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Iran Coat of Arms
 
Coat of Arms of Iran
The Iran Coat of Arms: The coat of arms of Iran since 1980 Iranian Revolution features a stylized Arabic script of the word Allah, God.
The symbol consists of four crescents and a sword. The four crescents are meant to stand for the word Allah. The five parts of the emblem symbolize the Principles of the Religion. Above the sword is a shadda: in Arabic script, this is used to double a letter, here it doubles the strength of the sword. The shape of the emblem is chosen to remind of a tulip, for the memory of the people who died for Iran: it is an ancient belief in Iran, dating back to mythology, that if a young soldier dies patriotically a red tulip will grow on his grave. In recent years it is considered as the symbol of martyrdom.
The symbol was designed by Hamid Nadimi, and was officially approved by Ayatollah Khomeini on May 9, 1980. The exact shape of the emblem and a compass and straightedge construction is described in the national Iranian standard ISIRI 1.
The symbol is encoded in Unicode, in the Miscellaneous Symbols range, at codepoint U+262B.
Similarities between the symbol with the Khanda symbol of the Sikh, and menorah of the Jews, are probably a coincidence. A number of Iranians claim that Khomeini's Indian heritage led to the cultural appropriation of this symbol from Indian Sikhs. These claims, however, have not been substantiated.
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