All posts by Sebastian Clark
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Energy
In the 1980s and 1990s Iran built several new natural gas, combined cycle (using both gas and steam), and hydroelectric power stations, dramatically increasing electric...
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Currency and banking
Iran’s unit of currency is the rial. The official exchange rate averaged 9,171 rials to the U.S. dollar in 2006. However, rials are exchanged on...
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Iranian Religion
Jafari Shia Islam has been the official religion of Iran since the 16th century. Followers of Shia Islam differ with Sunni Muslims in beliefs (see...
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ibn sina
Hamadan-astronomer, chemist, geologist, Hafiz, Islamic psychologist, Islamic scholar, Islamic theologian, logician, paleontologist, mathematician, Maktab teacher, physicist, poet, and scientist-Islam’s Golden Age-Avicenna-mathematical systems, astronomy, algebra, trigonometry...
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Services
Urbanization has contributed to significant growth in the service sector. In 2006 the sector ranked as the largest contributor to the GDP (45 percent) and...
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Government and economy
Government planning plays an important role in Iran’s economy. Since the late 1940s the government has designed and implemented multiyear planning programs with the goal...
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Persian Carpet
Whatever is known of the origins of the pile rug is based on suppositions but the can assume that pile weaving had a nomadic origin...
