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Section sizes

Section size for Iran (80 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	14,903	14,903
Etymology	10,756	10,756
History	80	56,710
Antiquity	2,810	10,964
Achaemenid Empire	4,030	4,030
The Parthian and Sasanian Empires	4,124	4,124
Medieval period	1,457	10,995
Early Islamic rule and regional resistance in Iran	1,463	1,463
The Abbasid Revolution and Iranian Renaissance	2,037	2,037
Islamization and Persianization	1,246	1,246
The Seljuks and the Mongol invasions	1,444	1,444
The Ilkhanate and aftermath	1,697	1,697
Timur and the rise of new powers	1,651	1,651
Early modern period	1,926	6,251
Collapse of the Safavid Empire and successor dynasties	832	832
Nader Shah and the shifting balance of power	1,570	1,570
Rise of the Qajar dynasty and foreign interference	1,923	1,923
20th Century	179	11,684
Constitutional Revolution and the rise of the Pahlavi dynasty	2,784	2,784
World War II and post-occupation instability	1,439	1,439
Mosaddeq and the 1953 coup	2,573	2,573
The Shah's Rule and the Islamic Revolution	2,197	2,197
War and leadership transition	2,512	2,512
Since the 1990s	16,736	16,736
Geography	7,482	26,905
Islands	11,481	11,481
Climate	3,017	3,017
Biodiversity	4,925	4,925
Government and politics	76	121,649
Supreme Leader	9,879	9,879
President	6,272	6,272
Guardian Council	2,293	2,293
Supreme National Security Council	4,275	4,275
Legislature	4,148	4,148
Law	1,752	1,752
Administrative divisions	1,164	1,164
Foreign relations	17,177	17,177
Military	20,155	20,155
Nuclear programme	10,646	10,646
Regional influence	27,722	27,722
Human rights and censorship	16,090	16,090
Economy	10,426	66,885
Tourism	7,466	7,466
Agriculture and fishery	3,654	3,654
Industry and services	7,724	7,724
Transport	6,011	6,011
Energy	11,979	11,979
Science and technology	7,328	18,387
Iranian Space Agency	11,059	11,059
Telecommunication	1,238	1,238
Demographics	7,630	32,726
Ethnic groups	3,026	3,026
Languages	4,679	4,679
Religion	11,412	11,412
Education	2,184	2,184
Health	3,795	3,795
Culture	40	80,367
Art	6,751	6,751
Architecture	2,295	2,295
World Heritage Sites	1,700	1,700
Weaving	4,078	4,078
Literature	3,599	3,599
Philosophy	2,174	2,174
Mythology and folklore	4,712	4,712
Museums	2,347	2,347
Music and dance	6,577	6,577
Fashion and clothing	1,008	1,008
Cinema, animation and theatre	11,841	11,841
Media	2,937	2,937
Cuisine	3,913	3,913
Sports	9,611	9,611
Observances	12,126	16,784
Public holidays	4,658	4,658
See also	59	59
Explanatory notes	150	150
References	30	30
Bibliography	20	9,507
Encyclopaedia Iranica	2,730	2,730
Books	6,757	6,757
External links	2,198	2,198
Total	422,845	422,845

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 4 March 2025

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Change the date of "December 2025" relating to the fall of the Assad regime in the foreign relations section. This happened in 2024, and December 2025 has not occurred yet. 47.161.26.74 (talk) 03:21, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed.... Thank you for pointing this out.Moxy🍁 03:27, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

110 sustained brain injuries

it was 109 in all the source, its in the history around 2020, also it doesnt say anyone suffered any other injuries or died should be made clear 2600:387:15:2C16:0:0:0:5 (talk) 22:31, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Revert English variety to American English due to variant change to British English in disregard of the American English template

Recently, this article's variety has been changed to British English, due to the American English variety disregarding the edit notice on the page. However, this article used American English for years before the edit notice to use British was added. The Iran article as of February 2017 contains mostly American spelling (recognized, center, urbanization, color, program). However, in August 2022, a British English template was added in disregard of the American spelling in the article.

VTSGsRock (talk) 16:01, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]