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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 ...
40,000 people are killed in an earthquake in southern Iran. 2005: 24 June: Iranian presidential election, 2005: Ahmadinejad defeated the more liberal Rafsanjani. 2009: 12 June: Iranian presidential election, 2009: Ahmadinejad re-elected for a second time after defeated Mousavi. 13 June: 2009–10 Iranian election protests: Protests in Iran over ...
The Iranian calendars or Iranian chronology ( Persian: گاهشماری ایرانی, Gâh-Şomâriye Irâni) are a succession of calendars created and used for over two millennia in Iran, also known as Persia. One of the longest chronological records in human history, the Iranian calendar has been modified many times for administrative ...
The consolidation lasted until 1982–3, [185] [186] as Iran coped with the damage to its economy, military, and apparatus of government, and protests and uprisings by secularists, leftists, and more traditional Muslims—formerly ally revolutionaries but now rivals—were effectively suppressed. Many political opponents were executed by the ...
Solar Hijri calendar. The Solar Hijri calendar or (Iranian) Persian calendar [ a] is the official calendar of Iran and Afghanistan. It is a solar calendar and is the one Iranian calendar that is the most similar to the Gregorian calendar, it also is one of the most accurate in the world, being based on the Earth's orbit around the Sun.
Name of Iran. 1872 map of the Ottoman Middle East, with "Iran or Persia" shaded pink. In the Western world, Persia (or one of its cognates) was historically the common name used for Iran. [ 1] On the Nowruz of 1935, Reza Shah officially asked foreign delegates to use the Persian term Iran, the endonym of the country, in formal correspondence.
Iran’s pledged retaliation against Israel for the killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh will take time, a spokesperson for the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC ...
The president of Iran is the highest popularly elected official in the country. The most recent president, Ebrahim Raisi, died in a helicopter crash on 19 May 2024, leaving the office vacant. Mohammad Mokhber is serving as acting president until Masoud Pezeshkian, who won the 2024 Iranian presidential election, takes over.