Iran has one of the oldest histories in the world, extending more than 5000 years, and throughout history, Iran has been of
geostrategic importance because of its central location in
Eurasia and Western Asia. Iran is a founding member of the
UN,
NAM,
OIC,
OPEC, and
ECO. Iran as a major
regional power occupies an important position in the world economy due to its substantial reserves of
petroleum and
natural gas, and has considerable regional influence in Western Asia. The name Iran is a
cognate of Aryan and literally means "Land of the
Aryans." (Full article...)
Upon the death of his father, Varsken went to the
Sasanian capital of
Ctesiphon and was received by the shahanshahPeroz I (
r. 459–484), converting to the family's former religion,
Zoroastrianism. As a reward for his conversion, he was given the viceroyalty of
Caucasian Albania and a daughter of Peroz in marriage. (Full article...)
Barbad (
Persian: باربد;
fl. late 6th – early 7th century CE) was a Persian poet-musician,
lutenist,
music theorist and composer of
Sasanian music. He served as chief minstrel-poet under the Shahanshah
Khosrow II (
r. 590–628). A barbat player, he was the most distinguished Persian musician of his time and is regarded among the major figures in the history of
Persian music.
Despite scarce biographical information, Barbad's
historicity is generally secure. He was highly regarded in the court of Khosrow, and interacted with other musicians, such as
Sarkash. Although he is traditionally credited with numerous innovations in Persian music theory and practice, the attributions remain tentative since they are ascribed centuries after his death. Practically all Barbad's music or poetry is lost, except a single poem fragment and the titles of a few compositions. (Full article...)
The Delian League had been formed between Athens and many of the city-states of the
Aegean to continue the war with Persia, which had begun with the
first and
second Persian invasions of Greece (492–490 and 480–479 BCE, respectively). In the aftermath of the Battles of
Plataea and
Mycale, which had ended the second invasion, the Greek Allies had taken the offensive,
besieging the cities of Sestos and
Byzantium. The Delian League then took over responsibility for the war, and continued to attack Persian bases in the Aegean throughout the next decade. (Full article...)
Abū Saʿīd al-Muhallab ibn Abī Ṣufra al-Azdī (
Arabic: أَبْو سَعِيْد ٱلْمُهَلَّب ابْن أَبِي صُفْرَة ٱلْأَزْدِي;
c. 632 – 702) was an
Arab general from the
Azd tribe who fought in the service of the
Rashidun,
Umayyad and
Zubayrid caliphs between the mid-640s and his death. He served successive terms as the governor of
Fars (685–686),
Mosul,
Arminiya and
Adharbayjan (687–688) and
Khurasan (698–702). Al-Muhallab's descendants, known as the
Muhallabids, became a highly influential family, many of whose members held high office under various Umayyad and
Abbasid caliphs, or became well-known scholars.
Throughout his early military career, he participated in the Arab campaigns against the
Persians in Fars,
Ahwaz,
Sistan and Khurasan during the successive reigns of caliphs
Umar (
r. 634–644),
Uthman (
r. 644–656),
Ali (
r. 656–661) and
Mu'awiya I (
r. 661–680). By 680, his tribe, the Azd of
Oman, had become a major army faction in the Arabs'
Basra garrison, the launchpad for the
Persian conquest. Following the collapse of Umayyad rule in
Iraq and Khurasan in 683–684, during the
Second Muslim Civil War, al-Muhallab was pressed by the Basran troops to lead the campaign against the
Azariqa, a
Kharijite faction which had taken over Ahwaz and threatened Basra. Al-Muhallab landed them a severe blow and drove them into Fars in 685. He was rewarded with the governorship of that province by the anti-Umayyad caliph
Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr (
r. 683–692), whose suzerainty had been recognized in Basra in the wake of the Umayyads' ouster. Al-Muhallab later held a command role in the successful Zubayrid campaign to eliminate the
Kufa-based ruler
al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi in 686/87. After this victory, he was transferred to the governorship of Mosul, where he was charged with protecting Iraq from a potential invasion from Umayyad-controlled
Syria. (Full article...)
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Abdollah Mirza as depicted by an anonymous Armenian painter
Abdollah Mirza Qajar (
Persian: شاهزاده عبدالله میرزا قاجار; 25 November 1796 – 18 June 1846) was an Iranian prince (shahzadeh) of the
Qajar dynasty, the 11th son of
Fath-Ali Shah, king of
Qajar Iran from 1797 to 1834. Abdollah was the governor of
Zanjan. He had two children, Mohsen Mirza and Shams al-Molok, with his wife. Other than that, he had 19 sons and 9 daughters from his
concubines.
