Thefoundations of Irantie into its long and rich religious history and development, starting from ancient times and the presence of Zoroastrianism up through the spread of Islam and then into the modern day, Dr. Menahem Merhavy of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Harry S. Truman Research ...
How a Chase Bank Chairman Helped the Deposed Shah of Iran Enter the U.SKirkpatrick, David D.Rahavard Persian Journal
With pro-regime, pro-Soleimani parades being followed by anti-regime protests and riots, it is easy for outside observers to be confused about the true level of support for the regime, and how long it’s likely to persist. The answer, as with most everything to do with Iran, is compl...
the Iranian revolutionaries who had overthrown the shah (and taken hostage American diplomats for 444 days in 1979-81) would overrun the Middle East and its vital oilfields. On the-theory that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, the Reaganites were seeking to support Iraq in a long and ...
First, the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, also known as the Yom Kippur War, prompted OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) to stop oil supplies to the USA, Canada, the UK, and other states supporting Israel. The five-month-long embargo led to a sustained gas shortage in the We...
At long last, I was beginning to understand this poetry that had spoken to my father since he was a child in Shiraz. For what modern medicine lacked by way of explanation, Rumi provided through my father’s voice, visiting me on the locked psychiatric unit of the same hospital where he ...
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Intended to replace long-time Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who was the first African-American to sit on the Court, Thomas was serving on the US Court of Appeals at the time. As congressional hearings to confirm Thomas got underway, one of his former aides, Anita Hill, accused ...
That it was never going to be strong enough to rule unless the West suddenly decided to help it. (Which did later happen elsewhere in Asia, but only during the Cold War when the West feared that the whole of Asia might go over to their foes.) The Kuomintang also didn’t do anything...
In 1010 CE, Persian poet Firdawsi wrote “Shahnamah,” the “Book of Kings,” which portrayed Alexander as Sikander, a Persian, and half-brother to Dara, or Darius. In this, Alexander preserves Persia’s Zoroastrian religion. Briant says the book went “everywhere in the Middle and Far E...