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| official_languages = [[Persian language|Persian]]
| languages_type = [[Spoken language]]s<ref>{{cite web|author=Ethnologue |url=http://www.ethnologue.org/show_country.asp?name=IR |title=Iran |publisher=Ethnologue |date= |accessdate=2013-06-21}}</ref>
| languages = {{hlist|[[Persian language|Persian]]|[[Armenian language|Armenian]]}} {{hlist|[[Azerbaijani language|Azerbaijani]]|[[Kurdish language|Kurdish]]}} {{hlist|[[Luri Language|Lurish]]|[[Gilaki language|Gilaki]]|[[Balochi language|Balochi]]}} {{hlist|[[Mazandarani language|Mazandarani]]|[[Arabic language|Arabic]]}}
| demonym = [[Demographics of Iran|Iranian]]
| official_religion = [[Shia Islam]]
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Historically Iran has been referred to as "Persia" or similar (''La Perse, Persien, Perzië, etc.'') by the Western world, mainly due to the writings of Greek historians who called Iran ''Persis'' (Περσίς), meaning land of the [[Persian people|Persians]]. In 1935 [[Rezā Shāh]] requested that the international community refer to the country as Iran. Opposition to the name change led to the reversal of the decision, and in 1959 both names were to be used interchangeably.<ref>{{cite web| title = Renaming Persia| work = persiansarenotarabs.com | year = 2007| url = http://www.persiansarenotarabs.com/renaming-persia/ | accessdate =26 April 2011}}</ref> Today both "Persia" and "Iran" are used interchangeably in cultural contexts; however, "Iran" is the name used officially in political contexts.<ref name="artarena">{{cite web|url=http://www.art-arena.com/history.html |title=Persia or Iran, a brief history |publisher=Art-arena.com |date= |accessdate=2013-06-21}}</ref>
The historical and cultural wider usage of "[[Iran (word)|Iran]]" is not restricted to the modern state proper.<ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[Richard N. Frye]] |title=interview by Asieh Namdar |url=http://azadegan.info/files/Dr.Frye-discusses-greater-Iran-on-CNN.mp4 |date=20 October 2007 |time= |publisher=CNN |quote=I spent all my life working in Iran. and as you know I don't mean Iran of today, I mean Greater Iran, the Iran which in the past, extended all the way from China to borders of Hungary and from other Mongolia to Mesopotamia}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Christoph Marcinkowski|title=Shi'ite Identities: Community and Culture in Changing Social Contexts|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=F9khRsDDuX8C&pg=PA83|accessdate=2013-06-21|quote=The 'historical lands of Iran' – 'Greater Iran' – were always known in the Persian language as Irānshahr or Irānzamīn.|year=2010|publisher=LIT Verlag Münster|isbn=978-3-643-80049-7|page=83}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Frye|first=Richard Nelson|journal=The Harvard Theological Review|year=1962|month=October|volume=55|issue=4|pages=261–268|title=Reitzenstein and Qumrân Revisited by an Iranian|url=http://www.jstor.org/pss/1508723|quote=I use the term Iran in an historical context[...]Persia would be used for the modern state, more or less equivalent to "western Iran". I use the term "Greater Iran" to mean what I suspect most Classicists and ancient historians really mean by their use of Persia - that which was within the political boundaries of States ruled by Iranians.}}</ref> Irānshahr<ref>Mīr Khvānd, Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh, Tārīkh-i rawz̤at al-ṣafā. Taṣnīf Mīr Muḥammad ibn Sayyid Burhān al-Dīn Khāvand Shāh al-shahīr bi-Mīr Khvānd. Az rū-yi nusakh-i mutaʻaddadah-i muqābilah gardīdah va fihrist-i asāmī va aʻlām va qabāyil va kutub bā chāphā-yi digar mutamāyiz mībāshad.[Tehrān] Markazī-i Khayyām Pīrūz [1959-60]. ایرانشهر از کنار فرات تا جیهون است و وسط آبادانی عالم است. Iranshahr streches from the Euphrates to the Oxus, and it is the center of the prosperity of the World</ref> or Irānzamīn ([[Greater Iran]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard Frye|title=Persia (RLE Iran A)|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=9QOfAvCP1jkC&pg=PA13|accessdate=2013-06-21|quote=This 'greater Iran' included and still includes part of the Caucasus Mountains, Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iraq; for Kurds, Baluchis, Afghans, Tajiks, Ossetes, and other smaller groups are Iranians|date=2012-05-23|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-84154-5|page=13}}</ref> corresponded to territories of Iranian cultural or linguistic zones. Besides modern Iran, it included
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