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Iran : the essential guide to a country on the brink, Encyclopaedia Britannica

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the essential guide to a country on the brink

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

Publication

• Hoboken, N.J., John Wiley & Sons, 2006

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• ©2006

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226)

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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

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22 cm

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x, 226 pages

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9780471741510

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2005018251

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955.05 IR1 ; P ; XX-N ; C0406BT2 (BU).

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