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IRST is used in Iran.
Iran Standard Time (IRST) or Iran Time (IT) is the time zone used in Iran. Iran uses . IRST is defined by the 52.5 degrees east meridian, the same meridian which defines the Iranian calendar and is the official meridian of Iran.

Iran has not observed daylight saving time since 2005 [1] [2] (By discussion of president Ahmadi Nezhad), which was called Iran Daylight Time (IRDT).

Iran has one tz zone: "Asia/Tehran".
time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. Most adjacent time zones are exactly one hour apart, and by convention compute their local time as an offset from UTC (see also Greenwich Mean Time).
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Anthem
Sorūd-e Mellī-e Īrān ²


Capital
(and largest city) Tehran

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meridian (or line of longitude) is an imaginary arc on the Earth's surface from the North Pole to the South Pole that connects all locations with a given longitude. The position of a point on the meridan is given by the latitude.
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Iranian calendar (Persian: سالنمای هجری خورشیدی) also known as Persian calendar or the Jalāli Calendar
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Daylight saving time (DST; also summer time in British English) is the convention of advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less.
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20th century - 21st century - 22nd century
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The zoneinfo database, also called the tz database, is a collaborative compilation of information about the world's time zones, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems.
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