A few interesting links:

• Iranian Web Resources
  A neither exhaustive nor exclusive collection of links to home pages which have a distinctly Iranian bias, mainly because they have been produced by Iranians, but also those which are about Iran.

• Payvand
  An Iranian directory and information center.

• Persia Net
  A Web page dedicated to promoting the cultural heritage of Iran and its people. Includes directories,news,links and much more.

• The Bakhtiari:History and Archeology
  At this site you will find information and resources concerning the Bakhtiari land and people as well as Iranian and Persian cultural history and archaeology .

• The Persia/Iran Home Page
  A very impressive site.

• The Iranian
  An on-line colorful and up-to-date cross-cultural magazine.

• Radio Seday-e-Iran
  Persian radio broadcast from Santa Monica,Ca.

• Iranian Cultural and Information Center
  The purpose of this center is to distribute materials related to Iran and to Persian culture.

• Persia/Iran Timetable
  From the Medes (728 B.C) to the present day.Every dynasty and ruler.

• Persepolis
  The University of Chicago has this web site about the first archaeological expedition of Persepolis in 1933 by the famous Dr. Ernst Herzfeld, Field Director of the Persepolis Expedition at the university's Oriental Institute.

• Iranbooks
  An on-line bookstore.Persian and English books about Iran.

• Cinema 96
  A magazine about film and cinema, with a focus on Iranian cinema.

• Shahnameh
  Ferdowsi's epic masterpiece-all 18 chapters.English translation.

• Khayyam's Robaiyyate
  Hakim Omar Khayyam's Robaiyyate .Translated into English in 1859 by Edward FitzGerald.

• The Gulistan of Saadi
  Sheikh Muslih-uddin Saadi Shirazi's composition of stories and maxims.English translation.

• Persian Outpost
  An information source addressing the needs of English speakers involved with Iranian culture and Persian traditions.

• Isfahan Home Page
  Islamic architecture in Isfahan.Plus a number of interesting links.

• Tehran NET
  An on-line magazine (In Persian)

My CAT offers you a list of Iranian sites on the NET

• Iranian (anything goes, if you want to be flamed go there) newsgroup news:soc.culture.iranian

• Iran: The country of nobles, Saitama University, Japan, extensive databank: http://www.cit.ics.saitama-u.ac.jp/hobbies/iran/farsi.html

• Iran Net electrnic bulletin board: http://irannet.com/

• Iran On Line, directory: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~naghsh/iran.html

• Netiran, extensive databank (under construction): http://www.netiran.com

• Soroush, live-chat BBS, games...
  http://www.soroush.com/

• Iran Business Resources, from Tehran: http://www.neda.net/ibr/

• Iranian yellow pages, northern california: http://www.irantelaat.com/

• Dena Film, distributors in Los Angeles: http://www.denafilms.com/

• Film International, Engslish quarterly from Tehran: http://gpg.com/film/

• Focus on Iran,

  a well informed newsletter in English: http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~fsheikhb/focus-on-iran.html

• Gozaresh (Report), English magazine from Tehran (last issue April 1995?): http://gpg.com/gozaresh/

• Hamshahri (Fellow Citizen), Persian daily from Tehran: http://gpg.com/hamshahri/

• Iran Alumni Newsletter (under construction): http://www.neda.com:80/IranAlumni/Newsletter/

• Iran Business Digest, English newsletter from Tehran: http://www.neda.net/ibd/

• "Iran-e Man" (My Iran) TV production co. in Portalnd, Oregon: http://www.teleport.com/~iraneman/

• Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Shiraz University (not up to date?): ftp://ftp.chem.eng.usyd.edu.au/dropbox/staff/mahmood/ijst.htm

• Iranshahr, bi-weekly Persian news clippings service: http://iranshahr.com/

• Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA): http://netiran.com/news/irnafile.html

• Jahan-e Eghtesad (Economy World), Tehran English magazine (last issue July 95?): http://gpg.com/je/

• Jahan-e Emrouz (Today's World), print newsletter published in Sweden: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Nima_Azad/

• Kar (Work), Iranian People's Fedaian Organization, Majority faction: http://193.80.248.16/iran.kar.fadai.aksariyat/

• Mehregan, political, cultural periodical in Persian. U.S.-based: http://www.ig-dc.com/mehregan

• Ofogh (Horizon), Computer journal from Tehran, in English (last issue 1994?): http://www.cs.su.oz.au/~rasool/ofogh.html

• Persian journals and popular press at University of Chicago library: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/SourcesBySubject/MiddleEast/Persian_Jour nals.html

