Thursday 3 June 2021
Tajik Interior Minister Visits Shiraz to Discuss Dushanbe-Shiraz Cooperation
Keywords: Iran
6 forum postsSHIRAZ (IRNA) – The Interior Minister of Tajikistan Ramazon Rahimzoda arrived in Fars Province capital city of Shiraz Wednesday evening aimed at broadening Dushanbe-Shiraz cooperation.
- At Martyr Dastqeib International Airport of Shiraz, Tajik interior minister Ramazon Rahimzoda was met by Fars Province Governor General Enayatollah Rahimi.
Shiraz is a sister city of the Tajik capital Dushanbe. the town-twinning agreement between the two cities was signed on February 16, 1992.
Rahimzoda was reportedly accompanied by a Tajik delegation and also the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic and Development Affairs Babak Dinparast.
Fars Province Governor General Rahimi said at the reception ceremony of the Tajik minister: “The shared language, cultural and civilizational background of our two nations and countries pave the path for further development of cooperation between the two countries and our two cities.”
The Fars province and Tajikistan can have cooperation in such fields as tourism, industries, mining, and agricultural activities, and this visit can greatly contribute to materializing cooperation in those fields, further reiterated Rahimi.
Ramazon Rahimzoda arrived in Tehran on Tuesday (June 1) aimed at talking with Iranian officials and negotiating on bilateral issues, as well as campaign against terrorism and extremism. On the same day, Tajik interior minister met with his Iranian counterpart Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli to discuss cooperation issues.
The meeting resulted in signing of a memorandum of cooperation under which Tajikistan and Iran will have broader cooperation in campaign against organized crime, extremism and terrorism, drug trafficking, training of police forces, exchange of experience, exchange of university students and professors, and will also make greater investments in commercial and trade activities.
On June 2, Tajik interior minister also met in Tehran with the commander of the Disciplinary Force of the Islamic Republic of Iran, General Hossein Ashtari.
farid Kamalizadeh (4 June 2021, 06:41)
Shiraz is the city of poets; Hafez, Sadi...
Hellena S. (4 June 2021, 07:42)
Shiraz is a wine, isn’t it? But Iran is a fanatical Muslim country, how do they make wine?
Анастасия (4 June 2021, 08:15)
Shiraz was named Istakhr in the antiquity.
The region of Fars has always played a major role in Persian history, and the three capitals of Persia were located there. Ruins of the city of Persepolis, which existed 2500 years ago, 60 km north-west of Shiraz. It was the capital during the heyday of the Achaemenid Empire. Persepolis, Firuzabad and Pasargadae are the three capitals of ancient civilizations.
During the Sassanid dynasty, from the second to the sixth centuries, Shiraz had temples of the fire-worshippers and the fortress of Shahmobad. The city proper began to grow from the 7th century and became the capital of the area when the city of Istakhr (current Shiraz) fell as a result of the Arab conquest.
Sepand (4 June 2021, 14:18)
Shiraz was the capital of Persia under the Zand dynasty from 1750 until 1794, when the Qajars moved the capital to Tehran. Along with Isfahan and Tehran, Shiraz is today one of the three cultural and artistic capitals of Iran.
murad khan yasser (4 June 2021, 14:24)
My ancestors migrated from Shiraz to Tasjkent in Uzbekistan.
Behnam Radpoor (4 June 2021, 19:28)
Hafez of Shiraz said: