Iran

The 18th biggest country is Iran

Of your choices: Iran

My choice: N. Korea

Afghanistan is.

Iran has connected Europe to Asia.

The Greeks stood their ground and fought for their freedom against the Persians. Their victory caused the Greeks many lives.

Iran has not fallen. It's still here.

The Shah fell in 1979.

The government allows several specific churches, but conversion from Islam to another religion is prohibited.

In his early years, the Safavid dynasty was internally weak and suject to foreign attack by the Ottomans and Uzbek. Problems and solutions are as follows:

1) Weak internal government
Abbas forcefully took the throne from his blind father, whos failure to rule effectively was the main cause of disloyalty and unpopularity among the troops and society.

2) Foriegn attack
He signed a peace treaty with the Ottomans to buy him time and resources to fight off the Uzbek. Once the Uzbek were defeated, he turned on the Ottomans and regained lost lands.

3) Lack of resources / culture
Abbas re-established control over the provinces and re-supplied the royal treasury with their revenues. He also took control of rich shorelines along the Caspian which had previously belonged to Russia. He moved the capital to Esfehan and took on huge building projects, making it among the most beautiful cities in the world. He also fought off western powers that held claim to middle eastern territories in the Persian Gulf. This allowed him to access shipping and trading routes, supplying Persia with more money and resources.

In addition, he seemed to rule his people with compassion and tolerance for their various beliefs. This may have encouraged a rich and diverse culture.

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Well, first, Egypt and Morocco are in Africa and the rest are in Asia. Also, Israel is a Jewish country whilst the others are all Muslim. Iran is a Shia Muslim country and all the others (except Israel) are Sunni Muslim. Turkey alone is in NATO and Turkey alone has a land border with the EU and part of Turkey is on the European continent. Jordan and Morocco are the only monarchies and Turkey and Israel are the only democracies.

this dynasty in Iran had conflict from one hand with Ottoman and in other hand with internal struggles..but the original conflict was with Ottoman,

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2 nd largest city in Iran is mash-had.

At least 600,000 people lost their lives (300,000 Iranian soldiers, 150,000 Iraqi soldiers, and 150,000 civilians). The real death toll is probably closer to 2,000,0000 dead (800,000 Iranian soldiers, 350,000 Iraqi soldiers, 200,000 civilians, 200,000 genocide victims, and other miscellaneous deaths).

Iran is 71.1 years.

Yes the Persian Army is composed majority of Persians, the immortals and the Archers.

But there is also Mercenaries from Greece and the other citizens of their dominions.

ancient Persia is in Iran
Ancient Persia was located approximately where Iran is now.

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There's a little bit of history to this.

Iran, formerly known as Persia, has been ruled by various kings and emperors for hundreds, even thousands, of years. In the 1920's, a military officer named Reza Pahlavi was able to overthrow the old Qajar shah ("shah" means "king" in Farsi, the language of Iran) and made himself the new shah. During World War II, Britain and the Soviet Union invaded Iran and overthrew the shah- they claimed that the shah was planning on joining Germany's side, but the reality is that they wanted to take control of Iran's oil and trains (the trains were needed so Britain could send supplies to Russia while avoiding Germany and Italy). The shah's son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi became the new shah.

In the early 1950's, a popular new prime minister named Mohammad Mosaddegh was elected. He was so popular that the shah became afraid Mosaddegh would try to overthrow him and take full control. Political infighting ensued, as Mosaddegh and the shah tried to outdo each other. Eventually Mosaddegh was given special emergency powers, allowing him to change the laws as he saw fit. He used these powers to make laws to limit the shah's power and make Iran more democratic.

Mosaddegh's biggest mistake was that he tried to take Iran's oil fields away from the British oil company that controlled them (the company, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company or AIOC is now known as BP). The British didn't want to lose all of that valuable oil, so they convinced the US government that Mosaddegh was a Communist and might join the Soviets- neither of which were true; he actually quite disliked the Iranian Communists. This ploy was smart of the British, because at that time, the US was in the middle of a period of the Cold War where the country was intensely paranoid and thought Communists were trying to take over, both in the US and in other countries.

So the US's CIA and the British MI6 engineered a coup d'etat where Mosaddegh was removed from power and a handpicked military general was installed in his place. During "Operation Ajax", the shah was forced to flee (because it seemed like it was going to fail), but after Mosaddegh was finally overthrown, the shah returned. It is right about here, when the USA overthrew the popular, democratically-elected leader of Iran in 1953, that America's influence helped start the long, painful road to the Iranian Revolution.

Following the Operation Ajax coup, the shah became increasingly oppressive; he formed a secret police, SAVAK, which tortured and murdered thousands of Iranians who opposed him. At the same time, the shah began spending enormous piles of money on himself, his family and friends, and had policies that favored Western, especially British and American, interests, while this was reciprocated by strong support from the West. In 1971, he held a ridiculously massive and lavish party to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the first ancient king of Iran, and invited world leaders to it.

However, conservative religious elements within Iran disliked the increased secular influence of the West, and began to hate the shah and his oppression. A leading Ayatollah (a sort of Shiite Muslim priest and teacher) named Ruhollah Khomeini rallied resistance to the shah's rule, also calling for the end of American influence and an end to the shah's reign. He was forced to leave the country, but in 1979, anti-shah and anti-American protests started in Iran. When the shah tried to quell the protests, he only made things worse and the protests got bigger. Eventually he gave up and fled, and went into exile in the United States.

Khomeini returned to Iran, and began setting up an oppressive "Islamic Republic", ultimately ruled by himself and other Ayatollahs. The Iranian people were still angry with the shah, and when the US refused to send him back, crowds of Iranians attacked the US Embassy in Tehran (the capital city of Iran). They captured 52 Americans and held them hostage for almost a year and a half. American special forces troops were sent on a secret mission to try to free the hostages, but some of the aircraft crashed on the way, and the attempt was a total failure. This disaster was a major factor in Jimmy Carter's failure to get reelected in 1980.

Since 1979, the United States and Iran have had very poor relations. Neither country has an embassy with the other, nor any formal diplomatic relations. Iran's "Islamic Republic" government still spreads propaganda about the "Great Satan" (their nickname for the US), and the US still does much the same in return.

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Holding people against their will until demands are met

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Iraq is a country in the Middle East.