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  • Hamadan

    Hamadān or Hamedān (Persian: همدان‎, Hamadān or Hamedān) (Old Persian: Haŋgmetana, Ecbatana) is the capital city of Hamadan Province of Iran.

  • Kerman

    Kerman ( pronunciation ) (Persian: كرمان‎, also Romanized as Kermān, Kermun, and Kirman; also known as Carmania) is the capital city of Kerman Province, Iran.

  • Ormus

    The Kingdom of Ormus (also known as Ohrmuzd, Hormuz, and Ohrmazd; Portuguese Ormuz) was a 10th to 17th century kingdom located within the Persian Gulf and extending as far as the Strait of Hormuz.

  • Evin Prison

    Evin Prison (Persian: زندان اوینZendān Evin) is a prison in Iran, located in Evin, northwestern Tehran. It is noted for its political prisoners' wing, where prisoners have been held both before and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

  • University of Tehran

    The University of Tehran (Persian: دانشگاه تهران‎), also known as Tehran University and UT, is Iran's oldest modern university. Based on its historical, socio-cultural and political pedigree, as well as its research and teaching profile, UT has been…

  • Urmia

    Urmia (pronounced [oɾumiˈje]) (Azerbaijani:اورمیّه ,ﺍﻭﺭﻣﻮ , Urmiyə, Urmu or Urumiyeh, or Urumiah, Armenian: Ուրմիա, Aramaic: ܐܘܪܡܝܐ‎, Persian: ارومیه‎, Kurdish: Ûrmiye) is a city in and the capital of West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. Urmia is situate…

  • Dasht-e Lut

    Dasht-e Lut (Persian: دشت لوت‎, "Emptiness Desert"), also spelled Dasht-i-Lut and known as the Lut Desert, is a large salt desert in southeastern Kerman Iran and is the world's 25th largest desert.

  • Iranian Crown Jewels

    The Imperial crown jewels of Iran (also known as the Imperial crown jewels of Persia) include several elaborate crowns and decorative thrones, thirty tiaras, and numerous aigrettes, a dozen bejeweled swords and shields, a vast number of unset precio…

  • Chogha Zanbil

    Chogha Zanbil (Persian: چغازنبيل‎; Elamite: Dur Untash) is an ancient Elamite complex in the Khuzestan province of Iran. It is one of the few existent ziggurats outside of Mesopotamia.

  • Alborz

    Alborz ( listen  Persian: البرز‎), also written as Alburz, Elburz or Elborz, is a mountain range in northern Iran that stretches from the border of Azerbaijan along the western and entire southern coast of the Caspian Sea and finally runs northeast …

  • Qeshm

    Qeshm (Persian: قشم‎, Persian pronunciation: [ɢeʃm]) is an Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz, and separated from the mainland by the Clarence Strait/Khuran in the Persian Gulf .

  • Imam Reza shrine

    The Imam Reza shrine (Persian: حرم امام رضا‎) in Mashhad, Iran is a complex which contains the mausoleum of Imam Reza, the eighth Imam of Twelver Shi'ites. It is the largest mosque in the world by dimension and the second largest by capacity.

  • Azadi Stadium

    The Azadi Stadium (Persian: ورزشگاه آزادی‎) formerly Aryamehr Stadium (Persian: ورزشگاه آریامهر‎) is an all-seater football stadium in Tehran, Iran. It was inaugurated on 18 October 1971 and is self-owned by Esteghlal and Persepolis. It is also the …

  • Makran

    Makran (Balochi: مکران) (pronounced [mæk'rɑːn]) is a semi-desert coastal strip in the south of Sindh and Balochistan, in Pakistan and Iran, along the coast of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. The name Makran derives from Maka, borne by an over…

  • Shahr-e Sukhteh

    Shahr-e Sūkhté (Persian: شهر سوخته‎, meaning "[The] Burnt City"), also spelled as Shahr-e Sukhteh and Shahr-i Shōkhta, is an archaeological site of a sizable Bronze Age urban settlement, associated with the Jiroft culture. It is located in Sistan an…

  • Ecbatana

    Ecbatana (/ɛkˈbætənə/; Old Persian: 𐏃𐎥𐎶𐎫𐎠𐎴 Haŋgmatāna, literally "the place of gathering", Ancient Greek: Ἀγβάτανα Agbatana in Aeschylus and Herodotus, elsewhere Ἐκβάτανα Ekbatana, Agámtanu by Nabonidos, and Agamatanu at Behistun) was an ancient cit…

  • Sharif University of Technology

    Sharif University of Technology (SUT, Persian: دانشگاه صنعتی شریف‎) is a public research university in Tehran, Iran known traditionally to be first choice of top ranked Iranian high school and university students in engineering and physical sciences.

