Numerous papers on the solar photospheric abundance of iron have recently been published leading to a longstanding debate concerning rather different results obtained from the analyses of Fe I lines and, to a lesser extent, of Fe II lines. Based on a set of 65 solar Fe I lines, with accurate transition probabilities as well as new accurate damping constants, we construct a new empirical photospheric model. We succeed to reconcile abundance results obtained from low and high excitation Fe I lines as well as from Fe II lines and derive a solar photospheric abundance of iron, A_Fe_=7.50+/-0.05, which perfectly agrees with the meteoritic value.