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| - CAPITAL: Tehran - POPULATION, : 63,000,000 - TOTAL AREA: 1,648,000 sq km (636,296 sq mi) |
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| - EXECUTIVE BRANCH: cleric (faqih), president, Council of Ministers | |
| - INDUSTRIES: petroleum, petrochemicals, textiles, cement and
other building materials, food processing (particularly sugar refining and vegetable oil
production), metal fabricating (steel and copper) |
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| - TIME: 8 1/2 hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Standard Time, and 3 1/2 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. | |
