Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-226) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Iran

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

60743217

Responsibility statement

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Sub title

the essential guide to a country on the brink

Table Of Contents

Foreword by Stephen Kinzer -- Abbas I -- Afghanistan : "Operation Enduring Freedom" -- Armed forces -- "Axis of evil" -- A closer look : Bush, Iraq, and the world by Strobe Talbott -- Clerics -- The constitutional revolution -- Culture -- Cyrus the great -- Darius -- Dynastic history -- Ebadi, Shirin -- Economy -- Farsi and other languages -- Flag -- Iran-Contra Affair -- Iran hostage crisis -- Iran-Iraq war -- Islamic revolution -- The Islamic world -- Ismaʻil I -- Judicial system -- Khamenei, (Ayatollah) Ali -- Khatami, Mohammad -- Khomeini, (Ayatollah) Ruhollah -- Kurds -- Land -- Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi -- Mosaddeq, Mohammad -- Oil -- "Operation Iraqi Freedom" -- A closer look : warfare in the 21st century, by Peter Saracino -- People -- Persia -- Political system -- Rafsanjani, Ali Akbar Hashemi -- Reforms -- The revolutionary guards -- Reza Shah Pahlavi -- Schools -- Shariʻah -- Shiʻites -- Sunni -- Tehran -- The United Nations -- A closer look : the UN Security Council, Edward C. Luck -- Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) -- The white revolution -- World heritage sites -- Xerxes I

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