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Islamic Republic of Iran

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Etymology

Calque of Iranian Persian جُمْهوریِ اِسْلامیِ ایران (jomhuri-ye eslâmi-ye irân).

  1. calqued from جُمْهوریِ اِسْلامیِ ایران

Definitions

  1. Official name of Iran

    Official name of Iran: a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.

    • Carolina Chandlers Corp. has filed suit in U.S. District Court charging the Islamic Republic of Iran and its nationalized shipping line with failing to pay outstanding debts.
    • Ms. Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman known as Jina in Kurdish, was stopped on Sept. 13 by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s morality police as she came out of Tehran’s Haghani metro station.

The neighborhood

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