Fararu fars news gooya news hamshahri online human rights iran ilna independent persian iranart iran emrooz iranjavan iran press news iranshahr news. Soon, the worlds leading state sponsor of terrorism will be free to sell weapons to anyone, and china, russia, and others will be able to sell tanks, missiles, air defense equipment, and other dangerous weapons to the iranian regime. Historically, these were regions long ruled by dynasties of various iranian empires, that incorporated considerable aspects of persian culture through extensive contact with them, or where sufficient. Persian football tehran, skocics fellow croat mladen zganjer, and slovenian anton usnik have been named as new assistant coaches of the iran national football team. Aramaic was the language of the aramean also spelt aramaean people, a people who inhabited the upper reaches of the tigris and euphrates rivers, an area that would have placed it within and in close proximity to ranghaya, the sixteenth aryan nation listed in the vendidad. Persian cultural nostalgia as political dissent middle. Volume 2 is the second of two introductory persian language textbooks by anousha shahsavari and blake atwood. The university of texas at austin is offering this free, webbased supplemental resource as a service to teachers and students of persian everywhere, whether they work formally or informally, inside or outside of the classroom, in groups or individually. The two european coaches will be added to the team melli coaching staff, joining the already named iranian assistants, karim bagheri and vahid hashemian. To this extent, many of irans foreign policy actions are. The last shah was overthrown in 1979, when an islamic republic was established. Persian cultural roots people all over the world celebrate nowruz, but it originated in the geographical area called persia in the middle east and central asia. Related links iranian calendar public holidays in iran current local time in iran.
Vahid younesi, the business development manager at pishtaz teb zaman diagnostics, said the research and development team at his company began its work on. They contrast irans history with that of the six persian gulf monarchy states saudi arabia, kuwait, united arab emirates, qatar, bahrain, and oman of the gulf cooperation council, gcc, most of which gained independence only in the 1960s and 1970s. Calendar with namedays,moon phases and anniversaries on every day. The newspaper was founded in 2002, and published by the islamic republic of iran broadcasting irib. There are two volumes and other materials which can be downloaded as pdf files or can be purchased from amazon. Iran freezes assets of bbc persian staff in latest effort by tehran to crack down on farsi services popular newscasts, current and exemployees banned from selling or buying property, cars. Gooya the persian portal of iran news and directory of. Iran has never been an arabic country and never will be. Check out persian of iran today by anousha shahsavari and blake. Irans film scene in particular is intensely strong. Most sunnis in iran are kurds, achomis, turkmens, and baluchs, living in the northwest, northeast, south, and. There is an increasing amount of demand in the englishspeaking world for knowledge of the persian language. Iran freezes assets of bbc persian staff the times of israel.
Farisenglish mutiligual user interface by using iranian calendar persian calendar, you could be informed about all official events that will happen soon. Tehran was first chosen as the capital of iran by agha mohammad khan of the qajar dynasty in 1796, in order to remain in close reach of irans territories in the caucasus, at that time still part. The persian empire is the name given to a series of dynasties centered in modernday iran that spanned several centuriesfrom the sixth century b. Persian of iran today, volume 2 persian edition anousha shahsavari, blake r atwood on. H istories of iran regularly begin with cyrus the persian and generally conclude with alexander the great. At present there is no single work which describes in a comprehensive fashion the history of the iranian plateau before cyrus attained mastery. You could get them all by using iranian calendar persian calendar. Islamic republic of iran is the official name of the country. Persianspeaking lands of afghanistan and tajikistan. Today there are a few zoroastrian communities throughout the world, and the largest are in southern iran and india. Asr iran asreno ava today balatarin baztab caffecinema deutsche welle donyaye eqtesad ebtekar emrouz enghelab eslami ensaf news etemaad online entekhab eslahat news. They contrast iran s history with that of the six persian gulf monarchy states saudi arabia, kuwait, united arab emirates, qatar, bahrain, and oman of the gulf cooperation council, gcc, most of which gained independence only in the 1960s and 1970s. Iran had 50 or so armed speedboats training on swarming maneuvers in the persian gulf, and despite their small size and low tech, they could seriously damage the us navy.
