Iran

the Islamic Republic of Iran

Capital, Base of

Tehran

Currency, Operator of

Iranian rial

Languages

Persian, Azerbaijani, Kurdish, Gilaki

Political Leader

▶ Ali Khamenei, Amir Kabir, Haj Ali Razmara, Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, Gholamreza Nikpey,  …

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Morteza Alviri, Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, Gholamhossein Karbaschi, Dabir Azam Hosna, Ole Hermansen, Charles Laberge, Norma Champion, Richard James Oglesby, Eduardo Cruz-Coke, Dariush Forouhar, Shapour Bakhtiar, Abdolhossein Hazhir, Colonel Pesian, Kazem Rajavi, Mohammad Ali Rajai, Elaheh Koulaei, Zahra Rahnavard, Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, Jaladat Ali Badirkhan, Emîr Xan Lepzêrîn, Ihar Hermianchuk, Morteza Motahhari, Mohammad Sattarifar, Habibollah Peyman, Ahmad Matin-Daftari, Jafar Sharif-Emami, Asadollah Alam, Majid Sharif Vaghefi, Mohsen Nourbakhsh, Mohammad Ali Najafi, Helen Halyard, Gloria LaRiva, Ehsan Jami, Hassan Pakravan, Bahaedin Adab, Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, Abbas Abdi, Ali Shariatmadari, Daryoush Homayoun, Seyyed Kazem Nourmofidi, Mohammad Soleimani, Parviz Fattah, Masoumeh Ebtekar, Hassan Abbasi, Ahmad Jannati, Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili, Ardeshir Zahedi, Hamid Taqvaee, Mohammad Saeedi, Mohsen Sazegara, Ezzatollah Sahabi, Mohammad Hossein Saffar Harandi, Bijan Namdar Zangeneh, Mohammad-Ali Foroughi, Bruce Mackenzie, Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, Hadi Khamenei, Akbar Hossain, Ali Fallahian, Ali-Akbar Mousavi Khoeini, Stuart A. Levey, Ebrahim Yazdi, Mehdi Bazargan, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Valery Levaneuski, Andrei Kim, William Arkin

System of government

absolute monarchy

Population

74,196,000

Area

1,648,195 square kilometres; 1,648,000 square kilometres

Population density

116.6 per square mile, 45 per square kilometre, 109 per square mile, 42 per square kilometre

Births

▶ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Aylar Lie, Ali Khamenei, Ruhollah Khomeini, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,  …

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Valerie Jarrett, Christiane Amanpour, Khosrow Vaziri, Avicenna, Mohammad Khatami, Doris Lessing, Marjane Satrapi, Golshifteh Farahani, Reza Pahlavi, Bahá'u'lláh, Omar Khayyám, Farah Pahlavi, Reza Shah, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Merhan Karimi Nasseri, Sami Yusuf, Shaun Toub, Shirin Ebadi, Gegard Mousasi, Tami Stronach, Hafez, Delara Darabi, Bahar Soomekh, Harun al-Rashid, Arash, Geber, Ontronik Khachaturian, Anousheh Ansari, Leila Pahlavi, Ali Daei, Darius III of Persia, Cassandra Clare, Googoosh, , Kia Joorabchian, Reza Aslan, Shappi Khorsandi, Ali Karimi, Antonio Esfandiari, Mehdi Karroubi, Moshe Katsav, Hamed Haddadi, Abbas Kiarostami, Ferdowsi, Negar Khan, Andranik Teymourian, Claudia Lynx, Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Mohammed Mossadegh, Soraya Esfandiary, Shirin Neshat, Zahra Rahnavard, Hossein Reza Zadeh, Shaul Mofaz, Maz Jobrani, Ali Shariati, Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, Mohammad Reza Golzar, Ahmad Shah Qajar, Shapour Bakhtiar, Javad Nekounam, Mehdi Mahdavikia, Sibel Edmonds, Ahmad Batebi, Omid Kordestani, Yasmine Pahlavi, Marshall Manesh, Sharam, Leila Forouhar, `Abdu'l-Bahá, Masoud Shojaei, Mohsen Rezaee, Samantha Tajik, Ismail I, Zahra Kazemi, Ebi, Azar Nafisi, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Azam Ali, Harold Nicolson, Afshin Ghotbi, Ashkan Dejagah, Mohammed Bijeh, Bijan, Massoud Barzani, Valy, Barbet Schroeder, Nusrat Bhutto, Mehdi Bazargan, Dubfire, Mahnaz Afshar, Arash, DJ Aligator, Musa al-Sadr, Mohammad Ali Rajai, Amir Taheri, Shadmehr Aghili, Rosie Malek-Yonan, Salman the Persian, Dariush Eghbali, Hayedeh, Mansour Bahrami, Mahasti, Mansour, Akbar Ganji, Shapur I, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Forough Farrokhzad, Mulla Sadra, Kamran & Hooman, Ulugh Beg, Vahid Hashemian, Goli Ameri, Niki Karimi, Vali Nasr, Karim Bagheri, Majid Majidi, Shohreh Solati, Farhad Safinia, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, Azad, Massoud Rajavi, Parviz Dawoodi, Shakila, Nazanin Boniadi, Rita, Fazlollah Zahedi, Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, Armik, Maryam Mirzakhani, Abdolkarim Soroush, Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi, Maryam Rajavi, Atossa, Shahram Sheikhan, Amir Kabir, Nasser David Khalili, Camila Batmanghelidjh, Tadj ol-Molouk, Mahmoud Hessaby, Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, Behrang Safari, Homayoun Ershadi, Samira Makhmalbaf, Shermine Shahrivar, Ehsan Jami, Khodadad Azizi, Nizam al-Mulk, Manouchehr Mottaki, Abdul-Qadir Gilani, Moein, Leila McKinnon, Jimmy Delshad, Cumrun Vafa, Shahram Nazeri, Babak Khorramdin, Mostafa Chamran, Isaac Larian, Sina Tamaddon, Aga Khan I, Sohrab Sepehri, Vartan Gregorian, Bahram Radan, Mohammad Reza Shajarian, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Ahmad Jannati, Ali Javan, Ebrahim Yazdi, Saeed Emami, Ahmad Shamlou, Siavash Shams, Gholamreza Takhti, Azadeh Moaveni, Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht, Rudaki, Shahram Solati, Farhad Mehrad, Jafar Panahi, Nasser al-Din Shah, Mohammad Shah Qajar, Reza Cyrus Pahlavi, Mehran Modiri, Faezeh Hashemi, Mohsen Sazegara, Amir Khadir, Hadi Saei Bonehkohal, Rahman Rezaei, Ahmad Kasravi, Masoumeh Ebtekar, Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, Ivan Galamian, Omid Tahvili, Haleh Afshar, Manny Mashouf

