Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif pointed in a tweet on Monday to the Iranian nation's united authority and resistance to numerous wars in its multi-thousand-year history.
"All Iraniansregardless of ethnicity, dialect or creedstanding united have together repelled over 444 wars imposed on them throughout our proud, millennia-long history,"Zarif tweeted on Monday.
He added that "is it any wonder, then, that Iran is the oldest continuous country in human civilization."