Islamic Republic of Iran

Islamic Republic of Iran جمهوری اسلامی ایران (Persian) Jomhuri-ye Eslâmi-ye Irân
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Motto: اَللَّٰهُ أَكْبَرُ Allāhu ʾakbar (Takbir) "God is the Greatest" (de jure) استقلال، آزادی، جمهوری اسلامی Esteqlâl, Âzâdi, Jomhuri-ye Eslâmi "Independence, freedom, the Islamic Republic" (de facto)
Anthem: مهر خاوران Mehre khāvarān "Eastern Sun"
Capital and largest city	Tehran
Official languages	Persian
Mode of production	State capitalism
Government	Unitary bourgeois theocratic autocratic regime
• Supreme Leader	Ali Khamenei
• President	Masoud Pezeshkian
• Vice President	Mohammad Reza Aref
History
• Median kingdom	circa 678 BC
• Achaemenid Empire	550 BC
• Parthian Empire	247 BC
• Sasanian Empire	224 AD
• Iranian Intermezzo	821
• Safavid Iran	22 December 1501
• Afsharid Iran	22 January 1736
•	1751
• Qajar Iran	20 March 1794
• Constitutional Revolution	12 December 1905
• Pahlavi Iran	15 December 1925
• Iranian Revolution	11 February 1979
• Current constitution	3 December 1979
• Constitution amendment	28 July 1989
Area
• Total	1,648,195 km² (17th)
Population
• 2025 estimate	92,417,681
• Density	52 km² (132nd)

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), is a reactionary religious fundamentalist state in West Asia. Iran is deeply aligned with the eastern camp of imperialism represented by the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China.