Tehran (Persian: تهران), is the capital of Iran and the center of Tehran Province. The origin of the name Tehran is unknown. The word Tehran means warm mountain slope.
The official City of Tehran website says that "Tehran" comes from the Persian words "Tah" meaning "end", or "bottom", and "Ran" meaning "[mountain] slope"—literally, the bottom of the mountain (ته کوه), referring to Tehran's position at the foot of the Alborz mountains.
Tehran or Teheran, capital and largest city of Iran, and capital of Tehran province, is located in the northern part of the country. Tehran is Iran's administrative, economic, and cultural centre as well as the major industrial and transport centre of the region.
Niv Sultan, who plays Tamar, studied Persian for four months. In addition, she studied Krav Maga, an Israeli self-defence system. The series was shot entirely on location in Athens. Filming for Season 2 began in August 2021.
Tehran's central position and economic flourishing has attracted great numbers of immigrants from other Iranian cities, justifying the nickname “the city of 72 nations”.
Rayy, often considered to be Tehrān's predecessor, became the capital city of the Seljuq empire in the 11th century but later declined with factional strife between different neighbourhoods and the Mongol invasion of 1220.
Tehrān, the capital city of Iran and the centre of the province (ostān) of Tehrān, located in north-central Iran at the foot of the Elburz mountain range.
Shahr-e No (Persian: شهرنو, "New City") was the red light district located in Gomrok, a south-western district of Tehran, Iran. It appeared in the 1920s and was destroyed in 1979; it employed about 1,500 women. Its location is now occupied by a park and a hospital.
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Many Iranians are also schooled in second languages like English and French. Younger Iranians are particularly likely to speak English, and older generations are likely to have some French abilities, as it was the second official language of Iran until the 1950s.
Although Persian (Farsi) is the predominant and official language of Iran, a number of languages and dialects from three language families—Indo-European, Altaic, and Afro-Asiatic—are spoken.
Although the newcomers called themselves Irani (Aryans) and their new homeland Irania (now Iran), the land came to be called Persia, because Greek geographers mistakenly named it after the province Pars, or Persis, where their early kings had their capital.
The sale and consumption of alcohol has been banned in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, giving rise to a huge illicit trade in smuggled or bootleg alcohol, some of it adulterated with poisonous methanol.
One of the very basic questions tourists visiting Iran typically ask is whether they are allowed to drink alcohol in Iran or not. Shortly, alcohol is legally banned in Iran. Meaning that it is not allowed to produce or sell alcohol here. As a result, you will not find any liquid store, nightclub, or bar.
Since 1995, unveiled women can also be imprisoned for up to 60 days. Under Book 5, article 638 of the Islamic Penal Code, women in Iran who do not wear a hijab may be imprisoned from 10 days to two months, and/or required to pay fines from 50,000 up to 500,000 rials adjusted for inflation.
You need a visa to enter Iran as a visitor. Check the expiry date of your visa before travelling. If you overstay your visa, you may have to stay in Iran until this is resolved and you are at risk of being detained. Women and girls aged 10 or over should wear a headscarf in their visa application photos.
FCDO advises against all travel to Iran. British and British-Iranian dual nationals are at significant risk of arbitrary arrest, questioning or detention in Iran. Holding a British passport can be reason enough for the Iranian authorities to question you.
“In a very general sense, it's no secret or cutting-edge analysis that Israel's military is the best-equipped and best-trained in the whole region,” says Roberts. “But some sections of [Iran's military] are battle-tested.”
The only reason why Westerners think that “Persia” and “Iran” are different entities is because our king at the time — Reza Shah Pahlavi — asked the League of Nations in 1935 to stop calling our name by its Western exonym “Persia” and to use the proper native endonym “Iran”.
According to The World Factbook of the CIA, between 90-95% of Iran's Muslim are Shia, and another 5-10% are Sunni, the American Iranian Council, citing the Islamic Republic estimates, gives the Sunni percentage at between 7% and 10%. (Almost all of Iran's Shia follow the Twelver branch).
