According to the Persian Wikipedia, I was one of the first advocates of FOSS in Iran. The little entry continues to claim that Chapar Shabdiz was the first Iranian company to base its commercial business plan on FOSS. It also mentions the FarsiKDE project, Shabdix GNU/Linux and linuxiran.org!
Well FarsiKDE’s website expired long back and few days ago linuxiran.org! expired too. I created linuxiran.org! on April 20, 2001 and it expired on April 20, 2007. linuxiran.org! was the first Iranian portal dedicated to FOSS and at a time, was very active. It’s gone now and with it FarsiKDE and Shabdix. We had a good time trying to create something that we believed could benefit Iran.