Iran

Louis Southern

With Iraq weak, it makes sense that Iran would gain power over them. In the war the Iraqi people were losing money, people and power, if Iran took advantage of this it could have been invaded. Also I'm sure that Iran's economy was better since no one could get much out of Iraq during the war.

PERSIA is the historic name for the various empires that emanated from and controlled modern-day Iran, in the Middle East. The most famous Persian Empires are those of the Achaemenids, Parthians, Sassanids, Khwarezmians, Safavids, and Qajjars. Under the Pahlavi Dynasty, which directly succeeded the Qajjars, the country was renamed as Iran.

PRUSSIA was a historic German state found in 1525 as the Duchy of Prussia in what is today northeast Poland and Russian Kaliningrad. It was always ruled by the royal House of Hohenzollern and expanded south and west from its capital in Königsberg. Eventually, it came to dominate the Western third of modern Poland and the northeast quarter of modern Germany, shifting its capital to Berlin in 1701. The Prussians led by Otto von Bismarck achieved the unification of Germany in the 19th century and Prussia was incorporated into the German Empire or Second Reich in 1871. After German defeats in both World Wars, the eastern two-thirds of Prussia was ceded to Poland and the Soviet Union.

Yes Iran does have a soccer team and have played at world cups as well.

The Safavid dynasty ruled one of the greatest Persian empires since the Muslim conquest of Persia and established the Twelve school of Shi'a Islam as the official religion of their empire, marking an important turning points in Muslim history.

1000 Km or 620 Miles

Operation Eagle Claw was a failed US attempt to rescue hostages from the US Embassy in Iran, which had been seized by the Iranians.

He did not defeat the Persians. The Persians were defeated in three battles - Themistocles was at one of them - Salamis where the commander was Spartan Eurybiades. Themistocles is credited with a successful ruse to split the Persian fleet which evened the size of the fleets, and proposing the battle be carried out in the confined waters in the strait at Salamis which gave the Greek fleet the opportunity to attack the flanks of the heavier Persian ships with their lighter ones.

The real economic status of Iran is close to collapse. the factories and companies are collapsing in a domino effect because of sanctions, corruptions, and flight of capital and advanced labour force from the country. The only income is the decreasing oil exports of iran, and that is a matte of time before the oilexports stops because of lack of spare parts in that industry. The purchasing power of the people is very low. You could in economic terms put it this way: the country is having high inflation in goodsprices, but everything else is like under a deflation.

17.17 births/1,000 population. 5.72 deaths/1,000 population.

Under Ahmed Shah Qajjar, the last Shah of the Qajjar Dynasty, more and more concessions were being made to foreign imperialists, especially the British and the Russians. During World War I, Iran, a neutral nation, served as a battleground between the Russians and the Ottomans, putting many Iranians in danger. The British also launched an attack on the nascent Soviet Union through Iran and the Soviets responded by annexing Iranian territory to create buffer states. The bureaucracy under Ahmed Shah Qajjar was also weak and unruly. As a result, Reza Shah Pahlavi performed a coup d'etat and became the Shah of Iran in an attempt to reassert Iranian power and regional influence in 1925.

Capital: Teheran

Continent: Asia

The 'goose step' originates from from 19th century Prussian drill regulations. It was picked up on by several other military forces - notably, the Imperial Russian Army. After the Bolshevik Revolution, the Red Army continued to use the goose step in their drilling regulations, and passed this on to other countries they provided training and military assistance to, including North Korea.

In the case of Iran, the continued practice of goose stepping is carried over from the pre-revolutionary Imperial Iranian Armed Forces.

The mugger is the only crocodilian found in Iran and Pakistan

The opposition against Pahlavi was not united. There were Communists, Socialists, Feminists, Nationalists, Islamists, and numerous other wildly different groups that opposed the Shah.

After the Shah was deposed in January 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini, a leading Islamist, was able to commandeer the direction of the revolution.

To first destroy the Persian sea power which threatened the Greek city-states and so made them keep their armies at home defending their cities. With the sea threat gone, the cities could send out their armies to unite and take on the Persian army.

The language is called Farsi or Persian (you can use whichever you like)

Hi=Salaam
Bye=Khodaa fez

Persians are Aryans.

The Aryans lived together long ago but they've been separated to 3 different groups. One of the groups went to Persia (Iran), one of the other groups went to India and the other group went to Europe (Germany, Rome, Greece).

A lot of people say there was only one group of Aryans but that's not true. Persians, Germans and Indians are pure Aryans. Adolf Hitler said that too. Iran was called Persia until Reza Shah came and changed it to Aryan -> Ayran -> "Iran"

Some people say that Aryans (Persians and Germans) are racist and say that the Aryan race is better then any other race. Some people even say that that's why Hitler even started the (second) world war. It may be true but that's not what "I" think. I also don't think that Germans and Persians are racist 'cause my dad's a German and my mom's Persian.

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500tomans

Ronald Reagan was the president during the Iran-Conta scandal.

It eroded their trust in President Jimmy Carter and helped Ronald Reagan get elected.

The Iranians captured the U.S. embassy. They captured and held all the Americans who were there until thirty minutes after Ronald Regan was elected president.

"he was the main leader of Iran.

now he is a dictator"

Actually, he still has a lot of supporters across Iran as well as some other countries. The full text of his speeches and his views have been accurately translated into a large number of languages, which are available on his website. I think Western politicians should have a look at his website (at least the English translations!) before trying to approach Iran. I found the English translations particularly good because it was accurate and almost free of anglicized Persian rhetorical flourishes. Here is the URL:

http://english.khamenei.ir