This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the portal aboutIran. Content dispute discussions should take place on the appropriate article's talk page.
For discussions about general portal development, please see the WikiProject Portals talk page. If you are a regular maintainer of this portal, please add yourself to this list.
This page is within the scope of WikiProject Iran, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles related to Iran on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please join the project where you can contribute to the discussions and help with our open tasks.IranWikipedia:WikiProject IranTemplate:WikiProject IranIran articles
This page is within the scope of WikiProject Countries, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of countries on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CountriesWikipedia:WikiProject CountriesTemplate:WikiProject Countriescountry articles
This page is within the scope of WikiProject Asia, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Asia on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.AsiaWikipedia:WikiProject AsiaTemplate:WikiProject AsiaAsia articles
This page is within the scope of the WikiProject Western Asia, which collaborates on articles related to Western Asia. To participate, you can edit this article or visit the project page for more details.Western AsiaWikipedia:WikiProject Western AsiaTemplate:WikiProject Western AsiaWestern Asia articles
This page is a portal. Portals are within the scope of WikiProject Portals, a collaborative effort to improve portals on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PortalsWikipedia:WikiProject PortalsTemplate:WikiProject PortalsPortals articles
The following suggestions have been automatically generated as content that might be suitable for the portal, subject to review by a human editor. Please do not mindlessly copy items to the portal page without first checking that the suggestions are appropriate.
Recent Did you know? items
* ... that Canadian microbiologist Patricia Taylor helped American diplomats hide in her house in Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis?
* ... that Canadian microbiologist '''[[Patricia Taylor]]''' helped American diplomats hide in her house in Tehran during the [[Iran hostage crisis]]?
* ... that after Jamal Valizadeh was tortured in Iran, hid for six months, and escaped, he qualified to compete in the Olympics as a member of the Refugee Olympic Team?
* ... that after '''[[Jamal Valizadeh]]''' was tortured in Iran, hid for six months, and escaped, he qualified to compete in the Olympics as a member of the [[Refugee Olympic Team at the Olympics|Refugee Olympic Team]]?
* ... that the film Critical Zone was shot in secret by Ali Ahmadzadeh without permission from Iranian authorities?
* ... that the film '''''[[Critical Zone]]''''' was shot in secret by Ali Ahmadzadeh without permission from Iranian authorities?
* ... that Maryam Eslamdoust was the first Iranian-born woman to hold public office in Great Britain?
* ... that '''[[Maryam Eslamdoust]]''' was the first Iranian-born woman to hold public office in Great Britain?
* ... that '''[[Walter A. Groves]]''' received a job offer from [[Centre College]] by telegram around the same time that he was forced to leave his work as a [[missionary]] in Iran due to [[Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran|the country being invaded]]?
* ... that little has been known of the exact whereabouts of Iranian communist leader Ashraf Dehghani since she escaped prison in 1973?
* ... that little has been known of the exact whereabouts of Iranian communist leader '''[[Ashraf Dehghani]]''' since she escaped prison in 1973?
:A [[Norwegians|Norwegian]] man working as a guard at the [[Embassy of the United States, Oslo|United States Embassy]] in [[Oslo]] is arrested, on suspicion of [[espionage|spying]] for [[Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia)|Russia]] and [[Council for Intelligence Coordination|Iran]]. [https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/22/politics/norwegian-embassy-guard-accused-spy-russia-iran/index.html (CNN)]
:Five [[Basij]] officers are killed after a shooting by suspected [[Jaish ul-Adl]] gunmen in [[Saravan, Iran|Saravan]], [[Sistan and Baluchestan province]], [[Iran]]. [https://apnews.com/article/iran-basij-guard-militant-baluch-pakistan-border-0e06d1064aee776722edc89a0911ed19 (AP)]
:The [[United States Department of Justice|U.S. Justice Department]] announces that they have formally charged an [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] national who confessed to [[Contract killing|a murder-for-hire plan]] linked to the [[Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps]] targeting [[President-elect of the United States|president-elect]] [[Donald Trump]]. [https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/08/politics/doj-charges-three-iranian-plot-to-kill-donald-trump/index.html (CNN)]
:Twelve [[Jaish ul-Adl]] militants are killed, including the group's leader Salahuddin Farooqui, in a joint operation by [[Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces|Iran]] and [[Pakistan Armed Forces|Pakistan]]. [https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/505983/Terror-group-says-12-members-killed-in-joint-Iran-Pakistan-operation (''Tehran Times'')] [https://www.sedayebourse.ir/amp/508043/ (''Sedaye Bourse'')]
Featured, valued, and quality images (on Commons)
Open a link, then click the "Do it" button. If there are results, you can click the "Thumbnails" button to preview all the images.
The project was rebooted and completely overhauled on April 17th, 2018. Its goals are to revitalize the entire portal system, make building and maintaining portals easier, support the ongoing improvement of portals and the editors dedicated to this, and design the portals of the future.
As of May 2nd, 2018, membership is at 60 editors, and growing. You are welcome to join us.
