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Tehran |
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Theocratic Republic |
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Iranian Rial (IRR) |
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1.648 million km2 |
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68,688,433(July 2006 est.) |
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Persian and Persian dialects 58%,
Turkic and Turkic dialects 26%, Kurdish 9%, Luri 2%, Balochi 1%,
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Muslim 98% (Shi'a 89%, Sunni 10%), other (includes Zoroastrian,
Jewish, Christian, and Baha'i) 1% |
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220V/50Hz (European plug) |
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+98 |
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.ir |
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UTC+3:30 |
.^ It was, however, in the Persian Gulf that the rivalry between Great Britain and Russia threatened to become dangerous.
^ (I) into the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf, 135,000 sq.
^ Eric Hooglund, "The Pulse of Iran Today," in Middle East Insight 11:5 (July-August 1995): 40-47.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
It is
bordered by
Iraq to the west,
Turkey, Azerbaijan's
Naxcivan enclave,
Armenia, and
Azerbaijan to the
northwest,
Turkmenistan to the northeast,
Afghanistan and
Pakistan to the
southeast.
Understand
.^ It was in Fath Ali Shahs reign that Henry Martyn was in Persia, and completed his able translation of the New Testament into the language of that country.
^ Shahrough Akhavi, "Elite Factionalism in the Islamic Republic of Iran," The Middle East Journal 41:2 (Spring 1987): 181-204.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ Eliz Sanasarian, "Ayatollah Khomeini and the Institutionalization of Charismatic Rule in Iran, 1979-1989," Journal of Developing Societies 11:2 (1995): 189-205.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
Conservative
clerical forces subsequently crushed Americanizing, yet also
liberal/left-wing, influences.
.^ Tehran even says Washington helps the Iranian attacks, a charge the US denies.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Tehran cleary received the message and viewed the US-backed Israeli war on Hizbullah as the first stage of a war on Iran.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Maybe building IEDs to make sure the war keeps going until Iraq signs those oil agreements.- Think Progress » Bolton: I ‘Absolutely’ Hope The U.S. Will Attack Iran In The Next ‘Six Months’ 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
.^ It also includes an exception for when troops are led into Iran in "hot pursuit" of forces outside that country.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Those arguing for the loopholes include clerics closely identified with the country's most hard-line conservatives, the most ardent defenders of Iran's theocratic system.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Unemployment among the youth is also an issue.
Ethnic groups and
languages
.^ Ali Mohammadi, "Iran and modern media in the age of globalization," in Ali Mohammadi, ed., Iran Encountering Globalization: Problems and Prospects (London: Routledge, 2003), pp.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ Washington has also accused Iran of building up its nuclear program, with the ultimate goal of making a nuclear bomb -- something Tehran has long denied.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ David Menashri, Education and the Making of Modern Iran (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992).- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
.^ This is one of the most harassing, and probably one of the most ancient abuses to which Persians are subject.
^ On being returned to the Persian gentleman from whom he had been borrowed, he was transferred to a moolla, whom, to the great mirth of his master, he nearly killed in one of his encounters.
^ The royal decision is based on consultation with the great ones of his people: and such is the case with his officials and governors everywhere (cf.
.^ At the same time, an Iran concentrating on the development of the talents of its people and the resources of its country should have nothing to fear from the United States.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ II. Ancient Ethnograp/iy.In historical times we find the major portion of Iran occupied by peoples of Indo-European origin, terming themselves Aryans (Arya; Zend, Airya) and their language Aryanso in the inscriptions of Dariusthe same name, which is used by the consanguineous tribes of India who were their nearest relations.
^ Thus the name of Iranians is understood to comprehend all these people of Aryan nationality.
.^ (See INDO-EUROPEAN.) The Aryan family (called by Professor Sievers the Asiatic base-language) is subdivided into (1) Iranian (Eranian, or Erano-Aryan) languages, (2) Pisacha, or non-Sanskritic Indo-Aryan languages , (3) Indo-Aryan, or Sanskritic Indo-Aryan languages (for the last two see INDO-ARYAN) Iranian being also grouped into Persian and non-Persian.
^ But that there is no good unmixed with evil is true of Persian as of all other things.
^ Thus the cities became the main factors in the diffusion of Hellenism, the Greek language and the Greek civilization over all Asia as far as the Indus.
.^ The gatha language (much more than the k1 ter Zend) and the language of the Vedas have a close resemblance, Ai :ceeding that of any two Romanic languages; they seem hardly th ore than two dialects of one tongue.
^ The language of the other parts of the Avesta is more modern, it not all of one date, so that we can follow the gradual decline Z Zend in the Avesta itself.
.^ No irregular troops, whether they be native Persians, or Koords, Arabs, Afghans, Toorkomans, or Turks, are able to contend with the disciplined Persian forces.
.^ I begin to think Persians are better people than travellers are willing to allow.
^ The fact is Iran is one of the most liberal and democratic countries in the world, more than any other state in the Middle East, including Turkey.
^ Besides these, however, numbers of other Persians were despatched to the provinces, settled there, and endowed with lands.
The
Northwestern region,
Azerbaijan, is largely populated by
Azeris, who are ethnically and linguistically close to Turks.
.^ In fact, the two groups appear to be largely one, sharing the same goal: fighting campaigns to win new autonomy and rights for Kurds in Iran and Turkey.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
There are also Armenians, Turkomans, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Arabs,
and a small community of sephardic Jews. Afghans have come to Iran
for work and education for centuries, and recently many have come
as refugees,
.^ (Sadr, who commands a Shiite militia, has religious ties to Iran.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Two years ago they were thirty-eight Americans in number, men, women, and children, who enjoy English protection.
^ "I'm an American who has been to Iran countless times (lived in the middle east for several years) and have never known any American who viewed it as a 'barren desert'."
History
.^ For twenty years a profound peace prevailed throughout the empire, but it was the precursor of a terrible storm destined to destroy the Safawid dynasty and scatter calamity broadcast over Persia.
