March 22, 2005
What
other year are we in?
The official Iranian year (1384) is according to
the Islamic solar calendar.
Add 1180 years and you get (2564)
the year based on the Shahanshahi calendar introduced by Mohammad
Reza
Shah
Pahlavi
in 1976 in recognition of Iran's pre-Islamic past.
The royal calendar was
scrapped
during the 1978-79 revolution to placate
the clergy who wanted to reinstate the Islamic calendar.
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