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• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Note to the Reader
• Introduction
• Afghanistan: “Operation Enduring Freedom”
• Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
• Armed Forces
• “Axis of Evil”
• A Closer Look Bush, Iraq, and the World
• 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
• 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
• Shari’ah
• Shi’ites
• Sunni
• Tehran
• The United Nations
• A Closer Look The UN Security Council
• Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
• The White Revolution (1963)
• World Heritage Sites
• Xerxes I
• Bibliography