Qazvin City

Iran dismantles major drug ring

Iran's security forces have dismantled a major drug-producing ring attempting to distribute psychoactive pills in major Iranian cities. Iranian intelligence officers on Tuesday successfully located a network producing...

Polish War Graves in Qazvin Disappear

Ryszard Antolak - Persian Journal Qazvin has been deleted from the Polish embassy's list of wartime gravesites in Iran. Earlier this year I travelled to Qazvin to find traces of the 40 Polish men, women and children who had...

Tabriz hosts 10th Int'l Medical Exhibition

The 10th International Medical Exhibition opened in Tabriz, East Azarbaijan, on Tuesday. Some 100 companies from home and abroad have put on display their products in an area covering 8,820 square meters. Foreign companies are...

Dutch national to invest in Iran

A Dutch national is planning to make investment in Yazd province. Sebastian Straten is going to construct a hotel in a joint venture with an Iranian partner in the ancient city of Yazd. He aims to expand capacity of hotels in...

Dutch backpacker defies politics to invest in Iran

Sebastian Straten is going against the flow. As some Western corporations pack up and mothball projects in Iran under pressure of sanctions, the entrepreneurial Dutchman is preparing for the day when tourists flock to the...

Quake shakes Avaj in Qazvin Province

An earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale shook suburbs of Avaj, a city in in Qazvin Province, late Thursday. Seismic networks, affiliated to the state seismological center of Tehran University's Geophysics Institute,...

Himalayan ralliers' caravan passes by ancient hotel near Qom, Iran

Himalayan Ralliers-Iran-Ancient Hotel A 35-car, 70 member team of drivers and navigators, who had left Holland on October 14th, started towards China from ancient hotel, Deyr Gachin, near Iran's holy Qom city, on Wednesday....