• Peik (Message), computer industry newsletter from Tehran, in English: http://gpg.com/homePages/peik/index.html

• Radio Japan Persian Service homepage: http://www.nhk.or.jp/rjnet/rj8/staff/staff-Pr/index.html

• Shahr-e Farang, Persian and English (under construction): http://osf1.gmu.edu/~araoufin/

• Sportestan, Iranian sports newsletter, databank: http://www.sportestan.com

• Tehran Times: http://netiran.com/news/ttimes.html

• Voice of America Persian Service, daily news broadcasts on-line: http://gpg.com/radio/index.html

WOMEN

• Iranian women's homepage: http://www.zan.org/

SPORTS

• Iranian sports homepage, Get Your Tan At Sportestan where I ski: http://www.sportestan.com

• Amnesty International's report on Iran, 1995: http://www.io.org/amnesty/Mideast95/130295.MDE.txt

• Iranian Human Rights Working Gourp:
  
  • http://ics.ascn3.uakron.edu/public/IHRWGNEW.HTML
    
  • http://gpg.com/MERC/org/ihrwg/ihrwg.html
    
  • http://www.algonet.se/~farhad/ihrwg
    

• Universal Human Right Declaration, in Persian: http://www.algonet.se/~farhad/www/uhrd_f.htm

POLITICAL / GOVERNMENT

• Communist Party of Iran & Komala (Kurdish branch): http://www.pi.se/webpage/communist.party.of.iran/

• Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in English: http://www.algonet.se/~farhad/const/const.htm

• The Constitutionalist Movement of Iran - CMI: http://www.irancmi.org/
  http://www.iminet.com/olympic/index.html

• Democracy Network of Iran: http://www.algonet.se/%7Efarhad/dni/index.htm

• Foundation for Democracy in Iran, Washington-based: http://www.iran.org/news/

• Iran, CIA's unclassified general report: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/95fact/ir.html

• Iranian embassy in Armenia: ftp://ftp.chem.eng.usyd.edu.au/dropbox/staff/mahmood/ijst.htm

• Iranian embassy in Canada: http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/freeport/government/embassies/mid.east/iran/menu

• Iranian Interests Section, U.S.: http://tehran.stanford.edu/Information/address.html

• Iranian People's Fedaian, Majority faction: http://193.80.248.16/iran.kar.fadai.aksariyat/

• Mojahedin Khalq Organization: http://www.iran-e-azad.org/farsi/index.html

• National Movement of Iranian Resistance, founded by Dr. Bakhtiar: http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/impact/namir/namirm.html

• U.S. government documents related to Iran, at PersiaNet: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~sebrahi/PN/gov.html

RELIGIOUS / ETHNIC

• Armenian Web sites: http://server.berkeley.edu/ASA/links.html

• Avesta, main Zoroastrian homepage: http://www.kasson.cfa.org/~jpeterso/avesta.html

• Baha'i Resources on the Internet: http://www.bcca.org/srb/resources.html

• Educating Mankind About Religion Islam (EMARI): http://www.umd.umich.edu/~emari/index1.html

• Islamic links: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~naghsh/iran.html

• Islamic/personal homepage: http://www.umd.umich.edu/~hemari/index1.html

• Karbala homepage, in Persian: http://www.aps.uoguelph.ca/~ardeshir/karbala/

• Kurdish homepage: http://neon.mems.cmu.edu/ozturk/kurd.html

• Prayer instructions for Muslims: http://www.umd.umich.edu/~emari/salat.html

• Dr. Ali Shariati's homepage, in English: http://www.wco.com/~altaf/shariati.html

• World of Traditional Zoroastrianism: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~zarathus/newten33.html

• Zoroastrian group at Stanford University: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/group/zoroastrians

ACADEMIC / STUDENT GROUPS

• Alborz High School alumni, (under construction): http://www.instantweb.com/a/alborz/

• Association for Persian Logic, Language and Computing, U. Edinburgh: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~apl2c/home.html

• Center for Near Eastern Studies, U. of California, Los Angeles: http://www.isop.sscnet.ucla.edu/nec/default.htm

• Computer Society of Iran: http://www.neda.com:80/IranAlumni/csi.html

• Ghassed (Messenger), Iranian Postgraduste Students in Adelaide, Australia: http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/ghased.html

• Institute for the Studies in Theoretical Physics & Mathematics (IPM), Tehran: gopher://physics.ipm.ac.ir:aria.nic.ir/ http://aria.nic.ir/

