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I believe "Turan" is used two different ways here, hence the confusion. Apparently it was a term originally introduced as @Shahnameh claims, but in the 19th and 20th century the term was also used to designate Altaic languages.

Is it true that there is infighting between various fractions within the parlament? The way you guys present it the power seems to be in the hands of the ultra-conservatives

Iran wins gold at the FIBA 2013 Asian Basketball Competition, qualifying them to the World Cup in 2014 in Spain: FIBA Asia 2013 Championship results: Hamed Haddadi leads Iran to gold against Philippines. They got two players in the All Star team.

All Iranians follow Zoroastrianism indirectly to some extent, Nowruz-celebrations as we see them today in Iran, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, etc... are remnants of Zoroastrian traditions with fire being a central element. Some of the items of Haft Sīn tables also come from here I think...

Khuzestan, Iran

@Uhuhu Sepas gozaram keh in tarikho behem yad dadi

Can you elaborate a little on this? I'd really like to compare this to the response given by @S00R3NA

@Uhuhu Is it correct if I guess some of the pictures above are from Tabriz? I think the statue in your latest post is of Sattar Khan

Keep in mind the idea behind the thread...

True, defending ones country is always admirable. But the Basij militia also played a positive role during the war for Iran, but look at them today. Iran != Islamic Republic, although many IR-people try to establish an equality for obvious reasons. But OK, that's a different discussion...

His country or his Islamic Republic...?

Then they should have gone with this one, lol

Well, considering that Rowhani was allowed as a candidate means that the great and mighty rahbar seems to acknowledge that the current situation is not satisfactory (that is putting it mildly!). Either that or, as I fear, Rowhani is merely meant as a "relief valve" to please the masses, and...

Are there many people in the country that agree with the current domestic situation, i.e. regard the things mentioned here as a necessarily evil in order to gain "independence" or whatever it can be called? Seems most users here are not in favor of it, but then again Rohani just barely won back...

What do you mean by that?

Go over and say hi to him, have some chai shirin :cheesy:

Nuclear energy holds little strategic importance for a country as Iran, so even though the nuclear issue may still have been there, I doubt the Shah would drag it this far.

My main point was that had the Shah stayed, the literay rate wouldn't have been lower. I don't have info about the level of corruption under the Shah. @iranigirl2 is re-iterating history, nothing unfair or untrue about it.

Corruption is not related to literacy rates, so the statistics you provide are somewhat redundant. You can't compare statistics of Iran anno 2008 under the IR to that of anno 1976 under the Shah, simple as that.

Better in terms of what parameters? Economy? Health care? Education? Defence industry? Social stucture? That being said, I think it's practically impossible to know how Iran would look today, if the Shah had stayed.