However, the empire began to collapse toward the end of the 7th century BC, and was obliterated by an alliance between a resurgent New Kingdom of Babylonia and the Iranian Medes.

The insurance tradition was performed each year in Norouz ( beginning of the Iranian New Year ); the heads of different ethnic groups as well as others willing to take part, presented gifts to the monarch.

The Zoroastrian New Year coincides with the Iranian New Year of Nowruz, and is celebrated by the Parsis in India and by Zoroastrians and Persians across the world.

In general, Iranian languages are known from three periods, usually referred to as Old, Middle, and New ( Modern ) periods.

These correspond to three eras in Iranian history ; Old era being the period from sometime before Achaemenids, the Achaemenid era and sometime after Achaemenids ( that is to 300 BC ), Middle era being the next period, Sassanid era and part of the post-Sassanid era, and the New era being the period afterwards down to present day.

Dari, on the other hand, is more archaic, e. g. نوروز ' Persian New Year ' is realized as in Iranian, and in Afghan Persian, and نخیر ' no ' is uttered as in Iranian, and as in Afghan Persian.

In Iranian sources of the Sassanid period it is attested in Manichean Parthian, in Sassanid Middle Persian and in Christian Sogdian as Pahlavi tyspwn, continuing in New Persian as Tisfun ( تيسفون ).

* Persian New Wave, or Iranian New Wave, started in the 1960s

Before tomatoes ( a New World fruit ) arrived in the Middle East, grenadine was widely used in many Iranian foods, and is still found in traditional recipes such as fesenjān, a thick sauce made from pomegranate juice and ground walnuts, usually spooned over duck or other poultry and rice, and in ash-e anar ( pomegranate soup ).

Others link it to old Iranian * tor " dark, black ", related to the New Persian tār ( ik ), Pashto tor ( thor ), and possibly English dark.

In 2003, in one of his most famous protests, Kaurismäki boycotted the 40th New York Film Festival as a show of solidarity with Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami who was not given a US visa in time for the festival.

It has been reported that Russia has ordered Iran's first nuclear power station to be started up in March 2010 to coincide with the Iranian New Year.

New Year's Day is defined to be the day, as reckoned by Iranian time, when the Northward equinox ( the precise moment in time when northern and southern hemispheres of the earth pass through the point of the earth's orbit when they are equally illuminated by the sun ) occurs on or before noon of that day, or during the 12 hours following the noon of the preceding day.

In 1959, and at four-year intervals back to 1927, Iranian New Year's Day fell on 22 March in the Gregorian calendar.

In 1996, and subsequent Gregorian leap years, Iranian New Year's Day falls on 20 March.

On June 12, 2012, the U. S. Department of the Treasury ’ s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced a $ 619 million settlement with ING Bank N. V. to settle potential liability for conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( IEEPA ) and the Trading with the Enemy Act ( TWEA ) and for violating New York state laws by illegally moving billions of dollars through the U. S. financial system on behalf of sanctioned Cuban and Iranian entities .. ING Bank ’ s settlement with OFAC is simultaneous with settlements with the U. S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, the Department of Justice's National Security Division, the Department of Justice's Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section and the New York County District Attorney ’ s Office.

Iranians insisted on payment in gold rather than U. S. dollars so the U. S. government transferred 50 tonnes of gold to Iran while simultaneously taking ownership of an equivalent quantity of Iranian gold that had been frozen at the New York Federal Reserve Bank.

He expressed such sentiments at an American Iranian Council conference in New Brunswick, New Jersey which included Chuck Hagel, Javad Zarif, Nicholas Kristof, and Anders Liden to discuss Iranian-American relations, and potential ways to increase dialog in order to avoid conflict.

*- ian ( countries: Bahamas → Bahamian, Belarus → Belarusian, Belgium → Belgian, Bermuda → Bermudian, Brazil → Brazilian, Cameroon → Cameroonian, Canada → Canadian, Chad → Chadian, Egypt → Egyptian, Ecuador → Ecuadorian, Ghana → Ghanaian, Grenada → Grenadian, Iran → Iranian ( also " Irani " or " Persian "), Jordan → Jordanian, Laos → Laotian, Louisiana → Louisianian, Maldives → Maldivian, Palestine → Palestinian, Saint Vincent → Vincentian, Trinidad → Trinidadian, Ukraine → Ukrainian ; cities / states: Adelaide → Adelaidian, Athens → Athenian, Ballarat → Ballaratian, Boston → Bostonian, Brisbane → Brisbanian ( also " Brisbanite "), Calgary → Calgarian, Canary Islands → Canarian, Cardiff → Cardiffian, Castile → Castilian, Coventry → Coventrian, Edmonton → Edmontonian, Florida → Floridian, Fort Worth → Fort Worthian, Gibraltar → Gibraltarian, Hesse → Hessian, Houston → Houstonian, Isles of Scilly → Scillonian, Lethbridge → Lethbridgian, Liverpool → Liverpudlian, Louisville → Louisvillian, Madrid → Madrilenian, Manchester → Mancunian, McKinney → McKinnian, Melbourne → Melburnian, New Guinea → New Guinian, New Orleans → New Orleanian, Oregon → Oregonian, Paris → Parisian, Peterborough → Peterborian, Phoenix → Phoenician, Saskatoon → Saskatonian ( Saskabusher ), Thrace → Thracian, Washington → Washingtonian, Wellington → Wellingtonian )

The concept, which was introduced by former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami, was the basis for United Nations ' resolution to name the year 2001 as the Year of Dialogue among Civilizations.