• Iran Alumni Club, based in U.S.: http://www.neda.com:80/IranAlumni/

• Iranian Academic Association, in U.S.: http://www.iranet.com/

• Iranian Chemists Association of the American Chemical Society: http://sage.cc.purdue.edu/~mohahmad/

• Iranian Scholars Scientific Information Network: http://ux1.cso.uiuc.edu:80/~manssour/

• Iranian Students at University of Newcastle (UK): http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~n270556/Iran-Payk1.html

• Universities in Iran: http://www.neda.com:80/IranAlumni/iranuni.html

• University of Virginia's Persian Club: http://minerva.acc.Virginia.EDU:80/~pars/

ART

• Kayvan Behpour's portraits of Iran: http://www.iranian.com/May96/Arts/Behpour.html

• Classical Persian miniatures: http://tehran.stanford.edu/Images/Miniature/miniature.html

• F. Scott Hess, modern paintings of Iran: http://www.iranian.com/Jan96/Arts/SomberParadise.html

• Iranian Carpet Museum (very large image sizes): http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~n270556/car/carindex.html

• Nosrat Karimi's statuettes: http://www.iranian.com/May96/Arts/Karimi.html

• Farah Osouli, modern miniatures: http://www.iranian.com/Sep95/Farah.html

• Ali Rahbar's Turkman Sahra: http://iranian.com/Mar96/Arts/TurkmanSahra.html

• Mohsen Rastani, portraits from southern Iran: http://iranian.com/Jan96/Arts/SouthernDelight.html

• Gizella & Samira Sinai, Hungarian-Iranian artists: http://www.iranian.com/Nov95/MotherDaughter.html

• Twenty paintings by 20 Iranian women: http://iranian.com/Mar96/Arts/AliveKicking.html

MUSIC

• Iranian music sites:
  • http://www.iranian.com/Mar96/Web/Music.html
    
  • http://gpg.com/radio/index.html
    
  • http://www.kereshmeh.com/
    
  • http://www.xdot25.com/
    
  • http://www.galcit.caltech.edu/~moh/music/music.html
    

• Sheila Bazleh: http://www.iranian.com/Jan96/Arts/PersianGarden.html

• Googoosh: http://www.iranian.com/May96/Arts/GoogooshOnline.html

• Persian Music: http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/~homan/mark/pmusic/

• Sandy: http://www.iranian.com/May96/Arts/Sandy_Fun.html

• Shahin & Sepehr: http://www.iranian.com/May96/Arts/S_S.html

POETRY

• Rumi, in English: http://www.ccnet.com/~rudra/rumi/rumi.htm

• Rumi's Rubaiyat, in Persian: http://www.iranian.com/May96/Arts/Golchin1.html

BOOK & MUSIC PUBLISHERS

• Asia Publishing: http://www.why.net/home/sataie/asia1-19.htm

• Gitashenasi, Iranian map makers: http://neda.net/gita/

• Global Publishing Group, Internet publisher: http://gpg.com/

• Karang Publishers: http://www.neda.net/karang/

• Kereshmeh Records: http://www.kereshmeh.com/

• Mage Publishers: http://www.mage.com/

• Mazda Publications: http://www.mazdapub.com/

• Nakisa Publishing, Persian music books: http://www.nakisa.com/

• Negar Publishers: http://www.neda.net/negar/

• Rare Persian books for sale: http://www.hotlinks.com/galleries/hourian/book_list.html

• Sanaye Farhangi Iran (SAFIR), publishers (under construction): http://www.neda.net/safir/

• XDot-25 Records: http://www.xdot25.com/

GEOGRAPHY

• Iran map at Iranian Culture and Information Center: http://tehran.stanford.edu/imagemap/imagemap.html

• Iranian provinces. Facts and figures: http://www.cwi.nl/~keesh/Iran/geography.html

• Netiran: http://netiran.com/general/geography.html

TRAVEL

• IranTravel: http://www.irantravel.com

• Shiraz: http://www.uq.oz.au/~e2anader/shiraz.html

MISCELANEOUS

• Are you eligible for military service EXEMPTION?: http://tehran.stanford.edu/Information/exempt.html

• Information on seminars in Iran: http://139.141.4.160/payam/seminars.htm http://tehran.stanford.edu/Conferences/conf.html

• Iranian events list: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~sebrahi/PN/cur.html

• Languages of Iran: http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/countries/Iran.html

• Tehran weather, from "USA Today": http://www.usatoday.com/weather/basemaps/nw407540.html

Our Gratitude to JJ at "The Iranian" for compiling this list

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