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Iranian Americans
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
IRANIAN AMERICANS IRANIAN AMERICANS. Iranian immigration to the United States was insignificant until the 1950s and 1960s, when many young Iranians began to study at American universities. After the 1979 revolution in Iran, many Iranian students...
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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.
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Interrogation of An Iran Hostage (1979)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...1979, a crowd of almost five hundred Iranian militants, enraged by the United States...reaction to the embassy seizure was to freeze Iranian assets in the United States and order...to release some $8 billion in frozen Iranian assets, bringing the hostage crisis to...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Makhmalbaf, Mohsen
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
MAKHMALBAF, Mohsen Nationality: Iranian. Born: Tehran, 1957 (some sources...appearance. In Close-Up, a 1989 film by his Iranian compatriot Abbas Kiarostami, Makhmalbaf...Mohsen Makhmalbaf. In a prime example of Iranian cinema's tendency to turn its fiction...
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Bahrain
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
...protectorate, 1861–1971. Iranian claims on the islands were rejected by...cent) traditions of Islam , after the Iranian Revolution (1979) brought to power an...wing tendencies. In 1981, an abortive Iranian-supported coup d'état led...
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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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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...
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