In remarks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies reported on September 17, 2007, Abizaid stated, " We need to press the international community as hard as we possibly can, and the Iranians, to cease and desist on the development of a nuclear weapon and we should not preclude any option that we may have to deal with it.

The book also claims that 44 pounds of plutonium missing from the plant had been stolen by a secret underground plutonium-smuggling ring in which many government agencies, including the highest levels of government and international intelligence agencies CIA, MI5, Israeli Mossad, and a shadowy group of Iranians, were involved.

In November 2006, Argentine Judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral issued international arrest warrants for Rezaee, six other Iranians and one Lebanese in connection with the July 18, 1994, a suicide bombing of the Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which resulted in the death of 85 people and serious injuries to 151.

It is the case in many countries that the country's native name is different from its international name ( see Exonym ), but for Persians / Iranians this issue has been very controversial.

" Khomeini didn't mix up our community with Israel and Zionism – he saw us as Iranians.

Unlike the Iranian community in Los Angeles, which contains a large number of non-Jewish Iranians, the Iranian population in and around Great Neck is almost entirely Jewish.

There is a tendency among Iranian-Americans to categorize themselves as " Persian " rather than " Iranian ", mainly to disassociate themselves from the Iranian regime and the negativity associated with it, and also to distinguish themselves as being of Persian ethnicity, which is around 65 % of Iran's population Majority of Iranian-Americans are of Persian-speaking backgrounds, however there is also a significant number of non-Persian Iranians within the Iranian-American community, leading some scholars to believe that the label " Iranian " is more inclusive, since the label " Persian " excludes non-Persian minorities from Iran.

In 1984, Iranian President Ali-Akbar Rafsanjani said, " all Iranians from 12 to 72 should volunteer for the Holy War.

Both reach an agreement that whatever land falls within the range of a bow-shot shall be returned to the Manuchehr and the Iranians, and the rest should then fall to Afraisab and the Aniranians.

Iranians have ratified the constitution in which the principle rules are explicitly mentioned as the rules of Islam to which other rules should conform.

One should note that against all short-comings of the current system as a democracy mentioned above some recent polls in Iran by a number of respected Western polling organizations show that a considerable majority of Iranians support the system including and the religious institutions and trust it about the elections ( even the disputed presidential elections in 2009 ).

This force then conducted the Ramadan Mubarak operation which recaptured the Al Faw and stabilized the front and later pushed the Iranians back.

Instead, he created a standing army of 40, 000 ghulams and Iranians to fight alongside the traditional, feudal force provided by the Qizilbash.

As a result, many Iranians sympathetic to the Persian Constitutional Revolution came to view the U. S. as a " third force " in their struggle to break free of British and Russian dominance in Persian affairs.

Farnah is an important concept to pre-Islamic Iranians as it signifies a mystic, divine force that is carried with some individuals of greatness.

But the events of the past two years – most notably with what's happening in Iraq, along with last year's presidential election and other unfortunate events in the region – has left no doubt in my mind, and in the minds of lots of secular Iranians, that the U. S. is behaving more and more like a reckless imperial force in search of new sources of energy and new markets to expand to economically.

However, Sir Edward Grey, Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, refused to force the Iranians to accept Sa ’ d Dawla as Prime Minister, because of his aversion to the Constitutional movement in Iran.

Prior to the Islamic revolution in Iran and the cut off of diplomatic relations between the two countries, America and American universities were very popular among Iranians, and this popularity was a major force in drawing numerous Iranian students to the United States.

Although Iraq hoped to take advantage of the revolutionary chaos in Iran and attacked without formal warning, they made only limited progress into Iran and were quickly repelled by the Iranians, who regained virtually all lost territory by June 1982.

* 1982 – Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran – Iraq War.

Instead Iraq received economic and military support from its allies, who conveniently overlooked Saddam's use of chemical warfare against the Kurds and the Iranians and Iraq's efforts to develop nuclear weapons.

Iran's western borders are with Turkey in the north and Iraq in the south, terminating at the Shatt al-Arab, which Iranians call the Arvand Rud.

Although most agreed that Iraq was years away from being able to build a nuclear weapon, the Iranians and the Israelis felt any raid must occur well before nuclear fuel was loaded to prevent nuclear fallout.

The same year it was confirmed beyond doubt by European doctors and UN expert missions that Iraq was employing chemical weapons against the Iranians.

In the 1980s, under the secular Ba ' ath Party formerly led by Saddam Hussein, among the many propaganda campaigns of Iraq, the term majus was used during the Iran – Iraq War as a generalization of all modern-day Iranians.

On July 29, 2009, eleven Iranians were killed and over 500 were injured in a raid by Iraqi security on the MEK Camp Ashraf in Diyala province of Iraq.

He created the Badar Brigade which fought with the Iranians during the Iran – Iraq War.

