To provide an iron including a handle forming a protrusion on the iron body.

In this iron including a body (2) disposed on an ironing surface (1) and a handle (3) forming a protrusion on the iron body (2), the body (2) includes a wall (21) converged toward the base part of the handle (3), the handle (3) is equipped with an upper surface (31) to form a receiving face for a palm and a side wall extended from the upper surface (31) of the handle (3) to the wall (21) of the iron body (2), and the side wall includes a grip part (32a) for receiving end parts of fingers. The iron includes a flange (4) for protecting fingers projecting in the lateral direction under the grip part (32a) of the handle (3). The flange (4) plays a role of a stopper for fingers to prevent fingers from being in touch with a high temperature wall (21) of the iron body (2) and is constituted so as to be separate from the ironing surface (1) so that the highest temperature of the wall (2) part placed under the flange does not exceed 55°C at the time of actuated.