Iran - Wikipedia The Iranian government is authoritarian and has been widely criticized for its poor human rights record, including restrictions on freedom of assembly, expression, and the press, as well as its treatment of women, ethnic minorities, and political dissidents
Iran | People, Religion, Leader, Map, Conflict, Allies, Map, Nuclear . . . An Iranian cultural renaissance in the late 8th century led to a reawakening of Persian literary culture, though the Persian language was now highly Arabized and in Arabic script, and native Persian Islamic dynasties began to appear with the rise of the Ṭāhirids in the early 9th century
Iran country profile - BBC News All broadcasting from Iranian soil is controlled by the state and reflects official ideology A wider range of opinion may be found online and in the printed press
Iran | Iran | Todays latest from Al Jazeera Iran grapples over social freedoms after war with Israel Some elements of the Iranian state are in favour of relatively relaxing controls, while others wish to cede no ground
Iranian peoples - Wikipedia Iranian peoples, [1] or Iranic peoples, [2] are a diverse ethnolinguistic group [3] who are identified chiefly by their native usage of any of the Iranian languages, which are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages within the Indo-European language family
Iran - Ethnic Groups, Languages, Religions | Britannica This group, which constitutes only a small proportion of Iran’s population, has resisted the Iranian government’s efforts, both before and after the revolution of 1979, to assimilate them into the mainstream of national life and, along with their fellow Kurds in adjacent regions of Iraq and Turkey, has sought either regional autonomy or the
Iran: Latest news and updates | NBC News The sanctions again freeze Iranian assets abroad, halt arms deals with Tehran and penalize any development of Iran’s ballistic missile program