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The National Commission of UNESCO registered the population of Iran at 21 million in 1963, of whom two million (9.5%) were nomads. [25] Although the nomadic population of Iran has dramatically decreased in the 20th century, Iran still has one of the largest nomadic populations in the world, an estimated 1.5 million in a country of about 70 million.
Marina Nemat (Persian: مارینا نِمت, Russian: Марина Немат; born 22 April 1965) is the author of two memoirs about her life growing up in Iran, serving time in Evin Prison for speaking out against the Iranian government, escaping a death sentence and finally fleeing Iran to go and live in Canada.
The Sarmatians (Latin: Sarmatæ or Sauromatæ; Ancient Greek: Σαρμάται, Σαυρομάται) were a large confederation [10] of Iranian people during classical antiquity, [11] [12] flourishing from about the 6th century BCE to the 4th century CE. [13] They spoke Scythian, an Indo-European language from the Eastern Iranian family.
Laleh Bakhtiar (1938–2020) Iranian and American Islamic and Sufi scholar; Najaf Qoli Khan Bakhtiari (1846–1930) Persian Prime Minister and a leader of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution; Shapour Bakhtiar (1914–1991) Prime Minister of Iran; Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (1932– 2001) Queen of Iran as the second wife of Shah Mohammad Reza ...
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For some, the story serves as a gruesome metaphor for the Iranian government’s deadly crackdown on the many young people who took to the streets last fall to protest the country's restrictive ...
The Persian concept of monarchy over a territorial empire, or more specifically, the "Kingship of the Land of Iran" (pādshāhi-ye Irān-zamin), was easily sold to their Mongol masters by these bureaucrats. A lasting effect of the Mongol conquests was the emergence of the "national state" in Iran during the Ilkhanate era.
In Iran, she was a member of Kooch Neshin (Nomads), a band that won the 2nd Tehran Avenue underground rock competition. Since leaving Iran, she has teamed up with another exiled Iranian musician, Mohsen Namjoo; their album Oy was released in October 2009. [citation needed]