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Iran
Iran , officially Islamic Republic of Iran, republic (2005 est. pop. 68,018,000), 636,290 sq mi (1,648,000 sq km), SW Asia. The country's name was changed from Persia to Iran in 1935. Iran is bordered on the north by Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and the Caspian Sea; on the east by Afghanistan... Read more |
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Ali Khamenei
Khamenei, Ayatollah Sayed Ali (b. 1940), President of Iran, 1981–9; religious leader of Iran, 1989– Born in Mashad, he became a student of Ayatollah Khomeini. He became active in the opposition movement against Shah Reza Pahlavi. Following the Iranian revolution, he became... Read more |
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad After his election as president of the Islamic Republic of Iran on June 24, 2005, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (born 1956) emerged as one of the world's most controversial, and in some quarters most feared, political leaders. With a hard-line attitude and a devout, almost mystical... Read more |
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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 |
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Iran hostage crisis
Iran hostage crisis in U.S. history, events following the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran by Iranian students on Nov. 4, 1979. The overthrow of Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlevi of Iran by an Islamic revolutionary government earlier in the year had led to a steady deterioration in Iran-U.S.... Read more |
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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
A YATOLLAHK HOMEINI Born: September 24, 1902 Khomein, Persia Died: June 3, 1989 Tehran, Iran Iranian head of state and religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini was the founder and supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The only... Read more |
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Ali Shariati
Ali Shariati Ali Shariati (1933-1977) has been called the "Ideologue of the Iranian Revolution." His reinter pretation of Islam in modern sociological categories prepared the way for the Islamic revival that shook Iran in 1979, attracting many young Muslims who had been alienated both from the... Read more |
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Iranian Americans
IRANIAN AMERICANS by Mary Gillis Overview The Islamic Republic of Iran occupies 635,932 square miles (1,648,000 square kilometers) on the Asian continent. The country is bounded on the north by the Transcaucasian and Turkistan territories of the former Soviet Union (along with the... Read more |
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Safavid
Safavid , Iranian dynasty (1499-1736), that established Shiite Islam in Iran as an official state religion. The Safavid state provided both the territorial and societal foundations of modern Iran. Founded by Shah Ismail, this Turkic-speaking dynasty claimed descent from a Shiite Sufi order. Shiite... Read more |
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Relations with Iran
IRAN, RELATIONS WITH IRAN, RELATIONS WITH. Americans had relatively little contact with Iran until the 1940s. The United States largely deferred to British policy, whose commercial and diplomatic approach focused on extracting oil for a nominal fee and confronting Russian influence in Iran. In... Read more |
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EARTHQUAKE IN IRAN: 40,000 KILLED IN THEIR SLEEP; Ancient city reduced to a...
...Bam has turned into a wasteland.'' Britain's International...Grangemouth arrived in Iran yesterday to help. They...region escaped unharmed. Iran has a history of deadly...000 people in northwest Iran while 25,000 people...The Red Crescent, the ... |
 "The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA)")
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Iran should be next on agenda.(OPINION)
...why should we expect Iran to be any different...Israel into a vast nuclear wasteland. But the same thing...rally to defend their Islamic state. Yet Iran was the most Westernized...finally obliterate the Islamic Republic of ... |
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JOURNEYS; An exotic itinerary, from post-revolutionary Iran to adventures...
...battling to sustain an Islamic state even as it invents...originally traveled to Iran for the revolution...finding ways around the Islamic Republic's restrictions...and contradictions of Iran's theocratic society...surface of an industrial ... |
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Afghan Refugees In Iran Face Uncertain Future
...were crossing the wasteland at the Dogharun border point between Iran and Afghanistan...years of sheltering in Iran. Buses roared through...Afghans have left Iran since April, when...Taliban's strict Islamic code. Chief among... |
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Reluctant return--Afghans prefer to stay in Iran
...as they crossed the wasteland at the Dogharun border point between Iran and Afghanistan...Afghans have left Iran. Up to 4,500 have...tiny proportion of Iran's Afghan refugee...life under the strict Islamic code imposed by the... |
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RELUCTANT RETURN -- AFGHANS PREFER TO STAY IN IRAN.(Brief...
...as they crossed the wasteland at the Dogharun border point between Iran and Afghanistan...Afghans have left Iran. Up to 4,500 have...tiny proportion of Iran's Afghan refugee...life under the strict Islamic code imposed by the... |
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Iran Appeals for Help After Killer Quake
...dawn quake in southeast Iran. (AP Photo/Hasan...toll in the thousands, Iran appealed for international...Bam has turned into a wasteland. Even if a few buildings...beating their chests in an Islamic ritual of mourning...city of Kerman, said ... |
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Iran Fears Quake Toll Could Hit 40,000
...dawn quake in southeast Iran. (AP Photo/Hasan...toll in the thousands, Iran appealed for international...Bam has turned into a wasteland. Even if a few buildings...beating their chests in an Islamic ritual of mourning...or telephone service. ... |
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The human lessons: they lie at the core of reporting in Iran: 'when we work...
...What made Haghighi think that Iran was moving in a more conservative...only short visas to work in Iran, with limited access to the...been a squalid and dangerous wasteland of brothels and shanties. The Islamic Republic had made the renewal... |
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Local, international rescuers scramble to unearth victims of Iran earthquake
...Farshad told the official Islamic Republic News Agency...director-general of Iran's Natural Disasters...southeastern corner of Iran, watched with resignation...Bam has turned into a wasteland," he said."The disaster...has offered to assist ... |
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