ocr: IRAN 4 4 Ln of Iran Elburz Mountains Official Name: Islamic Republic Capital: Tehran Population: 61.6 million Currency: Iranian rial Official Language: Farsi AZENP IRAN IS SURROUNDED BY POWERFUL AZERB. - Afghanistan neighbors, with to the republics east, of the CASPIAN TURMENITA former Soviet Union to the north, SEA and Pakistan Tabriz and Iraq and Turkey to the west. The Mashhad south: faces the Persian Gulf and the TEHRAN Gulf of Oman. Since 1979, when a Oom revolutionledi by Ayatollah Khomeini Bakhtaran deposed the Shah, Iran has become the Esfahan PLATEAU world's) larges st theocracy and t ...
