Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Iran gida ce ga ɗayan tsoffin wayewar duniya, wanda ya fara da samuwar masarautun Elam a karni na huɗu kafin haihuwar Yesu. Da farko Mutanen Iran ne suka hada shi a karni na bakwai kafin haihuwar Yesu, kuma ya kai ga tsawo a karni na shida kafin haihuwar Yesu, lokacin da Cyrus Mai Girma ya kafa Daular Achaemenid, wanda ya zama daya daga cikin manyan masarautu a tarihi da kuma karfin farko a duniya. Daular ta faɗi a hannun Alexander Mai Girma a ƙarni na huɗu kafin haihuwar Yesu kuma an raba ta zuwa jihohin Hellenistic da yawa. Wani tawayen Iran ya kafa Daular Parthia a ƙarni na uku kafin haihuwar Yesu, wanda Daular Sassanid ta yi nasara a ƙarni na uku bayan haihuwar Yesu, babban ikon duniya na ƙarni huɗu masu zuwa. Larabawa Musulmai sun ci daular a karni na bakwai AD, wanda ya haifar da Musulunci na Iran. Daga baya ya zama babban cibiyar al'adun Islama da ilmantarwa, tare da fasaharta, adabi, falsafa, da gine-gine da ke yaduwa a duk faɗin duniyar musulmi da kuma bayan lokacin Zamanin Zinariya na Islama. A cikin ƙarni biyu masu zuwa, jerin daular musulmi na asali sun bayyana kafin Seljuq Turks da Mongols suka ci yankin. A cikin karni na 15, 'yan asalin Safavids sun sake kafa hadadden jihar Iran da asalin kasa kuma sun canza kasar zuwa addinin Shi'a. A karkashin mulkin Nader Shah a karni na 18, Iran ta sake zama babbar karfin duniya, kodayake a karni na 19 jerin rikice-rikice da Rasha sun haifar da asarar yanki mai yawa. A farkon karni na 20 an ga juyin juya halin kundin tsarin mulkin Farisa. Kokarin mallakar arzikin burbushin halittu daga kamfanonin Yammacin Turai ya haifar da juyin mulkin Anglo-American a 1953
, wanda ya haifar da mulkin mallaka mafi girma a karkashin Mohammad Reza Pahlavi da kuma karuwar tasirin siyasar Yammacin Turai. Ya ci gaba da ƙaddamar da jerin gyare-gyare masu yawa a shekarar 1963. Bayan juyin juya halin Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini ne ya kafa Jamhuriyar Musulunci ta yanzu a shekarar 1979, wanda ya zama Babban Jagora na farko na kasar.