Iranian

noun

Ira·ni·an i-ˈrā-nē-ən

-ˈra-

-ˈrä-

ī-

: a native or inhabitant of Iran

: a branch of the Indo-European family of languages that includes Persian see Indo-European Languages Table

Iranian adjective

Examples of Iranian in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In July 2022, a Swedish court convicted Iranian Hamed Nouri, 61, of war crimes and murder over his role in mass killings in Iran in 1988 – the first time an Iranian was tried and convicted using universal jurisdiction. —

Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023 Over the past year, the Union Council of Iranian Students has said that hundreds of students faced disciplinary panels at their universities over the protests. —

Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Sep. 2023 Michael White had only recently arrived in a grim Iranian jail when a curious fellow prisoner, an English-speaking Iranian, approached him in the courtyard for a conversation. —

Eric Tucker, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023 In April, his death sentence was upheld by the Iranian Supreme Court, a decision condemned by the European Union and the United States. —

Alex Stambaugh, CNN, 26 Aug. 2023 The fate of the cargo aboard the Suez Rajan has become mired in the wider tensions between the U.S. and the Islamic Republic, even as Tehran and Washington work toward a trade of billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets in South Korea for the release of five Iranian-Americans held in Tehran. —

Jon Gambrell, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2023 The 2023 Karlovy Vary Film Festival is dedicating a decent chunk of its programming to Iranian cinema, a special retrospective section entitled ‘Another Birth: Iranian Cinema Here and Now’ showcasing nine films from the country made over the last four years. —

Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2023 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces that is deeply embedded in Iranian politics and currently designated by the U.S. as a terrorist group. —

Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 21 Apr. 2023 Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, Positive and Negative Perfectionism and Their Relationship With Anxiety and Depression in Iranian School Students 2. —

Siobhan Neela-Stock, SELF, 3 Nov. 2022 See More

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