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Embassy Of The State Of Palestine In Iran
The Embassy of the State of Palestine in Iran ( ar, سفارة دولة فلسطين لدى إيران; fa, سفارت فلسطین در تهران) is the diplomatic mission of the Palestine to Iran, located in Palestine Street in Tehran. This mission was initially managed by the Palestine Liberation Organization and currently by the State of Palestine. History From 1948 to 1979, this diplomatic mission was known as the Embassy of the State of Israel in Tehran ( he, שגרירות מדינת ישראל טהראן; ar, سفارة دولة اسرائيل طهران) when Iran and Israel had diplomatic relations until the Iranian Revolution. The Palestine Liberation Organization backed the 1979 revolution, and several days after the revolution, PLO chief Yasser Arafat led a Palestinian delegation to Iran. The Palestinian delegates were publicly welcomed, and symbolically handed the keys to the former Israeli embassy in Tehran, which later became a Palestinian embassy. Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan to the north, by Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east, and by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. It covers an area of , making it the 17th-largest country. Iran has a population of 86 million, making it the 17th-most populous country in the world, and the second-largest in the Middle East. Its largest cities, in descending order, are the capital Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Karaj, Shiraz, and Tabriz. The country is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BC. It was first unified by the Medes, an ancient Iranian people, in the seventh century BC, and reached its territorial height in the sixth century BC, when Cyrus the Great fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |