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Iran
Iran is a republic country situated in Central Eurasia and Western Asia with an estimated population of 76.9 million as of 2010. It is the 18th largest country in the world with a total land area of 1,648,195 sq km.
3,383 Questions
How old was the Shah of Iran when he died?
As he was in exile the shah had cancer, I take it he was 67 years old.
The southern kingdom of Mesopotamia conquered by the Persians in 539 BC?
i have no clue. but this is my social studies question tonight. and i cant find it anywhere! please respond!
How were the Greeks able to defeat the Persians at Marathon?
The Athenian army waited for reinforcement from Sparta, but then they saw the Persian cavalry being embarked on ships they rushed down and defeated the inferior Persian infantry without their cavalry protection.
Then, realisng that the Persian cavalry was being rowed around to attack the city whose gates would be opened by traitors, they ran back 26 miles over the hills to form up in front of the city just as the persia cavalry was being disembarked. The persians went home.
Try doing a Marathon run carrying armour, shield, weapons and wearing sandals.
The Athenians and Plataeans were waiting in the hills around the plain, where the Persian cavalry couldn't get at them, for reinforcements from Sparta. The observed the Persian cavalry being loaded onto ships and rushed down and defeated the inferior unarmoured Persian infantry unprotected by their cavalry.
Who started the Iran-Iraq War?
The Iran-Iraq War started when Saddam Hussein ordered the Iraqi Army to march into Khuzestan, a southwestern Iranian province on September 22, 1980.
Persia is the name of a region in south central Iran (from Greek 'Persis', from Persian 'Pars'). The province of Pars or Fars, which has been called that for ca. 25 centuries. Iran has always been called Iran by its people. However, Europe used to know Iran as Persia or the Persian Empire.
The Greeks called Iran after that one province because: 1. it was ancient times and they didn't know better, 2. the province of Pars was where the tribe of Parsa originated. Achaemenid Dynasty was founded by members of Parsa (the Persians) led by Cyrus and it ruled modern-day Iran's expanse as well as Asia Minor (including Ionia, where most ancient Greek writers came from), most of Central Asia, a large part of North Africa, northern Arabia.
In 1935, Reza Pahlavi (founder of Pahlavi Dynasty that ruled Iran until 1979) requested that all foreign parties call Iran in their official documents by the same name its people have always called it (rather than Persia, as was customary in European documents before that).
When did the Persians invade Greece?
In 499 BC several Greek cities in Asia Minor rebelled against Persian rule. To help their fellow Greeks, a few city-states in mainland Greece sent soldiers to join the fight against the Persians.
The Persians put down the revolt, but Darius was still angry with the Greeks. Although the cities that had rebelled were in Asia, Darius was enraged that other Greeks had given them aid. He swore to get revenge on the Greeks.
What are the letters in the Iranian alphabet?
The answer to this question depends on what you mean by "alphabet", and what stage of the language you're talking about.
The fact is that the Egyptians never had an alphabet as it's conventionally defined. What they had was a collection of 5000 or more glyphs (signs), some of which were used to record sounds and some of which represented whole words or conceptual categories. Between 700 and 800 of these were in common use during the Middle Egyptian period, which is considered the language's golden age. Many of the phonetic glyphs represented more than one sound (the hare, for example, represented the consonants wn), and none of them represented vowels.
There was a set of glyphs in Middle Egyptian that were used to write single consonants, but although it would have been possible to write texts in a purely phonetic way using only these glyphs, in the manner of consonant-only alphabets (technically, "abjads") such as Phoenician or Hebrew, this was never actually done.
The collection of glyphs usually referred to as the "Egyptian alphabet" is the set of signs that record a single consonant each ("monoliteral" signs). Scholars usually list 24 or 25 consonants in Middle Egyptian, depending on whether they consider the sounds transliterated as 's' and 'z' to be the same or not. These were distinct phonemes in Old Egyptian, but it's clear that at some point the two sounds had merged and the symbols developed to record them were used interchangeably. A distinction is maintained between 'd' and 'D' (perhaps English 'j') and between 't' and 'T' (perhaps English 'ch'), even though these pairs also began to merge during the Middle Egyptian period. Of these 24 or 25 consonant sounds, five could be written using two different glyphs (for example, 'w' using either a chick or a curlicue).
