IRAN’S Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organisation (ICHHTO) announced recently that it was  ready to host tourists who wanted to visit its nuclear power plant in Bushehr.


Iranian officials apparently sought to highlight peaceful intentions by opening the nuclear installations in southern Iran during Nowruz the Persian New Year holidays.


Nowruz marks the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere and is the start of the Iranian New Year - March 21.


“Tourists who are interested in visiting the country’s nuclear site, are allowed to visit the facilities during the Nowruz holidays,” Alireza Dejband, secretary of southern region at Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organisation was quoted as saying in Press TV, a Tehran based Iranian international news network broadcasting in English.