However, recent classifications have abandoned Mon – Khmer as a taxon, either reducing it in scope or making it synonymous with the larger family ( Diffloth 2005, Sidwell 2009 ).

Sidwell ( 2005 ) reconstructs the consonant inventory of Proto-Mon – Khmer as follows:

** Atlas III was a US launch vehicle ( 2000 – 2005 )

The debate continues unabated – e. g. S. Georg 2004, A. Vovin 2005, S. Georg 2005 ( anti-Altaic ); S. Starostin 2005, V. Blažek 2006, M. Robbeets 2007, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ( pro-Altaic ).

* 2005 – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president ; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.

* 1929 – Willis Hall, English playwright and writer ( d. 2005 )

* 1932 – Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician ( d. 2005 )

* 1923 – Percy Heath, American jazz musician ( Modern Jazz Quartet ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1911 – Kay Walsh, English actress ( d. 2005 )

* 1939 – Edward Patten, American singer-songwriter and producer ( Gladys Knight & the Pips ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1928 – Herb Moford, American baseball player ( d. 2005 )

* 1921 – J. James Exon, American politician ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – Caylee Anthony, American murder victim ( d. 2008 )

* 1925 – Benny Bailey, American trumpet player, songwriter, and producer ( Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland Big Band ) ( d. 2005 )

With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.

* 2005 – Air France Flight 358, lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.

* 1924 – Joe Harnell, American pianist, composer, and arranger ( d. 2005 )

* 1944 – Jim Capaldi, English singer-songwriter and drummer ( Traffic ) ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and ambassador ( b 1925 )

* 2005 – Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist and composer ( b. 1915 )

* 2005 – Harald Juhnke, German actor ( b. 1929 )

* 2005 – Jack Keller, American songwriter ( b. 1936 )

* 2005 – Dhabihu ' llah Mahrami, executed Iranian Bahá ' í ( b. 1946 )

* 1930 – Karim Emami, Iranian translator, editor, and critic ( d. 2005 )

The Dostluk dam, opened at Serakhs on the Iranian border in 2005, has increased available irrigation water and improved efficiency.

The main petroleum pipeline was completed in 2005 under American pressure to limit Russian and Iranian influence in the area.

In 2005, 80 Iranian Kurds took part in an experiment and gained scholarships to study in Kurdish in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Between 1987 and 2005 the Iranian authorities closed down the university several times as part of the pattern of suppressing the Bahá ' í community.

* Gholam Hossein Jahanshahi ( 1920 – 2005 ), economist, Iranian statesman

* Sina-1, an Iranian satellite launched on a Russian rocket in October 2005

The political and social role of University of Tehran in the Iranian domestic arena has continued to be so pronounced that in November 2005 ( to February 2008 ) a senior Islamic scholar became chancellor of the university, replacing Dr. Faraji-dana ( professor of electrical engineering faculty ).

More recently, in the later months of 2005, an intensive anti-Bahá ' í campaign was conducted by Iranian newspapers and radio stations.

The Iranian satellite Sina 1 was launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome on 27 October 2005.

Seyed Kamal Kharazi (, born 1 December 1944 ) is an Iranian politician and diplomat who was the Minister of Foreign Affairs from August 20, 1997 to August 24, 2005 as appointed by President Mohammad Khatami serving for eight years.

The current President of Iran is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has served since the 2005 Iranian presidential election.

On 8 April 2005, the alphabetic ordering of leaders during the funeral of Pope John Paul II resulted in Katsav sitting near Iranian President Mohammad Khatami who, like Katsav, was born in the Iranian city of Yazd.

* Mehdi Karroubi an influential Iranian reformist politician, democracy activist, mojtahed, and chairman of the National Trust Party, Chairman of the parliament from 1989 to 1992 and 2000 to 2004, and a presidential candidate in the 2005 and 2009 presidential elections.

* National Iranian American Council ( 2002, 2005, 2006 )

One of Kashani's children, Mahmoud Kashani, was head of the Iranian delegation to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, in Iran's case with the United States and a presidential candidate in the Iranian presidential elections of 1988 and 2005.

He was accused of denying the Holocaust in an interview with the Iranian television station " Sahar 1 " in February 2005.

The platform / engine of the Kia Pride also formed the basis for the Iranian P. K ( 2000 to 2005 ) and New P. K ( 2005 to 2007 ) models, which utilize Renault 5 bodies.

According to the statement, former presidents, Mohammad Khatami and Rafsanjani had taken an oath not to abandon each other in their support for former prime minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi as they prepared to stage a Velvet Revolution in order to avenge their defeat in Iranian presidential election, 2005.

" Iranian Studies, volume 38, number 3, September 2005.