Maritime News Agency of Iran Maritime News Agency of Iran [Iran] Maritime News Agency (MANA)is a private news agency in Iran launched in 2004. Its purpose is to cover a variety of marine, shipping, tourism and navy news along with other fields related to the industry. The website states it is the sole news wire service to cover marine news in the Iran. The news agency has given large coverage to events such as shipping and Persian Gulf news, as well as the Caspian Sea. MANA's main headquarters for news is based in Iran's capital Tehran, with reporters across the country and region. The news
Counties of Iran Counties of Iran The counties of Iran, called shahrestan ( ), are administrative divisions of larger provinces ("ostan"). The word "shahrestan" comes from the Persian words ' ("city, town") and ' ("province, state"). "County", therefore, is a near equivalent to "shahrestan". Iranian counties are divided into one or more (), or districts. A typical county includes both cities ( ) and rural agglomerations ( ), which are groupings of adjacent villages. One city within the county serves as the capital of that county. Each county is governed by an office known as "farmandari", which coordinates different public events and agencies