Origin of

▶ Taio Cruz, Sami Yusuf, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi, Sharam, DJ Aligator,  …

Ali Tabatabaee, Azad, Niyaz, Rita, Black Cats, Shahram Nazeri, Mohsen Namjoo, Mohammad Reza Shajarian, Shahram Solati, Hossein Alizadeh, Hichkas, Kayhan Kalhor, Vas, Ramin Karimloo, Zarif, Reza Sadeghi, Homeyra, Bijan Mortazavi, Kiosk, Hypernova, Parisa, Strunz & Farah, Darya Dadvar, Sima Bina, Anoushiravan Rohani, Delkash, Shahyar Ghanbari, Faramarz Aslani, Alireza Eftekhari, The Kamkars, Fariborz Lachini, Mohammad Reza Lotfi, O-Hum, Bijan Kamkar, Behzad Mirkhani, Parviz Meshkatian, Ardavan Kamkar, Ehsan Khajeh Amiri, Roseland, Arashk, Hossein Tehrani, Arsalan Kamkar, Alexander Rahbari, Darvish-khan, Ghashang Kamkar, Hafez Nazeri, Morteza Hannaneh, Alireza Ghorbani, Mohammad Nouri, Samin Baghtcheban, Farzad Farzin, Dariush Talai, Hooshang Kamkar, Pashang Kamkar, Hengameh Akhavan, Salome, Hormoz Farhat, Mahdyar Aghajani, Mohammad-Reza Lotfi, Barad, Jalil Shahnaz, Heshmat Sanjari, Rostam Mirlashari, Monir Vakili, Arsames, Masoud Fuladi, Mahan Esfahani, 5grs, Antikarisma, Tehran Vocal Ensemble, Elton Ahi, Angband, Dastan ensemble, Farhad Fakhreddini, Bahram Divar, Sussan Deyhim, Rana Farhan, Abdi Behravanfar, Meghdad Mostafaei, Houshang Ostovar, Aminollah Rashidi, Take It Easy Hospital, Omid Ivoghlian, Kayvan Mirhadi, Sina Bathaie, Arjang Kamkar, RezaRj, Barobax, Masoud Nine, Arya Aziminejad, Masoud Fuladi, Jalal Zolfonun, Hossein Tohi, Ahoora, Farhang Sharif, Shahin Najafi, Ali Zahedi, Mavara, Kahtmayan, Mazhar Khaleqi, Vaspooher, Shahin najafi, Tarantist, Shahmirza Moradi, Tosan

