Expanded member
Iran
A 2024 expansion member on the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.
| Official name | Islamic Republic of Iran |
|---|---|
| Capital | Tehran |
| UN membership | 1945 (founding UN member) |
| Languages | Persian |
| BRICS cohort | Expanded member |
| Accession note | Invited at the Johannesburg summit, August 2023; full membership effective 1 January 2024 |
| Region | West Asia / Gulf |
Iran is listed as a full BRICS member from 1 January 2024. Accession is separate from later wartime diplomacy.
No order-of-battle, enrichment-stock, or oil-volume figures are invented here. Use the cited hub pages and their primary sources.
Situation note
The 2026 Iran–U.S. war and the Hormuz closure/reopening are live hub records. Cite those pages; do not flatten their dated, sourced claims into a statistic on this site.