Abdollah Mirza distinguished himself early on in the
Russo-Iranian War of 1826. Though his administration was accompanied by growth and development, he was twice ousted from the government due to complaints. The second time, Fath-Ali Shah handed over the rule of Zanjan to his other son, Fathollah Mirza. Following the death of Fath-Ali Shah, Abdollah tried to reclaim his rule by mobilizing and attacking Zanjan but failed. When during the early reign of
Mohammad Shah (
r. 1834-1848) the eldest sons of Fath-Ali Shah rebelled against him, Abdollah Mirza, unlike his other brothers, went on to confirm his rule. (Full article...)
Abu Talib Rustam (
Persian: ابو طالب رستم; 997–1029), commonly known by his laqab (honorific title) of Majd al-Dawla (مجد الدوله), was the last amir (ruler) of the
Buyid amirate of
Ray from 997 to 1029. He was the eldest son of
Fakhr al-Dawla (
r. 976–980, 984–997). A weak ruler, he was a
figurehead most of his reign, whilst his mother
Sayyida Shirin was the real ruler of the kingdom.
Majd al-Dawla's reign saw the gradual shrinking of Buyid holdings in central Iran;
Gurgan and
Tabaristan had been lost to the
Ziyarids in 997, while several of the western towns were seized by the
Sallarids of
Azerbaijan. There were also internal troubles, such as the revolt of the
Daylamite military officer
Ibn Fuladh in 1016. Following the death of Sayyida Shirin in 1028, Majd al-Dawla was faced with a revolt by his Daylamite soldiers, and thus requested the assistance of the
Ghaznavid ruler
Mahmud (
r. 998–1030) in dealing with them. Mahmud came to Ray in 1029, deposed Majd al-Dawla as ruler, and sacked the city, bringing an end to Buyid rule there. (Full article...)
Pacorus I (also spelled Pakoros I;
Parthian: 𐭐𐭊𐭅𐭓; died 38 BC) was a
Parthian prince, who was the son and heir of
Orodes II (
r. 57–37 BC). The
numismatist David Sellwood deduced that Pacorus ruled in
c. 39 BC. It is uncertain whether Pacorus ruled alongside his father, or ruled independently. His wife was an unnamed
Armenian princess, who was a sister of the
Artaxiad king of Armenia,
Artavasdes II (
r. 55–34 BC).
Following the Parthian victory against the
Romans at the
Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC, the Parthians attempted to capture Roman-held territories in
Western Asia, with Pacorus acting as one of the leading commanders. Although they were initially successful, they were repelled by the Romans. Pacorus himself was defeated and killed at the
Battle of Mount Gindarus by the forces of the
Publius Ventidius Bassus. His death spurred a succession crisis in which Orodes II, deeply afflicted by the death of his favourite son, relinquished the throne to his other son
Phraates IV (
r. 37–2 BC) as his new heir. (Full article...)
...that during the Shiraz blood libel, the first to start the
pogrom of the
Jewish quarter were the soldiers sent to protect the Jews against mob violence?
The
economy of Iran includes a lot of
subsidies. Food items, such as flour and cooking oil, are subsidized, along with fuels such as gasoline. However cutting subsidies can cause civil unrest.
The Imperial Bank of Persia (
Persian: بانک شاهنشاهی ایران,
romanized: Bank-e Šâhanšâhi-ye Irân) was a British bank that operated as the
central bank and
bank of issue in Iran (formerly known as
Persia until 1935) between 1889 and 1929. It was established in 1885 with a concession from the Persian government to
Baron Julius De Reuter (born Israel Beer Josaphat) a German–Jewish banker and businessman who later became a Christian and a British subject.
The bank was the first modern bank in Iran and introduced European banking ideas to a country in which they were previously unknown. The legal centre of the bank was in
London and whilst it was subject to British law, its activities were based in
Tehran. It also had operations in other Middle Eastern countries. It was later named
British Bank of the Middle East (BBME) and is now called
HSBC Bank Middle East Limited. After the
Iranian Revolution of 1979, all the Iranian activities of this bank were transferred to
Bank Tejarat. (Full article...)