^ He was then fifty-seven years of age, and had ruled over part of Persia for more than eighteen yearsover the kingdom generally for about three years, and from his coronation for about one year only.
^ Angelo Piemontese, "An Italian Source for the History of Qa_ar Persia: The Reports of General Enrico Anderini (1871-1886)," in East and West 1969: 147-175.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
.^ Meyrav Wurmser, who now serves as director of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Hudson Institute.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Now begins the glorious weather of Persia, lasting until the middle of May, when it becomes a great deal too hot.
^ The most important story in the Middle East is the growth of Nasrallah from a street guy to a leaderfrom a terrorist to a statesman, Baer added.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ In the Indo-Scythian Empire the Persian gods were zealously worshipped; in Armenia the old national religion was almost entirely banished by the Persian cults (Gelzer, Zur armen.
^ The later Parsee tradition contends that Alexander burned the sacred books of Zoroaster, the Avesta, and that only a few fragments were saved and afterwards reconstructed by the Arsacids and Sassanids.
^ That he never entertained the thought of conquering the whole Persian Empire is certain.
.^ The Persian courtier is constantly on horseback, hunting with his sovereign in weather of all kinds, or accompanying him in journeys from one end of Persia to the other.
^ Their features are more delicate than those of the other inhabitants of Persia, and bear a strong resemblance to those of the ancient Persians, as they are preserved in the sculptures at Persepolis and Shahpoor.
^ Sorour Soroudi, " Sofreh of Elijah the prophet: A pre-Islamic Iranian ritual," in Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 27 (2002), pp.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
About 1250, Persia was overrun by the Mongols.
.^ Descending the pass we entered the extensive plain of Oojan, the Champs de Mars of Persia, where formerly the Persians used to receive instruction in military manœuvers.
^ In passing through the streets of Tehran, one would be disposed to consider the Persians a very musical race.
^ About a quarter of this trade passed over the western frontier of Persia, while three-quarters passed through the Persian Gulf ports.
.^ This at one time was one of the many capitals of Persia.
.^ History of the Achaemenian Empire.The history of the Persian Empire was often written by the Greeks.
^ In Susiana Shapur I. built the great city of Gondev-Shapur, which succeeded the ancient capital of the Persian Empire.
^ In fact the uncle and nephew changed placesthe one quitting his government of Khorasan to take possession of the Central-Asian throne, the other con~ senting to become governor of the vacated Persian province and abandon the cares of the empire at Samarkand.
A few generations after the Mongols took
Persia. the dynasty they founded there took all of
.^ Craig Baxter, "India's Relations with Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan," in Hafeez Malik, Soviet-American Relations with Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987), pp.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
.^ AurHoiuTIEs.The works relating to Persia will be found under articles on the maindynasties (CALIPHATE; SELJIJKS; MONGOLS) ,and the great rulers (JENGHIz KHAN; MAHMUD OF GHAZNI ; TIMUR).
.^ Asia Minor, Afghanistan and India, he had at this time left his indelible mark upon the chief cities and provinces of Persia.
^ The metal-work, carpets and fabrics of this period enjoyed a high reputation; they were widely distributed and even influenced western art.
^ Thus for the first time since the Arab conquest of the Sassanian realm Persia was ruled by a single authority, which extended its conquests westward into Asia Minor, where it checked the rulers of Byzantium, and eastward to India and Central Asia.
.^ Not till the time of Artaxerxes II. were Mithra and Anaitis received into the official religion of the Persian kings.
^ Their manners are said to be far less polished than those of their Persian neighbours; the state of civilisation, too, in Afghanistan being on a far lower scale than that of Persia.
^ The Persian State Bank was established by British royal charter, dated the 2nd of September 1889, and started business in Persia (Oct.
.^ The siege of Herat, which lasted for nearly ten months, was the great event in the reign of Mahommed Shah.
^ In the last of these positions we frequently find princes of the blood, who then bear the royal title (shah).
^ Nadirs anger and indignation had been great at this weak proceeding; indeed, he had made it the ostensible cause of the shahs deposition.
.^ George Lenczowski, "Foreign Powers' Intervention in Iran during World War I," in Edmund Bosworth and Carole Hillenbrand, eds., Qajar Iran: Political, Social and Cultural Change 1800-1925 (Costa Mesa: Mazda, 1992): 76-92.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ George Lenczowski, "Foreign powers' intervention in Iran during World War I," in Edmond Bosworth and Carole Hillenbrand, eds., Qajar Iran: Political, Social, and Cultural Change, 1800 1925 (Costa Mesa, Cal.: Mazda Publishers, 1992), pp.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ It was, however, in the Persian Gulf that the rivalry between Great Britain and Russia threatened to become dangerous.
The last dynasty
.^ The fact is Iran is one of the most liberal and democratic countries in the world, more than any other state in the Middle East, including Turkey.
^ This is one of the most harassing, and probably one of the most ancient abuses to which Persians are subject.
^ In contrast, Iran's nuclear facilities, which are officially described as intended only for civilian purposes, are dispersed around the country and some are in fortified bunkers underground.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
It was also quite authoritarian; he built a powerful secret police
and a propaganda apparatus, and did not hesitate to crush dissent.
.^ Before the new coinage came into use (1877) the proportion of pure silver was from 92 to 9~%; subsequently the proportion was for some time 90%; now it is about 894%.
.^ World war the United States allies would come to aid.- Think Progress » Bolton: I ‘Absolutely’ Hope The U.S. Will Attack Iran In The Next ‘Six Months’ 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
^ Besides, it is far from clear exactly how dangerous a nuclear-armed Iran would be.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He is equally clear that the Administration would, if necessary, use force against Iran.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The Russian coachman drove us over the country in a heavy vehicle, having a large hammercloth, with a recklessness only equalled in Persia.
^ In this house, built expressly for the accommodation of the Russian representative, was signed the treaty which, twenty-eight years ago, concluded the last war between Russia and Persia.
