Iran: old and ancient

Tehran Times announces celebration at March 18 of Chaharshanbeh-Suri in Chitgar Park in Tehran.
Every year is this "fire-festival" held on the last Tuesday of the Iranian calendar year.
It was originally a Zoroastrian tradition.
The event will be organized by Tasvirgaran Institute, which aims to revive Persian traditional celebrations which are in danger of dying out.
During the evening there will be several programs of fireworks, comedy shows and contests in which artists and sportsmen will be participating.
Also there will be a number of jugs with ashes, salt and coins which are given to visitors so that they can carry out the ancient ritual of pouring ashes, salt and coins over the roof of their house, to get rid of bad luck.
With all this they hope to avoid the disorders which yearly happen.
Tasvirgaran Institute is an NGO (non governmental organization) affiliated to Iran’s National Youth Institute .


A new oil layer with a capacity of 2.2 billion barrels has been discovered in the Azadegan oil-field near Ahwaz Khuzestan province.
The director of National Iranian Oil Company said that the new layer was discovered when the seventh exploration well was drilled in the Azadegan oil-field.
The Azadegan oilfield has a reserve of 33 billion barrels, with good prospects for additional capacity to 40 billion barrels.

In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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