Tasnim The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Ground Force has launched the final stage of a war game in western Iran, one of whose main purposes is to target terrorists taking shelter in northern parts of Iraq near the border, the commander of the force said. Speaking to reporters in Irans western city of Marivan on Tuesday, Brigadier General Mohammad ...

YJC | Dana Khor Mehr: Storks are among the migratory birds that come to the city of Marivan in western Iran every year in mid-spring. Darreh Taghi village in Marivan, Kurdistan province, hosts about 300 white storks; while Bilo village hosts about 400 and Gholgholeh village hosts about 70 pieces of this species.    ...

IRNA An Iranian border guard has been killed in an armed conflict with the outlaws in western part of the country, a senior military official said on Tuesday. An Iranian guard was killed Monday night in an armed conflict between Iranian Army forces and an armed outlaw group in the western city of Marivan, Kurdestan Province, said Mohammad-Kazem ...

IFP - Media reports show that people of Iraq, and also other neighbours of Iran, are flocking to border markets of the Islamic Republic amid the historic devaluation of rial, turning basic commodities into rare goods for local residents. Its been a while that the threats and challenges against Iranian border markets, particularly in the western ...

MNA The governor of Iranian western city of Marivan has banned Iraqi travellers from buying basic goods on the other side of the border for fear of scarcity in the city. Marivan Governor has warned that the purchase of basic commodities by Iraqi travelers arriving from the Iraqi border to Marivan has led to scarcity in the city. Mohammad ...

MNA Forest fires have killed at least four people, injured several others near the western city of Marivan, Kurdistan province. According to the Islamic Republic of Iran News Network TV (IRINN), wildfires that have recently been burning the forests in Marivan governorate in the western province of Kurdistan have killed and injured several conservationists....

Tasnim Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour said his forces will take a crushing revenge on those behind a recent deadly terrorist attack on a border post in the western province of Kurdistan. Our response to the terrorists will be crushing. Its timing is not certain, but our revenge ...

IFP - Top Sunni clerics of Irans Kurdistan province have strongly condemned the PJAK terrorists recent attack on a border checkpoint in Marivan which led to the deaths of 11 IRGC members. Prominent Sunni clerics of Kurdistan province in separate interviews with Tasnim News Agency have underlined the enhancement of unity and solidarity among ...

FNA - Several Sunni clerics in Iran's Kurdistan province deplored the Friday night terrorist attack on the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps' base in Western Iran which martyred 11 IRGC forces. "We condemn the terrorists' criminal acts which martyred the IRGC forces in Marivan," said Mamosta Mohammad Amin Rasti, member of the planning council for ...

FNA - Head of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Public Relations Department and IRGC Spokesman General Ramezan Sharif warned the PJAK (the Party for Free Life of Kurdistan) terrorist group and its foreign supporters of harsh revenge for the Friday night terrorist attack in Western Iran which martyred 11 IRGC forces. "Under such conditions that ...

IRNA Iran's Basij Mostazafin Public Relations Department says mischievous terrorists should wait harsh and deadly revenge of the courageous and devoted combatants of Islam for the crime. The Department, issuing an announcement on martyrdom of 10 combatants in terrorist attack on a border post in Marivan city, said on Saturday that anti-revolutionary ...

IRNA -- The terrorist and hostile Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) has undertaken the responsibility for terrorist attack near Dari village in Marivan border region in the wee hours of Monday. Governor of Marivan Mohammad Shafie told IRNA on Monday that the terrorist attack martyred 11 and injured 8. Shafie said 10 of the martyrs were from ...

MNA The Hamza Sayyid al-Shuhada' Base of the Corps of the IRGC Ground Forces said Sat. that counter-revolutionary terrorists attacked a IRGC base in Marivan in Kurdistan province last night killing and wounding dozens. The Hamza Sayyid al-Shuhada' Base statement on Saturday reads that in the attack on Friday night, counter-revolutionary and foreign-...

MNA Khanom Sheykhan border market in Marivan County on the border with Iraqi Kurdistan region has resumed activities after it received official approval from the government. The governor of the border city of Marivan Mohammad Shafiei said on Wednesday that Khanom Sheykhan border market reopened this morning, a week after the cabinet approved ...

Press TV - The World Crafts Council has registered the Iranian cities of Marivan and Sirjan as well as the village of Kalpourgan for their well-known handicrafts. Bahman Namvar-Motlaq, a deputy of the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Iran, said on Sunday that the World Crafts Council had sent inspectors to Marivanin ...

Al Jazeera- The story of Mohammad Bakhtar, who lost a leg while rescuing a stray dog trapped in a minefield, has gone viral in Iran. A young Sunni soldier has become a national hero in Shia-majority Iran after being mutilated while trying to save a stray dog trapped in a minefield. The story of Mohammad Bakhtar, 19, has gone viral in the country,...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Irans Islamic Revolution Guards Corps forces managed to foil a terrorist attack by militants of the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK) near the western city of Marivan in Kurdistan Province, a top IRGC commander in the province announced. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Commander of the IRGC in Kurdistan Province Brigadier ...

SANANDAJ, Oct. 04 (MNA) Excavations to demarcate Torkhanabad in Marivan in western province of Kurdistan, have uncovered three cemeteries where Islamic-era pottery, architecture, and human remains abound. Ali Behnia, local official of Cultural Heritage Research Center told reporters on Tuesday that the hill had been registered on the national ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Irans intelligence and security forces managed to detain four terrorist elements in the western city of Marivan, Kurdistan province, before they could find an opportunity to carry out acts of terrorism. Following intelligence and security measures, Iranian forces learned that two members of an Iraqi-based terrorist group had entered ...

MARIWAN, IRAN - Belo Village in the Iranian Kurdistan city of Mariwan has been hosting storks for more than 20 years. "These storks have been here for 20 to 25 years," one of the residents told Rudaw. "They usually give birth and bring their babies to this land." The storks feed in Zrewar Lake, near the village. Locals consider them as the residents ...