Movies

▶ Children of Heaven; Turtles Can Fly; F for Fake; Taste of Cherry; Kandahar;  …

11'9"01 September 11; The Other Side of the Wind; The Circle; Offside; Be Like Others; Baran; The Song of Sparrows; The Rings; The Wind Will Carry Us; The Color of Paradise; Santouri; A Time for Drunken Horses; Half Moon; Ten; The Runner; Bashu, the Little Stranger; Tickets; Ekhrajiha; Joy of Madness; At Five in the Afternoon; Leila; Crimson Gold; The White Balloon; Sara; The Day I Became a Woman; Breaktime; Where Is the Friend's Home?; One Night; Through the Olive Trees; The Apple; Dental Hygiene; Marooned in Iraq; Maryam; Close-Up; Actor; Dayere Zangi; Life, and Nothing More...; Pari; Abadan; Leyli o Majnun; Gabbeh; Duel; Blackboards; Boycott; Danny; 20 Fingers; Snow; 10 on Ten; Mim Mesle Madar; Pedar; American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan; Homework; Marmoulak; So Close, So Far; The Willow Tree; Two Women; The Cow; Lor Girl; Time of Love; Mehman-e Maman; Secret Ballot; ABC Africa; Baduk; Five; The Chorus; The Bread and Alley; The Bicyclist; Stray Dogs; Daadshah; Requiem of Snow; Football Under Cover; Barefoot to Herat; Noora; Studying in the Modern World; So Can I; homeless; Still Life; The Traveller; Dame sobh; A Wedding Suit; The Report; The Marriage of the Blessed; Fireworks Wednesday; How to Make Use of Leisure Time: Painting; In the Alleys of Love; Fellow Citizen; Qeysar; Sooteh-Delan; Hello Cinema; Escape; The House Is Black; To Have or Not to Have; The Journey; The Roads of Kiarostami; The Experience; Journey to the Land of the Traveller; A Moment of Innocence; Two Solutions for One Problem; Toothache; Women Without Men; Strand; Snowman; Silence of the Sea; Twilight; The Protest; Ganj-e Qarun; Two-Legged Horse; The Traveller; The Glass House; Caravans; Hemlock; Donya; The Fish Fall in Love; The Fish Fall in Love; The Fifth Reaction; Night of the Hunchback; Daughters of the Sun; The Girl in the Sneakers; The Cyclist; The Cyclist; Party; The Silence; The Silence; Our Times; Low Heights; A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral ; White Dream; The Unwanted Woman; Under the Moonlight; Friday's Soldiers; Corrupted Hands; Googoosh; The Suitors; The Pear Tree; Pastry Girl; Siavash; The Films of Melissa & Hamid; Going By; Born Under Libra; Frontier Blues; The White Meadows; Iron Island; It's Always Late for Freedom; Shirin; Under the Skin of the City; Day Break; The Forbidden Chapter; Tambourine; The Hidden Half; Soul Mate; My Tehran for Sale; Those Three; Cease Fire; It's Winter; Dog Sweat; Superstar; The May Lady; The Twilight; Boutique; Charlatan; The Last Supper; Black Tape; The Mirror of the Soul; The Jar; The Jar; The Jar; The Jar; The Jar; The Jar; The Jar; The Jar; A Thousand Women Like Me; Men at Work; Ahmad Shamlou; Delbaran; Women’s Prison; The Deserted Station; History of Cinema; Khastegi; Deep Breath; The Glass House; Cyrus Le Grand; Ghalb; Salam Cinema; The First Sin; Ghesse Haye Kish; Djomeh; No One Knows About Persian Cats; Heiran; Green Days; Bassidji; Persepolis Men; Playing with Death; Son of Maryam; Solution

Published

▶ Hokumat-e Islami : Velayat-e faqih, The Blind Owl, Shabhaye Barareh, Mosafer, Rahe Bipayan,  …

Zire Tigh, Mard-e Hezar-Chehreh, Maturity road mapping

Location

▶ Asia, the Middle East, the world, South Asia, the Northern Hemisphere,  …

Western Asia, Africa-Eurasia, Eurasia, the UK 'rest of the world' postal zone, US postal Group 8

