During the Achaemenid, especially at the time of Cyrus the Great, the Persian Imperial Flag was made of up of a kinglike image, rectangular in shape, split into four equivalent triangles. Each two of these four train triangles had the same colour.

The emblem of the Islamic Republic of Iranian since 1979 consists of four crescents and a sword. standing for the word Allah. It also resembles a tulip, symbol of martyrdom, designed by Hamid Nadimi the logo was approved by Imam Khomeini on May 9, 1980.

Faravahar still represents a national Iranian symbol that reflects both ancient and modern Iran.incorporates both "Sepanta Minu," the symbol of goodness and "Ankareh Minu," the symbol of wickedness, as a very basic of Persian dualism.

After Iranian Constitutional Revolution in 1906, Parliament designed a new flag and a new coat of arms. Lion and Sun motif is one of the better known emblems of Iran, and between 1576 and 1979 was an element in Iran's national flag too.

In 1932, seven years after the foundation of Pahlavi Dynasty the official emblem of the dynasty became Lion with Mount Damavand with a rising sun but the lions became very thin and somehow looked liked dragons from hell.

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