^ Although, when the spring arrived and the shah led his forces to the Aras, the Russians had, it is true, retreated, yet territory had been regained by them as far south as the Talysh.
.^ Reza Pahlavi, the son of the late Shah, has been shopped around Washington as a prospective leader of Iran.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The Persian~ then carried all before them; and the hereditary chiefs of Shirvan, Sheki and Baku returned from exile to co-operate with the shahs general in the south.
The son, Mohammad Shah, continued his father's nationalistic,
authoritarian and modernising tendencies. However, coming to power
in 1941, he had a problem; he needed powerful friends, but who?
.^ The Iranian economy has been mismanaged at least since the revolution, and to fix it would require measures no populist would be willing to take.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Fact: Iranian President has no power in Iran to do anything other than the basic mayoral duties one would have in the U.S. He is not the leader of Iran.
^ But the Iranians would not have launched themselves into a very dangerous confrontation with the West on the basis of a weapons program that they no longer pursue.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Sarkozy, who is often faulted for being too pro-American, proudly restated Frances friendship with the United States, where he spent a two-week vacation this summer.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ America will portray the war as a fight for Western interests control of Middle Eastern oil and defense against a tidal wave of Iran-led Islamic fundamentalism and for modernization of a largely failed Arab world.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The best known and the one with most adherents is the Twelvers which have a large percentage in Iran 60% and Iraq 45%; the others are the Ismaili or Sevener, and Zaidiyyah.- Think Progress » Bolton: I ‘Absolutely’ Hope The U.S. Will Attack Iran In The Next ‘Six Months’ 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
^ By the way, one of the American systems that is being talked about is the Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), which will only be operational in 2012.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Yuri Bailer, "The Iranian Connection in Israel's Foreign Policy 1948-1951," Middle East Journal 39:2 (Spring 1985): 292-315.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ According to a Middle Eastern ambassador, Bandars missionwhich the ambassador said was endorsed by the White Housealso aimed to create problems between the Iranians and Syria.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Hossein Shahidi, "The BBC Persian Service, 1940-1953, and the Nationalization of Iranian Oil," Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis 17:1 (April 2001): 31-55.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
On the other hand, he was quite capable of putting Iranian
interests before Western ones, as when he was one of the key
players in creating OPEC.
While in some ways progressive, the Shah was also very much the
oriental despot.
.^ The Beni Kurt (or Kart), who had governed in Khorasan from 1245, became independent in the early 1 4th century; they were abolished by Timur (c.
^ The government/media/military-industrial complex knows the world believes in fairy tales…they know they’ll get away with another war.- Think Progress » Bolton: I ‘Absolutely’ Hope The U.S. Will Attack Iran In The Next ‘Six Months’ 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
^ This war would also exhaust the Arab resources and wealth exactly as the Iran-Iraq war did to Iraq, and this would mean a much weaker Arab presence and, of course, a stronger Israeli presence in the region.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ In the latter part of 1897 E. Graves, the inspector of the English telegraph line from Jask eastwards, was brutally murdered by Baluchis, and the agents of the Persian government sent to seize the murderers were resisted by the tribes.
^ The Cold war lasted from about 1947 at least until the Berlin Wall came down in 1989.
^ First came the Shah, who was entitled to khissās, or legal retaliation, for his wound.
.^ We overthrew by FORCE the legally elected Mohammed Mossadegh and put in the vile 'Shah' and his torturing SAVAK secret police over the good and innocent people of Iran.
.^ In recent times, no other country has killed and destroyed as much as the USA has.
^ His origin was very humble; but in Persia and other Mahommedan countries there is a large fund of personal equality, and obscurity of descent is not an obstacle to advancement.
^ It was only a phase in the process of getting closer to dealing with Iran and other countries, which the US declared or will declare rouge.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ On the other hand, the benefit to the villagers is immense.
^ Bush announced other steps that could be interpreted as building a military infrastructure for a regional war or at least for air strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Ahmadinejads faction, on the other hand, came into power speaking the language of the past but with the zeal of the untried.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Husayn Mehrpur, "The Council of Guardians under the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran," Islamic and Comparative Law Quarterly 8 (1988): 65-76.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ H.E. Chehabi, Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990).- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ Frances Bostock and Geoffrey Jones, Planning and Power in Iran: Ebtehaj and Economic Development under the Shahs (London: Frank Cass, 1989).- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
.^ Nevertheless, the prime ministers preoccupation with the Iranian nuclear program seems sincere and deeply felt.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ If Irans nuclear program is, metaphorically, Amaleks arsenal, then an Israeli prime minister is bound by Jewish history to seek its destruction, regardless of what his allies think.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The culmination of the reformers' defeats came in 2005, when voters elected the hardline Ahmadinejad, who promised to use Iran's large oil revenues to help the poor.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Its large market, economic output, industrial potential, and vast oil and natural gas reserves make it central to American geostrategic and energy interests.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Nevertheless, the prime ministers preoccupation with the Iranian nuclear program seems sincere and deeply felt.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The Shah had seized Meerza Tekkee Khan, his Prime Minister and brother-in-law.
^ I know not if I ever experienced greater relief than when a note arrived from the Prime Minister, saying that the Shah had been only slightly hurt, and that all was well.
.^ Besides these, however, numbers of other Persians were despatched to the provinces, settled there, and endowed with lands.
^ This is NOT just the USA pointing this out, it is MANY other countries as well....
The Ayatollah
Khomeni went into exile at this time, originally because of his
objections to land reform taking land from the mosques.
The Islamic revolution
.^ Shah, ministers, meerzas, soldiers, priests, merchants, all went pell-mell into Tehran, although a month of the country season still remained.
^ Three years before Timur had died, and his third son, Zaman Shah, by the intrigues of an influential sirdar , Paiyanda Khan, and been proclaimed his successor at Kabul.
^ Poor little Abbas died at a very convenient time, in the year 1736, and Nadir then thiew off the mask .