Location of

Taj Mahal

Contains

▶ Tehran; Iran hostage crisis; Operation Eagle Claw; Sirâz; Iran Air;  …

Tebriz; 1953 Iranian coup d'état; Susa; Meshed; Qum; Bam; SAVAK; Imam Khomeini International Airport; Yazd; Azadi Stadium; Mount Damavand; Azadi Tower; Iranian architecture; Alamut; Alamut; Press TV; Mahan Air; Port Comorão; Iran Khodro; Evin Prison; Behistun Inscription; Borj-e Milad; Shatt al Arab; Iran Aseman Airlines; Pasargadae; National Iranian Oil Company; Ahvaz; Kirman; University of Tehran; Bandar Abu Shehr; Naqsh-e Rostam; Islamic Azad University; Abu Musa; Kachan; Resht; Abadan; Kermânsâh; Tehran Province; Lake Urmia; Battle of Chaldiran; Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran; East Azarbaijan Province; Ecbatana; Gorgan; Ardabil; Nishapur; Sharif University of Technology; Kish Air; Mehrabad Airport; Arg-é Bam; Karadje; Fars Province; Āz̄arbāījān-e Gharbī; Senneh; Shah Mosque; SAIPA; Dasht-e Lut; Academy of Gundishapur; Aras; Kazvin; Bank Melli Iran; Sistan and Baluchistan Province; Sīstān va Balūchestān; Azerbaijan; Persian Campaign; Arak; Amul; Isfahan Province; Zahedan; Caspian Airlines; Khorramshahr; Karun; Iran Air Tours; Razavi Khorasan Province; Kermanshah Province; Association of Combatant Clerics; Combatant Clergy Association; Amirkabir University of Technology; Sari; Operation Mersad; MTN Irancell; Blue Mosque, Tabriz; Asalouyeh; Iran University of Science and Technology; Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company; Ray; Pars Khodro; Tunb Buzurq; Zanjan Province; Islamic Republic News Agency; Iran Aviation Industries Organization; Gilan Province; Reza Shah's mausoleum; Ramsar; Choghā Zanbīl; Shahid Beheshti University; Alborz High School; Hormozgān Province; Māzandarān Province; Khūzestān Province; Bank Sepah; Naţanz; Kordestān-e ‘Olyā; Chabahar; Mahabad; Aria Air; Bushehr Province; Liberation of Khorramshahr; Gulshan; Ali Qapu; Enzeli; Khowy; Takht-i-Suleiman; Mashhad International Airport; Yazd; Payame Noor University; Markazi Province; Taban Air; Norfolk Jet Express; Eram Air; Barfrush; Qom Province; Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque; Shiraz University; Tehran University of Medical Sciences; Islamic Iran Participation Front; North Khorasan Province; Golestān Province; Ghal'eh Dokhtar; Ardabil Province; Birdjand; Daei Sport's Wears & Equipments; Eram Garden; Firouzabad; Dezful; Taq-e Bostan; Soltaniyeh; Shiraz International Airport; Kermān Province; Al-Alam News Network; Sahand; Islamic Society of Engineers; South Khorasan Province; Zābol; Tajrish; Shemiran; Lahijan; Great Wall of Gorgan; Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences; Operation Undeniable Victory; Tarbiat Modares University; Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province; Alzahra University; Diyala River; Telecommunication Company of Iran; Parsian Bank; Sirri Island; Maragheh; Hamadān; Hasht Behesht; Bandar Abbas International Airport; Tappeh Sialk; Maku; Bazaar of Tabriz; Khorramabad; Kopet Dag; Jam‘karān; Isfahan University of Technology; Borujerd; National Car Museum of Iran; Si-o-se Pol; Shushtar; Niavaran; Īlām Province; Siraf; Hormuz Island; Channel 1; Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz; Borj-e beinolmelal-e Tehran; Sar Dasht; Construction in Iran; Zanjan; Salmas; Damghan; Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran; Bank Mellat; Astara; Zabol University; Khomein; Qeshm Air; Jiroft; Nahavand; Piranshahr; University of Isfahan; Taj Mahal

Subsidiaries

Iran Electronics Industries

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran

Leader

▶ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ali Khamenei, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Gloria LaRiva, Zahra Rahnavard,  …

Shapour Bakhtiar, Mehdi Bazargan, Mohammad Ali Rajai, Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, Amir Kabir, Ehsan Jami, Ahmad Jannati, Ebrahim Yazdi, Mohsen Sazegara, Masoumeh Ebtekar, Hadi Khamenei, Morteza Motahhari, Ardeshir Zahedi, Dariush Forouhar, Hassan Pakravan, Richard James Oglesby, Gholamhossein Karbaschi, Hassan Abbasi, Ali Fallahian, Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, Jafar Sharif-Emami, Asadollah Alam, Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, Mohammad-Ali Foroughi, Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, Colonel Pesian, William Arkin, Haj Ali Razmara, Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, Abbas Abdi, Parviz Fattah, Daryoush Homayoun, Mohammad Soleimani, Stuart A. Levey, Mohammad Ali Najafi, Bahaedin Adab, Jaladat Ali Badirkhan, Elaheh Koulaei, Abdolhossein Hazhir, Mohsen Nourbakhsh, Kazem Rajavi, Gholamreza Nikpey, Bijan Namdar Zangeneh, Ahmad Matin-Daftari, Majid Sharif Vaghefi, Eduardo Cruz-Coke, Helen Halyard, Ezzatollah Sahabi, Mohammad Saeedi, Hamid Taqvaee, Morteza Alviri, Norma Champion, Bruce Mackenzie, Habibollah Peyman, Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili, Andrei Kim, Valery Levaneuski, Ali-Akbar Mousavi Khoeini, Akbar Hossain, Mohammad Hossein Saffar Harandi, Seyyed Kazem Nourmofidi, Ali Shariatmadari, Mohammad Sattarifar, Ihar Hermianchuk, Emîr Xan Lepzêrîn, Charles Laberge, Ole Hermansen, Dabir Azam Hosna

Contents

Iran Air

Fighters

▶ Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, Nader Jahanbani, Qassem Suleimani, Amir Abdollah Tahmasebi,  …

Islamic Republic of Iran Army, Ataollah Salehi, Yadollah Javadpour, Jalal Zandi, Javad Fakori, Ali Shahbazi

