But she remembers the curfews, alarms, bombs and missiles of the Iran-Iraq war. She remembers feeling skeptical that taking cover in parts of the home she shared with her parents and her siblings would keep her safe. In 1985 her family arrived in Athens as refugees. In 1987 they ...
On November 4, 1979, radical Iranian students seized the United States Embassy complex in the Iranian capital of Tehran. The immediate cause of this takeover was the anger many Iranians felt over the U.S. President Jimmy Carter allowing the deposed former ruler of Iran, Shah Reza Pahlavi, t...
Iran-Contra Affair, 1980s U.S. political scandal in which the National Security Council became involved in secret weapons transactions with Iran, covert support of the Nicaraguan contras, and other activities that either were prohibited by the U.S. Congr
The idea crystallized during Syria’s civil war around 2011, when Iran — which already had close ties with Syria and helped establish Hezbollah in the ‘80s — pushed the Lebanese group to send its veteran fighters to bolster the flagging forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad. As the Syrian...
Water Area:4,645 sq. mi (12,032 sq. km) Total Area:636,372 sq. mi (1,648,195 sq. km) Coastline: 1,520 miles ( 2,440 km) Bordering countries (8)Armenia, the Azeri exclave of Nakhchivan, The Republic of Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Turkey....
In addition, the leadership of the Bahá'í movement has from the start been in exile isolated from the main bulk of the Bahá'ís in Iran. This inevitably caused problems for those Bahá'ís who wished to visit the leadership, as well as those who wished to write to or sent their fina...
After lunch, we visit themuseum of the war with Iraq, a monumental and magnificent museum that exhibits the Iranian vision of the war with Iraq that took place in the 80s and that makes us reflect and wish for peace on our planet. After that, we visitthe archaeological site of Hegmatane...
After the political developments and the imposed war in the early days of the victory of the Islamic Revolution, clothes diverged far from Western fashion. In those years, the style of men and women becameIslamic clothes. And the problems of the war were a lot that people could not think ...
Within a year, Iran and Iraq would be at war for close to a decade, but the year 1979 forever changed Iran, and with it the world. Open world gameplay in a closed society As for the game, it will place players in the middle of the uprisings, with no true good guys or bad guys...
Iran’s proxies have been deployed against the United States or its allies in the Lebanese Civil War of the ’80s; the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; the U.S.-led coalition in the civil war in Syria, and the Saudi-Houthi struggle in Yemen, among other places. Interestingly, Iranian-suppo...