.^ Young Ahmadinejad led a politically and religiously conservative Islamist student group during the Islamic Revolution, the writers claim.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Soon after Khomeinis death, the Islamic left lost the factional battle for dominance.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Shaul Bakhash, The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution (New York: Basic Books, 1984).- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
.^ Most Americans and those in the Western world, especially those who are anti-war, anti-Bush care nothing what’s going on in the word.- Think Progress » Bolton: I ‘Absolutely’ Hope The U.S. Will Attack Iran In The Next ‘Six Months’ 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
The main divisions of Islam are Shia'a and Sunni.
.^ It’s about time we get some pay back.- Think Progress » Bolton: I ‘Absolutely’ Hope The U.S. Will Attack Iran In The Next ‘Six Months’ 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
^ His Majesty's sons followed his example, with the result of many among them having forty or fifty children; and the total of his descendants is estimated at some thousand persons.
^ His young sons Ali Akbar and Ali Asghar go out to fight, and are brought back dead.
There was a
long, complex and bloody struggle over this.
.^ In contrast, Iran's nuclear facilities, which are officially described as intended only for civilian purposes, are dispersed around the country and some are in fortified bunkers underground.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The Saudis are driven by their fear that Iran could tilt the balance of power not only in the region but within their own country.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In an interview in Beirut, a senior official in the Siniora government acknowledged that there were Sunni jihadists operating inside Lebanon.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ (The government consultant and a retired four-star general said that Jordanian intelligence, with support from the U.S. and Israel, had been trying to infiltrate Shiite groups, to work against Hezbollah.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The US should continue to demand that Iran curb its nuclear activities, abandon support of terrorism, and respect the democratic aspirations of Iranians.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ America also recently accused the Iranian bank Saderat of channelling hundreds of millions of dollars to Hizbollah and other violent Palestinian groups.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Quarter from the little gentleman!-meaning my son of a few months old) have reached my anderoon.
^ The 10th of each month the mail was "due," and every one anxiously expecting it, but alas!
^ A Persian is perpetually swearing, either by the Almighty or the Prophet, or Ali or Hoossein, or his beard, or his or your life or death.
This is not a joyful celebration, but a
very sober day of atonement. Travellers should not play music or
act remarkably cheerful in public at this time.
.^ THEY WANT ARMAGEDDON! And the sad thing is, you fucking christians support him!
^ You yell for help, and hit him in the face with your purse.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ "THEY WANT ARMAGEDDON! And the sad thing is, you fucking christians support him!
.^ If American goes after Iran they will discover themselves in an even worse quagmire that will bleed their taxpaying citizenry to the bone.- Think Progress » Bolton: I ‘Absolutely’ Hope The U.S. Will Attack Iran In The Next ‘Six Months’ 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
^ Iranian leader, the attackers ALWAYS kill civilians.Apparently, when you say, "he must be stopped" - you don't care how many people will be killed.
^ You lied to get into Iraq, so no one cares how many of your soldiers die but the families, not even the people in your own government could care less.
.^ The fact is Iran is one of the most liberal and democratic countries in the world, more than any other state in the Middle East, including Turkey.
^ The government consultant told me, More and more people see the weakening of Iran as the only way to save Iraq.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ For a long time various attempts had been made to induce the Shah's government to put a stop to the importation of negro slaves from Africa by the Persian Gulf.
.^ But while the US calls the PKK groups terrorists, guerilla commanders say PJAK has had "direct or indirect discussions" with US officials.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He said that the Hezbollah militia, unless attacked, would operate only within the borders of Lebanon, and pledged to disarm it when the Lebanese Army was able to stand up.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The US hopes that an attack on Iran will inevitably result in a chaos in the country, and that it will be possible to bribe some of the Iranian generals and thus to create a fifth column in the country.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Climate
Iran has a diverse climate.
.^ I have often wished our soldiers at Sebastopol, during the memorable winter, could have procured this simple manner of protecting themselves from cold.
^ The ground is covered with snow during January and February, so that March and April in spring, and October, November, and December in the autumn and beginning of winter, are the only months fit for the cultivation of a garden.
Spring and fall are relatively mild, while summers are
dry and hot.
.^ The winter months the kings chiefly spent in Babylon: the hot summer, in the cooler situation of Ecbatana, where Darius and Xerxes built a residence on Mt Elvend, south of the city.
^ Though exceedingly hot in summer, the cold in winter is of equal intensity, notwithstanding that the position of Kertch is eight degrees lower than that of London.
^ In winter a pair of very short white cotton socks are used, and tiny slippers with a high heel; in summer, in the house ladies go often barefoot.
On the Khuzestan
plain, summer heat is accompanied by high humidity.
In general, Iran has an arid climate in which most of the
relatively scant annual precipitation falls from October through
April. In most of the country, yearly precipitation averages 25
centimeters or less.
.^ It is situated at the foot of the mountains leading to Geelan and the Caspian, and at the extremity of a fine plain that wants only water and population to make it a garden of fertility.
In the
western part of the Caspian, rainfall exceeds 100 centimeters
annually and is distributed relatively evenly throughout the
year.
Mount Damavand (5,671 meters) northeast of Tehran
.^ I had on a previous occasion seen these fountains, which take their rise in a small basin at the summit of very high mountains.
^ Two or three hundred of them from the small posts along the Circassian coast of the Black Sea, were now lying here.
^ Our road continued over high mountains into the beautiful valley of Tortoom, through the midst of which runs a small river crowded on both sides with luxuriant villages surrounded with fruit-trees.
The
highest point is Mount Damavand (5,671 meters).
.^ According to him, the whole land is divided into two portions–one being desert with salt, and the other desert without salt.
^ The great central range, which extends, almost unbroken, for nearly 800 m.
^ The empire, which in extent did not exceed that of the Arsacids with its vassal states, was protected on the east and west by the great Mlii deserts of central Iran and Mesopotamia.
Both deserts are inhospitable and
virtually uninhabited.