Closest Airport

Shiraz International Airport

Airport

Bandar Abbas International Airport, Persian Gulf Airport, Urmia Airport, Shiraz International Airport

Deaths

▶ Ruhollah Khomeini, Avicenna, Jude the Apostle, Omar Khayyám, Neda Agha-Soltan,  …

Hafez, Delara Darabi, Harun al-Rashid, Qajar dynasty, Hulagu Khan, Ferdowsi, Mohammed Mossadegh, Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Antiochus III the Great, Ismail I, Zahra Kazemi, Prisoner of conscience, Mohammad Ali Rajai, Shams Tabrizi, Abbas I of Persia, Ali Kordan, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, Hakim, Aziz Mian, Amir Kabir, Mahmoud Hessaby, Mostafa Chamran, Albert Lamorisse, Sohrab Sepehri, Karim Khan, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Ahmad Shamlou, Gholamreza Takhti, Bhai Mardana, Nasser al-Din Shah, Mohammad Shah Qajar, Mona Mahmudnizhad, Ahmad Kasravi, Ayatollah, Tahmasp I, Mohammad Beheshti, Atefah Sahaaleh, Sattar Khan, Khosrow Shakibay, Reza Abbasi, Sibawayh, Dariush Forouhar, Howard Baskerville, Inayatullah Khan, Parvin E'tesami, Amir Abbas Hoveida, Ali Meshkini, Mozzafar al-Din Shah, Baba Taher, Hossein Fatemi, Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma, Hassan-Ali Mansur, Qazi Muhammad, , Ahmad Bourghani, Sayyid Zia Od-Din Tabataba'i, Asadollah Alam, Mohammad-Ali Foroughi, Abdolmalek Rigi, Khosrow Golsorkhi, Caro Lucas, Safi Al-Din, Ali Hatami, Vladislav Gorodetsky, Nader Jahanbani, Toğrül, Mohammad Taghi Bahar, Bar-Hebraeus, Ahmad Qavam, Haj Ali Razmara, Kamal-ol-molk, Akbar Adibi, Homa Darabi, Manouchehr Eghbal, Hossein Ala', Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Janet Kohan-Sedq, Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, Alexander de Rhodes, Mehran Ghassemi, Ebrahim Hakimi, Ruhollah Khaleghi, Hajj Nematollah, Ali Soheili, Hasan Taqizadeh, Ali Sayad Shirazi, Parviz Fanizadeh, Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, Joseph Cochran, Houshang Golshiri, Jamileh Sheykhi, Fereydoon Moshiri, Majid Sharif, Yadollah Sahabi, Baidawi, Ali Mansur, Manouchehr Atashi, Mohammad Moin, Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, Mohammad Sa'ed, Shivan Qaderi, Ali Tajvidi, Parvaneh Eskandari Forouhar, Abdolhossein Hazhir, Parviz Natel-Khanlari, Mohsen Nourbakhsh, Ahmad Matin-Daftari, Antoin Sevruguin, Karim Emami, Mohammad Gharib, Roza Montazemi, Amir Abdollah Tahmasebi, Abdolhossein Zarrinkoob, Salah Aboud Mahmoud, Jafar Shahidi, Abolhassan Khan Sadighi, Samuel Khachikian, Amir-Hossein Aryanpour, Dirk Polder, Gholam-Hossein Naghshineh, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Mohammad Boroujerdi, Mar Benyamin Shimon XXI, Nasrollah Entezam, Abbas Almohri, Ali Akbar Davar, William George Browne, Mohammad Hejazi, regime change, Steffen Seibert, Hamid Jasemian, Mohamed Anwar Kurd, Harold Rhode, Mehdi Sohrabi, Jafar Kashani, Moslem malakouti, Afshin Norouzi, Emam-Ali Habibi, Hamid Behbahani, Ali Nikzad, Ali Asghar Khan, Nadjm, Anton Golovaty, Gholamreza Rouhani, Jabbar Baghtcheban, Fathollah Khan Akbar, Saad ad-Daula, Mehdi Qoli Hedayat, Parvin Soleimani, Mostowfi ol-Mamalek, Soudbakhsh, Kuchik Khan, Mirza Nasrullah Khan, Hossein Ghods-Nakhai, Vosough od-Dowleh, Ismail Gorgani, Ruhollah Khaleqi, Pharnabazus, Hamid Shirzadeghan, Harun al-Rashid, François de La Boullaye-Le Gouz, Fat′h Ali Shah Qajar, Ahmad Azari Qomi, Bijan Najdi, Abdolhamid Rigi, Mohammad Vali Khan Tonekaboni, Samad Khan Momtaz os-Saltaneh, Malek Mansur Mirza Shao es-Saltaneh, Hassan Pirnia, Max Gold, Mohammad-Reza Hekmat, Morteza Gholi Bayat, Mohsen Sadr, Mahmoud Jam, Amir Asghar Khan, Kamran Mirza Nayeb es-Saltaneh, Abdol Majid Mirza, Ahmad Moftizadeh, Ahmed Aref El-Zein, Masoud Alimohammadi, Hussein-Ali Montazeri, Ali Safi Golpaygani, Abdol-Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma, Mohammad Hoqouqi, Hossein Kharrazi

