Is Iran an ancient country?
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one of the most ancient ...\ntry this : traces of beer found in Southern Iran dated back 8,000 years.\nOne of the oldest civilizations on earth; and the most advanced of their time, for a long period (sadly, not any more)
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There is some belief that the garden of eden was near modern day iraq/iran.
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your question for iran was veary rod you ........\nmaby i dont now about iran but that waas a rod question
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no. i am not from iran. but i sooo dont agree with you that iran is a terrorist country !!!! you cannot mark the whole nation as a terrorist,couse of some groups of people.you'll find terrorists all over the world if you look better.but they are extreme individuals, not the country.
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Iran is one of the greatest countries ever.\nGreat food,\nfriendly people,\na rich and long history.
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This question is too general.  If someone asked "Do you believe Americans are terrorists ?" and the only Americans you knew of, in depth, were Timothy McVeigh or Ted Kaczynski, your logical answer would be "Yes".\n\nIranians, as in *the Iranian people*, are not terrorists.  The country of Iran most likely harbors Iranian citizens who are terrorists, as most countries in the world harbor citizens who are terrorists.\n\nIs Iran a terrorist state ? (i.e. the government sanctions terrorists and acts of terrorism) Maybe, maybe not. It depends on how you define "acts of terrorism".  In the Middle East and throughout the world, many people feel that the U.S.'s invasion of Iraq was an act of terrorism, especially as 30,000 Iraqi citizens have been killed since the commencement of hostilities in March 2003. Does that make the U.S. a "terrorist state" ? To many people, Yes.
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I think so. Iran is just advancing in chemical technology, just like Russia, India and Israel.
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Its a great Nation. \n\nyou should have asked your question like "Do you know a good Iranian person" then everyone would have answered yes. \n\nAnywayz... there may be some... but I dont know any one.
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I would think so.  If you look at Iraq & Afgahnistan both occupied - you will see the two major borders of Iran.  I say that Iran was the main objective all along.  I also believe that this needs to be done.  Iran is bulding nuclear weapons under peoples lives in the city and openly telling the whole world that it is to be used on us and our allies.  They are not looking for peace - they are looking to settle their anger.  Iran isn't the beautiful country it use to be back before 79.  It is a place ran by crookit people who have had too much power placed in their hands and over power the rest.  It is a country that has a population of 75% under the age of thirty who also want us to go in.  Anyone of the country that has spoken against the government have been killed or hurt.  People live under constant fear - and that is the truth. Some act as though they are fine about living that way, but those are the first of ignorence.  They are usaully the ones that came against the Shah - and deep inside live with the regrets.  Yes - the time has come.
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Zoroastrisim is the religion of ancient iran.It is named after its founder,zoroast.its follower worship fire.When muslims conquered iran ,most of zoroastrians accept islam and remaining migrated to india where they are known as parsies(derived from persians)
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In persia, or today's Iran. The ancient Persians are from the province of Pars, they became the rulers of a large empire under the Achaemenid dynasty (Hakhamanesheeyan) in the sixth century BC. They are descendents of the Aryan (Indo-Iranian) tribes that began migrating from Central Asia into what is now Iran in the 2nd millennium BC. ersians can also be found outside of Iran and include the Tajiks and Parsiwan (also known as the Farsiwan) who can be found in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, and Xinjiang, China while another group called the Tats lives mainly in the Caucasus region concentrated in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Russian Dagestan. The Parsis of India and eastern Pakistan are also largely descended from Persian Zoroastrian refugees who fled from Persia following the Arab conquests.
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Iran has a football team?
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Iran has their own unique culture and form of government.  They should accept only those things which they feel fit into their culture within their borders.  Is McDonald’s right for Iran?  Only they should make such a decision.
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if you mean the oldest civilization, then it would be mesopotamia or China. But if you mean just plain history, then there would be no answer, because every country started existing at the same time.
