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Iran is a mountainous, arid, and ethnically diverse country of southwestern Asia The heart of the Persian empire of antiquity, Iran has long played an important role in the region as an imperial power and as a factor in superpower rivalries Modern Iranian culture owes itself in part to a renaissance in the 8th century
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged Iranian officials to accept a nuclear agreement that would ban uranium enrichment, a key US demand in any future talks, Axios reported Saturday citing multiple sources
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The Iranian constitution guarantees freedom of worship to Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians, though they and followers of other faiths are often the subject of discrimination and repression The work week in Iran is Saturday through Thursday; however, many government offices and private companies are closed on Thursdays
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Most of the country is situated on the Iranian Plateau (a geological formation in Western and Central Asia), except for the coastal regions at the Caspian Sea and the Khuzestan Province in the southwest at the Persian Gulf
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Over 98 percent of Iranians supported an Islamic republic Iranian students seized U S embassy personnel on November 4, 1979, labeling the embassy a "den of spies" and accused its personnel of being CIA agents trying to overthrow the revolutionary government, as the CIA had done to Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953
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AP Top Stories July 13 Iran says it would resume nuclear talks with US if guaranteed no further attacks Why world leaders support Trump getting a Nobel Peace Prize Israel demolishes some of the buildings destroyed by Iranian missiles Yesterday July 11 July 10
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After the takeover of the U S embassy in Tehran in November 1979 by Iranian students aligned with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, more than 50 Americans were held hostage for 444 days
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The Iranian Revolution of 1979 placed Shi'a clergy in positions of political power; the Supreme Leader of Iran is a Shi'a ayatollah, or Islamic scholar and judge Iran's constitution recognizes Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism (Persia's main pre-Islamic faith) as protected belief systems
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