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Many flags (or in some cases insignia) were reported in January 2010 at http://www.yjcphotos.ir/photos/Default.aspx. The links to the individual photos appear all to have been changed (or photos removed). The reader is invited to review the website.
image located by Esteban Rivera,
15 September 2012
Full image:
http://www.yjcphotos.ir/photos/Images/large/File_197_3545.jpg
Picture taken on 1389-10-25 (Persian calendar)
image located by Esteban Rivera,
15 September 2012
Full image:
http://www.yjcphotos.ir/photos/Images/large/File_197_3545.jpg
Picture taken on 1389-11-10 (Persian calendar)
images located by Esteban Rivera,
15 October 2012
Today I spotted a very unusual Iranian (possibly) government-related flag. It is
a horizontal plain black background flat with the emblem in the middle in white.
The flag can be seen here:
http://www.mop.ir/Portal/Picture/ShowPicture.aspx?Width=450&Height=450&ID=d165149f-35a3-46cb-9035-619a9408efe0
(picture on the left) and
http://www.mop.ir/Portal/Picture/ShowPicture.aspx?Width=450&Height=450&ID=de8c0464-4c7a-4754-a044-c51292b7833a
(picture on the left)
Source:
http://www.mop.ir, Picture taken on 1391/7/18 (Persian calendar)
Esteban Rivera, 15 October 2012
It looks to me as though the background is not quite plain, but there might be
the national flag as a small canton. Since this is the Ministry of Petroleum
website, and (according to machine translation) the event involved the Deputy
Oil Minister for Research and Technology), I wonder whether it's the
ministry flag reported separately, although it doesn't
seem particularly likely that the black is actually blue, or that there is text
hidden in the folds.
Jonathan Dixon, 16 October 2012
After taking a sharper look, you're right in the sense that this flag may have
an Iranian flag in the canton, as all Ministerial flags I have encountered so
far. Evidence of this can be seen here:
http://www.mop.ir/Portal/Picture/ShowPicture.aspx?Width=450&Height=450&ID=d165149f-35a3-46cb-9035-619a9408efe0
Now, using an online translator, the text that comes up is this:
"Workshop between Systems Experts, the Research Automatic Integrated System and
the Industry Technology (CPMIS) with the Vice Minister of Petroleum Reza
Moghadam"
Now, doing further research, the same news of this workshop is
reported also in the website of the Ministry of Petroleum (
http://www.mop.ir/Portal/Home/ShowPage.aspx?Object=NEWS&ID=ea60170e-8265-4cb8-97a2-a892aad2bb6b&LayoutID=a720c1ea-c0e3-4bcc-8323-91bcbb553fe7&CategoryID=b37c877a-1ec5-4ae5-90a0-a36ed666ca3c),
mentioning the Information Center of the Ministry of Petroleum and its speaker
Reza Moghadam as the source of the news. However, again, I doubt this is the
Ministry of Petroleum flag, based on the actual flag
reported by me yesterday, since these two flags (this unknown flag and the
Ministry of Petroleum flag) do not seem to be the same, at least judging from a
visual point of view. There's one interesting thing to point out, and that is,
that Iran's central emblem is featured in official flags (Ministerial-ranking
flags) in those cases in which the entity does not have its own flag or arms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_Iran).
So the status is still unidentified for this flag but thanks for the remarks.
Esteban Rivera, 16 October 2012
Source:
http://www.facebook.com
During the presentation of the Zolfaghar (also Zulfiqar) Iran MBT (Main
Battle Tank), an Iranian military flag can be seen on top of this prototype. The
flag on a white horizontal background, shows a black Zulfiqar "bifurcated" sword
of Ali (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dhulfiqar.svg) with a green
inscription I cannot understand.
The picture can be seen here:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151254093211681&set=o.117513008295394&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf
Esteban Rivera, 11 February 2013
I have been told that the green sentence reads: "There is no braver leader
like Ali and no Sword like Zulfiqar". In Iran, the Shiite-Muslim majority
believe that the Muslim Prophet Mohammed bestowed his successorship to Imam Ali,
by Muhammed giving his Zulfiqar sword to Ali. Hence, like the praiseworthy
Zulfiqar sword, Iran's Zulfiqar main-battle tank is the best, too.
Bill
Garrison, 13 April 2016
image located by Esteban Rivera,
30 November 2014
I found this Iranian UFE from this picture (http://www.yjcphotos.ir/photos/ImageDesc.aspx?ImageID=199020)
taken on 1393-7-9 (Persian calendar) which belongs to this picture gallery (http://www.yjcphotos.ir/photos/ImageGroup.aspx?GroupID=10671).
When I translate it, the following title comes: "World Assembly of Clerks
Roqiyeh (R) Bint Al Hussein" (does anybody know if it's indeed a flag and what
it stands for?)
Esteban Rivera, 30 November 2014
image located by Esteban Rivera,
30 November 2014
Can anybody identify this flag:
http://www.isti.ir/uploads/thumbnails/thum-8ca899fafa4c848ffe0-IMG_4971.jpg
(source:
http://www.isti.ir/index.aspx?fkeyid=&siteid=1&pageid=173&picgall=465&pid=7403).
When I translate it it says "Vice President of Science and Technology".
Esteban Rivera, 30 November 2014
image by Zoltan Horvath, 7
December 2014
I created its flag image. The upper inscription is "Presidency of the Republic"
and the lower one means: "Vice [Presidency] for Science, Technology and
Innovation" I think it's definitely not a rank flag but an organizational one.
Zoltan Horvath, 7 December 2014