Coordinates

32°00'00"N, 51°25'01"E

Overlaps

▶ Caspian Sea, the Persian Gulf, Tigris, Caucasus Mountains, Zagros Mountains,  …

Alborz, Armenian Highland, Tochal, Helmand River, Kür, Sabalan, Talysh Mountains, Cheekha Dar, Hawraman, Bazman, Halil River, Eynali, Hazaran, Alvand, Taftan volcano, Hamun-e Helmand, Kholeno, Mount Behistun, Jebāl Bārez, Qom, Mount Binalud, Haraz River, Abidar, Karkas Mountains, Bahu Kalat River, Abhar River, Shaho, Karaj River, Chaloos River, Quri Chay, Mehran River, Azad Kuh, Atrek River, Shah Alborz, Gadar River, Kabir Kuh, Jarahi, Karkheh River, Little Zab, Dez River, Haffar, Aji Chay, Zard-Kuh, Bahmanshir, Shahrood, Mount Taragha, Mount Arbaba, Kuhe Haji Ebrahim, Sefid Kooh, Qal'eh Hasan Ali, Zayanderud, Garrin Mountain, Aktas Dağı, Nalishkêne, Shir Kuh, Zarriné-Rūd, Qezel Arsalan, borzeh, Dena, Alam-Kuh, Sefīd-Rūd, Talkheh-Rūd, Salavatabad, Ghuri River, Koohrang, Takht-e Suleyman Massif

Nearest Settlement of

▶ Mehrabad Airport, Abadan Airport, Hamun-e Helmand, Lake Zarivar, Yasuj Airport,  …

Ardabil Airport, Konarak Airport, Asalouyeh Airport, Jiroft Airport, Persian Gulf Airport, Lavan Airport

Nationality of

Darius Mehrjui, Babak Amini

Borders

▶ Pakistan, Turkey, Afghanistan, Iraq, Armenia,  …

Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan

Residents

▶ Ali, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Mohammad Khatami, Mohammad Khatami, Turk,  …

Shirin Ebadi, Arya, Muqtada al-Sadr, Zahra Rahnavard, Ahmad Jannati, Ebrahim Yazdi, Saeed Jalili, Mostafa Moeen, Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani, Caro Lucas, Ahmad Tavakkoli, Lotfi Asker Zadeh, Najmieh Batmanglij, Mohammad-Javad Larijani, Jafar Zafarani, chiaa, Esmail Babolian, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Kemoh Fadika, Ali Akbar Salehi, Shahram Amiri, Noshad Alamian, Afshin Norouzi, Habibollah Hedayat, Shahram Amiri, Mohammad Reza Akhlaghpasand, Ali Akbar Jalali, Fatemeh Karroubi, Noshad Alamiyan

Leader's Title

"Supreme Leader"

Predominant Language

Persian

The Area Served By

▶ Marrybrown, Iran Electronics Industries, Pars Online, Homa Hotel Group, Forex-Metal,  …

Afranet, Paravaran Asseman

Time-zone

Iran Standard Time

Head Of State

Ali Khamenei

Language

Persian, written Azerbaijani

Official Language

Kurdish, Azerbaijani, Gilaki, Persian

Class

▶ UN-recognised country, time zone area, sovereign state, country, currency zone,  …

geographical area of significant size, absolute monarchy, populated place, middle eastern country, aircraft owner, geographical area

Examples

geographical parents are statically known

Separate From

the United Kingdom, England

Country Of Origin of

▶ My Uncle Napoleon, Navad, Madare sefr darajeh, Shervin, Narges,  …

Zire Tigh

Places

▶ Iran, Tehran, Susa, Meshed, Qum,  …

Bam, Ecbatana, Ardabil, Karadje, Jiroft, Andimeshk, Eslamshahr, Qal‘eh ‘Alishtār, Gharābī-ye ‘Olyā, Ḩoseynābād, Na‘īmābād

Operator

▶ Iran Air, Mahan Air, Iran Aseman Airlines, Kish Air, Caspian Airlines,  …

Iran Air Tours, Aria Air, Taban Air, Norfolk Jet Express, Eram Air, Qeshm Air, Safiran Airlines, Saha Air Lines, Avial NV, Iranian Air Transport, Payam Air

Theme of

▶ Reading Lolita in Tehran, On Wings of Eagles, Creation, The blindfold horse, The Persian revolution of 1905-1909,  …

