Tomorrow is ours Today,s weather Tuesday Sunrise :06:47:01 Semirom 14 ° ° Sunset: 17:47:04 - 8 c 3 c Morning call to prayer : 05:25:40 Shahreza ° ° Noon call to prayer :12:17:29 -4 c 12 c Evening call to prayer : 18:05:52 Kashan ° ° - 5 c 14 c 2 ° c 11 ° c NasleTuesday|14February 2017 |No.5338 farda WWW.NASLEFARDA.NET naslfarda naslefardanews 30007232 Page:19 Iran In News Worn-out taxis Zayanderud:lifeline of Isfahan to be renovated he Zayandeh-Rud, the on the project. The work was lifeline of Esfahan, resumed under Shah Abbas II, by the end of Toriginates in the Zagros when a French engineer was Mountains and flows southeast, designated head of the tunnel’s next Iranian where it dissipates in the saline construction. Part of the work of Gavkhuni Swamp (pp74-75). was done, but Shah Soleiman, year The main river of the central who succeeded Shah Abbas II, Applicants are provided with Iranian plateau, it waters, along ordered the work stopped, as bank facilities for Isfahan with its tributaries, an area of the dam was going to threaten taxi fleet renovation: Hossain 27,570 sq. km that constitutes agricultural lands. The re-mains Jafari. Executive manager of roughly one-seventh of Iran’s from the construction of this the Isfahan taxi organization, territory. The river is about period can still be observed. Hossain Jafari, declared: “Up 270 km long, and its width The project was finally to now 800 worn-out taxies varies from 10 to 800 meters. accomplished in 1948-1953 have been replaced by new In Esfahan, it is 100 to 200 by a British firm, which built ones. We also hope to renovate meters wide on average. During a tunnel over 2 km long, about the remaining 400 vehicles various historical periods, the 150 m deeper than the Safavid by the next Iranian midyear.” Zayandeh-Rud was known structure. The tunnel has made “Peykan taxis pollute the air under different names, among it possible to regulate the five times more than other them Zandak-Rud (“the big outflow of the Zayandeh-Rud, cars,” Jafari pointed out, and river”), Zarin-Rud (“the golden particularly in autumn and in continued: “There exists a total river”), or Zendeh- Rud (“the the beginning of winter, since number of 1600 Peykans in the live river”). Its present name, the waters of the Karun River taxi fleet, 1200 units of which meaning “the life-giving river”. have a more sustained flow. have been scrapped so far.” best emphasizes the river’s role The completion of the Kuhrang Jafari also informed new taxi in the very existence of Esfahan Dam in 1971 diverted one of the applicants about loans with and the towns and villages Karuns tributaries and made it %16 interest rate which are situated in the fertile oasis empty into the Zayandeh-Rud. supplied by Ministry of State watered by the river. Six principal sets of canals and Iranian Taxi Union, all The Zayandeh-Rud flows with 33 main branches and a in order to pave the way for through four distinctive areas. host of secondary channels are taxi owners to receive new It starts in the mountainous believed to have been designed vehicles. districts in Chahar Mahal-a by Sheikh Bahai. Although some Bakhtiari province, streams researchers deny Tehran meeting rapidly through the hilly area his participation in this to discuss of Faridan and Lar, waters project, the work is certainly the valley of Esfahan, and that of a genius. The water was branding in terminates in the arid districts in distributed among the towns the east. The soil of the Esfahan and villages dependent on the handicrafts valley is very firm; water Zayandeh-Rud according to Ways of developing brands cannot penetrate deeply and the Jalali calendar. The use for handicraft products come Soon returns to the river, thus of water was limited during up for discussion at a meeting preventing the river from drying the second six months of the which will be held at the up. Despite this, since ancient year, and 275 persons were Cultural Heritage, Tourism and times, the water desig¬nated as inspectors. They Handicrafts Organization in of the Zayandeh-Rud alone closed the sluices of the dams Tehran on Feb. 13. Ms. Zeinab was not adequate for irrigation according to a de-tailed plan and Shafiei, an expert in economic purposes. The first irrigation controlled the provision of water sociology, is slated to review system on the Zayandeh - to the neighboring villages. The ways that classical and modern Rud is attributed to Ardashir system of canals (locally called patterns for branding would affect Babakan. It is said to have been madi) starts behind the first the Iranian handicrafts market in reorganized under the Seljuks. bridge on the Zayandeh-Rud, both national and international During this period, a first attempt the Zamankan Bridge, from scales. The meeting will also was made to link up the river where one of the most beautiful address necessities and essential with the Karun, Iran’s sole views of the river provided characteristics of branding navigable river, an upper branch After the Falavarjan Bridge, for Iranian souvenirs with an of which flows the Zayandeh-Rud turns almost emphasis on the social media not far from the source of ninety degrees and changes its impacts. Exports of handicrafts the Zayandeh-Rud, on the direction from northeasterly to have been on the increase over western slope of the Kuhrang southeasterly. the past three years, witnessing range. Attempts - always It runs through Esfahan an overall 59 percent hike, the unsuccessful - were taken following west-easterly CHTHO announced in January. under Shah Tahrnasb and his direction and turns southeast successors. When Esfahan after the Shahrestan Bridge, became a capital, Shah Ab-bas beside which the Abshar Dam Museum IRR I delegated Mohib Ali Beikollah is located. One of the largest Chrhel Sotun 200000 to examine the possibilities of dams, the Zayandeh-Rud Dam, Vank Church 200000 constructing a tunnel. When is situated about 80 km from the Imam Mosque 200000 the first survey was completed, river’s source. It creates a lake of Jameh Mosque 200000 Shah Abbas appointed Imam about 56,000 sq. km. Decorative Arts Museum 150000 Qoli Khan, a governor of Fars, Bridges on Zayandeh River in Contemporary Art Museum 200000 Hossein Khan, a governor of City of Esfahan: Currency IRR Lorestan, and Jahangir Khan, a Marnan Bridge Built in 1599 USD 32384 Bakhtiari chieftain, to head the Vahid Bridge Built in 1976 construction. Felezi Bridge Built in 1950s EUR 34396 In 1621, Shah Abbas personally Azar Bridge Built in 1976 GBP 40466 inspected the site. His death, Si-o-se Pol Built in the 1632 CHF 32248 however, interrupted the work Ferdosi Bridge Built in 1980s.