The term "Persianate" is a
neologism credited to
Marshall Hodgson. In his 1974 book, The Venture of Islam: The expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods, he defined it thus: "The rise of Persian had more than purely literary consequences: it served to carry a new overall cultural orientation within Islamdom.... Most of the more local languages of high culture that later emerged among Muslims... depended upon Persian wholly or in part for their prime literary inspiration. We may call all these cultural traditions, carried in Persian or reflecting Persian inspiration, 'Persianate' by extension." (Full article...)
Image 4
The Uprising of Sheikh Ubeydullah refers to a Kurdish uprising against the
Ottoman Empire in 1879 and
Qajar Iran between 1880 and 1881. Both uprising were led by
Sheikh Ubeydullah, the leader of the Semdinan
Naqshbandi family who claimed descendance from
Mohammed through his daughter
Fatima. Thus the family had a considerable influence, disposed over large amounts of donations, owned several villages in the region and many Kurdish tribal leaders were devout followers of him. The initial cause for the uprisings were the outcome of the
Russo-Turkish war in 1877-78 and the
Treaty of Berlin which provided the Christian
Armenians and the
Nestorians with considerable rights and autonomy, to which he did not agree to. (Full article...)
Image 5
Habibullah Huseynov (
Russian: Габибулла Ейнуллаевич Гусейнов; 10 October 1910 – 16 April 1945) was an
Iranian AzerbaijaniRed Armycolonel and a posthumous
Hero of the Soviet Union. Huseynov emigrated to
Baku, working as a loader and a fitter. He was drafted into the Red Army on a
Komsomol direction in 1928 and became an artillery officer. He was arrested and imprisoned as an Iranian spy during the
Great Purge. He was released months later and became an anti-aircraft artillery battalion commander, serving in this role during World War II.
In the Caucasus, the Qajar dynasty permanently lost much territory to the
Russian Empire over the course of the 19th century, comprising modern-day eastern
Georgia,
Dagestan,
Azerbaijan, and
Armenia. Despite its territorial losses, Qajar Iran reinvented the Iranian notion of kingship and maintained relative political independence, but faced major challenges to its sovereignty, predominantly from the Russian and
British empires. Foreign advisers became powerbrokers in the court and military. They eventually partitioned Qajar Iran in the 1907
Anglo-Russian Convention, carving out Russian and British influence zones and a neutral zone. (Full article...)
The Little Zab or Lower Zab (
Arabic: الزاب الاسفل, al-Zāb al-Asfal;
Kurdish: Zêy Koya or Zêyê Biçûk;
Persian: زاب کوچک, Zâb-e Kuchak;
Syriac: ܙܒܐ ܬܚܬܝܐ, Zāba Taḥtāya) is a river that originates in
Iran and joins the
Tigris just south of
Al Zab in the
Kurdistan region of
Iraq. The Little Zab is approximately 400 kilometres (250 mi) long and drains an area of about 22,000 square kilometres (8,500 sq mi). The river is fed by rainfall and snowmelt, resulting in a peak
discharge in the spring and low water in the summer and early fall. Two dams built on the Little Zab regulate the river flow, providing water for
irrigation and generating
hydroelectricity. The
Zagros Mountains have been populated since at least the
Lower Palaeolithic, but the earliest archaeological site in the Little Zab basin, Barda Balka, dates to the
Middle Palaeolithic. Human occupation of the Little Zab basin has been attested for every period since then. (Full article...)
... that Russia launched an Iranian satellite into orbit just three weeks after Putin and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei vowed to cooperate against the West?
... that little has been known of the exact whereabouts of Iranian communist leader Ashraf Dehghani since she escaped prison in 1973?
April 24–
April 25,
1980 –
Operation Eagle Claw, a commando mission in
Iran to rescue American embassy hostages, is aborted after mechanical problems ground the rescue helicopters. Eight
United States troops are killed in a mid-air collision during the failed operation.
Foreign travellers in Iran, not only recently but in previous generations, have observed that some of our citizens habitually lie ... In our culture, steeped in history as we are, some liars actually try to explain and justify their behaviour by referring back to past national catastrophes. For example, they will tell you, when Mongol hordes overran the country, lying was the price to pay for personal survival ; and that gave us the habit of mendacity. Whatever its merits as an historical explanation, this point of view certainly offers a pitifully weak justification for today's liars.