* Nowruz ( Iranian New Year )-Starts from 21 March

They talk about what they are going to do during their Christmas break, which makes Marji feel left out because she doesn't celebrate Christmas and the Iranian New Year isn't until March.

There is an annual air show for the remembrance of War Heroes at the beginning of the Iranian New Year ( Nowruz ): hold from March 21 to 4 April, it is the only military Air show in Iran.

The ancient Iranian New Year known as Newroz to Kurds and Novruz to Azeris also is widely celebrated in Iğdır.

In the film Razieh, a strong-willed little girl in Tehran, wants to buy a lucky goldfish for the upcoming Iranian New Year celebration, but struggles to get and hold on to the 500-toman banknote needed to purchase the fish.

In his March 2011 greetings to the Iranian people on the occasion of the Iranian New Year, U. S. President Barack Obama cited Panahi as an example of the oppressive regime that currently controls the country of Iran.

Others in Iran have expressed " particular displeasure " at her for sending celebration messages to Iranians for Nowruz, the Iranian New Year.

During Norouz ( New Iranian Year ) and summers, this jetty is full of seasonal merchants who bring beautiful Turkman fabricated objects to the city for sale.

Even after the Islamic conquest of Persia Zoroastrianism continued to be part of Iranian culture in which throughout the year festivities are celebrated such as the Persian New Year or Nowrouz, Mehregan and ChaharShanbe Souri which are remnants of Zoroastrian traditions.

It is also used in Iranian aash recipes, and is also called sheved in Persian.

English scholar Peter Heather called the Huns " the first group of Turkic, as opposed to Iranian, nomads to have intruded into Europe ".

Sometimes called " The Sport of Kings ", it was started by Persians, and was popular in Iran until 1979, after which its popularity there declined sharply due to the Iranian Revolution.

The Center for Ethical Solutions, an American bioethics think tank, is currently working on a project called " Solving the Organ Shortage ," in which it is studying the Iranian kidney procurement system in order to better inform the debate over solving the organ shortfall in the United States.

The Old Iranian Religion worshiped many gods called daevas, along with three greater gods, each bearing the title Ahura.

In the Iranian dialects of Yidḡa and Munǰī, the sun is still called " ormozd ".

Tensions between Bahrain and Iran had already been raised in the summer of 2007, when Hossein Shariatmadari, an Advisor to Iran ’ s supreme leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and editor of the Iranian newspaper, Kayan, called for Bahrain to be incorporated into Iran as its 14th province – a stance that echoed Saddam Hussein ’ s designs on Kuwait in the late 1980s.

In January 2009, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel's invasion of Gaza a massacre " barbaric and inhumane and widely helped by the Americans ".

The recovered documents would be later released by the Iranian regime in a series of books called " Documents from the US espionage Den ".

Mary Boyce, in the Farvardin Yasht, " In it ( verses 143-144 ) are praised the fravashis of righteous men and women not only among the Aryas ( as the " Avestan " people called themselves ), but also among the Turiyas, Sairimas, Sainus and Dahis ; and the personal names, like those of the people, all seem Iranian character ".

The Iranian calendars or sometimes called Persian calendars ( Gāhšomāri-ye Irāni ) are a succession of calendars invented or used for over two millennia in Greater Iran.

" In 1998 he starred ( alongside Andy Smart ) in a documentary / comedy about the Iranian national football team called " The Outsiders ".

He is held as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century and has been called the ' ideologue of the Iranian Revolution '.

It seems that over time water pipes acquired an Iranian connotation as in eighteenth-century Egypt the most fashionable pipes were called Karim Khan after the Iranian ruler of the day.

The phrase Allahu Akbar is written on the Iranian flag, as called for by Article 18 of Iran's constitution.

When this order was cancelled in February 1979 because of the Iranian Revolution, the British government, under pressure to modernise its tank fleet to maintain a qualitative superiority relative to the Soviet tank forces, decided to use the sudden surplus production capacity to procure a number of vehicles very close in design to the Shir-2, called the Challenger 1.

The equivalent rank for brigadier general in the Iranian army and air force is called sar-tip-dovom.

Revolutionary teams displayed secret documents purportedly taken from the embassy, sometimes painstakingly reconstructed after shredding, to buttress their claim that " the Great Satan " ( the U. S .) was trying to destabilize the new regime, and that Iranian moderates were in league with the U. S. The documents were published in a series of books called Documents from the US Espionage Den ().

The Algiers Accords called for Iran's immediate freeing of the hostages, the unfreezing of $ 7. 9 billion of Iranian assets and immunity from lawsuits Iran might have faced in America, and a pledge by the United States that " it is and from now on will be the policy of the United States not to intervene, directly or indirectly, politically or militarily, in Iran's internal affairs.

He used an Eastern Iranian, Indo-European language known as Bactrian ( called " αρια ," i. e. " Aryan " in the Rabatak inscription ), which appears in Greek script in his inscriptions, though it is not certain what language the Kushans originally spoke ; possibly some form of Tocharian-a " centum " Indo-European language.

Menhirs are called سنگ ‌ افراشت ( Sang-Afrāsht ) in Persian and there are different studies published in Iranian periodicals about the details of the Iranian menhirs, specially in the periodical " Barrasiha-yi Tarikhi " ( Historical studies ).