The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Iran:
Iran – sovereign country located in West Asia and the Middle East. Iran is bound by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south and the Caspian Sea to its north. Shi'a Islam is the official religion, and Persian is the official language. Iran's population is about 83,500,000; and is the 18th largest country in the world in terms of area at . Iran is home to one of the world's oldest continuous major civilizations, with historical and urban settlements dating back to 4000 BC. Throughout history, Iran has been of geostrategic importance because of its central location in Eurasia and is a regional power. The political system of Iran, based on the 1979 Constitution, comprises several intricately connected governing bodies. The highest state authority is the Supreme Leader, currently Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei.
General reference
Geography of Iran
Geography of Iran
: 1,458 km
: 992 km
: 950 km
: 950 km
: 611 km
: 499 km
: 35 km
* Coastline: 2,440 km
Environment of Iran
Environment of Iran
Natural geographic features of Iran
Regions of Iran
Ecoregions of Iran
List of ecoregions in Iran
Administrative divisions of Iran
Administrative divisions of Iran
Provinces of Iran
Provinces of Iran
Counties of Iran
Counties of Iran
Municipalities of Iran
Municipalities of Iran
Demography of Iran
Demographics of Iran
Government and politics of Iran
Politics of Iran
Branches of the government of Iran
Government of Iran
Executive branch of the government of Iran
- Assembly of Experts
- Elects the Supreme Leader
- Has the constitutional authority to remove the Supreme Leader from power at any time
- Supervises the Supreme Leader in the performance of legal duties
- Head of state: Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei
- Head of government: President of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian
- Vice President of Iran â anyone appointed by the President to lead an organization related to presidential affairs. There are currently 11 Vice Presidents in Iran:
- #First Vice President, Mohammad Reza Aref
- #Vice President and Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Mohammad Eslami
- #Vice President and Head of Environmental Protection Organization, Ali Salajegheh
- #Vice President and Head of Plan and Budget Organization, Davoud Manzour
- #Vice President and Head of Administrative and Recruitment Affairs Organization, Meysam Latifi
- #Vice President for Executive Affairs, Mohsen Mansouri
- #Vice President for Science and Technology and Head of Iran's National Elites Foundation, Ruhollah Dehghani Firouz Abadi
- #Vice President for Legal Affairs, Mohammad Dehghan
- #Vice President for Parliamentary Affairs, Mohammad Hosseini
- #Vice President and Head of Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs, Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi
- #Vice President for Women and Family Affairs, Ensieh Khazali
- Council of Ministers of Iran
- # Ministry of Agricultural, Mohammad Ali Nikbakht
- # Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Issa Zarepour
- # Ministry of Cooperatives, Labour, and Social Welfare, Sowlat Mortazavi
- # Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Mohammad Mehdi Esmaili
- # Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics, Mohammad-Reza Gharaei Ashtiani
- # Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance, Ehsan Khandozi
- # Ministry of Education, Rezamorad Sahraei
- # Ministry of Energy, Ali Akbar Mehrabian
- # Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian
- # Minister of Health and Medical Education, Bahram Eynollahi
- # Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade, Abbas Aliabadi
- # Ministry of Intelligence and National Security, Esmaeil Khatib
- # Ministry of Interior, Ahmad Vahidi
- # Ministry of Justice, Amin Hossein Rahimi
- # Ministry of Petroleum, Javad Owji
- # Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology, Mohammad Ali Zolfigol
- # Ministry of Roads and Urban Development, Mehrdad Bazrpash
- # Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Kioumars Hashemi
- # Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism, Ezzatollah Zarghami
Legislative branch of the government of Iran
- Majlis of Iran (unicameral parliament)
- drafts legislation
- ratifies international treaties
- approves the national budget
- Guardian Council
- 12 members
- 6 appointed by the Supreme Leader
- 6 elected by the Majlis
- Powers and responsibilities:
- Supervises elections
- Approves or rejects candidates for president, Majlis, and the Assembly of Experts
- Reviews all bills passed by the Majlis for constitutionality and compatibility with Islamic law, and approves or vetoes them
- Expediency Discernment Council
- Appointed by Supreme Leader
- Main purpose is to mediate disputes between the Majlis and the Council of Guardians
- Also serves as an advisory board to the Supreme Leader
Judicial branch of the government of Iran
Judicial system of Iran
Foreign relations of Iran
Foreign relations of Iran
International organization membership
International organization membership of Iran
The Islamic Republic of Iran is a member of:
Law and order in Iran
Law of Iran
Military of Iran
Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces
Local government in Iran
Local government in Iran
History of Iran
History of Iran
History of Iran, by period
Pre-Islam Iranian history
Post-Islam Iranian history
Pahlavi and contemporary history of Iran
History of Iran, by subject
Culture of Iran
Culture of Iran
Art in Iran
Sports in Iran
Sports in Iran
Economy and infrastructure of Iran
Economy of Iran
Education in Iran
Education in Iran
See also
Iran
References
External links
- The President of Iran
- Iran Electoral Archive
- The Majlis (Legislature) of Iran
- Iran.ir
- Persian language (Persian)
- First Iranians: Reference Articles on Iran By Manouchehr Saadat Noury
- Iranian Innovations
- Faces of Iran: The World in One Nation (a sequence of still photographs, showing the richness of the ethnic and religious diversity of the people of Iran), YouTube.
- Rageh Inside Iran, a BBC Four production, 17 February 2007,
- Farhad Nabipour, From Persia to Iran, Part I, AMIR Productions, 4 November 2006 (slide show accompanied with Pink Floyd and Persian music â 28 min 8 sec), Google. Highly recommended!
- Farhad Nabipour, From Persia to Iran, Part II, AMIR Productions, 10 November 2006 (slide show accompanied with Pink Floyd and Persian music â 21 min 46 sec), Google.
- Some Iranian folk-songs sung by Shusha Guppy in the 1970s:<br /> Silver Gun (from Shiraz), Wheat Flower (a harvest song), The Rain (from the Gilan Province), The Stars in Heaven (from Shiraz), On Top of the Hill (from Shiraz), The Silken Handkerchief (from the Fars province), Darling Leila (from the Gilan province), I Have Come to Ravish My Heart (from the Lorestan Province), The Lor Youth (a Bakhtiari-Tribe song), Lullaby (from Gorgan), Girl from Boyer-Ahmadi Tribe (from the Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province), My Beloved is Short (from the Fars province), The Water Pipe, You Must Come to Me (from Mamasani County), Darling Dareyne (from the Mazandaran Province). <br /> For further details see: Iranian.
- Nir Rosen, Selling the War with Iran, The Washington Note, Thursday, May 1, 2008, https://web.archive.org/web/20080511234345/http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/05/selling_the_war/.
- The Second International Festival of Peace Poetry, Iran, 16 May 2009: (English), (Persian).