Iran

media type="youtube" key="eUPQVCzLu7E" height="344" width="425"media type="youtube" key="Ho_0qRFFMVk" height="344" width="425" =Welcome to Iran.......President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad= Quick Facts on Iran: Langauge: Persian and Persian dialects 58%, Turkic and Turkic dialects 26%, Kurdish 9%, Luri 2%, Balochi 1%, Arabic 1%, Turkish 1%, other 2% Ethnic Groups: Persian 51%, Azeri 24%, Gilaki and Mazandarani 8%, Kurd 7%, Arab 3%, Lur 2%, Baloch 2%, Turkmen 2% other 1%. Population: 66,429,284 Size: 636,296 square miles Religious %: Muslim 98% (Shia 89%, Sunni 9%), other (includes Zoroastrian, Jewish, Christian, and Baha'i) 2% Food: [|Iranian Food] Resources: petroleum, natural gas, coal, chromium, copper, iron ore, lead, manganese, zinc, sulfur Type of Gov't: Theocratic Republic Neighbors: Iraq, Turkmenistan, Azerbajan, Armenia, Afghanistan, Pakistan Allies: Egypt, China, Russia, Syria Enemies: Isreal, America (the Great Evil) Fun Factoids: Our President's thoughts on Israel: "(Israel is) a regime based on evil that cannot continue and one day will vanish", is "counterfeit and illegitimate", and that the Zionist regime "is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm".



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