The director of Qom's fire department said four residential units were damaged in the blast. An explosion at a residential building injured seven people in the Pardisan neighbourhood of Qom city, Iran ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A chemical factory near the central city of Qom caught fire Sunday, Iranian media reported, a blaze that injured at least two firefighters. Videos showed heavy black smoke rising ...

THEY call Qom “the Shia Vatican”. President Ahmadinejad is reported to have said that when Islam ruled the world Qom would be its capital. Rome need not worry: Qom will never compete for its tourists.

Iran is in uproar. The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, apparently at the hands of Iran’s so-called “morality police”, has driven people onto the streets in rolling protests against the draconian ...

Slovak Ambassador Jan Bory, Iranian member of BIB jury Ali Buzari and a number of cultural officials and artists are scheduled to attend the opening ceremony, the Institute for Intellectual ...

[ analysis ] The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran is on the eve of making a trip to the holy city of Qom. This is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's first trip there in quite a while, ...

Islamic Republic's push to develop Shia holy city as a top Middle Eastern destination. [ dispatch ] Since the early 16th century, during the Safavid dynasty, the holy city of Qom has been a ...

During this tour, the president visited a local mosque, where he engaged with community members and discussed their concerns and needs, Iranian Presidency's official website president.ir reported on ...

Visitors to Qom can be classified into two groups of people; sightseers, day-trippers, and pilgrims, who want to pay homage to the holy shrine, and Shiite scholars and students who come from across ...

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