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Internet Filtering Committee (Iran) heade by Prosecutor-General of Iran decides which websites must be censored and implements this vast censorship. In response to the 2019 Iranian protests, the government implemented a near-total Internet shutdown, reducing traffic to just 5% of normal levels.
Ebrahim Raisolsadati [a] (14 December 1960 – 19 May 2024), better known as Ebrahim Raisi, [b] was an Iranian politician who served as the eighth president of Iran from 2021 until his death in a helicopter crash in 2024. [10] [11] [12] He was a Muslim jurist and part of the Principlist group. Raisi was the son-in-law of Mashhad Friday prayer ...
Hamid Pourmand – former Iranian army colonel and lay leader of the Jama'at-e Rabbani, the Iranian branch of the Assemblies of God church in Iran. Hassan Dehqani-Tafti – Anglican Bishop of Iran from 1961 to 1990. Hazem Farraj – Palestinian American minister, writer, evangelist; Hisn Jihan – Circassian wife of Bashir Shihab II.
Iran's support for the March 2011 protests in Bahrain increased tensions between Bahrain and Iran, with Bahrain accusing Iran of funding the protests to destabilize the island. [53] [54] [55] Eventually, Bahrain cut ties with Iran in 2016 following the 2016 attack on the Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran and the Iranian threat to Bahrain.
In the official 2011 census, 265,899 persons did not state any religion (0.3% of total population). [2] Between 2017 and 2022, the World Values Survey found that 1.3% of Iranians identified as atheists, and a further 14.3% as not religious. In the 1999-2004 cycle, the WVS had found 1% identified as atheist and 3% as not religious.
Israel. The relations between Iran and Israel are divided into four major phases: the ambivalent period from 1947 to 1953, the friendly period during the era of the Pahlavi dynasty from 1953 to 1979, the worsening period following the Iranian Revolution from 1979 to 1990, and the ongoing period of open hostility since the end of the Gulf War in ...
The Iranian Revolution ( Persian: انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân [ʔeɴɢeˌlɒːbe ʔiːɾɒːn] ), also known as the 1979 Revolution and the Islamic Revolution ( انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī ), [4] was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979.
The name "Iran", meaning "land of the Aryans", is the New Persian continuation of the old genitive plural aryānām (proto-Iranian, meaning "of the Aryans"), first attested in the Avesta as airyānąm (the text of which is composed in Avestan, an old Iranian language spoken in northeastern Greater Iran, or in what are now Afghanistan ...