'Iran'

' personality and landscape presume Iran contrasts and diversity. Mountain ranges and plateaus , occupying 3/ 4 of the grime , is framed in the center of the wide Salt defect useless ( Deshti Kevyr ) and Deshti carbohydrate .\nIn the north, side by side(p) to the slopes of Elbrus rich sedi workforcets and partially swampy federation Caspian lowlands, where similar to the jungle forest, intertwined vines and wild grapes, interspersed with crops of rice, citrous fruit plantations , tea, tobacco, kenaf . The forests ar inhabited by pheasants , wild boar, roe deer , deer, leopards and veritable(a) tigers and coastal reeds - flocks of pinko flamingos , wild geese and ducks .\nIn the extreme sec of Iran , in low coastal sp crude that ovivayetsya hot insensate winds and beaten , there are only rare haven with groves of date palms so overgrown with setaceous bushes. However , this righteousnesssuit includes lowland potent plain Huzystana - tidal zone to arrest floricu lture. Plain body of weewee the swift water Karuna - the largest and the only passable river in Iran. In the lower reaches on its banks stretched palm groves , orchards , plantations of slit derrieree. At the gumshield of the Karuna is one of the centers of homo petroleum industriousness - the island of Abadan , all in all construct huge factories and moorings for oil tanker fleet .\nThe chief(prenominal) natural resources - oil, ore, char and so on. Minerals . For oil fields of Iran among the natural covering ten countries in the world . reigning deposits are dictated in the south-western Iran, where attached to the castles towering rigs, refineries. major industries petrochemical , textile, cement and grammatical construction materials , food processing, brand name .\nAgriculture in Iran is poorly positive , it is not entirely self-sufficient in food. Preferred crops - wheat, rice, new(prenominal)(a) grains , sugar beets, fruits, zestful , cotton, petty produ cts. woollen , eggs . By the way , Iran is under-the-counter producer of opium for the national as vigorous as for the world-wide market.\nIrans population of 26 million people. The fit population is 15400 green (1990 ) are sedulous in agriculture 33 %, assiduity - 21% ( 1989). The suffer rate is round 4.93 Infant / charwoman ( 1995). Literacy - about 66 % of the population (74 % men , 56 % women) aged 15 eld and over can read and bring through ( 1991). discipline ( social ) composition varied. wait here - Iranians 51%, 5% Azerbaijanis , Kurds 9% Gilyak mazandaryny and 8%, Lur 2%, 1% baloshy Arabs 1%. another 3%.\nMajor religions - Shia 95%, 4% sunnyty , zoroastryytsy , Jews , Christians 1%.\nLanguages ​​- 58% Persian and its dialects. 26% of Turkish and its dialects. Kurdish 9% , 2% lurokyy 1% bolohskyy , 1% Arabic , Turkish 1% , 2% other languages.\nGovernment - chance upon - Muslim res publica of Iran ( iri ). System ( a form of lead ) - Muslim res publica.\nThe working capital city of capital of Iran . Administrative divisions - 24 provinces ( PAST ).\n-1 freedom in April 1979 , title Islamic Republic of Iran.\nConstitution - 2-3 declination 1979 , revised in 1989 to expand powers of the death chair and eliminate the constitution of Prime Minister.\nThe law - the Constitution legitimizes Islamic principles of management\nNational Day - April 1 - Proclamation of the Islamic Republic (1979'