Iraq, Jalil Muhammad said in the meeting that considering cultural affinities and
good economic relations between Ilam
and Wasit provinces, there exist longstanding interest and common grounds
for using capabilities of Ilam in the field of
urban services. Mayors of cities of Ilam,
Kut and an-Numaniyah accompany with
members of Ilam City Council visited the
development projects underway in the city
including the service sector projects and
the cultural sites. Kut and an-Numaniyah
are cities of Wasit province of Iraq on
neighborhood of Iranian western province
of Ilam. Ilam province has 430 kilometers
common border with Iraq and is neighboring three Iraqi provinces.
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