Volume 1 is the first of two introductory persian language textbooks by anousha shahsavari and blake atwood. The exhibition focuses on iran but also includes items from the greater. Iran used to be called persia almost throughout all written history. Arabs make up about 80% of iraqs population today, with kurds forming about 15%. The iranian revolution past, present and future brought the safavids into direct conflict with the ottoman empire and led to two centuries of intermittent warfare between those two powerful states. A history of modern iran in a radical reappraisal of irans modern history, ervand abrahamian traces its traumatic journey across the twentieth century, through the discoveryofoil,imperialinterventions,theruleofthepahlavis,and,in 1979, revolution and the birth of the islamic republic. Iran came to be known as persia in the west thanks to classical greek authors during whose time persia was the dominant kingdom in iran. Check out persian of iran today by anousha shahsavari and blake atwood at the university of texas in austin. The accompanying audiovisual files are also accessible on their website.
Important events, famous birthdays and historical deaths from our searchable today in history archives. This could start a new arms race in the middle east. Nearly 90% of iranian muslims are shia and about 10% are sunni. The effects of oil spills on ecosystem at the persian gulf.
Irans persian carpet industry fears having the rug pulled from under it by u. More than 2,500 years ago, cyrus the great united the country and founded the great persian empire. Worlds major oil exporters and importers have a joint interest in security of gulf of oman this is because gulf of oman offers the only entrance from arabian sea and indian ocean into persian gulf. Persians make up about 60% of irans population today. The university of texas offers the brandnew edition of their persian of iran today textbooks for download as. Irans population is about 82,000,000 people, and islam is the religion of 99. The persians are an iranian ethnic group that make up over half the population of iran.
In persian, unlike english, todays literary form of the language hasnt changed for centuries. Persian emperors of the 6th century bc are among the first to make a display of lavish floor coverings. Coronavirus test kit made in iran iran news daily iran. The names iran and persia are often used interchangeably to mean the same country. Despite its historical clout and current decay, the iranian econ omy is in equally. The safavid dynasty ruled iran until 1722, when an afghan army invaded the country and captured isfahan. Iran is training tiny boats in persian gulf that could. Its people, while having partially intermixed with other ethnicities of the region in time, are the descendants of the aryan racial group and the parthian empire. She does not seem to harbor much opposition to the islamist regime and does not dislike it strongly enough to favor preislamic iran.
In 1935, the name iran came into existence internationally and the islamic republic of iran, with the boundaries in existence today, was founded in 1979 following the revolution which ousted the government of the shah mohammad reza pahlavi 19191980. Official holidays official holidays and nonworking days all holidaysobservances custom choose holidays. We diligently research and continuously update our holiday dates and information. Carpets becomes one of the characteristic art forms of people living on the high plateau of west asia, from turkey through iran, where winters can be extremely cold. Overall, makaremi believes that several problems face iran today and that the regime is not necessarily the worst of them. Iranian people have very strong ties to their history, culture and language, which are distinctively persian.
Esthers tomb is in hamadan iran today 3 queen cleopatra of egypt part greek, part persian 4 queen mumtaz mahal of taj mahal the queen of the mogul emperor. Persian gulf is an arm of arabian sea, lies between arabian peninsula and iran, extending from shatt al arab delta to strait of hormuz. A modern speaker can still read and understand an original text written a thousand years ago. However, persian people within their country have long called it iran often spelled eran. Its innovative multimedia curriculum draws on the latest trends in language pedagogy and interweaves grammar and vocabularybuilding exercises with narrative elements in order to engage and develop students abilities in persian.
1211 1097 1522 1053 904 548 1355 467 465 416 307 1445 101 514 740 145 1135 1051 951 254 1001 958 932 133 1100 226 1309 262 1428