Iran

Persia corresponds to modern Iran.

This source names Iran directly: "at different times been attributed to Iran, Iraq, Tunisia, Sicily and Spain; a Kairouan, Tunisia origin under Fatimid patronage is the attribution most often repeated in recent scholarship..."

This source names Iran directly: "Ta'ziyeh: Ritual and Drama in Iran, edited by Peter J."

This source names Iran directly: "and the high priesthood of Zoroastrian Iran, since holding a religious office is the common thread rather than any one tradition."

This source names Iran directly: "Human Dignity Trust's Iran country profile documents Iran's Islamic Penal Code, based on Twelver Ja'fari fiqh, the state's official school: liwat is defined as penetrative anal intercourse between..."

About 90 to 95% Twelver Shia Muslim, the historical heartland of Zoroastrianism before Islam.

This source names Iran directly: "million people, most concentrated in Iran, Pakistan, India and Iraq)."

This source names Iran directly: "was built in 1259 in northwestern Iran under the patronage of the Mongol Ilkhanid ruler Hulagu and directed by the Persian polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, who had persuaded Hulagu that his..."

This source names Iran directly: "Keddie was a historian of Iran and the modern Middle East, and this Yale University Press book is her standard scholarly history of modern Iran, covering the roots and consequences of the 1979..."

This source names Iran directly: "corpse exposure practice in Iran, and argues an ecological explanation grounded in the Himalayan plateau's scarce arable land, frozen ground and scarce fuel, tying the custom to the Tibetan Buddhist..."

This source names Iran directly: "of its ancestors' migration from Iran to Gujarat, composed with no securely recorded year and, by its own internal evidence, written centuries after the migration it describes, likely in the..."

This source names Iran directly: "rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, hosted on the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights website and read here in its 2025 edition, part of a mandate renewed annually and reporting..."

The empire rose in Fars and ruled Iran until the Arab conquest of the 640s, after which Zoroastrianism became a diminishing minority there.

This source names Iran directly: "Daryaee is a historian of ancient Iran, and this I.B."

This source names Iran directly: "heroic and historical reigns of Iran's kings from creation through the seventh century Arab conquest that ended Sasanian, and with it Zoroastrian, rule in Iran."

Took place in Yazd and its surrounding district in central Iran.

Took place in Tehran and Shiraz under the authority of the Iranian state.

This source names Iran directly: "then part of Persia and in present day Iran: when the young cleric Mulla Husayn came seeking a teacher, the Bab declared himself the bearer of new divine revelation, and Mulla Husayn became his..."

This source names Iran directly: "and community organization outside Iran rather than treating diaspora practice as a footnote to ancient Zoroastrianism."

This source names Iran directly: "article on Zoroastrianism in Iran, community-edited."

This source names Iran directly: "larger populations of India and Iran."

This source names Iran directly: "among Zoroastrian communities in Iran and India alongside the historical and textual record, following the tradition from ancient Persia through to the living Parsi and Iranian Zoroastrian..."

Qom lies within the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Shiraz was part of Persia in 1844; this event is anchored to Iran, the country that territory belongs to today.

Anchored to the modern country entity for Iran, matching how this atlas already anchors Zoroastrianism's Sassanid-era and Arab-conquest events to the same entity rather than to the historical region name.