Azerbaijan currently has diplomatic relations with 160 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Republic of India, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

Iran is currently privatizing companies.

The death penalty is currently in place in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Mauritania, northern Nigeria, Sudan, and Yemen.

The territory is currently part of 4 states Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran.

* Iran is currently undergoing negotiations with neighboring Pakistan for the construction of an oil and gas pipeline to that country to help integrate their respective economies and solve the energy shortage being faced by Pakistan.

While Iran was the first Muslim-majority country to recognize Israel, the two states do not currently have diplomatic relations with each other, due to Iran's withdrawal of its recognition of Israel.

The species is currently endemic to the Western Palearctic region in Europe and northwest Africa, though formerly also occurred just outside in northern Iran.

He is currently active in solidarity campaigns for democracy and human rights in Darfur, Western Sahara, Palestine, Iran, Somaliland, Iraq, West Papua, Zimbabwe, Baluchistan, Pakistan, Uganda and against the persecution of Irans Arab minority ( see The Times 10 October 2006 ).

Faisal Alam, founder of American Gay Muslim group Al-Fatiha, argued in the magazine Queer that Iran was condemned before the facts were certain, and in 2003 the United Nations Committee Against Torture noted that " from different and reliable sources that there currently is no active policy of prosecution of charges of homosexuality in Iran ".

Mehdi Mahdavikia (, born 24 July 1977 in Tehran ) is an Iranian football player who currently plays for Persepolis in Iran Pro League.

He was the captain of the Iran national football team from 2006 to 2009, and currently is the third most capped Iranian International After Ali Daei and Ali Karimi.

There are currently no formal diplomatic relations between Iran and the United States.

Golestan Palace is currently operated by the Cultural Heritage Organization of Iran.

Per pre-revolutionary rules, Yasmine Pahlavi, Crown Princess of Iran, would currently hold this title.

The group was founded in September 2003 as an umbrella organization for guerrillas, with former members of Ansar al-Islam, a radical Islamist organization with members currently residing in Iran after a 2003 joint operation by Iraqi and US forces forced them to flee Iraq.

The team was founded in 2006 and currently plays in the Iran Pro League.

Ledeen is currently against both an invasion of Iran or air-strikes within the country.

The Samand, commonly referred to as the " New Paykan ", is currently being produced by Iran Khodro as a modern substitute for the Paykan class of cars.

Although he currently lives in exile, Pahlavi is still regarded by some Iranians as the current Shah of Iran.

Seleucus ruled the Seleucid Empire, including lands currently covered by modern eastern Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq and Iran.

He moved to Iran, where he currently coaches their national team, and converted to Islam.

A joint Saudi-Egyptian-Jordanian intelligence inquiry in April 2006 concluded that Abdullah currently resides in Southeast Iran, under the protection of the Hamze unit of the Revolutionary Guards.

He is currently the manager of the Iran national football team.

The Government of Cuba maintains close relationships with Iran and North Korea, and has provided safe haven to members of ETA after an agreement with the Spanish government ( under Felipe González ), FARC, and the ELN.

In addition, Oman maintains good relations with Iran, its northern neighbor, and the two countries regularly exchange delegations.

The United States now maintains that Saddam ordered the attack to terrorize the Kurdish population in northern Iraq, but Saddam's regime claimed at the time that Iran was responsible for the attack which some including the U. S. supported until several years later.

Also Iran maintains religious courts for all aspects of law and has religious police to maintain social compliance, while its government is described by the US Central Intelligence Agency as a " theocratic republic ".

Iran maintains regular diplomatic and commercial relations with Russia and the former Soviet Republics.

In addition to the headquarters, the service maintains 20 local bureaus in countries throughout their broadcast region, as well as a corporate office in Washington, D. C. RFE / RL broadcasts in 28 languages to 21 countries including Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq.

The United States Government maintains that the cruisers crew believed the airliner was a threatening Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force F-14 Tomcat ; the Government of Iran argues that the ships crew shot the airliner down deliberately and unlawfully.

Due to poor relations between the two countries, instead of exchanging ambassadors Iran maintains an interests section at the Pakistani embassy in Washington, D. C., while the United States has maintained an interests section at the Swiss embassy in Tehran.

The country, however, has seen substantial development since independence and, although blockaded by both Turkey and Azerbaijan over the Karabakh dispute, maintains friendly relations with its neighboring states of Georgia and Iran, as well as Russia, the important regional power.

The bill maintains that the vice president purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States ( 1 ) by fabricating a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and ( 2 ) about an alleged relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda in order to justify the use of the United States Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests and ( 3 ) that Cheney has openly threatened aggression against the Republic of Iran absent any real threat to the United States.

IEA maintains working relations with 7 Palestinian organizations, across the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and is a founding partner of the Middle East Abrahamic Forum, with additional organizations from Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey.

However, Ledeen maintains these statements are consistent since: " I advocated — as I still do — support for political revolution in Iran as the logical and necessary first step in the war against the terror masters.