History of Cyrus the Great, The golden age of Persia, Honeymoon in purdah, Persian cooking for a healthy kitchen, Fuego Persa, The Cambridge History of Iran, Towards a Modern Iran, Shia Power, Target Iran, The Secret of Laughter, Persia and the Bible, A taste of Persia, Escape from the Deep, Lilah, Full Tilt, Beast, The press and poetry of modern Persia, Leer Lolita En Teheran, The Last Tourist in Iran, Not without my daughter, The new food of life, Countdown to Crisis, All Fall Down, A Girl in Paris, The road to Oxiana, Persepolis

Does

kill by capital punishment

In the Basin of

▶ Caspian Sea, Tigris, Shatt al Arab, Lake Urmia, Aras,  …

Karun, Kür, Diyala River, Bakhtegan Lake, Namak Lake, Haraz River, Zayanderud, Karkheh River, Euphrates, Zab River

Former Name

"Persia"

Significant Language

Kurdish, Azerbaijani, Gilaki

Partly in

Asia

Fips 10 4 Code For, ISO Code

"IR"

NGA Class

Iranian ostan, Iranian shahrestan

Administrative Areas

Iranian ostan

Infant Mortality Rate

39.3

Average Age At Death

70 years and 3 months old

International Phone Code

+98

President

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Attributes

Muslim, geographical parents are statically known

Often Found

▶ cheetah, pomegranate, Valerian, golden eagle, Osprey,  …

Boar, mallard, nightingale, Red Fox, Caracal, Asiatic Lion, Caspian Tiger, wildcat, dromedary, Loggerhead Sea Turtle, Red Deer, Onager, Common Pheasant, Barn Owl, Cobia, Eurasian Lynx, False Killer Whale, white-tailed eagle, Sand Cat, hawksbill turtle, beluga, Mute Swan, Asiatic Cheetah, mouflon, Common Buzzard, Jungle Cat, Chukar, Asiatic Black Bear, Fallow Deer, Striped Hyena, Russian Tortoise, Golden Jackal, Black Rat, Marbled Polecat, White Stork, Pallas's Cat, Cattle Egret, Indian Wolf, Roe Deer, Tawny Owl, Common Quail, European Goldfinch, Common Myna, Least Weasel, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Grey Heron, finless porpoise, badger, Griffon Vulture, Artemisia annua, Coltsfoot, Eurasian Eagle-owl, Black Kite, Solanum dulcamara, Olive Ridley, Greek Tortoise, Northern Pintail, Urial, Anguis fragilis, European Hare, Common Teal, Black-crowned Night Heron, mugger crocodile, Oleander, Melon-headed Whale, booted eagle, Chinkara, Gadwall, European Brown Bear, Risso's Dolphin, Red-footed Booby, Greylag Goose, Short-eared Owl, Imperata cylindrica, Bohemian Waxwing, Steppe Eagle, Long-eared Owl, Little Owl, Pelamis platurus, Grey Partridge, Egyptian Vulture, Primula veris, Corsac Fox, Brown-necked Raven, Long-eared Hedgehog, Lesser Flamingo, edible dormouse, Smew, Tawny Eagle, Beech Marten, Persian Leopard, Common Merganser, Bonelli's Eagle, Northern Shoveler, Pantropical Spotted Dolphin, Greater Spotted Eagle, Water Vole, Syrian Brown Bear, Black Stork, Pallas's Cat, Blanford's Fox, Bengal monitor, Purple Swamphen, Rüppell's Fox, Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin, European Otter, Dorcas Gazelle, Caspian Seal, Greater Scaup, Shikra, Enhydrina schistosa, Hen Harrier, Common Pipistrelle, Rough-legged Buzzard, Southern-East Asian Wolf, Common Goldeneye, Short-toed Eagle, Common Swift, Honey Buzzard, Tufted Duck, Eurasian Hobby, Garganey, Etruscan Shrew, Siberian Roe Deer, Lesser Spotted Eagle, Red-crested Pochard, Wigeon, Mentha aquatica, loggerhead sea turtle, Lesser Kestrel, Bean Goose, Long-legged Buzzard, Red-breasted Merganser, Pochard, Montagu's Harrier, Red-footed Falcon, Houbara Bustard, Persian fallow deer, Long-tailed Duck, Anthemis tinctoria, Black-tailed Godwit, Desert Hedgehog, Cirsium vulgare, Goitered Gazelle, Indian Spotted Eagle, Ruddy Shelduck, Eurasian Curlew, Rough-toothed Dolphin, White-headed Duck, Western Marsh Harrier, Lamium album, Red-breasted Goose, Henbane, Harvest Mouse, Lesser White-fronted Goose, White-fronted Goose, Rock Eagle-owl, Varanus griseus, Asiatic Wildcat, European Nightjar, Jack Snipe, Ginkgo-toothed Beaked Whale, Little Bittern, Ferruginous Duck, Lythrum salicaria, Cow Parsley, Common Vole, Pallas's Fish-eagle, Woolly-necked Stork, Barbastelle, Audubon's Shearwater, Wallcreeper, Indian Pond Heron, Great Gerbil, Squacco Heron, Brandt's Hedgehog, Galium verum, Alpine Swift, Cirl Bunting, Long-tailed Shrike, Thlaspi arvense, Grey Francolin, Levant Sparrowhawk, Viburnum lantana, Brown Fish-owl, Solidago virgaurea, Capparis decidua, Greater Horseshoe Bat, Dactylis, Cinereous Vulture, Cotton Pygmy Goose, Veronica officinalis, Armenian Gull, Common Scoter, Upland Buzzard

