Salute of the Sublime State of Persia

"Salute of the Sublime State of Persia" (Persian: سلامتی دولت علیه ایران, romanized: Salāmati-ye Dowlat-e 'Aliyye-ye Irān) was the national anthem of Iran between 1909 and 1933. It replaced the earlier anthem, "Royal Salute", during the Persian Constitutional Revolution and served as Iran's national anthem until it was replaced by "Imperial Anthem of Iran" in 1933.

Salāmati-ye Dowlat-e 'Aliyye-ye Irān

English: Salute of the Sublime State of Persia
سلامتی دولت علیه ایران
Former national anthem of Qajar Iran and Pahlavi Iran
Music	Gholamreza Khan Amirpanjeh, 1909
Adopted	1909/1914
Relinquished	1933
Preceded by	Royal Salute
Succeeded by	Imperial Anthem of Iran
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History

The sheet music for the anthem was first published as the "National March of Iran" (French: Marche Nationale Persane) on July 9, 1909, a few days after the entrance of the constitutionalists into Tehran.^[1] The anthem was played at the coronation of Ahmad Shah Qajar in 1914, and its sheet music was published in the newspaper Asr-e Jadid in 1915.^[2]

This anthem was replaced with Imperial Anthem of Iran during the reign of Reza Shah.

In 2015, Persian composer Peyman Soltani used the music of this anthem for his song "Motherland" (Persian: سرزمین مادری, romanized: Sarzamine Mādari), which began with the lyrics:^[3]

عشقِ من ای سرزمین مادری (Eshqe man ey sarzamine madari)

My love, oh my beloved motherland,

جان ریشه کرد در میانِ خاکِ تو (Jane rishe kard dar miyane khake to)

Life is rooted amid thy domain

Sheet music as published in "Asr-e Jadid" newspaper

Official lyrics

Perso-Arabic script

تا خدایْ این کشورِ ایران نمود بس درِ عزت به رویش برگشود خسروانش را کُلَه خورشید بود رایتش را فرق بر خورشید بود تا که خود چترِ عدالت گسترد خود چترِ عدالت گسترد مُلکِ ایران را نشانِ خیر و خوبی بُد لِوا این لِوا فرخنده بادا باز با دورِ بقا راست اندرین جهان افتخارِ ما، شرحِ مامَضیٰ شرحِ مامَضیٰ تا کی‌ام راست باز کوششی جوششی یاران چون به فرخ‌رسمِ دورانِ کیان مُلکِ ملت را یکی یابی روان بی‌تأمل باز باید داد جان تا به‌جز نیکی نبیند زین نشان هر که در تقدیرِ ایران بنگرد در تقدیرِ ایران بنگرد بود در مُلکِ کیان آیتِ قدرت عیان باد با تاجِ کیانی رایتِ عزت به پا هان ای برادران موطنِ عزیز بهترین سراست حفظِ خاکِ آن آبرویِ ماست باز غیرتی همتی مردان

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