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Iran : the essential guide to a country on the brink
Title
Iran : the essential guide to a country on the brink / Encyclopaedia Britannica.
ISBN
0471741515 (pbk.)
Published
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2006.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Variant and related titles
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-226).
Contents
Introduction by Stephen Kinzer
Afghanistan : "Operation Enduring Freedom"
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
Armed forces
"Axis of evil"
A closer look : Bush, Iraq, and the world, by Strobe Talbott
Clerics
The constitutional revolution (1905)
Culture
Cyrus the great
Darius I
Dynastic history
Ebadi, Shirin
Economy
Farsi and other languages
Flag
Iran-Contra Affair
Iran hostage crisis
Iran-Iraq war
Iraq: "Operation Iraqi Freedom"
A closer look: warfare in the 21st century, by Peter Saracino
The Islamic revolution (1978-1979)
The Islamic world
Judicial system
Khamenei, (Ayatollah) Ali
Khatami, Mohammad
Khomeini, (Ayatollah) Ruhollah
Kurds
Land
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
Mosaddeq, Mohammad
Oil
People
Persia
Political system
Rafsanjani, Ali Akbar Hashemi
Reforms
The revolutionary guards
Reza Shah Pahlavi
Schools
Shah 'Abbas I
Shah Isma'il
Shariʻah
Shiʻites
Sunni
Tehran
The United Nations
A closer look : the UN Security Council, by Edward C. Luck
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
The white revolution (1963)
World heritage sites
Xerxes I.
Subjects
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