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Iran has one of the oldest histories in the world, extending more than 5000 years, and throughout history, Iran has been of
geostrategic importance because of its central location in
Eurasia and Western Asia. Iran is a founding member of the
UN,
NAM,
OIC,
OPEC, and
ECO. Iran as a major
regional power occupies an important position in the world economy due to its substantial reserves of
petroleum and
natural gas, and has considerable regional influence in Western Asia. The name Iran is a
cognate of Aryan and literally means "Land of the
Aryans." (Full article...)
Upon the death of his father, Varsken went to the
Sasanian capital of
Ctesiphon and was received by the shahanshahPeroz I (
r. 459–484), converting to the family's former religion,
Zoroastrianism. As a reward for his conversion, he was given the viceroyalty of
Caucasian Albania and a daughter of Peroz in marriage. (Full article...)
Barbad (
Persian: باربد;
fl. late 6th – early 7th century CE) was a Persian poet-musician,
lutenist,
music theorist and composer of
Sasanian music. He served as chief minstrel-poet under the Shahanshah
Khosrow II (
r. 590–628). A barbat player, he was the most distinguished Persian musician of his time and is regarded among the major figures in the history of
Persian music.
Despite scarce biographical information, Barbad's
historicity is generally secure. He was highly regarded in the court of Khosrow, and interacted with other musicians, such as
Sarkash. Although he is traditionally credited with numerous innovations in Persian music theory and practice, the attributions remain tentative since they are ascribed centuries after his death. Practically all Barbad's music or poetry is lost, except a single poem fragment and the titles of a few compositions. (Full article...)
The Delian League had been formed between Athens and many of the city-states of the
Aegean to continue the war with Persia, which had begun with the
first and
second Persian invasions of Greece (492–490 and 480–479 BCE, respectively). In the aftermath of the Battles of
Plataea and
Mycale, which had ended the second invasion, the Greek Allies had taken the offensive,
besieging the cities of Sestos and
Byzantium. The Delian League then took over responsibility for the war, and continued to attack Persian bases in the Aegean throughout the next decade. (Full article...)
Abū Saʿīd al-Muhallab ibn Abī Ṣufra al-Azdī (
Arabic: أَبْو سَعِيْد ٱلْمُهَلَّب ابْن أَبِي صُفْرَة ٱلْأَزْدِي;
c. 632 – 702) was an
Arab general from the
Azd tribe who fought in the service of the
Rashidun,
Umayyad and
Zubayrid caliphs between the mid-640s and his death. He served successive terms as the governor of
Fars (685–686),
Mosul,
Arminiya and
Adharbayjan (687–688) and
Khurasan (698–702). Al-Muhallab's descendants, known as the
Muhallabids, became a highly influential family, many of whose members held high office under various Umayyad and
Abbasid caliphs, or became well-known scholars.
Throughout his early military career, he participated in the Arab campaigns against the
Persians in Fars,
Ahwaz,
Sistan and Khurasan during the successive reigns of caliphs
Umar (
r. 634–644),
Uthman (
r. 644–656),
Ali (
r. 656–661) and
Mu'awiya I (
r. 661–680). By 680, his tribe, the Azd of
Oman, had become a major army faction in the Arabs'
Basra garrison, the launchpad for the
Persian conquest. Following the collapse of Umayyad rule in
Iraq and Khurasan in 683–684, during the
Second Muslim Civil War, al-Muhallab was pressed by the Basran troops to lead the campaign against the
Azariqa, a
Kharijite faction which had taken over Ahwaz and threatened Basra. Al-Muhallab landed them a severe blow and drove them into Fars in 685. He was rewarded with the governorship of that province by the anti-Umayyad caliph
Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr (
r. 683–692), whose suzerainty had been recognized in Basra in the wake of the Umayyads' ouster. Al-Muhallab later held a command role in the successful Zubayrid campaign to eliminate the
Kufa-based ruler
al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi in 686/87. After this victory, he was transferred to the governorship of Mosul, where he was charged with protecting Iraq from a potential invasion from Umayyad-controlled
Syria. (Full article...)
Image 7
Abdollah Mirza as depicted by an anonymous Armenian painter
Abdollah Mirza Qajar (
Persian: شاهزاده عبدالله میرزا قاجار; 25 November 1796 – 18 June 1846) was an Iranian prince (shahzadeh) of the
Qajar dynasty, the 11th son of
Fath-Ali Shah, king of
Qajar Iran from 1797 to 1834. Abdollah was the governor of
Zanjan. He had two children, Mohsen Mirza and Shams al-Molok, with his wife. Other than that, he had 19 sons and 9 daughters from his
concubines.
