BACKGROUND During the past few years, there has been an increasing recognition that Internet is playing a significant role in the synthesis, the distribution and the consumption of Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS).The aim of this study was to assess the online availability of NPS in Persian language websites. METHODS The Google search engine was used to carry out an accurate qualitative as...

this article has long been taken of the description and clarification of dramatic signs as well as the structure of the small book entitled draxt ? ?s?r?g “the babylonian tree” (here after bt); a text having comparatively long history in iranian studies which have been interpreted in different ways, by previous scholars. bt is a versified contest between a goat and a palm tree, originally compo...

the necessity of reform in persian gulf region brought by itself the question of “imposed democracy”. the most important plan in this context was the broader middle east and north africa initiative” that is directed by united states. examining the consequences of this plan prove the relative changes in shiite situation first; then that the initiative is still working and; third the effect of vi...

the paper aims at describing verbal tense system in the dialect of adkan, a village in khorasan-e shomali province in the northeast of iran. it seems that this dialect is one of the tati dialects in the area. since the main objective was to collect the oldest dialect, the data was gathered by interviewing some educated and uneducated old and middle-aged speakers. this study which is the first s...

Iran’s security is affected by a broad region that includes the Caspian Basin, Central Asia, Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf states, Pakistan, Turkey, and the Middle East. However, an increased focus on the countries of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), as well as Iraq, on the one hand, and with members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) (including Yemen) on the other, provides a na...

in the corpus of persian texts, the word “dervish” generally represents a person who is satisfied with having few belongings and properties. in the islamic period, this word exactly corresponds to “sufi”. most of the lexicographers and researchers have mentioned two distinct equivalents for “dervish” in different persian texts. on the one hand, dervish means “beggar”. in this regard, “dervish” ...