Using an extensive network of cities and settlements in the province of Mawarannahr ( a name given the region after the Arab conquest ) in Uzbekistan and farther east in what is today China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the Soghdian intermediaries became the wealthiest of these Iranian merchants.

Abbas ' aim was to boost the Iranian economy by encouraging the Armenian merchants who had moved to New Julfa.

Reeling from devastating losses against the Russian Empire in 1813 and 1828 as well as the British Empire in 1857, not only was the Qajar government forced to grant countless concessions to these foreign powers, but Iranian bazaaris ( merchants ) were left in a highly vulnerable position as they couldn ’ t compete with the numerous economic advantages gained by merchants from Europe.

In a show of solidarity, Iranian merchants responded by shutting down the main bazaars throughout the country.

During Norouz ( New Iranian Year ) and summers, this jetty is full of seasonal merchants who bring beautiful Turkman fabricated objects to the city for sale.

" Brent Scowcroft called the Iranian people " rug merchants.

It may be derived from an Iranian ethnonym * ha-mazan -, " warriors ", a word attested as a denominal verb ( formed with the Indo-Iranian root kar-" make " also in kar-ma ) in Hesychius of Alexandria's gloss (" hamazakaran: ' to make war ' ( Persian )").

213 kg of amphetamine worth 40 million AED ( Nearly $ 11 million ) was seized by the United Arab Emirate Drug combat authorities on 30 November 2011 from an Iranian ship that was supposed to deliver the consignment in Malaysia and made a port stop in Sharjah.

Out of the Samanid dynasty came the Ghaznavids, whose warriors forged the first great Islamic empire from Ghazni ( Afghanistan ) that spanned much of the Iranian plateau, Central Asia and conducted many successful raids into India.

The main Iranian contributor to Brahui vocabulary, Balochi, is a Northwestern Iranian language, and moved to the area from the west only around 1000 AD.

In Persia, from the time of Darius the Great, Persian rulers used the title " King of Kings " ( Shahanshah in modern Iranian ) since they had dominion over peoples from India to Greece.

The son of an Iranian diplomat, he travelled widely as a child, living in 17 countries by age 11 ; then, as a young man, he represented Iran as a basketball player in the 1948 Olympic Games and served on the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine from 1952 to 1954.

The Hungarians gradually changed their way of living from settled hunters to nomadic cattle-raising, probably as a result of early contacts with Iranian nomads.

The name of the district and its main town is derived from that of the chief river of the region, the Hari River ( Old Iranian Harayu, " Golden Water "), which traverses the district and passes some south of modern Herāt.

" However, in these UN statements it was never made clear that it was only Iraq that was using chemical weapons, so it has been said that " the international community remained silent as Iraq used weapons of mass destruction against Iranian as well as Iraqi Kurds " and it is believed that the " United States prevented the UN from condemning Iraq ".

High ground, separated by broad, undulating steppes, gives way to mountains ranging from near the Iranian and Turkish borders.

In June 1982, Saddam Hussein ordered most of the Iraqi units to withdraw from Iranian territory ; after that time, the Baathist government tried to obtain a cease-fire based on a return of all armed personnel to the international borders that prevailed as of September 21, 1979.

While the President was recovering in the hospital, McFarlane met with him and told him that representatives from Israel had contacted the National Security Agency to pass on confidential information from what Reagan later described as the " moderate " Iranian faction opposed to the Ayatollah's hardline anti-American policies.

Despite support for transsexuals from Iranian religious leaders, Iranian society itself is less accepting of them.

In February 2001, Mihdhar returned to Afghanistan for several months, possibly entering across the Iranian border after a flight from Syria.

The origins of the Brahui speaking tribes are uncertain, but their language indicates they are a northern Dravidian people, who may have migrated from central India circa 1000 AD, whose language has been modified by residence in the proximity of largely Iranian peoples, most notably the Baloch with whom the Brahui have been greatly mixed.

Another ancient library from this period which is still operational and expanding is the Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi in the Iranian city of Mashhad, which has been operating for more than six centuries.

In 2007, Iranian filmmaker Maziar Bahari selected O Dreamland and Every Day Except Christmas ( 1957 ), a record of a day in the old Covent Garden market, for his top 10 classics from the history of documentary.

The company website states that name " derives from Ahura Mazda, a god of the earliest civilizations in West Asia ... the god of wisdom, intelligence and harmony ..." Ahura Mazda is the Iranian – Zoroastrian God.

For the transmission of Iranian doctrine from East to West, Cumont postulated a plausible, if hypothetical, intermediary: the Magusaeans of the Iranian diaspora in Anatolia.

Merkelbach suggests that its mysteries were essentially created by a particular person or persons and created in a specific place, the city of Rome, by someone from an eastern province or border state who knew the Iranian myths in detail, which he wove into his new grades of initiation ; but that he must have been Greek and Greek-speaking because he incorporated elements of Greek Platonism into it.

* Farsi Island, an Iranian island off the coast of Fars, Iran

In 550 BC, the Achaemenid Empire established the first Persian Empire in Pars ( Persis, or modern Fars ) in the southwestern region of the Iranian plateau.

** A 7. 0 Richter scale earthquake kills 5, 000 people in the Iranian province of Fars.

* The Iranian news agency Fars called him " the first denier of the Holocaust myth.