.^ Khorasan to the Perso-Afghan border, its western limit being indicated by a long line to the northwest from near Shiraz, taking in the whole upper country to the Russian frontier and the Elburz; (2) the provinces south and south-west of the Caspian; (3) a narrow strip of wooded country south-west of the Zagros range, from the Diyala River in Turkey in Asia to Shiraz; (4) the Persian side of the Shatt-el-Arab, and Aralictan, east of the Tigris; and (5) the shores of the Persian Gulf and Baluchistan.
^ (I) into the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf, 135,000 sq.
^ The Persian Empire under Hulagu and his descendants extended from the dominions of Jagatai on the north to that of the Egyptian dynasts on the south, and from the Byzantine Empire on the west to the confines of China.
Zagros is
extremely hard, difficult to access, and populated largely by
pastoral nomads.
.^ Khorasan to the Perso-Afghan border, its western limit being indicated by a long line to the northwest from near Shiraz, taking in the whole upper country to the Russian frontier and the Elburz; (2) the provinces south and south-west of the Caspian; (3) a narrow strip of wooded country south-west of the Zagros range, from the Diyala River in Turkey in Asia to Shiraz; (4) the Persian side of the Shatt-el-Arab, and Aralictan, east of the Tigris; and (5) the shores of the Persian Gulf and Baluchistan.
^ Forster was travelling homeward by the southern shores of the Caspian in January I784, and from him we gather many interesting details of the locality and period.
^ The naturalist S. G. Gmelin, who explored the southern shores of the Caspian in 1771, observed that the wines of Gilan were, made from the wild grape .
.^ It holds Irans most extensive library of scholarly books in English, totaling 11,200 volumes.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The road was broad and safe; it wound through a thick wood of fine trees, intermingled, as we descended, with shrubs, evergreens, and creeping plants.
.^ Unlike the other parts of Persia, Mazenderan, as well as Geelan, is covered with the densest forests of fine timber intermingled with shrubs and brushwood.
Cities
Below is a list of nine of the most notable
cities:
.^ Hassan A. Ronaghy, "Major Source of Air Pollution in Iranian Cities," Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis 17:1 (April 2001): 56-65.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ The British Mission was then in Tabreez, but one of their number was immediately despatched to Tehran, and brought this Russian gentleman in safety to that city.
^ Little now remains of this capital, which, judging from the extent of mounds, broken walls, and other evidences of former population, must have been of great magnitude.
.^ Iran proves that Dubai is not the only "modern" city in the Middle East.
^ But it is also likely that there was some discussion of destabilizing Iran.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ They took the Middle East from Christians hundreds of years ago.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
It was set on fire by
Alexander of Macedon and further ruined by Arabs.
.^ French, and the trade of the Persian Gulf.
^ Advocates of an American invasion of Iran say that last months strengthening of the American armada in the Persian Gulf has frightened the Iranian regime.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ This Darius replaced by a new capital, ~feiwes deeper in the centre of the country, which bore the ~name Persian (Pdrsa), the Persepolis (q.v.
.^ Eric Hooglund, "The Pulse of Iran Today," in Middle East Insight 11:5 (July-August 1995): 40-47.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ To do this, he must convince Europe, China and Russia that a nuclear Iran will be catastrophic for Middle East stability as well as for their own economies.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Iran proves that Dubai is not the only "modern" city in the Middle East.
[1]
.^ Advocates of an American invasion of Iran say that last months strengthening of the American armada in the Persian Gulf has frightened the Iranian regime.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Iran has more than seven hundred undeclared dock and port facilities along its Persian Gulf coast.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ It refused to engage Iran over the future of Iraq and instead focused its energies on containing Iranian influence in the Persian Gulf and rolling back Iran's nuclear program.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Qeshm
island is famous for its wide range of ecotourist attractions such
as the Hara marine forests.
.^ The first national conference on E-City .- Iran Conferences, Conventions, Trade Shows and Meetings 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.allconferences.com [Source type: News]
^ Tradition makes it one of the most ancient cities of Persia; but now, like most towns in that country, all is decay.
^ Guys, a quick question for you: What is the ONLY nation in the world that has used nukes in the first place and for more than once?
.^ Read the Prophetic Book of Daniel "AND AT that time of the end, Michael shall arise, the great angelic prince who defends and has charge of your [Daniel's] people.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The highest rank was held by the descendants of the six great families, whose heads stood by Darius at the killing of the Magian.
^ The Sheghaghees had already furnished from their tribe two battalions, which were regarded, as the Shah himself told me one day, on the march to Tehran from Tabreez, as the best in his service.
Great powder snow, cheap
prices and few international visitors makes this is a great place
for a ski holiday.
- Pasargad, the first
capital of the Achaemenid Empire, and home to the Tomb of
Cyrus.
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Visa Restrictions:
.^ An American land invasion of Iran is out of the question, given Iran's 1 million-strong army, the refusal of its neighbors to allow it, and the lack of American troops to carry it out.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ JUST A LITTLE NOTE FOR ALL THE HYPOCRITICAL HASBARA ISRAEL LAND-STEALER SUPPORTERS WHO POST ON HERE - AND SIGN THEMSELVES "anonymous"...
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For US Citizens...
US citizens can apply for a visa at the Iranian Interest Section
of the Pakistani Embassy in Washington, [2].
However, US citizens must have an MFA-approved guide to accompany
them for the entire trip and must have an exact itinerary. .^ If you critics really took the time to study everything and life in general you would understand that.
^ And a low-end campaign of subversion and sabotage would play into Irans handsbolstering support for the religious leadership and deepening anti-American Muslim rage.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ If your duty as a merchant marine brought you to Iraq or Afghanistan, would you deserve to be killed?
.^ If you critics really took the time to study everything and life in general you would understand that.
^ Bush is using the same tactics and when he (they) has done the job, you will find yourselves in concetration camps that are being set up all over america.
^ He set out from Ask with two guides, and spent the first day in reaching a shed half-way up the mountain.
