Iran
Subtitle: the essential guide to a country on the brink
By: Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Contributors: Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Subjects: Iran.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword by Stephen Kinzer; title: Abbas I; title: Afghanistan : "Operation Enduring Freedom"; title: Armed forces; title: "Axis of evil"; title: A closer look : Bush, Iraq, and the world by Strobe Talbott; title: Clerics; title: The constitutional revolution; title: Culture; title: Cyrus the great; title: Darius; title: Dynastic history; title: Ebadi, Shirin; title: Economy; title: Farsi and other languages; title: Flag; title: Iran-Contra Affair; title: Iran hostage crisis; title: Iran-Iraq war; title: Islamic revolution; title: The Islamic world; title: Ismaʻil I; title: Judicial system; title: Khamenei, (Ayatollah) Ali; title: Khatami, Mohammad; title: Khomeini, (Ayatollah) Ruhollah; title: Kurds; title: Land; title: Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi; title: Mosaddeq, Mohammad; title: Oil; title: "Operation Iraqi Freedom"; title: A closer look : warfare in the 21st century, by Peter Saracino; title: People; title: Persia; title: Political system; title: Rafsanjani, Ali Akbar Hashemi; title: Reforms; title: The revolutionary guards; title: Reza Shah Pahlavi; title: Schools; title: Shariʻah; title: Shiʻites; title: Sunni; title: Tehran; title: The United Nations; title: A closer look : the UN Security Council, Edward C. Luck; title: Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD); title: The white revolution; title: World heritage sites; title: Xerxes I.