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Motto: Persian: Esteqlāl, āzādī, jomhūrī-ye eslāmī\n(English: "Independence, freedom, (the) Islamic Republic") \nAnthem: Sorūd-e Mellī-e Īrān \n \nCapital Tehran\n35°40′N 44°26′E \nLargest city Tehran \nOfficial language(s) Persian \nGovernment Islamic Republic \n - Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei \n - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad \nRevolution Overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi  \n - Declared February 11, 1979  \nArea   \n - Total 1,648,195 km² (17th) \n  636,372 sq mi  \n - Water (%) 0.7% \nPopulation   \n - 2005 est. 68,467,413 [1] (18th) \n - 1996 census 60,055,488 [2] \n - Density 41/km² (128th)\n106/sq mi  \nGDP (PPP) 2005 estimate \n - Total $561,600,000,000 (19th) \n - Per capita $8,065 (74th) \nHDI (2006) 0.736 (99th) – medium \nCurrency Rial (ريال) (IRR) \nTime zone (UTC+3.30) \n - Summer (DST) not observed (UTC+3.30) \nInternet TLD .ir \nCalling code +98 \nIran (Persian: ايران‎ ​, Īrān, also known in the international community as Persia), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (Persian: جمهوری اسلامی ايران‎ ​ transliteration: Jomhūrī-ye Eslāmī-ye Īrān), is a country located in Southwest Asia. Iran borders Armenia, Azerbaijan (including its Nakhichevan exclave), and Turkmenistan to the north, Pakistan and Afghanistan to the east, and Turkey and Iraq to the west. In addition, it borders the Persian Gulf, across which lie Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. Shi'a Islam is the official state religion.\n\nThroughout history, Iran has been of great geostrategic importance due to its central location in Eurasia. Iran is a member and co-founder of the United Nations, the OIC, and OPEC. Iran is also significant in international politics on account of its large supply of petroleum and other resources. The name Iran is a cognate of Aryan and literally means "Land of the Aryans."\n\nContents [hide]\n1 Name \n2 History \n3 Politics \n3.1 The Supreme Leader \n3.2 Executive \n3.3 Parliament (The Majles) \n3.4 Judiciary \n3.5 Assembly of Experts \n3.6 Council of Guardians \n3.7 Expediency Council \n3.8 City and Village Councils \n4 Provinces \n5 Geography and climate \n6 Economy \n7 Demographics \n8 Major cities \n9 Culture \n10 See also \n11 References \n12 External links \n12.1 Government \n12.2 Other \n \n\n\n[edit]\nName\nMain article: Iran naming dispute \n \nIn antiquity, the names Ariana and Persis were used to describe the region, as exhibited on this world map by Eratosthenes (c. 200 BC).In former ages, the names Ariana and Persis were used to describe the region which is today known as the Iranian plateau. The earliest Iranian reference to the word (airya/arya/aryana etc), however, predates the Iranian prophet Zoroaster (est. anywhere between 1000 to 7000 BC.) and is attested in non-Gathic Avesta; it appears as airya, meaning noble/spiritual/elevated; as airya dainhava (Yt.8.36, 52) meaning the land of the Aryans; and as airyana vaejah, the original land of the Aryans. This term, it seems, was adopted in remote antiquity by Iranians as their national identity [2]; hence other peoples were called Anairya and later Aniranian, meaning un-aryan or non-Aryan, probably a derogatory racial designation.\n\nDuring the Achaemenid dynasty (550-330 BC), the Persian people called their provincial homeland Pārsa, the Old Persian name for Cyrus the Great's kingdom which belonged to the Persian tribe of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranians and which can still be found in the term Pars or Fars as part of the heartland of Iran and for example in the map by Eratosthenes and other historical or modern maps.\n\nHowever, the country as a whole was called Aryanam. The word Ariya, noble/spiritual/elevated, is attested in the Inscriptions of Darius the Great and his son, Xerxes; it is used both as a linguistic and a racial designation as evident as Darius refers to this at the Behistun inscription (DBiv.89), which is written
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Persia became Iran, not Iraq. However, Persia, from time to time, controlled parts of and/or all of Iraq.
