In Islamic countries like Pakistan, Iran, and Iraq ( after 2003 ), political subjects are preached by imams at Friday congregations on a regular basis.

In Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Iran, Friday is the last day of the weekend, with Saturday as the first day of the working week.

In most other Islamic countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Iran the week begins on Saturday and ends on Friday.

The Halabja poison gas attack ( Kurdish: Kîmyabarana Helebce ), also known as Halabja massacre or Bloody Friday, was a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people that took place on March 16, 1988, during the closing days of the Iran – Iraq War, when chemical weapons were used by the Iraqi government forces in the Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Black Friday is the name given to September 8, 1978 ( 17 Shahrivar 1357 AP ) and the shooting of protestors in Zhaleh ( or Jaleh ) Square in Tehran, Iran.

Bishop Haik Hovsepian and the denomination he represented, the Assemblies of God, were ordered to comply with the following directives: ( 1 ) Church services could not be held in Persian, the official language of Iran ; ( 2 ) Church members must be issued membership cards and produce them upon attendance ; ( 3 ) Membership lists, complete with addresses, must be handed over to governmental authorities ; ( 4 ) Meetings must be confined to Sunday, not Friday the officially recognized day of worship ; ( 5 ) Only members could attend Sunday meetings ; and ( 6 ) New members could only be added to the membership and admitted to meetings once the Ministry of Information and Islamic Guidance had been notified.

After the election of Ahmadinejad, Meshkini spoke at a Friday prayer in Ardebil saying: " As the Supreme Leader of The Assembly of Experts of the Islamic Republic of Iran and South Azerbaijan, it gives me great pleasure to announce that Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is our new President.

On Friday, June 10, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI, erected a new Chaldean Catholic eparchy in Toronto, Canada and named Archbishop Mar Yohannan Zora, who has worked alongside four priests with Catholics in Toronto ( the largest community of Chaldeans ) for nearly 20 years and who was previously an ad personam Archbishop ( he will retain this rank as head of the eparchy ) and the Archbishop of the Archdiocese ( Archeparchy ) of Ahwaz, Iran ( since 1974 ).

According to the Iran Labor Code, Friday is the weekly day of rest.

The main entrance called Qeisarieh and you can walk all along to the Friday mosque Jameh Mosque the oldest mosque in Isfahan, and one of the oldest in Iran.

It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and the east, Iran in the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the far northeast.

However, since Anatolia is now often considered to be synonymous with Asian Turkey, its eastern and southeastern borders are widely taken to be the Turkish borders with the neighboring countries, which are Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Iraq and Syria, in clockwise direction.

Armenia is a landlocked country in the Transcaucasia region, between the Black and Caspian Seas, bordered on the north and east by Georgia and Azerbaijan and on the south and west by Iran and Turkey.

Armenia is bordered on the north by Georgia, on the east by Azerbaijan, on the southwest by the Nakhchivan Republic of Azerbaijan, on the south by Iran, and on the west by Turkey.

It is situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, bordered on the north and east by Georgia and Azerbaijan and on the south and west by Iran and Turkey.

In 2010, the volume of bilateral trade with Iran was $ 200 million-which is approximately equal to the trade between Armenia and Turkey.

As of October 2008, the Armenian government is considering implementing an ambitious project to build a railway to Iran.

* 1921 – The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established.

Abadan (, Arabic: عبادان, also Romanized as Ābādān ) is a city in and the capital of Abadan County, Khuzestan Province, Iran.

In Iran it is known as National Tree Planting Day.

Abadeh (, also Romanized as Ābādeh ) is a city in and the capital of Abadeh County, in Fars Province, Iran.

* 1990 – Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal ( the conviction is later reversed on appeal ).

The Arabian Sea ( Persian Sea ) is a region of the Indian Ocean bounded on on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the south by northeastern Somalia, on the east by India and on the west by the Arabian Peninsula.

