A bas-relief at Persepolis, depicting the united Medes and Persians (Source)
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A map showing the 19th-century northwestern borders of Iran, comprising modern-day eastern Georgia, Dagestan, Armenia, and the Republic of Azerbaijan, before being ceded to the neighboring Russian Empire by the Russo-Iranian wars (Source)
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Persian leopard, listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List (Source)
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The production line for AryoSeven at the Iranian biopharmaceutical company of AryoGen (Source)
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Kamal-ol-molk's Mirror Hall, often considered a starting point in Iranian modern art[438] (Source)
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Karna, an ancient Iranian musical instrument from the sixth century BC, kept at the Persepolis Museum (Source)
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Haft-Seen, a custom of Nowruz, the Iranian New Year (Source)
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The Azadi Stadium in Tehran is West Asia's largest football stadium. (Source)
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Tomb of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire, in Pasargadae (Source)
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The first national Iranian Parliament was established in 1906 during the Persian Constitutional Revolution. (Source)
The Roudaki Hall, constructed between 1957 and 1967 in Tehran (Source)
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Chelow kabab (rice and kebab), one of Iran's national dishes[512][513][514] (Source)
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Tomb of Hafez, a medieval Persian poet whose works are regarded as a pinnacle in Persian literature and have left a considerable mark on later Western writers, most notably Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.[93][94][95] (Source)
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Reza Shah, the first Pahlavi king of Iran, in military uniform (Source)
Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, meeting with his counterpart, China's paramount leader Xi Jinping on 23 January 2016. Iran and China are strategic partners.[218][219] (Source)
Iran holds 10% of the world's proven oil reserves and 15% of its gas. It is OPEC's second-largest exporter and the world's seventh largest oil producer.[336] (Source)