Abdollah Mirza distinguished himself early on in the
Russo-Iranian War of 1826. Though his administration was accompanied by growth and development, he was twice ousted from the government due to complaints. The second time, Fath-Ali Shah handed over the rule of Zanjan to his other son, Fathollah Mirza. Following the death of Fath-Ali Shah, Abdollah tried to reclaim his rule by mobilizing and attacking Zanjan but failed. When during the early reign of
Mohammad Shah (
r. 1834-1848) the eldest sons of Fath-Ali Shah rebelled against him, Abdollah Mirza, unlike his other brothers, went on to confirm his rule. (Full article...)
Abu Talib Rustam (
Persian: ابو طالب رستم; 997–1029), commonly known by his laqab (honorific title) of Majd al-Dawla (مجد الدوله), was the last amir (ruler) of the
Buyid amirate of
Ray from 997 to 1029. He was the eldest son of
Fakhr al-Dawla (
r. 976–980, 984–997). A weak ruler, he was a
figurehead most of his reign, whilst his mother
Sayyida Shirin was the real ruler of the kingdom.
Majd al-Dawla's reign saw the gradual shrinking of Buyid holdings in central Iran;
Gurgan and
Tabaristan had been lost to the
Ziyarids in 997, while several of the western towns were seized by the
Sallarids of
Azerbaijan. There were also internal troubles, such as the revolt of the
Daylamite military officer
Ibn Fuladh in 1016. Following the death of Sayyida Shirin in 1028, Majd al-Dawla was faced with a revolt by his Daylamite soldiers, and thus requested the assistance of the
Ghaznavid ruler
Mahmud (
r. 998–1030) in dealing with them. Mahmud came to Ray in 1029, deposed Majd al-Dawla as ruler, and sacked the city, bringing an end to Buyid rule there. (Full article...)
Pacorus I (also spelled Pakoros I;
Parthian: 𐭐𐭊𐭅𐭓; died 38 BC) was a
Parthian prince, who was the son and heir of
Orodes II (
r. 57–37 BC). The
numismatist David Sellwood deduced that Pacorus ruled in
c. 39 BC. It is uncertain whether Pacorus ruled alongside his father, or ruled independently. His wife was an unnamed
Armenian princess, who was a sister of the
Artaxiad king of Armenia,
Artavasdes II (
r. 55–34 BC).
Following the Parthian victory against the
Romans at the
Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC, the Parthians attempted to capture Roman-held territories in
Western Asia, with Pacorus acting as one of the leading commanders. Although they were initially successful, they were repelled by the Romans. Pacorus himself was defeated and killed at the
Battle of Mount Gindarus by the forces of the
Publius Ventidius Bassus. His death spurred a succession crisis in which Orodes II, deeply afflicted by the death of his favourite son, relinquished the throne to his other son
Phraates IV (
r. 37–2 BC) as his new heir. (Full article...)
...that during the Shiraz blood libel, the first to start the
pogrom of the
Jewish quarter were the soldiers sent to protect the Jews against mob violence?
The
economy of Iran includes a lot of
subsidies. Food items, such as flour and cooking oil, are subsidized, along with fuels such as gasoline. However cutting subsidies can cause civil unrest.
The Imperial Bank of Persia (
Persian: بانک شاهنشاهی ایران,
romanized: Bank-e Šâhanšâhi-ye Irân) was a British bank that operated as the
central bank and
bank of issue in Iran (formerly known as
Persia until 1935) between 1889 and 1929. It was established in 1885 with a concession from the Persian government to
Baron Julius De Reuter (born Israel Beer Josaphat) a German–Jewish banker and businessman who later became a Christian and a British subject.
The bank was the first modern bank in Iran and introduced European banking ideas to a country in which they were previously unknown. The legal centre of the bank was in
London and whilst it was subject to British law, its activities were based in
Tehran. It also had operations in other Middle Eastern countries. It was later named
British Bank of the Middle East (BBME) and is now called
HSBC Bank Middle East Limited. After the
Iranian Revolution of 1979, all the Iranian activities of this bank were transferred to
Bank Tejarat. (Full article...)
