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political prisoners across Iran. This is commonly referred to as the 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners or the 1988 Iranian Massacre. The main target...

Portrait of Iranian Jews, Houman Sarshar, pages 35-38, Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History, 2005. Comprehensive history of the Jews of Iran: the outset...

Cinema) Iranian Cinema in Western eye The history of Iranian cinema: Time for intellectuals Iranian cinema & performance arts Iran Film Iranian OSCAR:...

ISBN 978-0-71009-105-5. Yarshater, Ehsan (2021). "Chronological Table of Events in Iranian History". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica (Online ed.). Encyclopædia...

"IRAN ii. IRANIAN HISTORY (2) Islamic period (page 6)". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. XIII/3: Iran II. Iranian history–Iran V...

Iranian identity and a clue to its historical longevity. Furthermore, Iran's culture has manifested itself in several facets throughout the history of...

notorious Iranian generals and commanders were of Caucasian ancestry. Many of their descendants linger forth in Iran as the Iranian Georgians, Iranian Circassians...

Iranian philosophy (Persian: فلسفه ایرانی) or Persian philosophy can be traced back as far as to Old Iranian philosophical traditions and thoughts which...

The Imperial Iranian Air Force (IIAF) was a branch of the Imperial Iranian Armed Forces and was established by Reza Shah, the Shah of Iran, in 1920.[citation...

surrounding the Iranian plateau. It is referred to as the "Iranian Cultural Continent" by Encyclopædia Iranica. Throughout the 16th–19th centuries, Iran lost many...

The Iranian Intermezzo, also called the Persian Renaissance, was a period in Iranian history marked by the rise to power of the first Iranian Muslim dynasties...

in Iran. Contemporary Iranian philosophy has been limited in its scope by intellectual repression. Iranian mythology consists of ancient Iranian folklore...

any of the Iranian languages, which are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages within the Indo-European language family. The Proto-Iranians are believed...

in various dishes. Outside of Iran, a strong presence of Iranian cuisine can be found in cities with significant Iranian diaspora populations, namely the...

Iranian Americans, also known as Persian Americans, are United States citizens or nationals who are of Iranian ancestry, or who hold Iranian citizenship...

Imperial Iranian Navy in Napoli, 1932. The Iranian warship Babr (Tiger) circa 1936. 1950s era Iranian postage stamp illustrating the Iranian warship Palang...

until the abolition of the Iranian monarchy in the Iranian Revolution (1979). The earliest Iranian empire is generally considered to have been either...

One of the most dramatic changes in government in Iran's history was seen with the 1979 Iranian Revolution where Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was overthrown...

Revolution of 1979, Iran's government proceeded with 4 reforms: First they nationalized all industry, including the NIOC, and all Iranian banks. The new Constitution...

The Cambridge History of Iran is a multi-volume survey of Iranian history published in the United Kingdom by Cambridge University Press. The seven volumes...