Shiraz was rocked by an earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale at 3:10 AM today, Monday May 13. The head of the Shiraz emergency task force told Mehr News Agency that the earthquake occurred near Salt Lake and was felt acutely because it hit at a depth of 10 kilometres. Salt Lake is […]
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The Day of Women and Earth: The Festival of Spandarmad
Spenta Armaiti was one of the six great Amesha Spentas (holy immortals) who with Ahura Mazda made up the Zoroastrian Heptad that dominated the Zoroastrian cosmology of the Sasanian period.
Little housing rebuilt months after quake: MP
Alahverdi Dehghan, the Iranian MP for Varzaghan, reported today that only 15 percent of the necessary housing has been completed for the victims of the earthquake that struck the region last August, and 5,000 families are still facing the cold without adequate shelter.
Two quakes in Iran kill 180 and injure 1,500
Two powerful earthquakes killed 180 people and injured about 1,500 in northwest Iran where rescuers frantically combed the rubble of dozens of villages through the night into Sunday.
Kavar Gonabadi Dervishes Charges : Moharebeh ( Enmity against God ) , Corruption On Earth And Illegal Carrying Weapons.
Seventeen Gonabadi dervishes were accused to ” Moharebeh “( Enmity against God or Valiye Faghih ), corruption agents on earth and illegal carrying weapons.
Solar storm’s effects to lash Earth until Wednesday
BBC – Our planet is being bombarded by high-energy particles unleashed by the strongest solar storm since 2005, scientists say.
Earth Architecture and Persian Mystic Poetry
RumiEarth Architecture and Persian Mystic PoetryJalaloddin Mohammed Balkhi Rumi was a solemn, pious man in the 13th century small town of Konya located in Turkey today. He was born in September 1207 in the city of Balkh, today’s Afghanistan, then a city in Khorasan province, part of the Persian empire (Iran today).