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The national emblem of the Islamic Republic of Iran features four curves and a sword, surmounted by a shadda.The emblem was designed by Hamid Nadimi, and was officially approved by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the first Supreme Leader of Iran, on 9 May 1980.
Sign of Lion in Persepolis; Achaemenid Persian relief University of Chicago Oriental Institute.. The Lion and Sun (Persian: شیر و خورشید, romanized: Šir-o Xoršid, pronounced [ˌʃiːɾo xoɾˈʃiːd]; Classical Persian: [ˌʃeːɾu xʷuɾˈʃeːd]) is one of the main emblems of Iran (), and was an element in Iran's national flag until the 1979 revolution and is still commonly used ...
1.2 Emblem. 1.3 Anthem. 2 Unofficial symbols. ... Cypress is considered the national tree of iran (abarkuh in Iran is the oldest Cypress tree in the world)
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The Islamic Republic emblem, designed in 1980, is four curves with a sword between them. It represents the Islamic saying: “There is no god but God.” It also resembles a tulip or lotus.
English: State emblem of the Islamic Republic of Iran.U+262B, stylized version of Arabic script of Allah (الله, with the central lam shaped to look like a sword.)The emblem is also an overlaid rendering of La Ilaha Illa Allah (There is only one God and that is 'Allah').
In 1980, because of the association of the emblem (Iran's historic Lion and Sun) with the recently deposed Pahlavi dynasty, the newly proclaimed Islamic Republic of Iran replaced the Red Lion and Sun with the Iranian Red Crescent Society, adopting the symbol used by most of the other Muslim-majority countries.
English: Imperial Coat of Arms of Iran under the Pahlavi Dynasty, used from 1925 to 1979.The shield is composed of the Lion and the Sun symbol in first quarter , in the second quarter the Faravahar representing Zoroastrianism, in the third quarter the curved blade of a Imam Ali "Zulfiqar" sword representing Shia Islam, and the Simurgh in the fourth quarter.