Iran

Iran, officially the Imperial State of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country in the Middle East.

## History

The Persian Empire started in 671 BC, and survives to the present day, though being conquered a few times, and also being taken by a coup and turned to a Republic for the only time in it's history from 1979-1987, but nonetheless, it is the current longest reigning empire, lasting for thousands of years. Lasting through many dynasties, The Medians, the Teispids, the Achaemenids, being conquered by the Macedonians from 336 BC to 129 BC, Persis, Parthians, Sasanians, and the Dabuyids, these all comprise pre-islamic Persia, from 671 BC-651. The caliphates all occupied Persia from 651-1258. (Briefly by the Mongols from 1220-1256), a few other non-Iranian empires occupied Iran as well until 1502, which the Safavids ruled Persia, than the Afsharids, followed by Zands, Qajars, and finally, the currently reigning Pahlavi dynasty. However, in 1979, Ruhollah Khomeini (Being supplied by Aldeus Slait) performed a coup and turned Persia from a paradise of tradition and cultures to a Terroristic Islamic Theocracy. However, 9 years later, The Ottoman Empire invaded Khomeini's Iran, and restored the Pahlavis into Iran. Since than, Iran has been a bastion of Secularism, and Democratic Monarchism.

### Monarchs

1. Deioces
2. Phraortes
3. Cyaxares
4. Teispes
5. Cyrus I
6. Cambyses I
7. Cyrus II
8. Cambyses II
9. Bardiya
10. Darius I
11. Xerxes I
12. Artaxerxes I
13. Xerxes II
14. Darius II
15. Artaxerxes II
16. Artaxerxes III
17. Artaxerxes IV
18. Darius III
19. Artaxerxes V (last before Greek Conquest)
20. Darayan I
21. Wadfradad I
22. Darev I
23. Ardakhshir I
24. Vahshir I
25. Pakor I
26. Pakor II
27. Nambed
28. Napad
29. Vadfradad II
30. Manchihr I
31. Ardashir I
32. Manchihr II
33. Pakor III
34. Manchihr III
35. Manchihr IV
36. Vahshir II
37. Shapur
38. Ardashir II
39. Tiridates I
40. Artabanus I
41. Phriapatius
42. Phraates I
43. Mithridates I
44. Phraates II
45. Artabanus II
46. Vologases
47. Artabanus
48. Mithridates II
49. Gotarzes I
50. Artabanus
51. Mithridates
52. Orodes I
53. Sanatruces
54. Vardanes
55. Phraates III
56. *Son of Phraates III, nothing is known about him, not even his name*
57. Mithridates III
58. Orodes II
59. Pacorus I
60. Phraates IV
61. Tiridates II
62. Mithridates
63. Musa
64. Phraates V
65. Orodes III
66. Vonones I
67. Artabanus III
68. Tiridates III
69. Cinnamus
70. Gotarzes II
71. Vardanes I
72. Vonones II
73. Mithridates
74. Vologases I
75. Vardanes II
76. Vologases II
77. Pacorus II
78. Artabanus IV
79. Osroes I
80. Vologases III
81. Parthamaspates
82. Mithridates IV
83. Vologases IV
84. Vologases V
85. Osroes II
86. Vologases VI
87. Artabanus V
88. Tiridates IV
89. Ardashir II
90. Shapur I
91. Hormizd I
92. Bahram I
93. Bahram II
94. Bahram III
95. Nerseh I
96. Hormizd II
97. Adhur Narseh
98. Shapur II
99. Ardashir III
100. Shapur III
101. Bahram IV
102. Yazdegerd I
103. Bahram V
104. Yazdegerd II
105. Hormizd III
106. Peroz I
107. Balash
108. Kavadh I
109. Djamasp
110. Khosrau I
111. Hormizd IV
112. Khosrau II
113. Bahram VI
114. Vistahm
115. Kavadh II
116. Ardashir III
117. Shahrbaraz
118. Khosrau III
119. Borandukht
120. Shapur-i Shahrvaraz
121. Peroz II
122. Azarmidokht
123. Khosrau VI
124. Farrokh Hormizd
125. Hormizd VI
126. Yazdegerd III (last before Arab conquest)
127. Ismail I
128. Tahmasp I
129. Ismail II
130. Mohammad I
131. Abbas I
132. Safi
133. Abbas II
134. Suleiman I
135. Sultan Huseyn
136. Tahmasp II
137. Abbas III
138. Nader Shah
139. Adil Shah
140. Ebrahim Afshar
141. Shahrukh Afshar
142. Suleiman II
143. Karim
144. Mohammad Ali
145. Abol-Fath
146. Zaki
147. Sadeq
148. Ali-Morad
149. Jafar
150. Sayed
151. Loft Ali
152. Agha
153. Fath-Ali
154. Mohammad II
155. Naser Al-Din
156. Muzaffar Ad-Din
157. Mohammad Ali II
158. Ahmad
159. Reza Pahlavi
160. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
161. Reza II

### Supreme Leaders

1. Ruhollah Khomeini
2. Ali Khomeini