.^ If a good number of us work on regaining our powers over our lives, then the collective consciousness will stop attracting oppressor-victim situations.
^ After the Afghan war, US negotiators worked closely with Iranian counterparts to form a new Afghan government.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ But the Israeli Hasbara propaganda agency says that Palestinians if they must attack to get their Homes back should ONLY attack Uniformed Israeli forces.
Once approved, the authorization number is transmitted to
the interest section. At that point the applicant can then apply
for the visa. .^ About 50 legislators signed a letter this week calling on the president to appear before Parliament to answer questions about the nuclear program.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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A valid passport and
visa are required for
travel through Iran.
.^ As tensions with Iran rise, many gulf countries have come to see themselves as the likely first targets of an Iranian attack.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ However, many countries are genuinely worried about Irans program.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Visa are issued at the Imam Khomeini and Mehrabad airports in
Tehran, and also the airports at Mashad, Shiraz, Tabriz and
Isfahan.
.^ Oh and if you get that recruitment mail the are listing bounes in there for immediate ship out and for sign up with the US airbourn.
You are advised to bring
passport photos with you.
.^ When a Circassian says he has got slaves to sell, the Turk inquires if they are young, and in case of an affirmative answer, proceeds to ask how many spans they are.
Visas are only issued at the airport for holders of ordinary
passports from the states below:
.^ It used to be the same in france, germany, italy...
^ It has proved hard enough for Arab states such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia to live with Israel's undeclared bomb; if their Iranian rival got one too, the race to copy might soon be on.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The Times reported that the King warned Cheney that Saudi Arabia would back its fellow-Sunnis in Iraq if the United States were to withdraw.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
It is generally not possible to get an extension for the one
week visa.
.^ His origin was very humble; but in Persia and other Mahommedan countries there is a large fund of personal equality, and obscurity of descent is not an obstacle to advancement.
^ You can show all the pretty pictures of Iran you want, but you can't ignore the fact that the country is run by the church.
^ The nonproliferation treaty is a deal between nuclear and non-nuclear states: We give you technology, you promise not to use it to build a bomb.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Extending a tourist visa is very easy and can be done in most
cities. The lonely planet advises not to do this in Tehran as it is
very time consuming.
.^ The panic at Shemeroon became general; no one thought himself safe unless within the walls of Tehran.
^ In Tehran, when any one is installed in office, it is usual for his friends and those under his authority to send him sheereenee, sweetmeats, as a token of congratulation.
^ But some in the White House, including in Cheneys office, had made just such an assumptionthat the lack of evidence means they must have it, the former official said.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ "If you take down Iraq, you eliminate Iran's No.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ His ifi-starred father, at no time more than a nominal ruler, was at Shiraz, apparently deserted by soldiers and people.
^ A senior Iranian diplomat told me this month that Iran can no longer "wait for the West," and Tehran is now looking for alternative investors.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ One day Agha Hassan, our head groom, came to me and said that my horse had become my sacrifice.
^ The month of December chanced this year to be one of woe and wailing externally, but really of relaxation and amusement to all classes of Persians.
^ The 13th of the month Seffer is, from some reason which I have omitted to record, very ominous, particularly to any one who ventures to pass the day in a house.
.^ Three possible routes have been mapped out, including one over Turkey.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Their insignia, one analyst noted, includes a passage from the Koran that reads, "Prepare any strength you can muster against them, and any cavalry with which you can overawe God's enemy and your own enemy as well, plus others besides them whom you do not know."- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The fact is Iran is one of the most liberal and democratic countries in the world, more than any other state in the Middle East, including Turkey.
.^ By an imperial ukase the Emperor has ordained, that the Jewish women shall not shave their heads, nor wear these very unbecoming fillets.
^ How about Darfur...surely they have greater need than Iraq.
^ Sure the government wishes to force Christianity upon the populace, making it a requirement to get grant funding, a job at head start, or assistance soon.
Tourists can now receive their e-visa in less than 72 hours
following confirmation of their application.
.^ Ali Hosseini, a spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, said that the report made clear that Israel was the main menace in the region.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Mark Regev, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, said that Israel wanted the issue of Iranian nuclear ambitions to be resolved diplomatically.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
After filling
the application form and entering the required details, the user
will be given a reference code to pursue his/her application. Once
approved, applicants can choose to receive their visa either at
Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport or at an official
travel agency in their home country.
[4].^ I begin to think Persians are better people than travellers are willing to allow.
^ In 1982, the Brotherhood took control of the city of Hama; Assad bombarded the city for a week, killing between six thousand and twenty thousand people.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ As there was nothing under the thin gauze, the result of course was more display than is usual in Europe.
Various travel agents inside Iran
help you obtaining visas, often through their home pages.
Chances are your bags won't be searched for
salacious
material, but if found, it will be confiscated and will
complicate your arrival. Don't try to bring in any magazines or
books that might offend strict Islamic sensibilities or criticise
the government.
.^ In a recent interview, however, Armitage acknowledged that the issue has become somewhat more complicated.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Neither they nor I then guessed how much more intimate our connexion was to become.
^ In the next year or two, were much more likely to be negotiating with Iran than bombing it.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
As a notable exception, the beach resort of
Kish Island, easily
accessible from
Dubai, does
not require advance visas for visits of up to 14 days,
including Americans.
.^ For a more detailed account of these sources see separate articles on HERODOTUS, &c.; EZRA and NEHEMIAH. .
Imam Khomeini International Airport
All international flights to Tehran land at the new
Imam
Khomeini International Airport [5] based
37km southwest of Tehran..
.^ As these sources are entirely Persian, there are, no doubt, many errors, and I am equally certain that the enumeration of the clans is by no means exhausted.
^ I hear that in each regiment of Azerbijan there are several hundreds of these animals, who carry the soldiers' baggage, as well as a great many of the soldiers themselves.