  • Karaj

    Karaj (Persian: کرج pronunciation  pronounced [kæˈɾædʒ]) is a city in and the capital of Karaj County, Alborz Province, Iran. Its population was 1.61 million in the latest 2011 census, making it the fourth-largest city in Iran after Tehran, Mashha…

  • Rasht

    Rasht (Persian: رَشْتْ or Raŝt‎ , Gilaki: Rèsht, also Romanized as Resht and Rast, and often spelt Recht in French and older German manuscripts) is the capital city of Gilan Province, Iran.

  • Qazvin

    Qazvin (/kæzˈvn/; Persian: قزوین‎, IPA: [ɢæzˈviːn], also Romanized as Qazvīn, Caspin, Qazwin, or Ghazvin) is the largest city and capital of the Province of Qazvin in Iran. Qazvin was an ancient capital in the Persian Empire and nowadays is known …

  • Naqsh-e Jahan Square

    Naqsh-e Jahan Square (Persian: میدان نقش جهانMaidān-e Naqsh-e Jahān; trans: "Image of the World Square"), known as Imam Square (میدان امام), formerly known as Shah Square (میدان شاه), is a square situated at the center of Isfahan city, Iran. Const…

  • Mehrabad International Airport

    Mehrabad International Airport (Persian: فرودگاه مهرآباد‎) (IATA: THR, ICAO: OIII) is an airport that serves Tehran, Iran. It was the primary airport of Tehran in both international and domestic passenger traffic but has been replaced by the new Teh…

  • Abu Musa

    Abu Musa (Persian: ابوموسی listen  Island is a 12.8 square kilometer (4.9 sq mi) Iranian island in the eastern Persian Gulf near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz. Due to the depth of sea, oil tankers and big ships, have to pass between Abu Mus…

  • Sa'dabad Palace

    The Saadabad Palace (Persian: کاخ سعدآباد‎) is a palace built by the Pahlavi dynasty of Iran in the Shemiran area of Tehran and currently official residence of the President of Iran.

  • Rey, Iran

    Rey or Ray [Pronunciation: rā] (Persian: شهر ری‎, Shahr-e-Ray, "City of Ray"), also known as Rhages (/ˈrəz/; Greek: Ῥάγαι, Rhagai; Latin: Rhagae or Rhaganae) and formerly as Arsacia, is the capital of Rey County, Tehran Province, Iran, and is th…

  • Bushehr

    Bushehr or Bushire  pronunciation  [buːˈʃeɾ] (Persian: بوشهر‎; also Romanized as Būshehr, Bouchehr, Buschir, and Busehr; also Bandar Bushehr (Persian: بندر بوشهر‎), also Romanized as Bandar Būshehr and Bandar-e Būshehr; previously known as Ram Ardas…

  • Dasht-e Kavir

    Dasht-e Kavir (Persian: دشت كوير‎, lit. 'desert of salt-marsh'), also known as Kavir-e Namak (lit. 'salt-marsh of salt') and the Great Salt Desert is a large desert lying in the middle of the Iranian plateau. It is about 800 km (500 mi) and 320 km (…

  • Ministry of Intelligence

    The Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Persian: وِزارَتِ اِطّلاعات جُمهوریِ اِسلامیِ ایران Vezarat-e Ettela'at Jomhuri-ye Eslami-ye Iran) is the primary intelligence agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran and a member of Iran …

  • Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque

    Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque (Persian: مسجد شیخ لطف الله‎) is one of the architectural masterpieces of Safavid Iranian architecture, standing on the eastern side of Naghsh-i Jahan Square, Isfahan, Iran.

  • Arak, Iran

    Arak  pronunciation  (Persian: اراک - Arāk‎), also knowns as Sultan Abad (Persian: سلطان آباد - Soltān Ābād‎), is a city in and the capital of Markazi Province, Iran.

  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Iran)

    The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Persian: وزارت امور خارجهVezārat-e Omūr-e Khārejeh) is an Iranian government ministry headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who is a member of cabinet. The current Minister of Foreign Affairs is Mohammad Javad…

  • Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting

    Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, or IRIB (Persian: صدا و سيمای جمهوری اسلامی ايران‎, Sedā va Sima-ye Jomhūrī-ye Eslāmī-ye Īrān, literally Voice (or Sound) and Vision of the Islamic Republic of Iran), formerly called the National Iranian Radio …