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Iran : the essential guide to a country on the brink /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, [2006]
Subjects:
Iran.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of 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
  • ShariĘ»ah
  • ShiĘ»ites
  • 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.