Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1979 – present

Iran

A state of 1979 – present — 47 years, still standing in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Persian Empire, Pahlavi dynasty and Pahlavi Iran. The atlas records 69 things within it — wars and battles 24 · unrest and atrocity 17 · famine and plague 1 · natural disasters 13 · treaties 1 · people 13. Its line of rulers holds 12 people.

  • Still standing: the span runs to the year of the build, 2026.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood
47 years
and still standing
Rulers
12
the President of Iran
Most ground
1.63 million km²
in 1987
Within it
69
recorded rows
Symbols
5
on record, with years
Map: Iran in 1987, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Iran in 1987, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 1.63 million km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Pahlavi Iran: 1925 – 1979Pahlavi dynasty: 1925 – 1979Persian Empire: 550 BCE – 1979Iran: 1979 – 2026

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Rulers

The line of President of Iran - the office this state names as its head of state.

Ruhollah Khomeini · 1979 – 1989 · died in office of natural causesAbolhassan Banisadr · 1980 – 1981 · left office aliveMohammad-Ali Rajai · 1981 – 1981 · killedAli Khamenei · 1981 – 1989 · killed, the article saysAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani · 1989 – 1997 · left office aliveMohammad Khatami · 1997 – 2005 · no death date to read the end againstMahmoud Ahmadinejad · 2005 – 2013 · no death date to read the end againstHassan Rouhani · 2013 – 2021 · no death date to read the end againstEbrahim Raisi · 2021 – 2024 · died by accidentMohammad Mokhber · 2024 – 2024 · no death date to read the end againstMasoud Pezeshkian · 2024 – … · still in officeMojtaba Khamenei · 2026 – … · still in office19801990200020102020
killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Ruhollah Khomeini1979 – 198910 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
Abolhassan Banisadr1980 – 19811 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Mohammad-Ali Rajai1981 – 1981under a yearkilledWikidata's manner of death
Ali Khamenei1981 – 19898 yearskilled, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani1989 – 19978 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Mohammad Khatami1997 – 20058 yearsending not on record
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad2005 – 20138 yearsending not on record
Hassan Rouhani2013 – 20218 yearsending not on record
Ebrahim Raisi2021 – 20243 yearsdied by accidentWikidata's manner of death
Mohammad Mokhber2024 – 2024under a yearending not on record
Masoud Pezeshkian2024 – in officein office since 2024still in office
Mojtaba Khamenei2026 – in officein office since 2026still in office

12 rulers, 12 with terms dated as terms, covering 1979 – 2026. Only 47 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 3 of 11 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 1.00, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

19801990200020102020

1.63 million km² in 1979, 1.63 million km² in 2024; at its largest 1.63 million km² in 1989. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

  • State flag of Iran (1964–1980)
    flag, undatedState flag of Iran (1964–1980) · Public domain
  • Lion and Sun
    coat of arms, undatedLion and Sun · Public domain
  • First Flag of I.R.Iran
    flag, 1979 – 1980First Flag of I.R.Iran · Public domain
  • Flag of Iran
    flag, from 1980Flag of Iran · Public domain
  • Emblem of Iran
    coat of arms, from 1980Emblem of Iran · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1900 – 1999: 31 recorded — 13 wars and battles, 3 risings, regime changes and massacres, 15 other19002000 – 2099: 38 recorded — 11 wars and battles, 14 risings, regime changes and massacres, 13 other2000

1900 – 199931 rows · 13 wars and battles · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres

and 23 more in the atlas.

2000 – 209938 rows · 11 wars and battles · 14 risings, regime changes and massacres

and 30 more in the atlas.

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

  • How long it stood47 years

    stood longer than 32% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held1,627,500 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 89% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per century5.0

    had more wars on record per century than 99% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • Rulers on record12

    has more rulers on record than 84% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 51 causes the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

Seabed Arms Control Treaty · Linked · 1971Seabed Arms Control TreatyTreaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons · Linked · 1968Treaty on the Non-Proliferation …Persian Empire · Linked · 550 BCE – 1979Persian EmpirePahlavi dynasty · Linked · 1925 – 1979Pahlavi dynastyPahlavi Iran · Linked · 1925 – 1979Pahlavi IranIranian Revolution · Linked · 1978 – 1979Iranian RevolutionIran · 1979 – 2026Iran500 BCE1500100015002000
linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q794 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.