Portraits of Ayatollah Khomeini and the current Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are present everywhere you look. There are many ethnic groups living in Iran. You can see representatives of nomadic tribes and of the neighboring countries who have fully assimilated and become Iranians. Green eyed baker in Shiraz, Iran. He can be either of an Afghan origin, or from a nomadic tribe. Also, as opposed to e.
Saudi Arabia, women are allowed to drive. In fact, many households are ruled by women. This dynamic seems to work quite well for Iran. The incredible ancient city of Persepolis, just an hour away from Shiraz. Any patch of grass, or actually even a concrete sidewalk, is an ideal picnic spot!
People roll out a Persian carpet , get out flasks with tea and some snacks and their favorite pastime is on! Some even bring gas stoves and actually cook their meals. You can often encounter parents or grandparents cuddling their babies and it really seems like family is in the center of the universe for them.
Women with kids in front of Quran Gate, Shiraz. Iranians traditionally eat most of their meals at home or on a picnic , with a work lunch occasionally taken at a street stand. One of touristy, but good, restaurants: Traditional Banquet Hall in Esfahan. Generally speaking, the North including Tehran is much more liberal when it comes to views, opinions and even clothing.
Just be aware of that if you travel down South. A wide selection of chadors in a bazaar of Yazd. But it might not last forever. Funny Behrus, a seller of rugs, has friends in Prague and showed me a book he got :. The one on Iran is a high quality one. Check it here. And — I even have advice on what to wear for both ladies and gents. For some further reading on the ethnicity of Iranians, the early history and cultural development, head to this Wikipedia article.
What do you think? Would you travel to Iran? Have you been there already? Do you agree with my views? Don't subscribe All Replies to my comments Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. In Iran, several different and scattered activities have been done by the governmental organizations and private companies in order to advance smart city efforts in some metropolises. The above-mentioned excellence center is pursuing three actions towards creating a national smart cities network: - cooperation development among Iranian smart cities stakeholders and international players, - promoting technical knowledge and capabilities in design and implementation of smart city in collaboration with international partners, and - developing a national network for smart cities stakeholders.
Considering its reputation, Magfa has pursued the role of empowering the emerging technologies and integrating the solutions among the cities, startups, and SME innovative businesses in a joint collaboration aligned with the OiER Excellence Center for Smart Sustainable Cities.
Bushehr: A project that was initiated in April with the main focus on designing the Smart Bushehr development masterplan. The project is the first smart city development in Iran.
This project includes four phases which are stocktaking and analysis, smart urban development vision, smart city project definition, and smart city transformation concept.
At the end of the project, we will have some prioritized tasks that require investments and implementations. For more information please visit " www. Arak: A newly signed MOU with the local stakeholders local government and Arak municipality to design and implement the smart city project.
We expect to start the project as soon as possible. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, we cannot determine a certain commencing date. The project is similar to Bushehr smart city in terms of the requirements for the preliminary design. Furthermore, we will create investment packages to feed the related smart projects as well as the payment systems, smart transportation, smart integrated city management, smart energy, etc.
Tehran: The first smart city e-learning course was designed and prepared by Magfa the information technology development center to train the entire employees at the Tehran municipality. The smart city training course constitutes of six general chapters including smart city concepts, smart city architecture and revolutionary technologies, smart city pillars applications , global experiences in the smart city development, smart city maturity patterns and evaluation, and finally smart city development planning.
This course is now available for managers, students, technicians, and all people interested in Smart City subject areas. Considering its reputation, Magfa has pursued the role of empowering the emerging technologies and integrating the solutions among the cities, startups and SME innovative businesses in a joint collaboration aligned with the OiER Excellence Center for Smart Sustainable Cities.
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