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Iranian languages
Iranian languages group of languages belonging to the Indo-Iranian family of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian languages. ... Read more
Pashto
Pashto , Pushtu , or Afghan, language belonging to the Iranian group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian languages. ... Read more
Assamese
Assamese , language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian languages. ... Read more
Gujarati
Gujarati , language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian languages. ... Read more
Bengali
Bengali or Bangla , language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian languages. ... Read more
Sinhalese
Sinhalese , language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. An alternate spelling for Sinhalese is Singhalese. See Indo-Iranian . ... Read more
Kassites
Kassites or Cassites , ancient people, probably of Indo-European origin. They were first mentioned in historical texts as occupying the W Iranian plateau. In the 18th cent. BC they swept down on Babylonia , conquered the region, and ruled there until the 12th cent. BC, when they returned to the... Read more
Pali
Pali , language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. Some scholars classify it as a Prakrit , or vernacular dialect of classical Sanskrit . Pali, a tongue of the Middle Indic period (see Indo-Iranian languages) in which the Buddhist... Read more
Muhammad Mussadegh
Muhammad Mussadegh , 1880-1967, Iranian political leader, prime minister of Iran (1951-53). He held a variety of government posts (1914-25) but retired to private life in protest against the shah's assumption of dictatorial powers in 1925. He returned to government (1944) as a member of parliament a... Read more
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini , 1900-1989, Iranian Shiite religious leader. Educated in Islam at home and in theological schools, in the 1950s he was designated ayatollah, a supreme religious leader, in the Iranian Shiite community. Khomeini's criticisms of Reza Shah Pahlevi led to his exile in ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Iranian"

Iranian Nuclear Programs
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security Iranian Nuclear Programs █ K. LEE LERNER...proliferation treaties. Initial reports of Iranian nuclear program development by the National...of the physical evidence of activity at Iranian nuclear facilities. In December, U...
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security ...popularity among the Iranian people. In December...proclamation calling for Iranians to "unite, arise...billions of dollars in Iranian assets, both in the...instituting an embargo on Iranian oil. Still, the Iranians refused to release...
Confederation of Iranian Students
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa CONFEDERATION OF IRANIAN STUDENTS the most active organized opposition...1953 coup, all activities against the Iranian government were brought to a halt. When...and England, the Confederation of Iranian Students (CIS) was formed in April...
Iranian Languages
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa IRANIAN LANGUAGES Family of languages spoken in Iran and adjacent countries. The Iranian languages are closely related to those of the...and Urdu; both families (the Indo – Iranian and Indo – Aryan languages) are part...
Iranians
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures Iranians PRONUNCIATION: i-RAHN...In 1921, Reza Khan, an Iranian army officer, established...than 500,000 Iraqis and Iranians died, and neither side was...Khomeini died. Some two million Iranians attended Khomeini's funeral...
Iranian Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America ...1,000 were identified as Iranian immigrants. In discussing...of material available on the Iranian immigrant community in the...the large-scale influx of Iranians (many of whom arrived in the...stance by "portraying the Iranian nation as a righteous minority...
Iranian Revolution (1979)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...scholars trace the origins of the Iranian Revolution to the 1953 coup...that had been building up in Iranian society during the 1970s...both religious and secular Iranians. By 1977, his network of...a death being a traditional Iranian commemoration of the deceased...
Indo-Iranian
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family...Family of Languages , table). The Indo-Iranian subfamily consists of three groups of...the Indic (or Indo-Aryan), and the Iranian. Some scholars, however, include the...
Iranian Revolution
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Iranian Revolution A revolution is...existing government. The Iranian Revolution of 1978 –...over forty cabinets. In 1951 Iranian nationalist Mohammed Mossadeq...and social life. Numerous Iranians saw the measures as being...
Iranian languages
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Iranian languages Group of languages forming a subdivision of the Indo-Iranian family of Indo-European languages . The major Iranian languages are Persian, Pashto, Kurdish, Mazanderani and Gilaki (of Iran), Baluchi (of Iran and Pakistan...