Wild caviar production has now survived only in Azerbaijan and Iran as Russia maintains a self-imposed ban on caviar trade from wild sturgeon.

The faculty maintains close ties and cooperates with universities in France, Germany, Spain, Czech republic, the USA, Canada, China, Egypt, Syria and Iran.

According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Iran currently maintains at least two major facilities for the research and production of chemical weapon agents.

Following the break-up of the Eastern bloc countries, she maintains, a strategy for the manipulation of the masses was set up with a permanent invention of an enemy ( currently incarnated by Iraq, Iran, Libya, Syria, and North Korea ) and by kindling fear and hate of others to justify perpetuating the Military-industrial Complex and arms sales.

Despite the country's shift to the Red Crescent in 1980, Iran explicitly maintains the right to use the symbol.

On March 4, 1987, Reagan returned to the airwaves in a nationally televised address, taking full responsibility for any actions that he was unaware of, and admitting that " what began as a strategic opening to Iran deteriorated, in its implementation, into trading arms for hostages.

In June 2011 Iran forfeited an Olympic qualification match in Jordan, after trying to take to the field in hijabs and full body suits.

On 3 March 1951 he appeared before the Majlis ( parliament ) in an attempt to persuade the deputies against " full nationalization on the grounds that Iran could not override its international obligations and lacked the capacity to run the oil industry on its own.

Unlike the executive in other countries, the President of Iran does not have full control over Iran's foreign policy, the armed forces, or nuclear policy, as these are ultimately under the control of the Supreme Leader.

Iran is an Islamic republic — the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran mandates that the official religion of Iran is Islam ( see Islam in Iran ) and the Twelver Ja ' fari school, and also mandates that other Islamic schools are to be accorded full respect, and their followers are free to act in accordance with their own jurisprudence in performing their religious rites.

In 1996, the United States and Iran reached " an agreement in full and final settlement of all disputes, differences, claims, counterclaims " relating to the incident at the International Court of Justice .< ref name =" ICJ-settlement-agreement ">

He also refused to sign a statement that Christians enjoyed full rights in Iran.

Kristof published several articles criticizing the missed opportunity of the " grand bargain "— a proposal by Iran to normalize relations with the United States, implement procedures to assure the US it will not develop nuclear weapons, deny any monetary support to Palestinian resistance groups until they agree to stop targeting civilians, support the Arab Peace Initiative, and ensure full transparency to assuage any United States concerns.

General Jalal Zandi ( 1951 – 2001 ) was an ace fighter pilot in the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, serving for the full duration of the Iran-Iraq War.

Ismail I ( July 17, 1487 – May 23, 1524 ), known in Persian as Shāh Ismāʿil (; full name: Abū l-Muzaffar bin Haydar as-Safavī ), was a Shah of Iran ( 1502 ) and the founder of the Safavid dynasty which survived until 1736.

By the mid 1970s, full scale manufacture of the car, less the engine, had started in Iran.

The Qajar family took full control of Iran in 1794, deposing Lotf ' Ali Khan, the last of the Zand dynasty, and re-asserted Persian sovereignty over parts of the Caucasus.

Apart from demanding a more equitable share of the profits of the Company, an issue that did not escape Teymourtash's attention was that the flow of transactions between APOC and its various subsidiaries deprived Iran of gaining an accurate and reliable appreciation of APOC's full profits.

Following the Arab invasion of Iran and eventual resurgence of Iranian dynasties a new full time army was formed by the name of Qezelbash in the Safavid Dynasty.

Seen in the background ( in order to capture its full size ), the ruins of Narin Ghal ' eh are not even registered with Iran's Heritage Organization, and is currently used as a garbage dump for the locals. The ruins of the structure stand 40 meters tall from base to tip. The Narin Qal ' eh ( In Persian: نارین قلعه ) or Narin Castle is a mud-brick fort or castle in the town of Nain, Iran.

His charge was to assure a full investigation of the sale of arms to Iran so as to restore the confidence of the nation in the Reagan presidency.

Lochhead represented New Zealand at Under 17 and under 23 level before making his full All Whites debut in a 0-3 loss Iran on 12 October 2003.

Similarly, the U. S. encouraged the Iran Sanctions Committee to “ redouble its efforts to ensure full and robust implementation of Security Council resolutions 1737, 1747, and 1803 .”

According to the historian Mir Rafi-uddin Ibrahim-i Shirazi, or Rafi, Yusuf's full name was Sultan Yusuf ' Adil Shah Sawa or Sawa-i, the son of Mahmud Beg of Sawa in Iran, ( Rafi ' 36 – 38, vide Devare 67, fn 2 ).

Today, there are an estimated 300, 000 – 350, 000 Jews of full or partial Persian ancestry living predominantly in Israel, with significant communities in the United States and Iran.

Iran has reiterated its commitment to the CWC and its full support for the work of the OPCW, in particular in view of the considerable suffering these weapons have caused to the Iranian people.