Iran, a country in the Expanding Circle of world Englishes, has not received much academic attention in international journals. The English language has faced many ups and downs in this country over the past 50 years, which makes its story even more entitled to academic investigation. The objective of this paper is to add to the existing but still limited literature of English in Iran. Having followed the model suggested by Berns (1990), this paper provides a sociolinguistic profile of English in Iran from the Qajar era (1796‐1925) through the Pahlavi dynasty (1925‐1979) and the Islamic Revolution to the present era. In addition to the status of English (and other foreign languages), political, historical, and social factors which have contributed to the rise and/or decline of this language in the country are discussed for each era.

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伊朗英语

伊朗是世界英语扩展圈中的一个国家，在国际期刊上并未受到太多学术关注。在过去的50年中，英语在这个国家经历了许多坎s，这使它的故事更有资格进行学术研究。本文的目的是在伊朗增加现有但仍有限的英语文献。遵循伯恩斯（Berns（1990）提出的模型），本文提供了从卡扎尔时代（1796-1925）到巴列维王朝（1925-1979）和伊斯兰革命到当今时代的伊朗英语的社会语言学概况。除了英语（和其他外语）的地位之外，还针对每个时代讨论了导致该国该语言兴衰的政治，历史和社会因素。