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Historically and culturally speaking, the Lion and the Sun have existed as potent mythological symbols of Iran for thousands of years. While true that the background colors of Iranian flags have varied across the centuries, the...


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Posted on Apr 16th, 2012 with tags europe, Flag, IMO, Implementation, meeting, News by topic, State, Sub-Committee, UK. UK - Meeting of IMO's Sub-Committee on Flag State Implementation. Together with a number of other countries,...
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Sometimes a sword — "Shamsheer" — is also present, at times in the lion's forepaw. In fact, it wasn't until the 1979 revolution that the lion finally disappeared from the Iranian flag. In ancient India, the Asiatic lion appears on...
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