This is a list of municipalities in Iran which have standing links to local communities in other countries known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
This is a list of municipalities in Iran which have standing links to local communities in other countries known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
Taormina, Italy
Konya, Turkey
Dilijan, Armenia
Baalbek, Lebanon
Dakar, Senegal Florence, Italy
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Havana, Cuba
Iași, Romania
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Lahore, Pakistan
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Xi'an, China Yerevan, Armenia
Al-Mada'in, Iraq Gaziantep, Turkey Konya, Turkey Langkawi, Malaysia
Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina Karachi, Pakistan Karbala, Iraq Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Lahore, Pakistan
Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan Najaf, Iraq
Santiago de Compostela, Spain Ürümqi, China
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Astrakhan, Russia Ankara, Turkey Baghdad, Iraq Beijing, China Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Brasília, Brazil
Budapest, Hungary
Caracas, Venezuela
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
East Jerusalem, Palestine Havana, Cuba Kabul, Afghanistan
Khartoum, Sudan
London, England, United Kingdom [21] 
Los Angeles, United States
Manila, Philippines
Minsk, Belarus [22] Moscow, Russia
Pretoria, South Africa
Sanaa, Yemen Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina [23] 
Tbilisi, Georgia Trabzon, Turkey
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