" Iran joined the call for justice, adding, " Iranians have suffered much, because of him, and mass graves in Iraq prove the crimes he has committed against the Iraqi people ".

In Iraq the guns had a similar effect on the ongoing Iran – Iraq War as the G5 had in Angola, stopping any push by the Iranians deeper into Iraq.

The Iranians also used the peninsula as a launch pad for Silkworm missiles which were deployed against shipping and oil terminals in the Persian Gulf, and also against Kuwait, which supported Iraq throughout the war.

Some cases are brought forward when mass graves are discovered in Iraq, holding the bodies of Iranians once held prisoner.

Although the gas did beat the Iranians in the Central Front and Iraq recaptured all lost territories there, including the oil-rich Majnoon Islands, Iran kept making gains in the North until the Iranians accepted Saddam's truce.

The Iranians pulled out of Northern Iraq and Iran stopped supporting the Kurds in Iraq.

" As for Iraq, the author points out seven enormous errors on the part of American foreign policy: the failure to comprehend that Ahmed Chalabi was actually an Iranian agent: relying on Chalabi's misleading evidence pertaining to Iraq's WMDs: not being aware of how well organized the Shiites in Iraq had been-thanks to the Iranians: the failure to understand that Saddam Hussein had a war plan following the fall of Baghdad: failing to understand that the war in Iraq would not end with the fall of Baghdad: not admitting for several months after the war that there was an organized resistance in Iraq: not having sufficient troops the U. S. Army could deploy.

The British ambassador and his wife, Anthony and Sheila Parsons, noted how the Iranians were bemused by her habit of speaking to everyone regardless of status or importance, and hoped the Shah's entourage would learn from the visit to pay more attention to ordinary people.

All Iranians were required to join and pay dues to a new political party, the Rastakhiz party – all other parties being banned.

The Iranians, despite the widespread Shi ' ite rebellions, had no interest in provoking another war, while Turkey opposed any prospect of Kurdish independence, and the Saudis and other conservative Arab states feared an Iran-style Shi ' ite revolution.

Flags, standards, and banners have always been important national and imperial symbols for Iranians, both in war and peace.

The battle of Khorramshahr was the first major engagement between Iraqi and Iranians forces in the war.

The basic story of the bowman runs as follows: In a war between the Iranians and the non-Iranians ( in post-Sassanid tradition frequently identified with the Turanians ) over the " royal glory " ( khwarrah ), the General Afrasiab has surrounded the forces of the righteous Manuchehr, and the two sides agree to make peace.

In November 2002, Hashem Aghajari, a university professor and veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, was convicted of apostasy and sentenced to death after making a speech telling Iranians not to " blindly follow " clerics.

The report chronicled gruesome details of the events in 1953: how, by spending a meager sum of $ 1 million, the CIA " stirred up considerable unrest in Iran, giving Iranians a clear choice between instability and supporting the shah "; how it brought " the largest mobs " into the street ; how it " began disseminating ' gray propaganda ' passing out anti-Mossadegh cartoons in the streets and planting unflattering articles in local press "; how the CIA's " Iranian operatives pretending to be Communists threatened Muslim leaders with ' savage punishment if they opposed Mossadegh '"; how the " house of at least one prominent Muslim was bombed by CIA agents posing as Communists "; how the CIA tried to " orchestrate a call for a holy war against Communism "; how on August 19 " a journalist who was one of the agency's most important Iranian agents led a crowd toward Parliament, inciting people to set fire to the offices of a newspaper owned by Dr. Mossadegh's foreign minister "; how American agents swung " security forces to the side of the demonstrators "; how the shah's disbanded " Imperial Guard seized trucks and drove through the street "; how by " 10: 15 there were pro-shah truckloads of military personnel at all main squares "; how the " pro-shah speakers went on the air, broadcasting the coups ' success and reading royal decrees "; how at the US embassy, " CIA officers were elated, and Mr. Roosevelt got General Zahedi out of hiding " and found him a tank that " drove him to the radio station, where he spoke to the nation "; and, finally, how " Dr. Mossadegh and other government officials were rounded up, while officers supporting General Zahedi placed ' unknown supports of TP-Ajax ' in command of all units of Tehran garrison.

The medieval Georgian account of his reign is brief and focuses on the devastation of his kingdom at the hands of Iranians while the Classical sources much closer to the period in question contain a detailed description of Artoces ’ s war with Rome on the side of Mithridates VI of Pontus and Tigranes of Armenia.

However, despite her popularity in Iran, their government declares her music merely a " plot " to win over the " hearts and minds " of Iranians, and part of Israel's " soft war " against Iran.

The agreement was for Iran to return them after the war, but the Iranians impounded these aircraft instead, claiming them as war reparations for the Iran – Iraq War.