Flags

Hi Marcus

This time I would like to write something about the flag and reply to the questions of the text. All people in the world are proudding to their country’s flag as it can be a symbol of history, economy, policy, interests, favorites etc. may be too many solders martyred to defend their country against enemies attract and keep the flag to fly.

1) As I know Iran’s flag format since 559 BCE to 29/July/1980 have been changed 22 times, in the 12 of them a lion’s picture with a sword in the right hand and sun on the back was in the centre of flag but now it has been changed to the God name in Arabic letter. Our flag has three parallel color bands, the Green on the top is symbol of freshness, growth and somebody said Islam, the White in the middle means peaceful and honesty and the Red on the bottom is symbol of brave and martyr. I think lion, sword and sun in the old Iran’s flag were proved of the three colors of the flag:

2) I like my country’s flag same as billion people in the world, but I think previous flag was more interesting and pure Persian as there was no Arabic letter and no regional symbol which has been imitated from our neighbor Islamic countries, every body knows meaning of the lion symbol that was on the Iran flag for centuries and also self-explanatory three colors (green, white and red)!


I wish one day all people live together friendly without any borderline, ware and under a common flag!

Your truly

Farzad