^ Add in its location, its population of nearly 70 million (the largest in the Middle East) and its ambitions to regional leadership, and the significance of Iran's future international role is undeniable.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ "In the past before the revolution, many of Iran's elite, including [the former leader] the Shah, studied in Switzerland," said Djalili, who added that he wasn't surprised by Tehran's request to Switzerland.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Taheri, 80, said during an interview at his bedside in the central Iranian city of Isfahan that "taking weapons of mass destruction as a whole, I'm against it."- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ By some reckonings, reformists won two-fifths of the council seats and even dominated in some cities, including Kerman and Arak.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Willem Floor, "The Art of Smoking in Iran and Other Uses of Tobacco," Iranian Studies 35:1-3 (2002), pp.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ Fact: Iranian President has no power in Iran to do anything other than the basic mayoral duties one would have in the U.S. He is not the leader of Iran.
^ Ernest Tucker, "1739: History, Self, and Other in Afsharid Iran and Mughal India," Iranian Studies 31:2 (Spring 1998): 207-219.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
.^ Read the Prophetic Book of Daniel "AND AT that time of the end, Michael shall arise, the great angelic prince who defends and has charge of your [Daniel's] people.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the Book of God's plan for His own."- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Iran proves that Dubai is not the only "modern" city in the Middle East.
^ Afshin Matin-asgari, "Tehran Memoirs and Diaries, Winter 1979 and Summer 1997," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 20:1-2 (2000): 171-179.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ Eric Hooglund, "The Pulse of Iran Today," in Middle East Insight 11:5 (July-August 1995): 40-47.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
European companies landing in Tehran include BMI, Lufthansa, KLM,
Alitalia, Turkish Airlines, Austrian Airlines and Aeroflot. Here
are some of the Middle-Eastern airlines: Saudi Arabian Airlines,
Emirates, and Etihad. So finding a flight to Iran should not be
hard. Connections are also easily available via Manama, Bahrain
using Gulf Air (Bahrain's national carrier).
.^ A European diplomat told me that his government would be willing to discuss Irans security concernsa dialogue he said Iran offered Washington three years ago.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Within even thirty miles of Tehran, there are two places where coal can be procured in abundance, at the mere cost of digging and conveying it to the city.
^ First, Israel would be assured that its security was paramount and that Washington and Saudi Arabia and other Sunni states shared its concern about Iran.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Gardiner went on, The consequence is that, for Iran and other missions, Rumsfeld will be pushed more and more in the direction of special operations, where he has direct authority and does not have to put up with the objections of the Chiefs.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Their insignia, one analyst noted, includes a passage from the Koran that reads, "Prepare any strength you can muster against them, and any cavalry with which you can overawe God's enemy and your own enemy as well, plus others besides them whom you do not know."- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ If your duty as a merchant marine brought you to Iraq or Afghanistan, would you deserve to be killed?
^ WOULD you like THE USA To do that to your country??
Allow at least 3-4 hours between the flights.
.^ Focus: Mission Iran Israel will not tolerate Iran going nuclear and military sources say it will use tactical strikes unless Iran abandons its programme.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ YItzchak909 - Israel 01/08/2007 18:03 If iran is nuked, the bombs are going to come from planes launched from the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis, which has just left for the Gulf from America.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Tell Iran and the world that you have 'em and will use 'em!- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ They live, especially the married women, in a state of seclusion much more severe than that imposed on Persian females.
^ The Persian Gulf monarchies and sheikdoms, mostly small and vulnerable, have long relied on the United States to protect them.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He also said, If you go and talk with the Gulf states or if you talk with the Saudis or if you talk with the Israelis or the Jordanians, the entire region is worried.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
For Tabriz, you can try
traveling via Istanbul on Turkish Airlines or via Baku on
IranAir.
.^ (China, a major purchaser of Iranian oil, is negotiating a multibillion-dollar deal with Iran for the purchase of liquefied natural gas over a period of twenty-five years.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Kamran M. Dadkhah, "Iran's Economic Policy During the Mosaddeq Era," Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis 16:2 (November 2000): 39-54.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ North Korea threw out inspectors three years ago, and one senior American official said recently that "the Iranians have looked closely at that model."- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Baluch, the language of Baluchistan, also very closely akin to New Persian, but especially distinguished from it in that all the old spirants arc changed into explosives , e.g.
^ Old Persian.This is the language of the ancient Persians operly so-called,3 in all probability the mother-tongue of Middle rsian of the Pahiavi texts, and of New Persian.
.^ (China, a major purchaser of Iranian oil, is negotiating a multibillion-dollar deal with Iran for the purchase of liquefied natural gas over a period of twenty-five years.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ John R. Perry, "Forced Migration in Iran during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Iranian Studies 8:4 (1975): 199-215.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ Kamran M. Dadkhah, "Iran's Economic Policy During the Mosaddeq Era," Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis 16:2 (November 2000): 39-54.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
Due to safety issues
flying with other Iranian based airlines is not recommended. The
service and flying skill of Iranian pilots are fairly well
known.
.^ These eels have, however, become complete Persians, and have preserved no trace of their origin either in language or appearance.
^ The United States does not want to go into Iran, but, if Israel feels more and more cornered, there may be no other choice.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Indyk added, At the end of the day, the United States can live with Iranian, Pakistani, and Indian nuclear bombsbut for Israel theres no Mutual Assured Destruction.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Non-stop flights
from
Dubai via JFK, IAD, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston or Toronto are good bets.
.^ Hassan A. Ronaghy, "Major Source of Air Pollution in Iranian Cities," Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis 17:1 (April 2001): 56-65.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ The letter from Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to George Bush proposing "new solutions" to their differences in early May went via the Swiss embassy in Tehran.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Last April, Seymour M. Hersh wrote in the New Yorker magazine that the United States was considering using bunker-buster bombs tipped with nuclear warheads to strike at Iran's nuclear facilities.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
By rail
Turkey
- The Istanbul service runs weekly via Ankara,
includes a ferry over Lake Van, crosses the Iranian border then
stops at Tabriz before arriving in Tehran. The journey takes 69
hours (3 nights traveling). Services leave Istanbul Wednesday
evening (arriving Saturday evening) and Tehran Thursday evening
(arriving Sunday evening). The train includes couchettes and a
dining car.
