In a small shop in Tehran's Grand Bazaar, Mohammed Rafi sells coloured pencils. He has no less than 50,000 of them crammed into a tiny space. Arne Immanuel Bänsch/dpa In the middle of the winding ...

Tourism maps have been installed at 14 Tehran Metro stations as part of a broader plan to introduce city attractions through ...

TEHRAN - Iran’s Minister of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism has underlined Tehran’s significant potential for ...

A large fire broke out at the grand bazaar in Iran's capital of Tehran, though it did not cause any casualties, the semiofficial Tasnim news agency reported on August 15. "A fire broke out in ...

Step into an Iranian bazaar, and you step into centuries of history and craftsmanship connection. These ancient marketplaces ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state media says a gas canister explosion in Tehran's Grand Bazaar has wounded 39 people. The official IRNA news agency said Wednesday's blast happened in the basement of a ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - A large fire broke out at the grand bazaar in Iran's capital of Tehran, though it did not cause any casualties, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Tuesday. "A fire ...

A series of largely economic protests have unsettled Iran's capital Tehran, mostly focused around traders in the Grand Bazaar and their fury over the collapse of the country's currency in recent ...

* Strike at Grand Bazaar enters second week * Merchants historically influential in Iran * Vendors want value added tax scrapped TEHRAN, July 12 (Reuters) - With shops that sell everything from herbs ...

The Grand Bazaar of Tehran was in limbo on Wednesday as the merchants who make it the “beating heart” of Iran’s economy — as it is popularly described — shouted “Allahu akbar” (God is great) and shut ...