In later Egyptian, the monoliteral signs were adapted for the alphabetic writing of foreign names. A number of signs were added to the inventory, including symbols for the consonant /l/ (a recumbent lion) and the vowel /o/ (a lasso). The royal names on the Rosetta Stone (196 BCE) are an example of this, since the rulers of Egypt at the time were of Greek ancestry and bore Greek names.
What did the Persians of Mesopotamia do?
The Persians did not come from Mesopotamia - they were a vassal of Media, which they took over and then with their help, conquered the Babylonian Empire in Mesopotamia. They then expanded this empire to include all the Middle East, Egypt and east as far as today's Pakistan. This empire lasted for two hundred years until taken over by Alexander the Great.
When did the Iraq and American war start?
If you mean the current offensive campaign, it started on March 19, 2003.
Some believe the 2003 campaign traces it roots back to the Gulf War in the early 90s and is often considered the inevitable conclusion of the coalition forces decision not to remove Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, from power at the time.
Iraqi forces violently invaded the country of Kuwait in August of 2000. After 7 months of intense fighting and alleged atrocities committed by Iraqi forces, the United States responded to the Kuwaiti request for military intervention and led a multi-nation coalition.
Another perspective with a great deal of support is the Bush administration in 2003 used the false argument of Iraq possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction to invade in the hopes of creating a puppet government in Iraq which would favor U.S. oil interest.
Why did fundamentalist Muslims in Iran overthrow the Shah in 1979?
Iranians in general were opposed to the Shah and opposed him from nearly every political perspective. These include:
- Some said that the Shah was not religious enough
- Some believed that the Shah's policies were too oppressive
- Some believed that the Shah was modernizing without preserving Iran's cultural heritage and others were angry that he was moving too slowly
- Some believed that the Shah was a sellout to foreign interests and others believed his foreign focuses were too narrow.
- Some believed that the Shah did not grant women enough rights and others thought that women had too many rights.
- Some believed that the Shah should have encouraged more middle class growth and others believe he should have put more capital into industry.
- Some wanted more privatization and others wanted more nationalization.
As concerns the specific reasons for the Iranian protests and the eventual revolution, they were numerous:
Wealth & Employment Issues: Most importantly was the wealth inequality between the Shah and the nobility and common Iranian citizen. There was immense poverty throughout the country and high unemployment, underemployment, low wages, and few protections for laborers.
Religious Conservatism: Most Iranians were religiously conservative (similar to the American Bible-belt as opposed to the Fundamentalists) and resisted the Shah's Westernization and Secularization movements in Iran. The Shah made clear that religion was not important to him as a ruler, whereas it was a concern among the people.
Puppet to Foreigners: The Shah was also seen as a Western puppet, especially when the CIA overthrew the Iranian President Mossadegh in 1953 to re-install the Shah of Iran and considering how Iran profited very little from its own petroleum.
Brutal Secret Police: The Shah had a notorious secret police called the SAVAK which harassed people and killed scores of others.
Authoritarianism: Iranians wanted to be in control of their own affairs. Iranians wanted some form of self-government or democracy. The Shah was an authoritarian who prevented people from expressing their own opinions.
Issue for Fundamentalists: Particularly in the fundamentalist camp, the fundamentalists in Iran felt that the Shah epitomized a Western culture of greed and materialism, because he tried to establish a more secular government. As with many rulers, he accumulated vast personal wealth. He also employed various means to suppress political dissent. It was ultimately the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini who in 1979 succeeded the Shah and established an Islamic religious government.
Note: The fact that these grievances existed does not mean that the Islamic Republic of Iran afterwards "fixed" these problems.
Answer 2
The main reason was that majority of Iranians are Shia Muslims and wanted a Islamic government of jurist and Shah was in fact an anti-Islam dictator.
How the did the Greeks win against the Persians in the battle of Thermopylae?
Thermopylai was just a holding action to force a sea battle where the Greeks tried to destroy the Persian fleet, which was the key to defeating the invasion. The sea battle failed, so there was no reason to continue to hold the pass. The Spartan contingent continued to hold the pass to let the other Greek contingents escape to friendly city walls to prevent the Persian cavalry broking through and catching them in open country.
What kind of government does Iran have?
