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    A horizontal tricolour of green, white, and red with the Lion and Sun centred on the white band.
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    Standardised modern design for the Lion and Sun flag of Iran, as outlined by Iran Flag Project.

    Construction specifications can be found here: File:Lion and Sun flag (construction sheet).svg and File:Flag of Iran – Official Standardised Specification (Iran Flag Project).pdf
    Date 2 October 2007 (original upload date)
    18 November 2012 (current design)
    17 February 2026 (standardisation)
    Source

    Own work

    https://iranflag.org/specification/
    Author
    Original:
    Unknown
     
    Vector:
    Sodacan (added new emblem to this file), Pouya, Jooja, and ConflictFan (current version and standardisation)


    See https://iranflag.org/modern-iranian-flag-history/ for more information
    Permission
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    Public domain
    This work is now in the public domain in Iran, because according to the Law for the Protection of Authors, Composers and Artists Rights (1970) its term of copyright has expired for one of the following reasons:
    • The creator(s) died before 22 August 1980, for works that their copyright expired before 22 August 2010 according to the 1970 law.
    • The creator(s) died more than 50 years ago. (Reformation of article 12 - 22 August 2010)

    In the following cases works fall into the public domain after 30 years from the date of publication or public presentation (Article 16):

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    Other versions
    • Construction sheet for the Lion and Sun flag
      Construction sheet for the Lion and Sun flag
    • Lion and Sun emblem used in this flag
      Lion and Sun emblem used in this flag
    • Specification for the flag design
      Specification for the flag design
    • Twemoji style emoji flag
      Twemoji style emoji flag
    SVG development
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     The SVG code is valid.
     This flag was created with Inkscape, and then manually edited.

    Colours

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    English: Overview of colours used in this file
    Green Gold Red White Black
    Pantone 7739 C 1235 C 485 C White Black
    Hexadecimal #319B42 #FFB81C #DA291C #FFFFFF #000000
    RGB 49/155/66 255/184/28 218/41/28 255/255/255 0/0/0
    CMYK 68/0/57/39 0/28/89/0 0/81/87/15 0/0/0/0 0/0/0/100

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    current13:00, 15 April 2026Thumbnail for version as of 13:00, 15 April 20261,050 × 600 (31 KB)ConflictFan (talk | contribs)Restructure SVG code to save file space, aligning it with the Iran Flag Project standardisation
    18:33, 16 March 2026Thumbnail for version as of 18:33, 16 March 20261,050 × 600 (40 KB)ConflictFan (talk | contribs)Another non-visible change: changed the stroke width from 1.747 to 1.75, changed the size of the frame from 1050.01*600.01 to 1050*600
    21:55, 25 February 2026Thumbnail for version as of 21:55, 25 February 2026512 × 293 (40 KB)ConflictFan (talk | contribs)No visible changes, but organised and named layers/folders in the SVG code
    21:08, 25 February 2026Thumbnail for version as of 21:08, 25 February 2026512 × 293 (34 KB)HistoryKnowledge1925 (talk | contribs)Reverted to version as of 12:36, 25 February 2026 (UTC)
    20:40, 25 February 2026Thumbnail for version as of 20:40, 25 February 2026512 × 293 (42 KB)HistoryKnowledge1925 (talk | contribs)Reverted to version as of 12:27, 24 February 2026 (UTC) Why change in the first place?
    12:36, 25 February 2026Thumbnail for version as of 12:36, 25 February 2026512 × 293 (34 KB)ConflictFan (talk | contribs)Reverted to version as of 22:22, 18 February 2026 (UTC). The emblem design does not even appear to have been created entirely by Sodacan; see File:National Emblem of Iran (1979–1980).svg (May 2012). As for the colour, historically the Lion and Sun flag used darker shades for the bands; the original upload of this file mistakenly used the lighter colours appropriated by the Islamic Republic. Although I could have changed the colours to reflect this, I instead uploaded a [[:File:Lion and S...
    12:27, 24 February 2026Thumbnail for version as of 12:27, 24 February 2026512 × 293 (42 KB)Redenertube (talk | contribs)Reverted to version as of 11:02, 20 February 2026 (UTC) The outline of Sodacan’s design should not add or remove any art. Also, the shade of red is incorrect, it should be the same as the other Iranian green, white, and red tricolor flags like the former civil flag and the current flag.
    12:11, 20 February 2026Thumbnail for version as of 12:11, 20 February 2026512 × 293 (34 KB)ConflictFan (talk | contribs)Reverted to version as of 22:22, 18 February 2026 (UTC) — My rework is not a complete redesign to the flag; I have tried to be as faithful to the original as possible while aligning the flag to a standardised reference.
    11:02, 20 February 2026Thumbnail for version as of 11:02, 20 February 2026512 × 293 (42 KB)The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk | contribs)Reverted to version as of 19:42, 8 February 2026 (UTC): Last version not edited by ConflictFan. As best I can tell from their Commons uploads, they are trying to redesign the flag unilaterally.
    22:22, 18 February 2026Thumbnail for version as of 22:22, 18 February 2026512 × 293 (34 KB)ConflictFan (talk | contribs)Minor adjustments to align with the standardised construction sheet
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