IRAN

IRANIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM = (سرود شاهنشاهی ایران) (Sorude Šâhanšâhiye Irân)

LYRICS

IPA transcription[a]

English translation

شاهنشه ما زنده بادا
پايد کشور به فرش جاودان
کز پهلوی شد ملک ایران
صد ره بهتر ز عهد باستان
از دشمنان بودی پریشان
در سايه‌اش آسوده ایران
ايرانیان پيوسته شادان
همواره يزدان بود او را نگهبان

ای پرچم خورشید ایران
پرتو افکن به روی این جهان
یاد آور از آن روزگاری
کآسود از برق تیغت بر کران
در سایه‌ات جان می‌فشانیم
از دشمنان جان می‌ستانیم
ما وارث ملک کیانیم
همیشه خواهیم وطن را از دل و جان

بودیم و هستیم پیرو حق
جز حق هرگز نخواهیم از جهان
با شه‌پرستی مملکت را
داریم از دست دشمن در امان
ما پیرو کردار نیکیم
روشندل از پندار نیکیم
رخشنده از گفتار نیکیم
شد زین فضائل بلندآوازه ایران

Šâhanšahe mâ zende bâdâ
Pâyad kešvar be faraš jâvedân
Kaz Pahlavi šod molke Irân
Sad rah behtar ze ahde bâsetân
Az došmanân budi parišân
Dar sâye-aš âsude Irân
Irâniyân peyvaste šâdân
Hamvâre Yazdân bovad u râ negahbân

Ey parcame xoršide Irân
Partow afkan be ruye in jahân
Yâd âvar az ân ruzegâri
Kâsud az barqe tiqat bar karân
Dar sâye at jân mifešânim
Az došmanân jân misetânim
Mâ vârese molke kiyânim
Hamiše xâhim vatan râ az del va jân

Budim va hastim peyrove haq
Joz haq hargez naxâhim az jahân
Bâ šâhparasti mamlekat râ
Dârim az daste došman dar amân
Mâ peyrove kerdâre nikim
Rowšandel az pendâre nikim
Raxšande az goftâre nikim
Šod zin fazâyel bolandâvâze Irân

Long live our King of Kings,
And may His glory make immortal our land
For Pahlavi improved Iran,
A hundredfold from where it once used to stand.
Though once beset by the foemen's rage,
Now it has peace in His keeping sure.
We of Iran, rejoice in every age,
O may God protect Him both now and evermore.

O Sun that shines on Iran's banner,
Shed upon each nation rays strong and fair.
Those days keep in our recollection
When thy flashing sword brought peace everywhere.
We give our lives in thy shade benign,
And take the lives of each enemy.
We are the heirs of Kayanid's line;
O beloved land, ever wholly thine are we.

Of Right we've been and still are champions.
What is right is all we ever demand.
Through worship of King, we ever
from the enemy will guard this our land.
"Good Deeds" the first virtue of our call,
"Good Thoughts" the light our hearts and minds to guide,
And through "Good Speech" shining, one and all,
'Tis the fame of Iran that shall echo far and wide.

IMPERIAL STATE OF IRAN

Imperial State of Irana

کشور شاهنشاهی ایران (Persian)

Keshvar-e Shāhanshāhi-ye Irān

Motto: مرا داد فرمود و خود داور است

Marā dād farmud o Khod dāvar ast

"Justice He bids me do, as He will judge me"[3]

سرود شاهنشاهی ایران

Sorud-e Shāhanshāhi-ye Irān [4]

("Imperial Anthem of Iran")

Status

Sovereign state

Capital

and largest city

Tehran

Official languages

Persian

Religion

Shia Islam (official) (De jure in 1925–1979 and De facto in 1941–1953)

Secular state (De facto in 1925–1941 and 1953–1979)[5]

Demonym(s)

Persian (until incl. March 21, 1935)

Iranian (from March 22, 1935)

Government

Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy (De jure in 1925–1979 and De facto in 1941–1953)

Unitary parliamentary semi-constitutional monarchy (De facto in 1925–1941 and 1953–1979)

under a military dictatorship (1925–1941; 1953–1955; 1978–1979)
under a dominant-party system (1964–1975)
under an authoritarian one-party system (1975–1978)

Shah

• 1925–1941

Reza Shah Pahlavi

• 1941–1979

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Prime minister

• 1925–1926 (first)

Mohammad-Ali Foroughi

• 1979 (last)

Shapour Bakhtiar

Legislature

National Consultative Assembly (as a unicameral legislature) (1925–1949)

Parliament (as a bicameral legislature) (1949–1979)

