land: 1.636 million km²water: 12,000 km²

IRAN

ITALY

1,648,195 km²

301,230 km²

Turkey 499 km

1,458 kmIraq

Afghanistan936 km

Pakistan909 km

Turkmenistan992 km

Azerbaijan-p432 km

IRAN

Azerbaijan

Qwait

Qatar

Armania35 km

2000-6000

1200-2000

500-1200

0-500

Iran in Old Persian = "realm of the Aryans"

Parsor

Persis

Muslims Arabs

Iranians or Persians

Religion?

Ethnicity?

Language?

79%

21%

Indo-EuropeanOthers

Ethnicity

72%

1%27%

35%

49%

16%

PersianArabicOthers Language

98%

2%

79%

21%IslamOthers

Religion

Muslims Countries> 90%

≈ 50%Arabian CountriesMuslims Countries

Both together

Islamic festivalsPre-Islamic festivals

Norouz (New Day)

originated ~3500 years ago, but dated 1386 !!??

ZoroastrianZoroastrian

Good DeedsGood Words

Good Thoughts

Zoroaster was thus the first to teach the doctrines of an individual judgment, Heaven and Hell, the future resurrection of the body, the general Last Judgment, and life everlasting for the reunited soul and body. These doctrines were to become familiar articles of faith to much of mankind, through borrowings by Judaism, Christianity and Islam

1200 BC

ZoroasterZoroaster

Anthropology of Iranian

7000 BC

Origins of Farming

Iran was in the Crossroad of CivilizationsIran was in the Crossroad of Civilizations

4000 BC

Origins of Farming

Iran was in the Crossroad of CivilizationsIran was in the Crossroad of Civilizations

1000 BC

Origins of Farming

Iran was in the Crossroad of CivilizationsIran was in the Crossroad of Civilizations

Jiroft Civilization (6000 BC -? BC)

• Research into this civilization is a relatively recent and ongoing archaeological project is uncovering a previously unknown "civilization“.

• This Civilization is probably as important as important as Mesopotamia or even older than that.

One of the Oldest Inscribed Tablets (5000 years old)

3rd Millennium BC

• .

Elamite kingdoms (3200 BC and 539 BC)

Cyrus (550 BC)

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen approved by the National Assembly of France

U.S. Declaration of Independence ratified by the Continental Congress on (1776)

539 BC

To day, I announce that everyone is free to choose a religion. People are free to live in all regions and take up a job provided that they never violate other's rights. No one could be penalized for his or her relatives' faults ...

“slavery” !!ancient time

“slavery” ??

And until I am the monarch, I will never let anyone take possession of movable and landed properties of the others by force or without compensation. Until I am alive, I prevent unpaid, forced labor. I prevent slavery and my governors and subordinates are obliged to prohibit exchanging men and women as slaves within their own ruling domains. Such a traditions should be exterminated the world over...

539 BC

• Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at

Jerusalem, which is in Judah. (Ezra 1: 1-2, 7-8)

The Babylonian Captivity:  Jews in Exile