A new picture of Valiani as banker emerges, effective on the ground, but also a subtle observer of local situations and prospects. The documents discussed herein highlight certain weaknesses in Mosaddeq's policies, mainly the weak relationship with the heads of finance. The oil dispute between ...
As Iran is turning to the UN’s International Court of Justice to have the US-imposed sanctions against its oil suspended, the EU is preparing for the hit its economies will have to absorb once the full weight of Washington’s punitive measures comes into effect in the fourth quarter of th...
Surp Karapet, the church of Abadan’s Gregorian Armenians, lies adjacent to Imam Musa Ibn Ja’far Mosque. It was constructed in the 1950s, repaired in 1996 and reopened in 1999, since 40% of the building was damaged during the eight-year war. It is registered as an Iranian national mon...
in the west. Lake Urmia, the country's largest inland body of water, is in the Zagros of NW Iran. Narrow coastal plains are found along the shores of the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and the Caspian Sea; at the head of the Persian Gulf is the Iranian section of the Mesopotamian ...
In this picture taken on February 17, 2022, Afghan migrants ride in pickup trucks through a desert road toward the Afghanistan-Iran border in Nimruz. Wakil Kohsar | Afp | Getty Images Water tensions between the two countries go way back. In the 1950s, Afghanistan built two major dams tha...
In the 1930s archaeological exploration increased, but work was abruptly halted by the outbreak of World War II. After the war ended, interest in Iranian archaeology revived quickly, and, from 1950 until archaeological study was dramatically curtailed after 1979, numerous excavations revolutionized the...
Nader Uskowi's anticipated new book title, "Temperature Rising: Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Wars in the Middle East" is now published andavailable for purchase. The book details how the Quds Force and its allied Shia militias have fought in three theaters to advance Islamic Republic of Ir...
Born in Iran in 1919 and brought up in Zimbabwe, Doris Lessing spent her childhood on a remote farm in the African bush.Basically self-educated, she dropped out of school at 13, and married 6 years later.Lessing's first novel, The Grass Is Singing, was a critique (评论)of racial ...
Surp Karapet, the church of Abadan’s Gregorian Armenians, lies adjacent to Imam Musa Ibn Ja’far Mosque. It was constructed in the 1950s, repaired in 1996 and reopened in 1999, since 40% of the building was damaged during the eight-year war. It is registered as an Iranian national mon...
Years in the making,The Mossadegh Projectpresents the most ambitious testimonial record ever assembled of the 1953 coup d’etat against the legitimate, peaceful, democratic government of Iran’s popular Prime Minister,Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh.