Iran is home to one of the world's oldest continuous major civilisations, with historical and urban settlements dating back to 4000 BC. [32] The western part of the Iranian plateau participated …

Iranian peoples, [1] or Iranic peoples, [2] are the collective ethnolinguistic groups [3] who are identified chiefly by their native usage of any of the Iranian languages, which are a branch of …

3 days ago · Iran is a mountainous, arid, and ethnically diverse country of southwestern Asia. The heart of the Persian empire of antiquity, Iran has long played an important role in the region as …

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The Iranian government was changed to an Islamic Republic by Islamic Revolution. Soon afterwards, the Iranian Students Movement (Tahkim Vahdat), with the backing of the new …

5 days ago · The president, who is elected by universal adult suffrage, heads the executive branch and must be a native-born Iranian Shiʿi. This post was largely ceremonial until July …

2 days ago · Within two centuries Iranian civilization was revived with a cultural amalgam, with patterns of art and thought, with attitudes and a sophistication that were indebted to its pre …

3 days ago · It’s a mistake to leave out human rights when President Trump’s administration sits down with Iran over its nuclear program.

2 days ago · Iran and the United States will hold more negotiations next week over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear program, Iranian state television reported Saturday at the end of the …

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