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Picture of Miniature painting by Mohammad Tajvidi on the cover of the Divan of Hafez ("Hafez's Anthology"), published 1969.
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Picture of The Cyrus Cylinder was translated into all official U.N. languages in 1971. U.N. chief awarded Cyrus cylinder The Iranian.com. Retrieved Januay 12
[[Image:CyrusCylinder.jpg|right|thumb|170px|The Cyrus Cylinder was translated into all official U.N. languages in 1971. U.N. chief awarded Cyrus cylinder The Iranian.com. Retrieved Januay 12 ]]

Iranian culture has long been a predominant culture of the Middle East and Central Asia, with Persian considered the language of intellectuals during much of the second millennium CE, and the language of religion and the populace before that.
The Iranian New Year (Norouz) is celebrated on March 21 from Spain in the west to Kazakhstan in the east. It is celebrated as the first day of spring. Norouz was nominated as one of UNESCO's Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2004. "culture" their cultural influence extending far beyond the empire's territorial borders, reaching as far as Western Europe, 1 Africa, [http://www.transoxiana.com.ar/0104/sasanians.html China and India Sarfaraz and also playing a prominent role in the formation of both European and Asiatic medieval art. [http://www.artarena.force9.co.uk/sass2.htm This influence carried forward to the Islamic world. The dynasty's unique and aristocratic culture transformed the Islamic conquest and destruction of Iran into a Persian Renaissance. 1 Most of what later became knows as Islamic learning, including philology, astronomy, literature, history, geography, jurisprudence, philosophy, medicine, architecture, art and the sciences were taken from the Sassanid Persians in to the broader Muslim world. _ _1

The Cyrus Cylinder remains "the world's oldest human rights declaration" [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/documentary_archive/6034541.stm , predating the Magna Carta by one millennium [[Abbas , and women today compose more than half of the incoming classes for universities around the country and increasingly continue to play pivotal roles in society. These women are the inheritors of a heritage in which women commanded armies, led administrations, ruled empires, ruled kingdoms, supported the arts, became heroes, and even served as deities in ancient beliefs. The state also actively monitors the Internet, which has become enormously popular among the Iranian youth. Iran is now the world's fourth largest country of bloggers. [http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/weblogs/story/0



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