Perhaps it is not unreasonable to say that you will see the best of everything in Iran, a country with four seasons, 2500 years history, diverse nature and a unique culture. Nowadays most of the people from all around the world know Persia or Iran through its carpets, its caviar, or through its importance as one of the world’s major oil-producing nations. Yet, Persia has one of the richest and oldest cultures in the world.
Here is some information about Iran:
The capital of Iran is Tehran. Persian is Iran’s national and official language. Iranian people are from Aryaee tribes.
Shia Islam is the dominant religion in Iran, although other minorities such as Christians, Jews and Zoroastrian has been also adopted.
Recent discoveries indicate that, centuries before the rise of earliest civilizations in Mesopotamia, Iran was inhabited by human race. The written history of Iran dates back to 3200 BC. It begins with the early Achaemenids, The dynasty under which the first Iranian world empire blossomed.
Cyrus the Great was the founder of the empire and he is the first to establish the charter of human rights. In this period Iran stretched from the Aegean coast of Asia Minor to Afghanistan, as well as south to Egypt. The Achaeamenid Empire was overthrown by Alexander the Great in 330 BC and was followed by The Seleucid Greek Dynasty.
After the Seleucids, we witness dozens of successive dynasties reigning over the country. These dynasties are comprised of Parthian, Sassanid, Samanid, Ghaznavid, Safavid, Zand, Afsharid, Qajar and Pahlavi. In 641 Arabs conquered Iran and launched a new vicissitudinous era. Persians, who were the followers of Zoroaster, gradually turned to Islam and it was in Safavid period when Islam (shia) became the official religion of Iran.