Stamps.Iran.Opera

I collect stamps that are about Iran or the opera. That's it.

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Happy Nowrooz to everyone from my Haft-Seen table. The names of our fishes are Zaatar (زعتر) and Carolina. 

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2011 stamp of the Islamic Republic of Iran, celebrating Nowrooz. My favorite of all. :)

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1996 stamp of Azerbaijan celebrating Eid Nowrooz.

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2009 Kazakhstan stamp celebrating Nowrooz.

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1970 stamps of the Republic of Iraq, celebrating Eid Nowrooz.

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2002 stamp of Tajikistan for Nowrooz celebration.

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1964 stamp of the United Arab Emirates (Dubai), portraying the late President Kennedy one year after his assassination. 

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February 1979, an overprinted stamp of Iran's Islamic Revolution. In the background: Isfahan's Grand Mosque with a side portrait of the late Shah of Iran. 

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2013 stamp of Portugal honoring 1000th birthday anniversary of the Persian scientist Avecina [Abu Ali Sina].

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2011 stamp of Kurdistan Iraq.

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1974 stamp of Lebanon honoring the 1971 Miss Universe, Georgina Rizk from Lebanon. "In 1972 following the Lod Airport Massacre, where 26 Puerto Rican tourists in Israel were murdered by Japanese militants terrorists under the banner of the PLO, Rizk was forbidden to attend the Miss Universe 1972 in Puerto Rico to crown the title winner in fear of a revenge attack."

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1995 stamp of the Islamic Republic of Iran, honoring Gen. Mehdi Zeinedin, a martyr of the Iran-Iraq war.

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1980 stamp of the Islamic Republic of Iran, commemorating the birthday of prime minister Mohammad Mossaddeg, the liberator of Iran's oil industry from the British empire.

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1947 image of George VI on an Indian stamp overprinted for Pakistan. The last stamp to show a monarch on stamps of Pakistan, though the Dominion lasted till 1956 and Queen Elizabeth was the "Queen of Pakistan" she never appeared on a stamp of Pakistan.

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"Bushire Under British Occupation" 1914 issued stamp of the Persian Empire overprinted in 1915 by the British Empire while occupying south of Iran.

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2014 stamp of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the letter "F".

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1984 stamp of the Islamic Republic of Iran for the World Health Day.