Historic cities in Iran are clashing over dwindling water supplies, as prolonged drought and years of government ...

At least 28 people have died after a bus carrying Shia pilgrims from Pakistan overturned in Iran's Yazd province. The bus was carrying 51 passengers, all Pakistani nationals, on Tuesday night when ...

Uranium may run out in 60 years if nuclear energy demand increases, the Nuclear Energy Agency and the International Atomic ...

Iran is home to the world’s third longest-living tree still standing today. ‘Cypress of Abarkuh’ or ‘Sarv-e Abarkuh’, located in Abarkouh city of Yazd province has just become 4,500 years old. The ...

Once an important station on the Silk Road, with its historic mosques, minarets and ancient clay buildings, Yazd has resisted other Iranian cities' rush for modernity. It may possibly be the most ...

TEHRAN - The director-general of the Domestic Tourism Development Office, Mostafa Fatemi, said a list of 130 tourist villages ...

The City of Yazd is located in the middle of the Iranian plateau, 270 km southeast of Isfahan, close to the Spice and Silk Roads. It bears living testimony to the use of limited resources for survival ...

In June 2002, the fifteenth session of the Intergovernmental Council of the International Hydrological Programme welcomed the proposal of creating an international centre on qanats in Yazd, Islamic ...