Talk:Iran

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Add ISO 3166 code

ISO 3166 code - IR

Grammar

Specifically: - Incorrect: "Different than" - Correct: "Different from" - - Incorrect: "None were" - Correct: "None was"

EDIT REQUEST: Official Language

The official language is Farsi — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.6.46.234 (talk) 07:14, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

In English, the official language of Iran in called Persian not 'Farsi'. BrokenMirror2 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 03:13, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

EDIT REQUEST: 2009 Elections

The part about the 2009 elections is clearly not neutral and hides some information in order to discredit the green movement and support the regime's thesis.

"The European Union and several western countries expressed concern over alleged irregularities during the vote,[129] and many analysts and journalists from the United States and United Kingdom news media voiced doubts about the authenticity of the results."

This is really not fair to only write this, if you want to talk about people expressing concerns over alleged irregularities during the vote, you should firstly talk about us (Iranians) first. Cinema directors (for example Jafar Panahi, Mohammad Rasoulof), usual citizens, bloggers, journalists, politicians, sportsmen (Karimi, Nekounam and most of the National Iranian Football Team during the game with Korea), actors (Pegah Ahangarani, Ramin Parchami), classic musicians (Mohammad Reza Shajarian), even Basijis themselves (see the Guardian's interview with defected Basijis, see Amir Farshad Ebrahimi, and many others...), & also people among the Iranian diaspora all said the votes were fraudulent. The most relevant file is the letter from the Interior Ministry exposed everywhere in Iran and even showed by Marjan Satrapi and Mohsen Makhmalbaf in European Parliament: http://news.gooya.com/politics/archives/2009/06/089337.php showing the real votes (Mousavi won with 20,000,000 votes followed by Karroubi who had 14,000,000 and Ahmadinejad only had 5,500,000). Mohammad Asghari, the employee exposing this letter was killed just after doing it !! (see http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D8%B5%D8%BA%D8%B1%DB%8C ). You should also talk about the number of journalists arrested just before the elections, if everything was right then why so many arrests just before the elections ?? (You can see the names here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Iranian_presidential_election) You should also talk about the number of votes going down: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FakeResults_Iran.jpg You should also write that it is impossible to count 40 million votes in 2 hours. You should talk about the fact that during these 2 hours, the percentages stayed the same !!! You should talk about the fact that provinces that used to boycott in majority suddenly began to vote for the conservative party ! You should talk about the fact the green protests gathered millions of people while pro-ahmadinejad protests took people from all over the country with buses and couldn't even gather 100,000 people ! Unfortunately, I cannot edit the article, that's why I say "you". <

"Independent polls have not contradicted official turnout of 2009 election, which gave around 60% of vote to Ahmadinejad."

That is a joke and an insult to anyone living in Iran. I oppose the whole regime but if I am called asked if I do, I will obviously say I don't !!! You guys should start putting yourself into contexts before saying something and stop being naive ! This "independent poll" (only one) was made MONTHS after the elections, after Khamenei said anyone opposing the elections will be repressed harshly and hundreds were killed and thousands put into prison and tortured including some of my closest friends for contesting it ! What do you expect people to say ? Plus, on the phone ! That is ridiculous. And I suggest you to watch this video at 26:50 and you will understand what I am talking about http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/general/2011/11/2011118122637129536.html

Culture of Iran needs attention

This article is an essential Iran-related article and needs to be reviewed by a specialist. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.203.202.130 (talk • contribs)

Iran opens the world`s largest refinery

Croatian writer Giancarlo Kravar: Biggest Iranian refinery Shazadu will begin to work with double capacity. This means that the day produce about 16 million gallons of gasoline, the Iranian government announced. The daily production levels refinery in Shazadu makes the world's largest refinery. All this is happening while international sanctions and threats of Iran war. 78.2.71.204 (talk) 11:16, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

SUPREME_LEADER != SUPREME_LEADER_OF_IRAN needs fix

Supreme Leader is NOT Supreme Leader of Iran

needs to be fixed throughout, or quantify "Supreme Leader of Iran" (reference) is "a supreme leader". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.43.201.210 (talk) 21:41, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Spelling Mistake

There is a spelling mistake here, just a missing "s":

"announced incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won the election with 62.63% receiving 24.5 million vote, while"

 Done --Webclient101 (talk) 04:33, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Greater Iran tag and the word Iran

We've already discussed this tag however if you still have any question you can add it here. Iranic (talk) 03:24, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, but any hatnote that is so fearful of deletion that it requires a couple of cited sources to hold it down is a hatnote which should be deleted because it is on unstable ground. What Wikipedia reader would be surprised that a search for "Iran" would unexpectedly dump them at the Iran article about the modern geopolitical nation of Iran? The answer is: none.

I have replaced the faulty hatnote with a more general one. This new hatnote should have been in place long ago. Binksternet (talk) 03:47, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

There is no law against scholarly resources on Wikipedia and no doubt I an use them for hatnotes. Obviously you didn't even read the previous discussion page. Historically and culturally the word 'Iran' refers to 'Greater Iran' but the modern usage of the word is completely different. In all classic works of Persians - and even westerners - Iran referred to something we now call it the 'greater Iran'. You've removed everything about the history and significance of the word by removal of this tag. The new tag is completely wrong because still the 'greater Iran' is a country. Iranic (talk) 04:15, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

You are incorrect about my reading the previous discussion page. I saw that it was very weak at best, an echo chamber of yes-men who failed to argue against the superior reasoning of Dr. Persi. You are clearly pushing a pan-Iran point of view that is not needed in a hatnote here on the nation/state article. The general hatnote pointing to Iran (disambiguation) is perfectly suitable for your notional reader who might be looking for the article about historic Greater Iran. That page contains Greater Iran as well as other possible sources of confusion such as songs and albums by the name of Iran. Binksternet (talk) 04:28, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

I do respect User:Dr.Persi. He is a valuable user, indeed. But as we have already discussed the isuue, There is no harm of bringing this tag in the beginning of the article. It provides more information for the readers. Why should we be afraid of that ?!!! I really don't understand! In fact 10:16, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

"Useful information" is good, of course. The hatnote is not where useful information goes. Rather, it is for helping the reader to discover if he is at the correct article, the one he was looking for. Your job here is to explain why Greater Iran is a better hatnote link for him to see than Iran (disambiguation). I cannot understand how that would be possible, since Iran (disambiguation) gives more possibilities to the reader. Binksternet (talk) 14:18, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Grammar

In History → Modern era (1501–): "his secret police, SAVAK, were used to crushed" → "his secret police, SAVAK, were used to crush" 83.248.171.201 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 09:28, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Iran's HDI value needs to be updated again based on 2012 statistics

Iran's HDI value for 2012, according to the UNDP, is 0.742 which falls under the high human development category. Even previously wikipedia showed 2011 statistics on HDI where Iran has a higher HDI, but now it's showing old data. Why? Iran's HDI value for 2012 is 0.742 and Iran ranks 76 out of 187 countries and territories in the report.

Here's the report for Iran: http://hdrstats.undp.org/images/explanations/IRN.pdf 2.177.8.158 (talk) 21:08, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Mistake in the Religion sub paragraph

In the religion sub paragraph is stated that 2% of Iranians belong to non-Muslim religious minorities, such as Bahá'is, Mazdeans, Zoroastrians etc. However, the added chart shows just 0.4% as non-Muslim minorities. LouisAragon (talk) 23:02, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by LouisAragon (talk • contribs) 20:36, 3 April 2013 (UTC)