Economics is part of the public and private part.
The current Iranian economic system is very similar to that of other Middle Eastern countries. It is primarily capitalist, but with state intervention as concerns schooling, health, and other typically public departments.
Yes. The Ahwaz Community represents the majority of Iranian Arabs. They live primarily in the provinces of Khuzestan and Hormozgan.
However, Persians are the dominant ethnic group in Iran, while Arabs are roughly 2% of the Iranian population.
It's complicated. The simplest answer is to say that Congress could not "unapprove it".
Under a typical treaty analysis, President Obama would be required by the US Constitution to get Senate ratification of the treaty with a two-thirds majority. However, Obama argued that the Iran Deal was an "executive agreement" and not a "treaty". As an executive agreement, the President is not required to seek Congressional approval, but he may grant Congress the right to vote up or down on the agreement. This up or down vote is a plain majority vote in the Congress, but can be vetoed by the President. This effectively makes the approval requirement for an "executive agreement" the almost-exact reverse of the approval requirement for a "treaty". Instead of two-thirds of the Senate being required to approve a "treaty", now, two-thirds of the Senate and two-thirds of the House of Representatives are required to override the Presidential veto preventing their disapproval of the "executive action" from coming to pass. Congress was not able to muster the two-thirds needed to oppose the Iran Nuclear Deal.
Note that Obama is not the first or only President to use this legal finagling in order to avoid a direct Senate vote. "Executive Agreements" were first invented by Franklin D. Roosevelt and were used by all subsequent US Presidents.
What are the political beliefs of Iran?
The Political beliefs of the government in Iran center around their religion of Islam. Laws & policies in Iran are made in line with their interpretation of the Qur'an, which is why Iran is considered a theocracy. However, it should be noted that a significant portion of Iranians would prefer a more secular and democratic form of government; the problem is that protests are illegal in Iran and all political candidates must be "acceptable" to the Ayatollahs.
How much does Ali Khameni the supreme leader of Iran make per year?
It is unclear how much money Ali Khamenei of Iran makes since his wages are not public knowledge. He probably has millions of dollars to his name though.
Who is the Secretary of the Cabinet for Iran?
Mohsen Haji-Mirzaie is the Secretary of the Cabinet for Iran.
Who was in charge of the Safavid?
The Safavid dynasty was founded about 1501 by Shāh Ismāil I.he was the last in the line of hereditary Grand Masters of the Safaviyeh order, prior to its ascent to a ruling dynasty. Ismāil was known as a brave and charismatic youth, zealous with regards to his Shi'a faith, and believed himself to be of divine descent-practically worshipped by his Qizilbāsh followers. In 1500, Ismāil invaded neighboring Shirvan to avenge the death of his father, Sheik Haydar, who had been murdered in 1488 by the ruling Shirvanshah, Farrukh Yassar. Afterwards, Ismail went on a conquest campaign, capturing Tabriz in July 1501, where he enthroned himself the Shāh of Azerbaijan, proclaimed himself Shahanshah of Iran[ and minted coins in his name, proclaiming Shi'ism the official religion of his domain.
What sect of Islam was the Safavid Empire?
The Safavid Empire is primarily made of SHIITE MUSLIMS, because that was the official religion of the empire. Numerous Persian Sunni Muslims were forcibly converted to Shiite Islam under Safavid rule.
Why do Israel and Iran hate each other?
Answer 1
Not all Muslims and Jews hate each other. With regards to religion, they have no reason to hate each other; they can even be friends, and many are.
Answer 2
There is a lot of conflict between Jews and Muslims, although it would be an exaggeration to say that ALL Jews and Muslims hate each other. Some get along. The source of the conflict is a dispute over the ownership of the particular territory known currently as Israel, formerly known as Palestine, and sometimes called the Holy Land.
Answer 3
See the links below which provide many of the reasons why there is Jewish-Arab hate. It is important to note, however, that it is a great exaggeration to say that even the majority of each group hates the majority of the other group. It just happens that the minority who do happen to be very vocal. Also, unfortunately, in situations like this, the peaceful majority are virtually irrelevant.
What are the causes of the Jewish-Arab Conflict?
Who is the Vice President for Legal Affairs of Iran?
Eshaq Jahangiri is the First Vice President of Iran.