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Iranian Americans
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History IRANIAN AMERICANS IRANIAN AMERICANS. Iranian immigration to the United States...1950s and 1960s, when many young Iranians began to study at American universities...the 1979 revolution in Iran, many Iranian students stayed in the United States...
Iranian
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...people. ∎  relating to or denoting the group of Indo-European languages that includes Persian (Farsi), Pashto, Avestan, and Kurdish. • n. a native or national of Iran, or a person of Iranian descent.
Interrogation of An Iran Hostage (1979)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...contact with a lot of Iranians. Since I was a representative...lot of things about the Iranian army that we were interested...interest was that the Iranians did purchase some Russian...interested in any sort of Iranian army equipment,
Iran, Relations with
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...send marines to aid Iran coupled with Iranian diplomatic maneuvering in the United Nations...military coup to overthrow the popular Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, who...United States. While U.S. training of Iranian pilots was a mutual source of pride...
Iran–Iraq War
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...advantage of the political confusion after the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and launched an invasion...recovering the port of Khorramshahr. The Iranian army even advanced to occupy some Iraqi...1988. It was only when Hussein needed Iranian goodwill to enable him to conduct the...
Middle East
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...nineteenth) led Westernized Egyptian and Iranian intellectuals to assert the existence of historically unique Egyptian and Iranian "nations" by the later decades of...foreign economic penetration; in the Iranian case it generated a formally successful...
Mussadegh, Muhammad
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Mussadegh, Muhammad (1880–1967) Iranian political leader. An Iranian landowner and politician, in 1950 he led the...forced (1951) the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, and after rioting in Abadan, was...
Demonology
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...important ancient demon can be found in the Iranian figure Angra Mainyu, or "Evil Spirit...known as Ahriman, who was paired in early Iranian mythology, especially as shaped by the...during the third-century c.e. by the Iranian religious reformer Mani (ca. 216...
Abū Maʿshar Al-Balkhī, Jaʿfar Ibn Muḥammad
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Scythians, and Greco-Syrians with Iranians during the Sassanian period; when it...a strong commitment to the concept of Iranian intellectual superiority (expressed most...heir: upon the Pahlavi Greco-Indo-Iranian tradition in astrology, astronomy, and...
Ta'm e Guilass
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Martyrs in Tehran, Hadani Ditmars on Iranian Directors and the Fajr Film Festival...Kiarostami." His admiration for the Iranian director, expressed when Abbas Kiarostami...wide attention by becoming the first Iranian film to win the top prize at Cannes...

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IRANIAN LINKS 'GOOD WILL' TO PAYMENTS BY U.S.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 1/30/1989; 700+ words ; ...Patrick E. Tyler Washington Post A senior Iranian official has called on the Bush administration...families whose relatives perished on the Iranian jetliner shot down last summer by a U...vessel or by releasing some undisputed Iranian funds currently tied up in litigation...
Iranian oil embargo impact 'miniscule,' most experts conclude.
Newspaper article from: The Oil Daily; 12/10/1987; 700+ words ; ...much,' said Gary Sick, an Iranian scholar at the Ford Foundation...have to join it and stop buying Iranian oil. "The Iranians aren't having any difficulty...buyer, already had an embargo on Iranian oil, imposed last summer when...
IRANIANS CASE U.S. FACILITIES.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 8/15/1987; 700+ words ; ...diplomatic security, said that Iranian representatives, many of them...supported terrorism began when Iranian officials realized they had...spontaneously but later evolved into Iranian government policy. Bruce Laingen...engineered by a radical faction of Iranians for the purpose of discrediting...
IRANIANS ARMED WITH U.S. MISSILES.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 10/10/1987; 700+ words ; ...close ties to the Iranian regime, had...Stingers to the Iranians. It said that...fired at four Iranian gunboats after the Iranians shot at one of...officials said six Iranians were rescued...later died. Iranian officials said...
Iranians Display Strength On Southern War Front; New Offensive Is Expected Within a Month
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/22/1987; ; 700+ words ; ...tours at the front. Iranian forces have amassed...analysts said. The Iranians also are expected...arisen about the Iranians' fighting capacity...halt in February. Iranian leaders recently...like bunkers. The Iranians seized about three...miles inside Iraq, Iranian officials said...
Iranian-American Professor Predicts Gradual Turn Away From Extremism for Iranian Revolution
Magazine article from: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs; 2/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...continued to play an active role in Iranian life after the revolution...putting up a strong defense." Iranian women at no time bowed out...thought. The professor said many Iranians believe that religion itself...relaxation of the boycott of Iranian trade would help the economy...
Iranians in Babylonia.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...few texts in Old Iranian languages to record...study of Achaemenid Iranians relies on evidence...on pp. 171ff. Iranian names in texts from...must belong to born Iranians; when name and patronym are both Iranian, or when several...
Iranians Offer Help On Hostages if Assets Would Be Released; White House Refuses to Link Frozen Funds, Western Captives
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/9/1989; ; 700+ words ; ...information on the fate of three Iranian diplomats who disappeared in...did not mention the missing Iranian diplomats, an apparent moderation...answers on the fate of the Iranians and some have suggested that...who are knowledgeable about Iranian involvement here predicted...
Iranian officials upset over U.S. film on French TV
News Wire article from: AP Online; 6/17/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...call from the upset Iranians. ``The only reaction...had is that of the Iranian embassy, and for...to put pressure on Iranian players and to embarrass Iranians in general. ``One...psychological pressure on the Iranian football players and...
Iranians riveted to U.S. race; Presidential choice likely to alter course.(PAGE ONE)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 10/14/2008; 700+ words ; ...presidential voting, Iranians appear far more...deeply affect Iran. Iranian newspapers and even...negotiations with the Iranian leadership without...way to behave to Iranians, Mr. Tashakor...House. Afterward, Iranian leaders realized...bipartisan. Still, Iranians have trouble ...