iran has definitions from the fields of government,Islam,geography
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[ noun ] (government,Islam,geography) a theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia with sharia law; Iran was the core of the ancient empire that was known as Persia until 1935; rich in oil

Used in print

(Max F. Millikan and Donald L. M. Blackmer,...)

When we look_at countries like Iran , Iraq , Pakistan , and Burma , where substantial progress has been made in creating a minimum supply of modern_men and of social overhead capital , and where institutions of centralized government exist , we find a second category of countries with a different set of problems and hence different priorities for policy .

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