On September 19, 2006, in a Reuters Newsmaker conference, Turner said of Iran's nuclear position: " They're a sovereign state.

In addition, Iran's geographical position was important to the Allies.

A May 2009 U. S. Congressional Report suggested " the United States, and later the Europeans, argued that Iran's deception meant it should forfeit its right to enrich, a position likely to be up for negotiation in talks with Iran.

In August 1944, for instance, he accepted a position to accompany Zein al-Abedin Rahnema, Iran's minister plenipotentiary, to France.

The Iranian embassy in Turkey would serve to be Hoveida's final official position outside Iran's frontiers.

On 19 August 1978 — the anniversary of the US backed pro-Shah coup d ' état which overthrew the nationalists and popular Iranian prime minister, Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh — the Cinema Rex, a movie theatre in Abadan, Iran, was set ablaze by four Islamic Revolution sympathizers in an attempt to help the cause of Iran's Islamic Revolution.

" The Abadan oil refinery was featured on the reverse side of Iran's 100-rial banknotes printed in 1965 and from 1971 to 1973.

Contentious issues include Egypt's signing of the Camp David Accords with Israel in 1979, its support for Iraq in Iran's eight-year conflict, the Islamic Republic's hailing of Khalid Islambouli, the late President Anwar Sadat's assassin as a religious hero, seeing as there was both a street and mural named after him ( however, the honorer was changed to Muhammad al-Durrah, the 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot and killed during the outset of the Second Intifada ), and close Egyptian relations with the United States, and most of the Western European countries.

Iranian musician Shahram Nazeri was awarded the Légion d ' honneur and Iran's House of Music Award in 2007 for his renowned works on Rumi masterpieces.

The attack was a response to Iran's missile attack three days earlier on the MV Sea Isle City, a reflagged Kuwaiti oil tanker at anchor off Kuwait.

His first book, Kashf al-Asrar ( Uncovering of Secrets ) published in 1942, was a point-by-point refutation of Asrar-e hazar salih ( Secrets of a Thousand Years ), a tract written by a disciple of Iran's leading anti-clerical historian, Ahmad Kasravi.

In early 1979, Iran's Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was overthrown by the Islamic Revolution, thus giving way to an Islamic republic led by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

article, this discovery was made in Hajji Firuz Tepe, a Neolithic village in Iran's northern Zagros Mountains, more than a thousand kilometers north of Shiraz ).

Prior to 1979, Iran's economic development was rapid.

By the end of 2009, Iran's telecom market was the fourth-largest market in the region at $ 9. 2 billion and is expected to grow to $ 12. 9 billion by 2014 at a CAGR of 6. 9 percent.

By the end of 2009, Iran's telecom market was the fourth-largest market in the region at $ 9. 2 billion and is expected to grow to $ 12. 9 billion by 2014 at a CAGR of 6. 9 percent.

This suspicion manifests itself in attitudes that many foreigners might find incomprehensible, such as the " fairly common " belief that the Iranian Revolution was actually the work of a conspiracy between Iran's Shi ' a clergy and the British government.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the first Iranian president to visit Iraq since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution.

Before the US published the National Intelligence Estimate ( NIE ) on Iran's nuclear pogramme at the end of November 2007, there was growing uneasiness in Bahrain at the possible consequences of a US-Iran military confrontation.

While Iran was the first Muslim-majority country to recognize Israel, the two states do not currently have diplomatic relations with each other, due to Iran's withdrawal of its recognition of Israel.

In 1971, Persepolis was the main staging ground for the 2, 500 year celebration of Iran's monarchy.

Despite 10 years of planning, Iran's own Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization was not aware of the broad areas of flooding during much of this time and there is growing concern about the effects the dam will have on Persepolis's surrounding areas.

He was the secretary-general of the Islamic Republic Party, and the head of Iran's judicial system.

Mehdi Bazargan: was a prominent Iranian scholar, academic, long-time pro-democracy activist and head of Iran's interim government, making him Iran's first prime minister after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. A well-respected religious intellectual, known for his honesty and expertise in the Islamic and secular sciences, he is credited with being one of the founders of the contemporary intellectual movement in Iran.

It was written in the pre-revolutionary era of Iran's history where there were no specific sources by which one might interpret who she was, and he assures the readers that he is giving them more than an analytical description of her personality and that it needs the criticism of the enlightened thinker.

His role in talks with People's Republic of China was marginalized, and his advice for a response to the Shah of Iran's collapsing regime was ignored.

The Non-Aligned Movement which consists of 118 countries from the 193 United Nations member states, endorsed Iran's right to enrich uranium for civil nuclear energy.

There is very little information available regarding Iran's use of its 79 F-14A Tomcats ( delivered prior to 1979 ) in most western outlets ; the exception being a book released by Osprey Publishing titled " Iranian F-14 Tomcats in Combat " by Tom Cooper and Farzad Bishop.

It is protected by Iran's Cultural Heritage Organization.

It immediately laid claim to the Shatt al-Arab waterway, Iran's oil rich Khuzestan Province, and the British protectorate of Kuwait, since Kuwait had been part of Mesopotamia prior its takeover by the British in 1899.

Recent statistics and observations show that dolphins are at danger of entrapment in purse seine fishing nets and exposure to chemical pollutants ; perhaps the most alarming sign is the " mass suicides " committed by dolphins off Iran's Hormozgan province, which are not well understood, but are suspected to be linked with a deteriorating marine environment from water pollution from oil, sewage, and industrial run offs.

Iran's head of state, or Supreme Leader, is appointed by an elected body called Assembly of Experts.

* Claims three islands in the Persian Gulf that are part of Iran's territory: Lesser Tunb ( called Tunb as Sughra in Arabic by UAE and Jazireh-ye Tonb-e Kuchek in Persian by Iran ) and Greater Tunb ( called Tunb al Kubra in Arabic by UAE and Jazireh-ye Tonb-e Bozorg in Persian by Iran );

** Iran's government becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98 % vote, overthrowing the Shah officially.

In October 2008, Robertson posted a press release on the Georgian Conflict speculating that the conflict is a Russian ploy to enter the Middle East, and that instability caused by a predicted pre-emptive strike by Israel on Iran would result in Syria's and Iran's launching nuclear strikes on other targets.

Iran's population increased dramatically during the later half of the 20th century, reaching about 75 million by 2011.

Studies project that Iran's rate of population growth will continue to slow until it stabilizes above 100 million by 2050.

It has been suggested by these countries that the Caspian Sea should be divided in proportion to each bordering country's shoreline, in which case Iran's share would be reduced to about 13 %.

SCIRI supports the ideologies of Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini that Islamic Government must be controlled by the ulema ( Islamic scholars ).

" A 1934 book by one of Iran's most prominent writers, Sadeq Hedayat, Songs of Khayyam, ( Taranehha-ye Khayyam ) is said to have " shaped the way a generation of Iranians viewed " the poet.

" If evidence of participation by other nations in Iran's nuclear program is discovered, I will insist that the Administration use, rather than ignore, the evidence in determining how the U. S. deals with that nation or nations on other issues.