Table of Contents
Note to the Reader.
Introduction by Stephen Kinzer.
Afghanistan: "Operation Enduring Freedom".
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud.
Armed Forces.
"Axis of Evil".
A Closer Look: Bush, Iraq, and the World, by Strobe Talbott.
Clerics.
The Constitutional Revolution.
Culture.
Cyrus the Great.
Darius I.
Dynastic History.
Ebadi, Shirin.
Economy.
Farsi and Other Languages.
Flag.
Iran-Contra Affair.
Iran Hostage Crisis.
Iran-Iraq War.
Iraq: "Operation Iraqi Freedom".
A Closer Look: Warfare in the 21st Century, by Peter Saracino.
Islamic Revolution.
The Islamic World.
Judicial System.
Khamenei, (Ayatollah) Ali.
Khatami, Mohammad.
Khomeini, (Ayatollah) Ruhollah.
Kurds.
Land.
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
Mosaddeq, Mohammad.
Oil.
People.
Persia.
Political System.
Rafsanjani, Ali Akbar Hashemi.
Reforms.
The Revolutionary Guards.
Reza Shah Pahlavi.
Schools.
Shah 'Abbas I.
Shah Isma'il.
Shari'ah.
Shi'ites.
Sunni.
Tehran.
The United Nations.
A Closer Look: The UN Security Council, Edward C. Luck.
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).
The White Revolution (1963).
World Heritage Sites.
Xerxes I.
Bibliography
Index.