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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2006.Description: x, 226 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0471741515 (pbk.)
  • 9780471741515
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 955.05 22
LOC classification:
  • 415 DS 254.5 I65 2006
Online resources:
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.
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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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Recursos Regionales Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso) 415 DS 254.5 I65 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000029104
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-226).

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.

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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