BACKGROUND INFORMATION
22 Bahman home page
Web page devoted to articles, speeches and poems about the Islamic Revolution in Iran maintained by
Ali Asgary. Includes the Constitution of the Islamic Republic.
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~n270556/bahman/bahman.html (Persian version)
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~n270556/bahman/bahmaneng.html (English version)
Checked 05-March-96 01:52:05.
CERN/ANU - Asian Studies - Iran/Asian Studies - Iran
This is the World Wide Web's Virtual Library page on Iran. It maintains an extremely comprehensive
list or Iranian-related resources which is updated regularly by Dr T.Matthew Ciolek.
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLAsian/Iran.html
Checked 05-March-96 12:30:42.
Background Information
Behzad Hemmaty and Hossein Madani have gathered together a useful summary of background
information on Iran, including a useful map of the country. Here you can find a digest of the statistics
from the CIA world fact book, as well as their own observations. The Information on Iran can be
obtained from either of these two URL's; it's not clear who the real author is!
http://www.his.se/ida/~sp2aliba/persia.html
http://www-und.ida.liu.se/~d92larma/persia.html
Checked Wednesday, May 1, 1996 at 02:07 PM.
Business Information
Neda Rayaneh have assembled a lot of useful commercial information on this site. As the principal
providers of commercial internet services within Iran at the moment they are well placed to maintain
the quality of this information. Two sites are maintained. Iran Business Digest focuses on business and commercial news in Iran, while Iran Business Resources contains a great deal of background information.
http://www.neda.net/ibd/ Iran Business Digest
http://www.neda.net/ibd/currency.html Exchange Rates
http://www.neda.net/ibd/ Iran Business Resources
Checked Thursday, May 16, 1996 at 09:13 AM.
Conferences and Seminars in Iran
A comprehensive and regularly updated list of forthcoming conferences and seminars is maintained at
"Payam" in the University of Kuwait. Be patient, the service from Kuwait can be a little slow.
http://139.141.4.160/payam/seminars.htm
Checked 05-March-96 12:54:49
Constitutional Information
This site provides a comprehensive background to the present political situation in Iran in English
and should be a first stop for those in Europe needing to access detailed and up-to date infor-
mation about political and constitutional matters in the country.
http://www.uni-hamburg.de/law/ir__indx.html
Checked Thursday, May 2, 1996 at 11:58 AM.
Ethnological Information
Imperial College's Ethnological database provides details of language and tribal constituents, as
well as some other information about the country. Some of the Information is now a little dated.
http://www-ala.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rap/Ethnologue/eth.cgi/Iran/
Checked Thursday, May 2, 1996 at 12:40 PM.
Roxana & Farzin Mokhtarian's Recipes
This is an authoritative collection of traditional recipes.
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/F.Mokhtarian/recipes/index.html
Checked Thursday, May 2, 1996 at 12:40 PM.
Iran Cultural Information Center at Stanford University
This is a seminal source for Iranian Culture on the Internet in the West. Extensive use is made of
graphics and you may want to turn these off if you have a slow link. Features include an Imagemap
enabling you to tour the country and see pictures of various locations, more recipes, Details of forthcoming conferences, Word-Processors and Calendars amongst other things.
http://tehran.stanford.edu/ - Main Page
Checked 05-March-96 02:13:44.
Iranian Gopher Service in Japan
This gopher service offers access to a range of predominantly textual resources concerned with the
Islamic Republic of Iran.
gopher://gopher.fedu.uec.ac.jp/11/.FEDUWIS/.I.R.Iran
Checked 07-March-96 07:27:41
Iranian Gopher Service in Tehran
The Iranian Gopher Service is Maintained at the Institute of Physicas and Maths at Sharifi University
in Tehran. When last checked it returned no data.
gopher://aria.nic.ir/
Checked 06-March-96 10:41:27.
Iranian History
This site provides a timetable of rulers and dynasties that ruled over Iran. The author has tried to name
all rulers of Iran from the period of the Medes to the present (1989). The dates mentioned are the
period that the person in question ruled over (some part of ) Iran. Therefore you will also find different
persons during the same time period. They probably ruled over different parts or were rival pretenders
to the throne..
http://www.cwi.nl/~keesh/Iran/dynasties.html
Checked 06-March-96 02:40:10.
IRANET - Iran's WWW Service
This is Iran's official presence on the Web. It is mainly made up of links to the gopher servers. This is a
slow link, so be patient.
http://www.nic.ir/
IRANTELAAT
Irantelaat (literally "information about Iran).is a collection of pointers to Iranian items on the Web. It
contains a Calendar of Events, information about Iranian Business Opportunities, a Bazaar and News.
The pages are mounted by Pezhvak corporation who claim to be "The leading provider of Information
and business advertising for the Farsi speaking communities.".
http://www.irantelaat.com/
Checked 12-March-96 04:41:53.
Middle Eastern Resource Centre
Provides a comprehensive list of pointers to cultural and business information concerning the middle
East and particularly Iran.
http://gpg.com/MERC/merc.html
Checked 06-March-96 12:02:57.
NSRC - Iran
The Network Startup Resource Center maintains a comprehensive and reasonably up-to-date set of pages
concerned with Internet connectivity with Iran including lists of known domain names and local ISPs.
http://www.nsrc.org/MIDEAST/IR/country.html
Checked Monday, April 15, 1996 at 12:28 PM.
PersiaNet
An extraordinarily comprehensive list of links to all manner of things Iranian. If you're viewing this page
from America, you might just as well go to this link straight away. I can't imaging that there's anything
on my page that isn't on this encyclopaediac collection!
http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~sebrahi/PN/PNbak2.html
Checked Wednesday, May 1, 1996 at 04:42 PM.
Persian Calendar
Iran uses a calendar based on the solar year which was updated by Omar Khayam in the 12th century.
There is a useful discussion of
this by Dr. Hossein Bagherzadeh Rafsanjani which forms a prelude to the distribution for the source
code for a converter, written by Ali Moayedian. The URL below points to two implementations which run
on DOS based machines.
http://tehran.stanford.edu/Iran_Lib/Calendar/calendar.html
Checked Wednesday, May 1, 1996 at 04:42 PM.
Zohreh Torabian's Home Page
Zohreh Torabian is a student at CSULB and has assembled a home page on Iran with pointers to pages on
Art, Communication, Defence, the Economy, Family Planning, Geography, Government,
History, People and Tourism.
http://www.engr.csulb.edu/~torabian/index.html
Checked 05-March-96 04:01:32.
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