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Iran, [ a][ b] officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ( IRI ), [ c] also known as Persia, [ d] is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the ...
Media in category "Featured pictures of Iran" The following 18 files are in this category, out of 18 total. Abū l-Hasan Banīsadr IMG 2044 edit.jpg 2,294 × 3,339; 4.22 MB
The expansions began at Khojir in August last year and at Modarres in October, Lewis said, based on images of the sites. Iran's arsenal is already the largest in the Middle East, estimated at more ...
The eight-year-long Iran–Iraq War (September 1980 – August 1988, known as The Imposed War in Iran [ 98]) was the most important international event for the first decade of the Islamic Republic and possibly for its history so far. It helped to strengthen the revolution although it cost Iran much in lives and treasure.
From 1941 to 1979, Iran was ruled by King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah. On February 11, 1979, the Islamic Revolution swept the country.
The national flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Persian: پرچم ایران), also known as the tricolour (Persian: پرچم سهرنگ ایران), is a tricolour featuring the Pan-Iranian colors comprising equal horizontal bands of green, white and red with the national emblem ("Allah") in red centred on the white band and the takbir written 11 times each in the Kufic script in white ...
Featured pictures of Iran (18 F) I. Images of Iranian people (3 F) Iran public domain images (104 F) L. Iranian logos (2 C, 1 F)
Soraya in childhood with her mother, c. 1935 Soraya was the elder child and only daughter of Khalil Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (1901–1983), [1] a Bakhtiari nobleman and Iranian ambassador to West Germany in the 1950s, and his Russian-born German wife Eva Karl (1906–1994).