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   Iran is a county in southwest Asian, country of mountains and deserts. Eastern Iran is dominated by a high plateau, with large salt flats and vast sand deserts. The plateau is surrounded by even higher mountains, including the Zagros to the west and the Elburz to the north. Its neighbors are Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Armenia on the north, Afghanistan and Pakistan on the east, and, and Turkey and Iraq on the west. Tehran is the capital, the country’s largest city and the political, cultural, commercial and industrial center of the nation.

Name of the country: Islamic Republic of Iran

Capital: Tehran

Geographical condition: 35 41 N 51 25 E 

Language: Persian

Religion: Islam

Population (2011) : 75/597/633

Currency unit: Iranian Rial

International Tel code: 0098