Political Parties

▶ People's Mujahedin of Iran, Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran, Tudeh Party of Iran, Combatant Clergy Association, Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran,  …

Islamic Iran Participation Front, Islamic Society of Engineers, Freedom Movement of Iran, Rastakhiz, Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian, Constitutionalist Party of Iran, Communist Party of Iran, Green Party of Iran, Executives of Construction Party, Pan-Iranist Party, Union of Iranian Communists, Fedaian Organisation, Nationalist-Religious movement, Worker-Communist Party of Iran, National Trust Party, Mellat Iran, Kurdish United Front

Map

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=iran

Terrain Types

mountain, basin, small coastal plain, desert

Defense Budget

$4,300,000,000

Possible Languages

▶ Avestan, Dari, Mandaic, Qashqa'i, Domari,  …

Khalaj, Khorasani Turkish, Bashkardi, Senaya, Semnani, Harzani, Sangisari, Mazanderani, South Azeri language, Ashtiani, Persian Sign Language, Sivandi, Vafsi, Lari, South Azerbaijani, Nayini, Parsi-Dari, Rudbari, Classical Mandaic, Shahmirzadi, Shahrudi, Natanzi, Koroshi, Alviri-Vidari, Koresh-e Rostam, Takestani, Razajerdi, Maraghei, Kho'ini, Gazi, Lasgerdi, Soi, Khunsari, Karingani, Gozarkhani, Kabatei, Western Farsi, Kajali, Sorkhei, Eshtehardi, Upper Taromi, Salchuq

Written Language

written Persian

Freebase ID

"/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000001e1f5"

Related Websites

▶ http://www.newsweek.com/id/199147?from=rss, http://en.iran.ir, http://www.archive.org/details/GreatSpeechesAndInterviewsJamesWhitaker, http://venus.unive.it/riccardozipoli/demo/galleries_part.php?a=26&n=1&d=IRAN, http://www.worldisround.com/articles/326945/index.html,  …

http://www.worldisround.com/articles/73022/index.html, http://www.persianlanguage.ir, http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/govpubs/for/iran.htm, http://www.iran.ir, http://www.majlis.ir/mhtml, http://www.president.ir/en, http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/middle-east/iran/overview.html

Short Form

ir

Open Calais URI

http://d.opencalais.com/er/geo/country/ralg-geo1/6f0a7d56-c2cd-7a08-61b1-7eb27bfb562b

Visited by

▶ Nancy Pelosi, Ruhollah Khomeini, Mohammad Khatami, Abu Bakr, Jalal Talabani,  …

Roxana Saberi, Khalid ibn al-Walid, Roger Cohen, Afshin Ghotbi, Liam Fox, Nasser al-Din Shah, Mehdi Kazemi, Jamal al-Din al-Afghani

GDP

$294,100,000,000

Assaulter

Iraqi Air Force (September 22nd 1980)

Visitors

Vladimir Putin (October 16th 2007)

Invader

Iraq

Driving Side

right

HIV Patients

86,000

Raised

Lotfi Asker Zadeh

Buried

Reza Shah, Harun al-Rashid, Nasser al-Din Shah

Adjectival

"Iranian"

CIA World Factbook URI

http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/factbook/resource/Iran

OpenCyc ID

"Mx4rvVj11JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA"

DBPedia URI

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Iran

Newspapers

▶ Hamshahri, Kayhan, Tehran Times, Etemaad, Shargh,  …

Alik, Hamshahri Corpus, Ettela'at, Ayandegan, Ayandegan, Entekhab, Abrar, Persepolis, Donya-e-Eqtesad, Jaam-e Jam, Persepolis, Jomhouri-e Eslami, Sarmayeh, Khavar-e no, Khabar-e Jonub, Rahbar, Donyaye eqtesad, Asr e Evaz, Eqtesad-e Golestan, Monagheseh, Monagheseh, Vatan-e-Emrooz, Iran

Jurisdiction

Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, SAVAK, Iran Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance

Aliases

"at iran", "in iran", "iran"

Rare Terms

▶ "persia iran"; "irans"; "iran islamic republic of"; "persians"; "persian";  …

"persia (iran)"; "islamic republic"; "irn"; "iri"; "iranian"; "iran, islamic republic of"; "iran's"; "ir"

Time Zone Area

Iran

Founded here

BP, Future Shop, SAVAK

Movie Ratings

18+, Banned

Freebase Primary MID

"/m/03shp"