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Ahmadinejad, Rouhani and Iran now
Michael Axworthy
in Iran: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How did Ahmadinejad become president in 2005?
Among the presidents Iran has had since the revolution, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the joker in the pack. He was not part of the charmed ...
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Ancient and Islamic Iran
Michael Axworthy
in Iran: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What do we know about the Indo-European peoples and the origins of Iran?
What we know begins with the fact that the Persian language (known to Iranians in their own tongue as ...
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Introduction
Michael Axworthy
in Iran: What Everyone Needs to Know®
For many years, Iran has been closed off from much of the rest of the outside world, but now the country is opening up. The conclusion of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in ...
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The Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988), Rafsanjani, Khatami, Reconstruction, and Reform
Michael Axworthy
in Iran: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What or who was primarily responsible for the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war?
Various causes have been presented to explain the origin of the Iran-Iraq war, including deep-seated ...
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The Pahlavis
Michael Axworthy
in Iran: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How did the British take control of Iranian oil in the first years of the twentieth century?
Part of the story of western encroachment and the increasing weakness of the Qajar ...
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The Revolution of 1979
Michael Axworthy
in Iran: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Who was Ruhollah Khomeini and how did he come to wield such influence over Iranians?
Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini was born in September 1902 in Khomein, a small town between Tehran and ...
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The Safavids and the Impact of the West (1500–1921)
Michael Axworthy
in Iran: What Everyone Needs to Know®
When and why did Iran turn Shi‘a?
At the beginning of the sixteenth century a new empire was established on the Iranian plateau—the empire of the Safavids. The Safavid dynasty ...
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