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Cyrus the Great (Persian: کوروش کبیر), also Cyrus II of Persia or Cyrus the Elder, (ca. 576 or 590 – July 529 BC), founded the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid Dynasty of Anshan by unifying two Iranian tribes: the Medes and the Persians. In two historical documents discovered in Babylon and Ur Cyrus identifies himself as the "King of Iran". Cyrus is the first king whose name was suffixed with the word "Great" (or Vazraka in Old Persian, Bozorg in modern Persian), a title adopted by his Acheamenid successors as well as by Alexander the Great who overthrew the Achaemenid dynasty two centuries later.\nCyrus, the son of a Persian king named Cambyses I and a Mede princess, was from the Achaemenid Dynasty, which ruled the kingdom of Anshan, in what is now southwestern Iran. The founder of the dynasty was King Achaemenes (ca. 700 BC) who was succeeded by his son Teispes of Anshan. Inscriptions indicate that when the latter died, two of his sons shared the throne as Cyrus I of Anshan and Ariaramnes of Persia. They were succeeded by their respective sons Cambyses I of Anshan and Arsames of Persia. Cambyses is considered by Herodotus and Ctesias to be of humble origin. But they also consider him as being married to Princess Mandane of Media (ماد), a daughter of Astyages, King of the Medes and Princess Aryenis of Lydia. Cyrus II was the result of this union. Cyrus had two sons: Cambyses and Smerdis, as well as several daughters, of whom Atossa is significant since she married Darius the Great and was mother of Xerxes I of Persia.\nIn 559 BC, Cyrus succeeded his father Cambyses the Elder as King of Anshan. He apparently also soon managed to succeed Arsames to the throne of Persia though the latter was still living. Arsames was father of Hystaspes and would live to see his grandson become King Darius I of Persia. However, Cyrus was not yet an independent ruler. Like his predecessors before him, Cyrus had to recognize Median overlordship.\n\nIn his Histories, Herodotus gives a detailed description of the rise to power of Cyrus according to the best sources available to him. The story of Cyrus' early life found in the Histories, it should be noted, resembles other legendary accounts that form a particular genre of tales in which abandoned children of noble birth inevitably return to claim their royal positions - such as those of Oedipus or Romulus and Remus. According to Herodotus, Cyrus was said to be part-Persian (Parsua) and part Mede and his overlord was his own grandfather Astyages who had conquered all Assyrian kingdoms apart from Babylonia. After the birth of Cyrus, Astyages had a dream that his Magi interpreted as a sign of an eventual overthrow by his grandson. He then ordered his steward Harpagus to kill the infant Cyrus. Harpagus, morally unable to kill a newborn, summoned a herdsman of the king named Mithridates and ordered him to dispose of the child. Troubled by this command, Mithridates confided in his wife Cyno. Cyno, who had recently given birth to a stillborn baby, told her husband to expose their dead child to the elements while they took Cyrus to raise as their own. Mithridates then presented the stillborn to Harpagus as proof that the task had been accomplished. Many years later, when Astyages discovered that his grandson was still alive, he ordered that the son of Harpagus be beheaded and served to his father on a dinner platter. Harpagus, seeking vengeance, convinced Cyrus, who by then was living with his noble, biological parents, to rally the Persian people -- then in a state of vassalage to the Medes -- to revolt ca. 554 BC–553 BC. Between 550 BC–549 BC, with the help of Harpagus, Cyrus led the Persians and his armies to capture Ecbatana, and effectively conquered Media. While he seems to have accepted the crown of Media, by 546 BC he had officially assumed the title of 'King of Persia'. Thus the Persians gained dominion over the Iranian Plateau.\nCyrus' wars