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IRAN LEAGUE
Kaikhusroo M. JamaspAsa
organization established in 1922 by prominent Parsis with the aim of reviving and strengthening cultural and other ties between the Parsis of India and Iran.
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IRAN NAMEH
Abbas Milani
the oldest post-Islamic Revolution scholarly journal published since 1982 by the Iranian Diaspora.
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IRAN NATIONAL COMPANY
Parviz Alizadeh
established in August 1962, the single pioneer of the automotive industry in Iran, assembling and manufacturing various motor vehicles and their spare parts.
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IRĀN newspapers
Nassereddin Parvin
title of five newspapers, of which four were published in Persia and one in Baghdad, Iraq.
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IRAN, JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PERSIAN STUDIES
C. Edmund Bosworth and Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis
The British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) was inaugurated in December 1961 in the wake of Queen Elizabeth II’s official visit to Iran in March of that year.
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IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIRS
Malcolm Byrne
the linkage in the mid-1980s of two separate and distinct U.S. covert operations in Iran and Central America.
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IRĀN-E JAVĀN
Nassereddin Parvin
weekly paper published in Tehran from 5 Esfand 1305 to 28 Bahman 1306 Š. (25 February 1926-17 February 1927) as the organ of an association with the same name (Anjomān-e Irān-e javān).
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IRĀN-E JAVĀN, ANJOMAN-E
Jamšid Behnām
(The society of young Iran), a society founded in January 1921 by a number of young intellectuals who had received their higher education in Europe.
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IRAN-E KABIR
Nassereddin Parvin
periodical published in the city of Rašt by the political activist Grigor Yaqikiān, 1929-30.
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IRĀN-E MĀ
Nassereddin Parvin
a political newspaper published in Tehran, 1943-60, with long interruptions. It was an influential liberal paper with nationalistic orientations.
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IRĀN-E NOW
Nassereddin Parvin
title of two political newspapers published in Tehran during the second and third decades of the 20th century.
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IRAN-IRAQ WAR
cross-reference
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IRAN-NAMEH
Vahe Boyajian
journal of Oriental studies, founded in Yerevan, Armenia, in May 1993 as a scholarly monthly publication in the Armenian language.
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IRĀN/LA REVUE IRAN
Nassereddin Parvin
the first philatelic magazine ever published in Persia; it was published from Mehr 1302 to Bahman 1311 Š. (September 1923-February 1933) as the organ of Kolub-e bayn-al-melali-e Irān, a society founded by Naṣr-Allāh Falsafi (q.
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IRANI, DINSHAH JIJIBHOY
Afshin Marashi
(1881-1938), a prominent member of the Zoroastrian community of Bombay. He was trained and worked as a professional lawyer, but at the same time he was also active as a philanthropist and scholar of Zoroastrianism and Persian literature.
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IRANI, HUSHANG
Sayeh Eghtesadinia
(1925-1973), radical modernist poet and pioneer of modern mystical poetry in Iran, whose early poems are categorized among the first examples of concrete or visual poetry in Persian poetry.
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IRANIAN IDENTITY
Multiple Authors
collective feeling by Iranian peoples of belonging to the historic lands of Iran. This sense of identity, defined both historically and territorially, evolved from a common historical experience and cultural tradition.
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IRANIAN IDENTITY i. PERSPECTIVES
Ahmad Ashraf
Perspectives on Iranian identity have been influenced by competing views on the origins of nations.
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IRANIAN IDENTITY ii. PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD
Gherardo Gnoli
The idea of Iran as a religious, cultural, and ethnic reality goes back as far as the end of the 6th century BCE.
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IRANIAN IDENTITY iii. MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC PERIOD
Ahmad Ashraf
While Syria and Egypt lost their languages under the hegemony of Arabic, Iran survived as the main cultural area in the emerging Islamic empire that maintained its distinct linguistic and cultural identity.
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