It is an inlet of the Arabian Sea indenting the sandy Makran coast at the Iran – Pakistan border.

* Amputation is used as a legal punishment in a number of countries, among them Iran, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Islamic regions of Nigeria.

By 1722, his son Mahmud captured what is now Iran and declared himself as Shah of Persia.

Dariush Mehrjui's film Sara ( 1993 ) is based on A Doll's House, with the plot transferred to Iran with Sara, played by Niki Karimi, is the Nora of Ibsen's play.

Following the retirement of the F-14 by the US, the weapon's only current operator is Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force.

Brahui ( Urdu: براہوی ) or Brahvi ( براوی ) is a Dravidian language spoken by Brahui people of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran, and expatriate communities in Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Iraq.

Brahui is spoken in the southwest region of Pakistan, as well as regions of Afghanistan and Iran which border Pakistan ; however, many members of the ethnic group no longer speak Brahui.

The Behistun Inscription ( also Bistun or Bisutun, Modern Persian: بیستون < Old Persian: Bagastana, meaning " the place of god ") is a multi-lingual inscription located on Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western Iran.

The Iranian ( Persian ) calendar is used in Iran and some parts of Afghanistan.

The civilian population of the city dropped to near zero during the eight-years Iran – Iraq War. As of the 1986 census due to the war the population dropped to only 6 people.

Thus far the only people who have been attested with a high level of genetic, historical, linguistic and cultural research to be the descendants of the ancient Mesopotamians are the Assyrian Christians of Iraq and its surrounding areas in north west Iran, north east Syria and south eastern Turkey.

Despite the much-vaunted capabilities, the Phoenix was rarely used in combat, with only two confirmed launches and no confirmed targets destroyed in US Navy service, though a large number of kills were claimed by Iranian F-14s during the Iran – Iraq War.

As the only surviving member of the Falcon missile family, it was not adopted by any other nation ( besides Iran ), any other US armed service, or used on any other aircraft.

Egypt is the only Arab country not to have an embassy in Iran.

Although Iraq hoped to take advantage of the revolutionary chaos in Iran and attacked without formal warning, they made only limited progress into Iran and were quickly repelled by the Iranians, who regained virtually all lost territory by June 1982.

The only armed opposition party to make peace with the government was Hizbollah, a small Shi ' a party not to be confused with the bigger party in Iran.

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Saudi Arabia is almost unique in giving the ulema a direct role in government, the only other example being Iran.

Currently, much of the Middle East has condemned Syria's handling of the civil uprising, with only a few countries in the Middle East supporting Syria, most notably Iran, Iraq and Lebanon.

However, this had proven to completely backfire both on Iraq and on the part of the Arab states, for Khomeini was widely perceived as a hero for managing to defend Iran and maintain the war with little foreign support against the heavily backed Iraq and only managed to boost Islamic radicalism not only within the Arab states, but within Iraq itself, creating new tensions between the Sunni Ba ' ath Party and the majority Shiite population.

Linear Elamite is a writing system from Iran attested in a few monumental inscriptions only.

The only loss of life occurred during the take down of the Iran Ajr.

Azerbaijan has direct maritime connections only with other Caspian littoral states ( Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan ).

His many essays on Iran, published in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, only appeared in French in 1994 and then in English in 2005.

The only armed opposition party to make peace with the government was Hizbollah, a small Shi ' a party not to be confused with the bigger party in Iran.

However, it is only regarded as one of the " people of the book " religions in Iran.

The only other nation which uses the Governor General designation is Iran, which has no connection with either the British ( or any other ) monarchy or the Commonwealth.

Iran has only two expanses of lowlands: the Khuzestan Plain in the southwest and the Caspian Sea coastal plain in the north.

Ruins in many other countries, including Somalia, Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia and Iran have been credited as being Sheba, but with only minimal evidence.

Ruins in many other countries, including Somalia, Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia and Iran have been credited as being Sheba, but with only minimal evidence.