• Upper house

Senate (1949–1979)

• Lower house

National Consultative Assembly

Historical era

Interwar period • Second World War • Cold War

• Constituent Assembly voted formation of Pahlavi dynasty

15 December 1925

• Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran

25 August – 17 September 1941

• Admitted to the United Nations

24 October 1945

• Coup d'etat

19 August 1953

• White Revolution

26 January 1963

• Iranian Revolution

1979

GDP (PPP)

1972 estimate

• Per capita

US$571[A][4]

Currency

Rial [4]

ISO 3166 code

PAHLAVI IRAN

The Imperial State of Iran (Persian: کشور شاهنشاهی ایران, Keshvar-e Shāhanshāhi-ye Irān),[4] also known as the Imperial State of Persia,[a] was the official name of the Iranian state under the rule of the Pahlavi dynasty.

It was formed in 1925 and lasted until 1979, when the Pahlavis were overthrown as a result of the Islamic Revolution, which abolished Iran's continuous monarchy and established the present-day Islamic Republic of Iran. The Pahlavi dynasty was founded in 1925 by Reza Shah, a former brigadier-general of the Persian Cossack Brigade. His reign lasted until 1941, when he was forced to abdicate by the Allies of World War II following the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. He was succeeded by his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was the last Shah of Iran.

The Pahlavis came to power after Ahmad Shah Qajar, the last Iranian ruler under the Qajar dynasty, proved unable to stop encroachments on Iranian sovereignty by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, had his position extremely weakened by a military coup, and was formally removed from power by parliament while he was in France. Iran's Majlis, convening as a constituent assembly on 12 December 1925, deposed the young Ahmad Shah Qajar and declared Reza Shah as the new shah of the Imperial State of Persia. In 1935, Reza Shah asked foreign delegates to use the endonym Iran instead of the exonym Persia when addressing the country in formal correspondence.

Following the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, which was backed by the United Kingdom and the United States, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's rule became more autocratic and firmly aligned with the Western Bloc during the Cold War. In correspondence with this reorientation of Iran's foreign policy, the country became an ally of the United States in order to act as a bulwark against Soviet ideological expansionism, and this gave the Shah the political capital to enact a hitherto unprecedented socio-economic program that would transform all aspects of Iranian life through the White Revolution. Consequently, Iran experienced prodigious success in all indicators, including literacy, health, and standard of living. However, by 1978, the Shah faced growing public discontent that culminated into a full-fledged popular revolutionary movement led by religious cleric Ruhollah Khomeini. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi went into exile with his family in January 1979, sparking a series of events that quickly led to the end of monarchy, and the establishment of the Islamic Republic on 31 March 1979. Following Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's death in 1980, his son, Reza Pahlavi, now leads the exiled family throne.[6]

IMPERIAL COAT OF ARMS OF IRAN

The first version of the modern Iranian tricolour was adopted in the wake of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906.[12] The Supplementary Fundamental Laws of 7 October 1907 described the flag as a tricolour of green, white, and red, with a lion and sun emblem in the middle.[13] A decree dated 4 September 1910 specified the exact details of the emblem, including the shape of the lion's tail ("like an italic S") and the position and the size of the lion, the sword, and the sun.[14]

In 1932, seven years after the foundation of the Imperial State of Iran, Reza Shah founded the Order of Pahlavi with the official emblem of the dynasty (Mount Damavand with a rising sun) in a medallion of the Order's badge and star. The coat of arms was created with Iran's national and Pahlavi's dynastical symbols: Lion and Sun, Faravahar, Zolfaghar, Simurgh and Pahlavi's arms in the center. At the top of the coat of arms was the Pahlavi crown, created for the Coronation of Reza Shah in 1926, and the collar of the Order of Pahlavi was under the shield. The lions with scimitars were the supporters. The Imperial motto "Mara dad farmud va Khod Davar Ast" ("Justice He bids me do, as He will judge me" or, alternatively, "He gave me power to command, and He is the judge"). In 1971, some details of this Imperial achievement were changed in their colours.

Azure and Or are the colours of the Imperial Family.

The Imperial Standards of Iran were the personal official flags of the Shāhanshāh, Shahbānū, and Crown Prince of Iran, adopted at the beginning of 1971. The flags of Shāhanshāh consists of a pale-blue field with the flag of Iran in the upper left corner and the Pahlavi coat of arms in the center. Emblems were also created for the Shahbānū and Crown Prince of Iran, and these are at the center of their respective flags.

The Interim Government also used the lion and sun emblem during the transitional period after the revolution, and before the current emblem was adopted.[15]

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