By Afshin Majlesi

Masghati: a culinary jewel of Lar

TEHRAN - A translucent dessert, with its gentle floral aroma and silky texture, the Masghati of Lar is a jewel of regional cuisine in the ancient city, situated in southern Iran.

Hitting hospital: Israel killing doctors, patients

Medical sources in Gaza said on Tuesday that Israeli strikes against the besieged territory killed 70 Palestinians in a course of 24 hours.

War Tourism: Khuzestan to hold festival on artistic narratives of Sacred Defense

TEHRAN – Iran’s southwestern province of Khuzestan is preparing to host a war tourism festival focusing on artistic narratives of the country’s 1980-88 Sacred Defense.

Northern Gaza hospital overwhelmed with casualties

Al-Awda Hospital has been inundated with casualties as dozens of injured people continue to arrive daily, the acting director of the hospital says.

Iran could boost medical tourism revenues to €6 billion annually, says health official

TEHRAN - Iran has the potential to generate €6 billion annually from medical tourism with proper planning, according to Mohammad-Reza Vaez-Mahdavi, Chairman of Iran’s Scientific Association of Health Economy.

IRGC chief visits Iranian ambassador, injured Lebanese in hospital

TEHRAN – IRGC Commander Major General Hossein Salami visited the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon in a hospital in Tehran on Thursday.

Israeli forces launch ‘unprecedented brutal attack’ on Nuseirat

Gaza’s Government Media Office said the Israeli forces have launched “an unprecedented brutal attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp”, leaving dozens of people dead and wounded in the streets.

Medical tourism in Shiraz shines bright with a five-fold rise

TEHRAN – A hub of medical tourism, Iran’s Shiraz has witnessed a five-fold influx in terms of overseas patients’ arrival in the past Persian year (ended in March 2024).

Slovakia's prime minister wounded in shooting

Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico was wounded in a shooting Wednesday afternoon and taken to hospital.

WHO chief shares ‘grim findings’ after visits to north Gaza hospitals

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization, said on X that the UN body has visited al-Awda and Kamal Adwan hospitals in northern Gaza over the weekend.

More Gaza kids dying from malnutrition

The number of Palestinian children who died due to malnutrition and lack of treatment had risen to 16, medical sources confirmed on Monday, shortly after the death of a child in Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah.

North Gaza hospital shuts down surgery department

Gaza’s al-Awda Hospital, one of the few partially functioning health facilities left in the north, has had to cancel all surgical operations after two of its operating rooms were “targeted and destroyed”, according to its acting director Mohamed Salha.

Fear pervades West Bank hospital after deadly Israeli raid

A climate of fear pervades a hospital in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, where patients and doctors are reeling from last month's deadly raid by Israeli agents disguised as medics.

Tehran’s vision document for medical tourism unveiled

TEHRAN – On Thursday, Tehran province’s vision document for medical tourism was unveiled on the final day of the 17th Tehran International Tourism & Related Industries Exhibition.

WHO: Khan Younis hospital undersupplied

The World Health Organization has said the European Hospital in southern Gaza is “overwhelmed, overcrowded and undersupplied,” amid an ongoing Israeli ground offensive in Khan Younis.

Israeli snipers kill seven in Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis

The spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza says Israeli snipers have killed seven people inside Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, where heavy fighting has been reported in recent days.

PRCS: Three patients died as Israeli forces prevented oxygen from reaching al-Amal Hospital

The Palestinian Red Crescent said three patients died in its Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, as a result of the Israeli occupation forces blocking the entry of oxygen into the hospital for nearly a week.

MSF: Shots fired at people inside Nasser Medical Complex

Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) says Israeli forces continue to fire at people inside the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, adding that medical staff are afraid to move around inside the hospital for fear of getting shot.

Israeli commandos dressed as doctors raid hospital, kill patients

Israel’s brutality against Palestinian people once again comes to light as the regime’s forces raid a hospital in the West Bank and kill patients there.

Tehran university to host conference on health tourism

TEHRAN – The Islamic Azad University will be holding a national conference on health tourism.

Medical tourism essential for Iran's free trade zones

TEHRAN - The Supreme Council of Free Trade-Industrial and Special Economic Zones has said the expansion of medical tourism is a top priority for Iran’s free zones.

Iran university opens office in Oman to draw medical tourists

TEHRAN – A southern Iranian university has opened an office in Oman seeking to draw more medical tourists from the Sultanate.

Iranian, Saudi tourism ministers condemn attack on hospital in Gaza

TEHRAN – Iranian tourism minister Ezzatollah Zarghami and his Saudi counterpart Ahmed Al-Khateeb on Wednesday condemned Israel’s strike on a hospital in Gaza.

Israel’s Gaza hospital crime won’t go unanswered: Iran

‘Zionist regime depicts the height of its brutality and vileness’

TEHRAN – The Iranian government has strongly condemned an airstrike by Israel against a Christian hospital in the Gaza Strip that killed more than 500 people, mostly women and children.

Kordestan starts new campaign for medical tourism

TEHRAN—Iran’s Kordestan is launching a new tourism campaign aimed at attracting international patients primarily from neighboring countries.