![[Iranian flag, 1906]](../images/i/ir~17m.gif)
image by Željko Heimer
Last modified: 2011-06-11 by ian macdonald
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The horizontal tricolor was officially adopted on 5 August 1906,
with proportion 1:3, after a Constitution was forced on Shah Muzaffar
al-Din (14 August 1905).
Harald Müller & Jaume Ollé, 14 May
1996 - 10 November 1999
Colours used in the Persian tricolour are expressly described as
very pale.
Source: National Geographic (1917)
[gmc17]
Željko Heimer, 25 November 2001
It can be hypothetised that the 1907 flags shown below in
fact predated the 1906 Constitutional changes.
Ivan Sache, 30 June 2002
About the symbol on the former Iranian flag, the Lion, sword and sunrise, I
would like to point out that it is a far older symbol than the Qajar dynasty.
The "Epic of the Kings," written in the 1100's about the centuries before the
conquest of Islam, refers to the Iranian army or king as marching under a banner
with "The lion and the sunrise." The sword was added in the 1800's to make it
more Islamic. The Lion was the symbol of pre-Islamic Iran (Persia) along with
the cypress tree, though I've never seen the two used together.
Robert Wilson, 26 December 2002
1907 version
White flag with a red and green border with golden lion, sun and
crown in the center.
Source: British Admiralty Flagbook (1907)
[hms07]
Jaume Ollé, 10 November 1999
1910 version
![[Iranian Imperial standard, 1917]](../images/i/ir~17emp.gif)
image by Željko Heimer
Blue square flag with national tricolour in canton and white disk in the middle containing the crowned lion and sun withing a wreath. The crown at the time must still have been the Qajar crown but due to the size of the emblem in the source it is hard to be sure. The emblem seems multicoloured, but I took some liberties in depicting it.
Sources:
Željko Heimer & Jaume Ollé, 10 November 1999 - 25 November 2001
1907 version
![[Civil ensign, 1907]](../images/i/ir~ce07.gif)
image by Avelledo Coll
White flag with a red and green border.
Source: British Admiralty Flagbook (1907)
[hms07]
Jaume Ollé, 10 November 1999
This civil ensign is also depicted on one of the trading cards
manufactured by the American Tobacco Company circa 1910.
Al Fisher Jr., 14 July 1997
1910 version
The national flag was also used as civil ensign.
Sources:
Željko Heimer & Jaume Ollé, 10 November 1999 - 25 November 2001
1907 version
![[Naval ensign, 1907]](../images/i/ir~ne07.gif)
image by Avelledo Coll
White flag with a red and green border with golden lion and sun in
the center.
Source: British Admiralty Flagbook (1907)
[hms07]
Jaume Ollé, 10 November 1999
1910 version
![[Iranian naval ensign, 1910]](../images/i/ir~17w.gif)
image by Željko Heimer
Tricolour with the emblem. The ratio as shown in the source [gmc17] is about 6:11~ (close to 1:2), but I think that 1:3 was already the usual ratio, so I depicted the flag with the latter one.
Sources:
Željko Heimer & Jaume Ollé, 10 November 1999 - 25 November 2001
![[Iranian State ensign]](../images/i/ir~17s.gif)
image by Željko Heimer
Tricolour with lion and sun.
Sources:
Željko Heimer & Jaume Ollé, 10 November 1999 - 25 November 2001