The term "Persianate" is a
neologism credited to
Marshall Hodgson. In his 1974 book, The Venture of Islam: The expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods, he defined it thus: "The rise of Persian had more than purely literary consequences: it served to carry a new overall cultural orientation within Islamdom.... Most of the more local languages of high culture that later emerged among Muslims... depended upon Persian wholly or in part for their prime literary inspiration. We may call all these cultural traditions, carried in Persian or reflecting Persian inspiration, 'Persianate' by extension." (Full article...)
Image 4
The Uprising of Sheikh Ubeydullah refers to a Kurdish uprising against the
Ottoman Empire in 1879 and
Qajar Iran between 1880 and 1881. Both uprising were led by
Sheikh Ubeydullah, the leader of the Semdinan
Naqshbandi family who claimed descendance from
Mohammed through his daughter
Fatima. Thus the family had a considerable influence, disposed over large amounts of donations, owned several villages in the region and many Kurdish tribal leaders were devout followers of him. The initial cause for the uprisings were the outcome of the
Russo-Turkish war in 1877-78 and the
Treaty of Berlin which provided the Christian
Armenians and the
Nestorians with considerable rights and autonomy, to which he did not agree to. (Full article...)
Image 5
Habibullah Huseynov (
Russian: Габибулла Ейнуллаевич Гусейнов; 10 October 1910 – 16 April 1945) was an
Iranian AzerbaijaniRed Armycolonel and a posthumous
Hero of the Soviet Union. Huseynov emigrated to
Baku, working as a loader and a fitter. He was drafted into the Red Army on a
Komsomol direction in 1928 and became an artillery officer. He was arrested and imprisoned as an Iranian spy during the
Great Purge. He was released months later and became an anti-aircraft artillery battalion commander, serving in this role during World War II.
In the Caucasus, the Qajar dynasty permanently lost much territory to the
Russian Empire over the course of the 19th century, comprising modern-day eastern
Georgia,
Dagestan,
Azerbaijan, and
Armenia. Despite its territorial losses, Qajar Iran reinvented the Iranian notion of kingship and maintained relative political independence, but faced major challenges to its sovereignty, predominantly from the Russian and
British empires. Foreign advisers became powerbrokers in the court and military. They eventually partitioned Qajar Iran in the 1907
Anglo-Russian Convention, carving out Russian and British influence zones and a neutral zone. (Full article...)
The Little Zab or Lower Zab (
Arabic: الزاب الاسفل, al-Zāb al-Asfal;
Kurdish: Zêy Koya or Zêyê Biçûk;
Persian: زاب کوچک, Zâb-e Kuchak;
Syriac: ܙܒܐ ܬܚܬܝܐ, Zāba Taḥtāya) is a river that originates in
Iran and joins the
Tigris just south of
Al Zab in the
Kurdistan region of
Iraq. The Little Zab is approximately 400 kilometres (250 mi) long and drains an area of about 22,000 square kilometres (8,500 sq mi). The river is fed by rainfall and snowmelt, resulting in a peak
discharge in the spring and low water in the summer and early fall. Two dams built on the Little Zab regulate the river flow, providing water for
irrigation and generating
hydroelectricity. The
Zagros Mountains have been populated since at least the
Lower Palaeolithic, but the earliest archaeological site in the Little Zab basin, Barda Balka, dates to the
Middle Palaeolithic. Human occupation of the Little Zab basin has been attested for every period since then. (Full article...)
... that Russia launched an Iranian satellite into orbit just three weeks after Putin and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei vowed to cooperate against the West?
... that little has been known of the exact whereabouts of Iranian communist leader Ashraf Dehghani since she escaped prison in 1973?
April 24–
April 25,
1980 –
Operation Eagle Claw, a commando mission in
Iran to rescue American embassy hostages, is aborted after mechanical problems ground the rescue helicopters. Eight
United States troops are killed in a mid-air collision during the failed operation.
Foreign travellers in Iran, not only recently but in previous generations, have observed that some of our citizens habitually lie ... In our culture, steeped in history as we are, some liars actually try to explain and justify their behaviour by referring back to past national catastrophes. For example, they will tell you, when Mongol hordes overran the country, lying was the price to pay for personal survival ; and that gave us the habit of mendacity. Whatever its merits as an historical explanation, this point of view certainly offers a pitifully weak justification for today's liars.
This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by
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