Information about Iran

For the Radiohead song, see "The National Anthem".

A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history, traditions and struggles of its people, recognized either by a country's government as the official
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The National Anthem of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Persian: سرود ملی جمهوری اسلامی ایران,
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capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has a second meaning based on an alternative sense of "capital") is the center of government.
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Iran's population was declared 70,049,262 in the 2006 census.^[1][2], with nearly one quarter of its people being 15 years of age or younger.^[3]
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Tehran
تهرا?
Tehran skyline with Milad Tower in the background.

Seal
Nickname: The city of 72 nations.
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An official language is a language that is given a special legal status in the countries, states, and other territories. It is typically the language used in a nation's legislative bodies, though the law in many nations requires that government documents be produced in other
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fɒːɾˈsiː in Perso-Arabic script (Nasta`liq style):  
Pronunciation: [fɒːɾˈsiː]
Spoken in: Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and areas of Uzbekistan and Pakistan.
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A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a people or the inhabitants of a place. In English, the name of a people's language is often the same as this word, e.g., the "French" (language or people).
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The Iranian peoples (See^[1] for local names) are a collection of ethnic groups defined by their usage of Iranian languages and their descent from ancient Iranian peoples.
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government is a body that has the power to make and the authority to enforce rules and laws within a civil, corporate, religious, academic, or other organization or group.^[1]
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An Islamic republic, in its modern context, has come to mean several different things, some contradictory to others. Theoretically, to many religious leaders, it is a state under a particular theocratic form of government advocated by some Muslim religious leaders in the Middle
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Iran

This article is part of the series:
Politics of Iran

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• Constitution
• Supreme Leader
• Ali Khamenei
• President
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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Ayatollah (Arabic: آية الله; Persian: آيت‌الله); is a high ranking title given to Shi'a clerics.
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Seyyed ‘Alî Hossaynî Khâmene’î (Persian pronunciation)   (help info ) (Persian: آیت‌الله سید علی
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Iran

This article is part of the series:
Politics of Iran

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• Constitution
• Supreme Leader
• Ali Khamenei
• President
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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Cyrus II of Persia, The Great
King of Persia, King of Media

An old Iranian portrait of Cyrus the Great (artist's conception).
Reign 550 BC to 529 BC
Born 590 BC or 576 BC
Anshan
Died August 530 BC
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Parthia^[1] was an Iranian civilization situated in the northeast of modern Iran, but at its height covering all of Iran proper, as well as regions of the modern countries of Armenia, Iraq, Georgia, eastern Turkey, eastern Syria, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan,
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Sassanid Empire or Sassanian Dynasty (Persian: ساسانیان [sɒsɒnijɒn
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Iran Constitution of 1906^[1] was Iran's first constitution that resulted from the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. It divides into five chapters with many articles that developed over several years.
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History of Greater Iran Empires of Persia Kings of Persia Pre-modern
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Water is a common chemical substance that is essential to all known forms of life.^[1] In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form or state, but the substance also has a solid state, ice, and a gaseous state, water vapor.
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In mathematics, a percentage is a way of expressing a number as a fraction of 100 (per cent meaning "per hundred"). It is often denoted using the percent sign, "%". For example, 45 % (read as "forty-five percent") is equal to 45 / 100, or 0.45.
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population is the collection of people or organisms of a particular species living in a given geographic area or mortality, and migration, though the field encompasses many dimensions of population change including the family (marriage and divorce), public health, work and the
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Iranian calendar (Persian: سالنمای هجری خورشیدی) also known as Persian calendar or the Jalāli Calendar
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list of countries ordered according to population. The list includes and ranks sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories. Figures are based on the most recent estimate or projection by the national census authority where available and generally rounded off.
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gross domestic product, or GDP, is one of the ways for measuring the size of its economy. The GDP of a country is defined as the total market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time (usually a calendar year).
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The purchasing power parity (PPP) theory was developed by Gustav Cassel in 1920. It is the method of using the long-run equilibrium exchange rate of two currencies to equalize the currencies' purchasing power.
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IMF is an abbreviation for:

• Intelligent Message Filter, server-side message filtering, heuristics-based message analysis
• International Metalworkers' Federation, a global union federation

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