Iran : Photos

Here are some random photos of Iran from my vast collection . Hope every1 likes them.

 Kermanshah : Taghbostan Boulevard . My favourite place in Kermanshah

Tabriz : Shah Goli Park

Shiraz

Esfehan : Sio se Pol

Esfehan : Naghshe Jahan Square

Mashhad

Lahijan

Perspolis

Masouleh

Kish

Chaloos

 Tehran : View from Milad Tower

Iran : National Internet and national search engine 'Ya Haq'

                 
  Iran is set to launch its national Internet in August in an effort to provide Iranians with faster and safer and more reliable internet that is also more compatible with Farsi language .
                       According to Irans minister of communication the project's Phases Zero and One would be completed and operational in August. According to him the state-run national Iranian internet will initially provide with home users 8mbps speed broadband internet and they will have 20mbps speed once the next phase of the national internet comes into stream .
                       Also called clean or halal internet the national internet will be more based to provide Iranians more access to Farsi content as most of Iranians aren't good enough at English and to give protection against the loose commitment to ethics and morality across the World Wide Web. According to information minister quote “The national internet will not limit access for users. It will instead empower Iran and protect its society from cultural invasion and threats.” According to Iran other muslim countries will also be invited to join the internet .

            Tehran has also undertaken a project to develop a national search engine dubbed "Ya Haq" by early 2012 . According to Iranian sources the new search engine will be much faster and efficient than Google and Yahoo search in searching Farsi content and the results displayed will be more accurate. 
The domain for the search engine might be    یا حق.ir     .  



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 PHOTOS : Iranian made Linux based supercomputer at the Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran with processing power of 89 teraflops . (Not been registered with top500 )

Great Prophet 6 : Iranian defence maneuvers

The great prophet 6   ( پيامبر اعظم ص)  military drills kicked off on monday  the 27th of June , near the holy city of Qom .
These drills were to show the military capabilities of Iran which are all 100 % domestically made .Iran has many times repeated that the Great prophet drills are for the defense of the country against any kind of foreign hostility and harbors a message of peace and friendship to neighboring and regional countries .


  On the first day of the drills Iran unveiled locally built underground missile silos (Subterranean silos) which cannot be destroyed by aerial attacks and are much harder to track compared to surface installations. Missile silo technology is a very limited technology which very few countries in the world have . They use advanced remote control systems . An Iranian military commander said that the silos function as a swift-reaction unit and that the missiles were permanently in the vertical position and “ready to hit the predetermined targets.” Also on the first day Iran test fired Fateh 110 missiles

On the second day of the drills (Tuesday , 28th May 2011) Iran test fired many of its ingeniously made missiles . Many surface to surface missiles were tested the Zelzal missiles , Shahab 1 , Shahab 2 and an upgraded Shahab 3 missile . According to Iranian commander quote "The range of our missiles has been designed based on American bases in the region as well as the Zionist regime." Also according to Tehran ,  it has the technical capability to build missiles which could reach Europe , however, right now there is no intention of pursuing it .

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Great prophet 6 overview :

Press TV

RT



Update  :

On the third day Iran’s Armed Forces were equipped with the newly developed Ghadir radar system, which can monitor a radius of 1,100 and a height of 300 kilometers and can detect stealth aircrafts . According to the Commander of the Aerospace Division of IRGC “The Ghadir radar has been designed and manufactured to discover air targets, radar-evading planes, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and satellites at low orbits.”

Iranian war games is now entering naval phase and Iran plans to test-fire new “supersonic surface-to-sea missiles” as well as deploying cruise missiles in the Persian gulf

Nader and Simin: A Separation 2011

       Nader and Simin: A Separation is the new masterpiece of Asghar Farhadi .It stares Leila Hatami (Simin) ,  Peiman Ma'adi (Nader) , Shahab Hosseini, Sareh Bayat and Sarina Farhadi .
       The film is based on the story of an Iranian middle-class couple who are getting a divorce, while considering the future of their only child.The film is highly critically acclaimed and may be considered as probably the best film of the past year . IMDB has rated it as 8.6 and Hollywood Reporter , Screen daily , variety and rotten tomatoes all have given it hugely positive reviews.The Hollywood Reporter has predicted the film will be among next year's foreign language Oscars nominees.
      The film won the Golden Bear Award of the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival and the event's Silver Bears for the entire male and female cast ensemble.Its also won the Fajr Film Festival's Crystal Simorghs for Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematographer and Best Sound Recorder .It also has won the Sydney Film Prize for best movie at the 2011 Sydney Film Festival .Ahmad Miralaii, the director of Iran's Farabi Cinematic Foundation, said that "the Iranian cinema is proud of the awards", as he welcomed Farhadi at the airport upon the director's return from Berlin.

Iran's automotive Industry

Iran's automotive industry is the 12th largest automotive industry in the world and the largest in the middle east . The growth rate of Iran's car production is much higher then the rest and going in the same rate very soon Iran's car production industry will become a major power .

Iran produces many types of vehicles from  passenger cars to four wheel drives, vans,small trucks,heavy trucks. buses, minibuses and pickups and motorcycles .

 There are many automotive companies in Iran of which the two major companies are;

Iran Khodro and  Saipa  ,

           while other important companies are ;

 Pars Khodro

 Shahhab Khodro

 Sherkat Martab

 Bahman Group

 Kerman Motors

 Zagres Khodro

 Modiran Khodro

 Tractor Sazi

 Runiran and many others like Kerman Khodro , Kish Khodro etc .

 Iran Khodro diesel is the major producer of buses and trucks.

In the early days the Iranian car companies just assembled foreign cars in Iran but with the passage of time they have started making local cars which are now very famous all over Iran and are exported to many countries with the estimate of over 100,000 units export by the year of 2015.

Iranian car companies are now looking to reach higher safety and consumptions standards and most of the cars now come in both Gasoline and CNG option as the Government encourages CNG usage and also dues to very low price of CNG in Iran .

Iran Khodro and Saipa  have built car manufacturing plants in many countries in Africa , Latin America , Syria , Azerbaijan and neighboring countries.

Some of the Iranian cars

IKCO Dena 

IKCO Soren

IKCO Samand

IKCO Runna 

Saipa Tiba

Peugeot 206SD

Peugeot 207i

Peugeot Pars

Some Iranian buses 

Saipa Diesels Kaveh Truck