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| Full text of the inscriptions of the Achaemenid Persian kings in Old Persian, Elamite, Akkadian, and, where appropriate, Aramaic and Egyptian with English translations. Includes inscriptions from Persepolis and Naqsh-i Rustam, a bibliography, photographs, and plans.
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Basic reference information about Iran, including details of geography, people, economy, government, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues. Geographical information includes area, population, flag, maps, high and low points, co-ordinates, boundary length, border countries, climate, land use and natural resources.
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Catalogue of Iranian and Persian related resources, covering areas such as art and literature, economics, software, business, entertainment, sport, history, religion, and travel. Also offers a directory of Iranian email addresses, an image searching service, and the latest news stories from Iran.
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Set of political and relief maps produced by the CIA covering all the countries in the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East, including several maps of Iraq, Kuwait and Kurdish areas in the Middle East.
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Photographs, latitude and longitude, height, date of last eruption and descriptive information about numerous active volcanoes in over 40 countries in the world.
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Detailed handbook describing the history of Iran and analysing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. Particular attention is given to the people who make up the society, their origins, dominant beliefs and values, common interests and the issues on which they are divided, and their attitudes toward each other and toward their social system and political order.
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Information about the history, geography, coins, art, and culture of the Parthian Empire, a period of Persian history from 247 BC to AD 228. Details are provided about the Parthians' subkingdoms, Characene, Elymais, and Persis, and resources such as ancient authors, texts, bibliographies, coin collections, and mailing lists are accessible.
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Traces the historical foundation of the Islamic Republic of Iran in four parts titled Ayatollah Khomeini returns, One country - two governments, The last struggle of the army, and Revolution Day. Presented in audio format in Persian or as text in English.
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Basic reference information about Iran, such as area, capital, population, population density, geography, language, religion, time zone, history and government, plus business and social information, including details of accommodation, addresses, climate, regions, travel, visas, passports, money, health and public holidays.
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Offers comprehensive information pertaining to Iran. Includes searchable information and links on news, politics, economic developments, sport and weather in the region, as well as reference data.
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Journal devoted to Arabic, Persian, and Turkic studies with PDF articles covering Empires, religion, and politics. Issues are offered free of charge, and an outline of the journal's editorial policy is available.
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A catalogue of all the languages and dialects spoken in Iran, with details of the numbers of speakers of each language. Also some demographic data such as rates of literacy, blindness and deafness.
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Indexes to Iranian culture, conferences, geography, history, literature, school, travel and sports. People groups covered are Persians, Turks, Arabs, Baloochies and Kurds, with languages including Farsi and Arabic.
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Detailed assessment of human rights practices in Iran. Topics assessed include torture, arbitrary detention or exile, fair public trial, freedom of speech and press, freedom of assembly, movement and religion; democratic rights, worker rights, and discrimination based on race, sex, religion, disability, language, or social status.
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Index to Iranian resources, including the Sufi tradition, Kurdish information, directories, journals and news.
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Listing of political resources relevant to Iran, with links to parties, organisations, government, media and results of recent elections, where available.
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Chronology of events leading to the fall of the monarchy on the eve of the anniversary of the Iranian revolution of 1978/79.
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