Iran

IRAN• Iran is a country in western asia • It is bordered to the northwest by

Armenia, the de facto independent Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, and Azerbaijan; with Kazakhstan and Russia across the Caspian Sea; to the northeast by Turkmenistan; to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan; to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman; and to the west by Turkey and Iraq.

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POPULATIONULATION

66,128,965

AREA 1,648,000 SQ KM

CAPITAL TEHRAN

SUPREME LEADER HASAN RUHANI

General Information AboutIRAN• Iran is home one of the world’s oldest civilizations

• history has been of geostrategic importance because of its central location in Eurasia and Iran is a regional power

• Iran, the UN, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Organization of the Islamic Conference and OPEC.

• Iranian political system established by the constitution, adopted in 1979, operates according to a number of complex management structure. The highest state authority is the current Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has undertaken.

TV CHANNELS OF IRAN

A list of Iranian TV channels. All popular TV channels in Iran have been included. In this day and age, virtually every country has its own set of television networks. TV originally evolved from radio, and up until the last few decades, virtually all television content was broadcast over the air. Today, cable and satellite providers directly broadcast much of what is watched. Programming can be created both in house, or by a studio or other production facility that is sometimes directly affiliated with the station. Television shows can also be imported (and exported) to other countries, often through syndication. While satellite and cable currently take all the glory, over-the-air broadcasting is not being left behind as many countries are making the switch from analogue to digital broadcasts.

POPULAR IRAN CHANNELS

1.BBC PERSIAN

2.GEM TV

3.FARSI1

POPULAR NEWPAPER OF IRAN

1.TABNAK2.VARZES3

3.FARS NEW AGENCY

IRAN’S MOST USED INTERNET SEARCH

ENGİNE

NON VERBAL COMMUNİCATİON

Body contact and free posture and behavior are not perceived as ice breakers in Iranian culture, but a custom of samimiyat (intimacy) alone. Therefore,

demonstrations of conviviality and gregariousness between non-intimates are not generally effective vis-a-vis Iranian interlocutors (especially within groups).

Such gestures (pats on the back, frivolous body contact) are perceived as carrying a patronizing message.114 When employed towards senior officials in the presence of their subordinates, it may have a demeaning effect (presenting

the senior Iranian as intimate or inferior to the foreigner).Head and hand gestures in Iranian culture differ somewhat from most Western

models. For example, raising the head (a half nod) has a meaning of disagreement or dissatisfaction, while lowering the head is an expression of affirmation; a Western- style thumbs up is an obscene gesture; holding one's head down and placing the hand on the heart with a slight bow is a sign of

acknowledgement of the other party's social pre-eminence. Iranians, however, do not expect foreigners to copy Iranian etiquette.

CULTURE OF IRANLANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

• Several languages are spoken in different regions of Iran. The predominant language and national language is Persian, which is spoken across the country. Azeri is spoken primarily in the northwest, Kurdish primarily in the west, Arabic primarily in the Persian Gulf coastal regions, Balochi primarily in the east and Turkmen primarily in northern border regions.

• Persian literature inspired Goethe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and many others, and it has been often dubbed as a most worthy language to serve as a conduit for poetry. Dialects of Persian are sporadically spoken throughout the region from China to Syria to Russia, though mainly in the Iranian Plateau.

RELIGION OF IRANToday of the 98% of Muslims living in Iran, around 89% are Shi’a and only around 9% are Sunni.This is quite the opposite trend of the percentage distribution of Shi’a to Sunni Islam followers in the rest of the Muslim population from state to state (primarily in the Middle East) and throughout the rest of the world.

IRAN WEDDING CEREMONY

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