Iran The Essential Guide to a Country on the Brink

Name: Iran The Essential Guide to a Country on the Brink
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ISBN: 9780471741510

ISBN-10: 0471741515

ISBN-13: 9780471741510

Edition: 2006

Authors: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Stephen Kinzer

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A major new series from Wiley and Encyclopdia Britannica: sophisticated, definitive overviews of key subjects that any aspiring intellectual needs to know to understand the worldNow readers can have at their fingertips unbiased, up-to-date, must-know details straight from one of the most trusted sources of information around the globe. The first book in the series, Iran, gives readers the necessary background to understand important, ongoing developments in the Middle East's most volatile nation. With President Bush's second term inaugural speech signaling a devotion to the spread of democracy in the Middle East, international attention is turning to the White House's policy toward Iran.…

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List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Limited
Publication date: 2/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.66" wide x 8.44" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Stephen Kinzer is a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.



Note to the Reader


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


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


Islamic Revolution


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, Edward C. Luck


Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)


The White Revolution (1963)


World Heritage Sites


Xerxes I


Bibliography


Index