Iranian schoolbooks for download

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http://chap.sch.ir/ lets you download (all?) the textbooks used in Iranian schools. You can search them by year of publication, title, etc. It is also possible to use the plus-sign or magnifiying-glass menus on the right side of the page to get the books sorted by level:
- دوره آموزش ابتدایی Primary School (Years 1-6)
- دوره اول آموزش متوسطه Middle School (Years 7-9)
- دوره دوم آموزش متوسطه High School (Years 10-12).

These cover all the fields you'd expect (language, writing, maths, chemistry, history, literature,...), plus religious topics (Quran, Classical Arabic, faith,...).

There is also an interesting series of 31 books (one for each administrative division of Iran) called ستان شناسی. Each book is around 130 pages long and presents the geographical setting, demographics, monuments, economy, etc, of the region at hand.

You can also find a very large number of textbooks for various professional activities. I guess they are used by students in technical/professional tracks. Ever wanted to know everything about beekeeping, taking care of sheep, welding, carpet trading, interior design, or writing for TV? There are textbooks for that.

Interestingly, the Primary School books come in two versions: standard and کم بینا, which I guess are aimed at students with vision problems (maybe dyslexia too?). Images are slightly bigger and the text is printed in a font that is easier to read than the cursive-like one used in the standard editions. Here is a side-by-side of a text from the Year 2 Farsi textbook, left is the standard edition, right the کم بینا one:

farsi 2 sbs.jpg