Ibn al-Muqaffa, though a resident of Basra, was originally from the town of Jur ( or Gur, Firuzabad, Fars ) in the Iranian province of Fars.

Having originated from Persis, roughly corresponding to the modern Iranian province of Fars, Cyrus has played a crucial role in defining the national identity of modern Iran.

The boundaries of Elam shifted throughout history, but Elam usually included present-day Khuzestan and areas of the Iranian plateau now part of the Iranian province of Fars.

Ajami ( Achomi ) is an Iranian language spoken in the south of Iran, mostly southern Fars province and Hormozgan province.

A Shiraz carpet is a type of Persian rug made in the villages around the city of Shiraz, in the Iranian province of Fars.

The first charter of human rights by Cyrus the Great as understood in the Cyrus cylinder is often seen as a reflection of the questions and thoughts expressed by Zarathustra and developed in Zoroastrian schools of thought of the Achaemenid Era of Iranian history.

... As for our culture, it is based on the Holy Quran, the Sunna and the legal rulings of the faqih who is our source of imitation ...</ div > Hezbollah follows the Islamic Shi ' a theology developed by Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

The use of the two-handed Kontos by heavily armoured soldiers on horseback, known as Cataphracts, was developed first by nomadic eastern Iranian tribes and spread throughout the ancient world.

There he involved himself with Iraqi Shi ' ites and developed a strong, worldwide religious and political following against the Iranian Government, whom Saddam tolerated.

These chemical weapons were developed by Iraq from materials and technology supplied primarily by West German companies as well as the Reagan administration of the United States which also supplied Iraq with " satellite photos showing Iranian deployments " and advised Hussein to bomb civilian targets in Tehran and other Iranian cities.

The film presents the annual Bakhtiari migration to Iranian highlands, where several environmental difficulties stand in the way of the tribe, which over time has developed ingenious solutions to overcome them ( barefoot trail cutting over snow-covered Zard Kuh, goat-skin floats at the river crossing, etc.

The convention was developed and adopted by participating nations at a meeting in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran on February 2, 1971, hosted by the Iranian Department of Environment, and came into force on December, 21 1975.

Today, it lies in ruins, but because of its historical significance, it is being developed by the Iranian government as a tourist destination.

According to the one of Iran analyst's of International Crisis Group ( a NGO founded in 1995 by World Bank Vice-President and former US diplomats ), " Kurds, who live in the some of the least developed parts of Iran, pose the most serious internal problem for Iran to resolve, and given what they see next door — the newfound confidence of Iraqi Kurds — there's concern Iranian Kurds will agitate for greater autonomy.

From this time, Mesopotamian sources concerning Elam become more frequent, since the Mesopotamians had developed an interest in resources ( such as wood, stone, and metal ) from the Iranian plateau, and military expeditions to the area became more common.

When discussing the evolution of the heavily armored horseman, it should be noted that it was not isolated to one focal point during a specific era ( such as the Iranian plateau ), but rather developed simultaneously in different parts of Central Asia ( especially among the peoples inhabiting the Silk Road ) as well as within the Iranian subcontinent.

According to author / journalist Mark Bowden, a pattern developed in President Carter's attempts to negotiate a release of the hostages: Carter would latch on to a deal proffered by a top Iranian official and grant minor but humiliating concessions, only to have it scotched at the last minute by Khomeini.

All Persian gardens, from the ancient to the high classical were developed in opposition to the harsh and arid landscape of the Iranian Plateau.

Mahmud of Ghazni ( 998 – 1030 ) reinstated the use of symbolic expressions on the Iranian flag ; the version he developed displayed a golden moon on a black background.

Starting with the integer arithmetic developed in India using base 10 notation, Al-Khwārizmī along with other mathematicians in medieval Islam, both Iranian and Arabic, documented new arithmetic methods and made many other contributions to decimal arithmetic ( see the articles linked below ).

A 4-door notchback sedan version, developed by Iran Khodro, was unveiled in late 2005, and it is available in the Iranian, North African, Chinese, Russian, Romanian, Turkish and Bulgarian markets.

Tajik cuisine has much in common with Uzbek, Afghan, Russian, Iranian, and northern Pakistani cuisine, and is developed from Persian cuisine.

After 1500, the Iranian culture developed distinct features of its own, and interposition of strong pre-Islamic and Shiite-Islamic culture.

Arising out of the peripatetic philosophy as developed by Ibn Sina ( Avicenna ), Suhrawardi's illuminationist philosophy is critical of several of his positions and radically departs from him in the creation of a symbolic language ( mainly derived from ancient Iranian culture or Farhang-e Khosravani ) to give expression to his wisdom ( hikma ).

Located on the crossroads of the Byzantine and Iranian influences, Kartli developed a vibrant Christian culture, aided by the fact that it was the only Kartvelian area with its own written language.

Though the threads which comprise Unani healing can be traced all the way back to Claudius Galenus of Pergamum, who lived in the second century of the Christian Era and also to Ancient Iranian Medicine, the basic knowledge of Unani medicine as a healing system was developed by Hakim Ibn Sina ( known as Avicenna in the west ) in his medical encyclopedia The Canon of Medicine.

The field will be developed under an enhanced Iranian buyback contract.