Islamic Republic of Iran

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Calque of Iranian Persian جُمْهوریِ اِسْلامیِ ایران (jomhuri-ye eslâmi-ye irân).

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Islamic Republic of Iran

  1. Official name of Iran [1979]
    • 1979 December 1, Debra Furr, “Chandler sues Iran shippers”, in Wilmington Morning Star[1], volume 113, number 42, Wilmington, North Carolina, page 1:
      Carolina Chandlers Corp. has filed suit in U.S. District Court charging the Islamic Republic of Iran and its nationalized shipping line with failing to pay outstanding debts.
    • 2022 September 30, Mahsa Alimardani, Kendra Albert, Afsaneh Rigot, “Big Tech Should Support the Iranian People, Not the Regime”, in The New York Times[2]:
      Ms. Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman known as Jina in Kurdish, was stopped on Sept. 13 by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s morality police as she came out of Tehran’s Haghani metro station.

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