Iran

They were first conquered by the Persians

The sea battle was Salamis, it was not the Athenians, it was a combined Greek fleet which included the Athenian navy.

Empress Farah Diba is 72 years old (birthdate: October 14, 1938).

They used Persian financial support to build a fleet to gain victory over the Athenian empire in the Peloponnesian War.

Persian Gulf region

15 years or more

The Shah lost power when he began to assert himself and the nation in the face of antagonism from Anglo-Persian oil AKA British Petroleum. After taking the case to the International court and losing the bid to nationalize its oil, Iran was forced into a humiliating compromise that allowed the British to continue exploiting Iranian oil and make small, relatively insignificant and inconsistent compensation sums to the Iranian government. At the close of this deal, it was planned for Iran to conduct its own affairs over the export and pricing of its oil. This deal would have ended between 1978 and 1979.

The west was further irritated by the Shah's attempts to assert Iran over western colonialism and commercial exploitation, which led to the rise in the price of oil as a result of an OPEC summit meeting in 1971 (exact date?). As a result, the Shah lost his support base in the west and western press became increasingly hostile to his rule and politics, helping foment the seeds of rebellion in the press and media, in favor of Islamic militants.

The West, then as now, falsely believed that Islamic militants and fundamentalists could be turned into subservient, cooperative vassals who would give them highly favorable rates and prices on oil, allowing the nation and populace to sink into ignorance and thus, spelling doom for national consciousness and identity, the true obstacles to western exploitation.

This was in fact a continuation of the old British Imperialistic policies from the time of Sykes, Mountbatten and Churchill who believed that the West, and in particular Britain, should appropriate itself the oil reserves and all resources between the Indus and Tigris rivers at any cost.

Islamic fundamentalists had once been aroused by the British in the early part of the 20th century, at the time of the Constitution movement since it was believed that by perpetuating ignorance and poverty, the British companies could continue their easy exploitation of a downtrodden, mostly illiterate nation perpetually. The same politics were applied in 1979, thanks to the BBC, British and French press, this time with great success and to the delight of Islamic fundamentalists, communist revolutionaries, and opponents of the late Shah.

This question can't be answered it is too vague. We need to know who we are comparing the Persians to, so we can see what they have in common with them.

Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia

Iraq

ten billion years a go

WW1

The answer you are looking for is "Persia", but this is incorrect.

At exactly 1500 C.E., Iran was not under a unitary government. The Timurids lost power in 1458 and the Safavids came to power in 1502, as a result, different parts of Iran were under different empires of the Oghuz Türks. Even if the European in question was referring to Persia as a geographic region, the name Persia would be different in different languages depending on the European State (athough most are similar to either Perjza or Persiya in pronunciation).

1 billion

the capital city of iran is a big town and its where i born and live, its tehran, in middle of iran..... with a lots of people and place to have fun!

Iran was established when the Medes empire was formed with the Achaemenid empire. Cyrus the Great joined the two empires and established Persia, which was the biggest empire the world had ever seen. Several empires have risen from Iran and have conquered more land than Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great and Russia.

tehran is a city in iran.

The Iranian capital Tehran.

The results of the CIA was that they had got beat up really bad nd that they got ran away from their own town

Yes it is and so is Iraq.

Persia was the name that the western world had given Iran. Inside Iran, the country was referred to as Aryanam, or "Land of the Aryans." So when in 1935 Reza Shah asked that the country be called "Iran" (derived from Aryanam), it was not a change of name, but being asked to be called by that which they'd always called themselves.

no she can NOT no she can NOT

The hostages were released the day Reagan was Inaugurated. The effort to free the hostages came about due to the US signing the Algiers Accord which guaranteed the US would not interfere with Iranian internal affairs, they removed the freeze on Iranian oil trade sanctions and money assets, both countries would end litigation, Iranian debts to the US would be paid and the property of the former Shah would be addressed as requested.

King Darius appointed Satraps or governors to rule various provinces in his empire for easier governance. By appointing Satraps, he was free from mundane daily bureaucratic issues of ruling an empire that streched from the northern borders of India, the entire Middle East and all the way to Libya and parts of Greece.

After 50 years of warfare trying to enforce peace amongst the Greek city-states, the Persians agreed in 449 BCE to peace and left the Greek cities to go back to destroying each other, and turned their full attention to maintaining peace and prosperity within their empire. They intervened 60 years later, imposing the 'King's Peace' to stop these disruptions spilling over into their empire.

There were four primary reasons that the Sassanian Persian Empire crumbled in the face of Arab Muslim conquerors.

1) General Strength of Nomadic Soldiers: Historically, prior to 19th century weaponry, an enemy who was mounted and able to move quickly could encircle and achieve tremendous successes over settled empires. This situation replayed itself quite often and was a worldwide phenomenon. Many Chinese Imperial Sources stress how important it was to maintain a string of "Cooked Barbarian allies", who were small tribal nations along the Chinese border, but who had the same horseman skills as the more ruthless and adversarial :"Uncooked" Mongol Tribes. The advantage of being on horseback meant that without these Cooked Barbarians to intercede with the Mongols, the Chinese Empire, with the largest armies in the world at that time, would be ill-equipped to defend its territory.

In the case of the Sassanian Persians and the Arab Muslims, there was much the same issue. While the Persians had a large military, it could not compete with the speed and dexterity of the Arab Muslims who had a quick cavalry and had experience as raiding parties and in wars with both sedentary and nomadic enemies. To further push the balance towards the Arabs, King Yazdagerd III made the fatal flaw of trying to fight the Arabs on open plains where horses are most advantageous rather than wait for the Arabs to try to besiege major Persian cities, where the Arab lack of siege equipment would weaken their position.

2) Byzantine-Sassanian Wars: The Byzantines and Sassanians considered each other the only real civilizations in Middle East less than a few decades before the Rise of Islam and fought each other numerous times over control of what is today East Turkey and Iraq. These were intense religious wars (Christian vs. Zoroastrian) and greatly weakened both empires at just the wrong time. When the Arabs faced the Persians, the size of the Sassanian Persian Army was less than half of what it had been prior to fighting with the Byzantines. Additionally, since Arabia had been seen as a cultural and political backwater barely worth notice prior to the Rise of Islam, the Sassanians maintained a porous southern defense and miscalculation of the strength, experience, and numbers of the invading Islamic Armies.

3) Cultural Traits of the Arabs: Arab Tribes and warriors owed their loyalty to their Sheikhs and leaders without fault because the Sheikh provided each person with all of the amenities and protection necessary to live a full life. Whenever the Arabs went to war, the Sheikhs could count on the ability to muster their tribesmen as soldiers without issue. This meant that relatively large numbers of men could be called upon to join Sa3d ibn Abi Waqqas (one of the Islamic Empire's chief generals) in his invasion of Persia.

4) Persian Muslims and Allegiance of Persian Nobles: Among the Muslims coming out of Arabia were a number of Persian slaves that had been sold in Arabia and freed by Muhammad, such as his Apostle Salman the Persian. These Persian Muslims understood the lay of the land well and after the Fall of Ctesiphon, the Sassanian capital city, were able to serve as effective administrators until Persia could effectively be added to the Caliphate. Additionally, Persian Muslims like Salman recognized that the Persian nobility, if given a position to retain their power, could be counted on to support the new Islamic administration, since these nobles would rather serve a different master than plunge Persia into a decades-long civil war. As a result, by simply converting to Islam, Persian nobles could retain their holdings and even acquire the holdings of nobles who failed to convert to Islam or declare loyalty to the Caliph.