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Healing Initiative Leadership Linkage (HILL) Student Magazine: Country Name World without Borders Monthly update: 17 jan 2018 Current News Iran's easing of drug laws could halt execution of 5,000 prisoners Host Editor Country Editor: Lives of more than 5,000 prisoners on death row in Iran could be spared as a I nsert picture Type change in the law abolishes capital punishment for some drug-trafficking offences. Iran is second only to China in the number of prisoners executed in recent years, the majority put to death for drug offences. More than 500 people were executed in 2017 The softening of drug-trafficking laws was put into force in a communique by the head of the Iranian judiciary to all judicial officials on Tuesday. Art or Music of Persia, The arts of IranInsert picture Many Many sports sports are are practiced practiced in Iran, both

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 01st The Second International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics Ahwaz, Iran  01st The Second International Conference on Current Issues of Literature, Translation and Teaching and Learning of Languages Ahwaz, Iran  ISER - 265th International Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow (ICHTFF) Tehran, Iran Healing Initiative Leadership Linkage (HILL) Student Magazine

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Country challenges and opportunities Constitution rights and Duties

The main factions in Iran today are the Republicans and the Freedom and equality of religion

Revolutionaries. The former, a majority of whose members Political freedom belong to the moderate camp of Iranian politics, believes that 37 years after the revolution, Iran should now normalise and Children's rights focus on its “Republic”, meaning domestic issues such as Torture and mistreatment of unemployment, poverty and corruption. This is in addition prisoners to focusing on dialogue with the international community incl uding the West, instead of confrontation. Freedom of expression and media

Conflicts- Possible Compromise

2015- Yemeni Civil War Yemen Saudi Arabia

2016– 2016 West Iran clashes Iran Iraqi Kurdistan

2016 2016 Turkish coup d'état Turkey attempt 2017 2017 Iraqi-Kurdish conflict Iraq

Geographical Resources

Apart from oil and natural gas, the country's other natural resources include coal, chromium, copper, iron ore, lead, manganese, zinc and sulphur. The wide range of temperature fluctuation in different parts of the country and the multiplicity of climatic zones make it possible to cultivate a diverse variety of crops, including cereals (wheat, barley, rice, and maize (corn)), fruits (dates, figs,pomegranates, melons, and grapes), vegetables, cotton, sugar beets, Financial / Fiscal Responsibility- Iran's external and fiscal accounts reflect falling oil prices in 2012–13, but remain in surplus. The current account was expected to reach a surplus of 2.1% of GDP in 2012–13, and the net fiscal balance (after payments to Iran's National Development Fund) will register a surplus of 0.3% of GDP.In 2013 the external debts stood at $7.2 billion down from $17.3 billion in 2012. Overall fiscal deficit is expected to deteriorate to 2.7% of GDP in FY 2016 from 1.7% in 2015.

STATISTICS

Table 1: Demographic 0-20 20-30 30-50 50-70 >70 Birth rate & death rate Female 20,099,908 88,480,900 892,210,000 490,389,098 20,000 17.8, 23 Male 94,289,670 992,890,574 678,930,398 400,378,399 50,294 73.009, 45.2 Table 2: Population 1991-2001 2001-2011 2011-2021 Female 30% 60% 76% Male 50.64% 98% 89.25% Table 3: Education Primary Secondary Sr. Secondary College Post graduate Female 12,000,000 30,000,000 10,294,000 5,750 3,865 Male 98,450,269 67,987,606 58,234 83,033 79,402 Table 4: Land Aerable 10.77% Irrigated 12% Desert 39% Forest 33% Table 5: Import & Export oil meat petroleum Natural gas dates Exports Fruits seeds perfume Auto mobiles chemicals Imports Table 6: Finance 1990-2000 2000-2010 2010-2020 Currency value 1 = 1 Ir= $ 0.0005 1ir = $0.0005 against dollars 0.0003$

Healing Initiative Leadership Linkage (HILL) Student Magazine World without Borders

Historical Perspective (Monuments & lessons from history) The Tomb of Cyrus is the monument of Cyrus the Greatapproximately 1 km southwest of the palaces of Pasargadae. According to Greek sources, it dates back to 559-29 B.C. The most extensive description based on a lost account by Aristobulus, who had accompanied Alexander the Great on his eastern campaign in the late 4th century B.C., is to be found in the Anabasis of Arrian (6.29). written in the 2nd century A.D.[1]

Culture of country (traditional dresses) The also known as culture of Persia, is one of the oldest in the world.

Owing to its dominant geo-political position and culture in the world, Iran has directly influenced cultures and peoples as far away as Italy, Macedonia, and Greece to the

West, Russia to the North, the Arabian. Peninsula to the South, and South and East

Asia to Religionsthe East. and Sunni is more

Language - Alphabets

Persian

Foods  Fesenjan (Pomegranate Walnut Stew) Zereshk (Barberry Rice)

 Gormeh Sabzi (Green Herb Stew)  Bademja n (Eggplant And Tomato Stew)  Baghali Polo (Rice With Dill And Fava Beans) ...  Learning from the past and present for the future This book represents an important contribution to our understanding of the . This work will be particularly useful in the West where it is universally believed that the revolution of 1979 was a movement of Islamic fundamentalists led by the Ayatollah Khomeini to push Iran back to the 6th century. This view has been assiduously spread by the Establishment which has a vested interest in discrediting the very idea of revolution in the minds of the working class of the west. It is, in fact, a vicious lie. There is a rich historical background, including much material which will be unfamiliar to western readers who are unfortunately unacquainted with the marvelous achievements of the civilizations of the east, particularly Persia which has made a tremendous contribution to human culture, art and science, in addition to its rich and inspiring revolutionary history.

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Country Name : iran Name & Picture of the student Capital-cities & monuments on the Map

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Latitude : 32.4279° N Longitude :53.6880° E Neighboring Countries :Iraq, Saudi Arabia,Pakistan N:Caspian Sea E:Pakistan W: Iraq S:Gulf of

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Lion nightingale Wrestling National Flag National Animal National Bird National Sport National Emblem Because it is powerful Its because of it Because from years it is du in world Beautiful followed long tradition in Iran

National Flower National Tree Currency Coin Stamp Due to its beauty Due to the region in iran Official language: Persian Capital: terhan Government:

Unitary state, Presidential system, Islamic republic, Parliamentary system, Theocracy Population: 77.45 million [2013]world bank