- The Tabriz-Van service (different from
Istanbul service) is a weekly train between Van and Tabriz.
Syria
.^ Both Weldon and Ledeen were told a strikingly similar story concerning a cross border plot between Iran and Iraq in which uranium had been removed from Iraq and taken into Iran by Iranian agents.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Thus, even though it arose from national views, in its esseiice it is not national (as, for instance, the Israelite creed), but individualistic, and at the same time universal.
^ Our escort, after leaving Stavropol, not only dwindled to two or three horsemen, but we even ventured occasionally to travel without protection.
^ One of the gentlemen attached to the Mission, travelling between Hamadan and Tehran, arrived late at night at a village where he lay down to sleep on the sakoo of a large stable, very much fatigued by a long day's journey.
.^ He was seated cross-legged on a small velvet carpet spread on the floor, and partly reclining on a feather cushion at his left side.
^ Tigris on the one side and that of the Euphrates and Lake Van on the other, and embracing between the two the basin of Lake Urmia.
The journy costs
around $60 for couchettes the whole way, and $45 for the reclining
seat and couchette combination.
Afghanistan
- The Mashad-Herat railway which is under
construction right now is completed untill the city of Khaf near Afghanistan
border.
Iraq
- The Khorramshar-Basra
railway will be completed in a few months which will connect
Iranian railways to Iraq. .^ If the MEK has been cast as the Iranian counterpart to the I.N.C., there are more than enough Iranian and Syrian Ahmad Chalabis to go around.
- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
There is another project that will be
completed later going through Kermanshah to Khanaqin in Iraq.
Pakistan
- The Quetta-Zahedan line connects Pakistan and
Iran by rail. A train leaves every 1st and 15th of each month from
Quetta and the journey takes 11 hours and costs about €8. In
opposite direction the train leaves every 3rd and 17th of each
month from Zahedan.
In June 2009 a Bam-Zahedan link was completed, which connected
Zahedan to rest of Iranian railway network.
.^ "If you take down Iraq, you eliminate Iran's No.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ There are, however, a few illicit gains, which a Persian loves so dearly, in the shape of traffic in small portable objects between Persia and Turkey.
^ There seems to be little or no difference in doctrine between the two religions, excepting that, by the Sheahs, Ali, the son-in-law of Mahommed, is regarded as his successor; while, according to their rivals, Abubekr, Omar, and Osman take precedence.
Azerbaijan
- The Nakhchivan-Tabriz service connects Nakhchivan_(city) with Tabriz and crosses from the Jolfa
border. .
- There is a railway from Baku
to the border city of Astara.^ There are very few Catholics in Tehran, and the greater part of these were Europeans.
^ That meeting was part of a regional tour that took Mouttaki to Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, as well as Germany.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Tehran is dependent for its supply of water, in part on wells, of which the water is exceedingly bad and unwholesome, and in part on various kanāts which have been conducted into the city.
From there you can walk through the border to Iran. The railway is
going to be joined to Tehran via Rasht and Zanjan.
Turkmenistan
- There is a daily service between Mashad and Sarakhs border everyday. .^ The United States does not want to go into Iran, but, if Israel feels more and more cornered, there may be no other choice.
- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
At the other side of the
border there is train to Merv and
Ashgabat.
By car
Many people drive to Iran via Turkey. This requires a Carnet De
Passage unless you wish to pay import tax. A Carnet can be aquired
from your local drivers association (such as the RAC in the UK). An
international driver's license is highly recommend with translation
into Farsi very beneficial.
By bus
Armenia
.^ Here, then, we have a perfect example of syncretism ; as in the Mithras cult in Armenia, Asia Minor, and still further in the Roman Empire.
.^ Not only has this lost its cachet with much of the Iranian public, it also serves to compound Irans economic problems by blackening its image abroad.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Patrick Clawson, "Knitting Iran Together: The Land Transport Revolution, 1920-1941," Iranian Studies 26 (1993): 235-250.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ But out of the public eye, a chillingly similar battle has been under way on the Iraqi border with Iran.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
On
the Armenian side you can get as far as Meghri by one Marschrutka a
day from
Yerevan.
.^ Moharrem .–This morning early Nejeff Koolee Khan, Bala Khan, and several other people of both parties, called on me.
Kaplan
and Karajan are more frequently served by marschrutkas but it is a
long and mountainous (and therefore expensive) stretch to the
border from there. From Meghri it is around 8 km to the border and
hitching or a taxi is the only option. On the iranian side the
closest puplic transport can be found around 50km to the west in
Jolfa, so a taxi (around 10-15$) again is the only (commercial)
choice. Expect to be asked a lot for all taxi rides, so hard
bargaining is essential. Make clear (or pretend) that you have
other choices (hitchhiking) to get fair prices.
.^ I TRULY BELIEVE THE LORD HAS JUDGED, AND SHALL CONTINUE TO JUDGE VERY HARSHLY, ALL NATIONS INCLUDING MY BELOVED USA, WHOM STICK THEIR NOSES IN ISRAEL'S BUSINESS, BOO IF YOU WANT!!!- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Consider for yourself whether this is a safe option.
Turkey
You can find Seir-o-Safar agencies in
Istanbul,
Antalya and
Ankara to buy cheap bus tickets for
Tehran. A one-way ticket between
Istanbul or Ankara and Tehran costs US$ 35.00.
- Dogubeyazit/Bazergan This Turkey/Iran
border crossing is easily (and fast) done by puplic transport. Take
a bus to Dogubeyazit
and a frequent minibus (ca. 5YTL, 15 minutes) to the border. Cross
the border stretch per pedes, take the customs taxi (give the
driver some 1000 Rial bakschis) to the next village and take a taxi
(3-4$) to the bus terminal in Bazergan. .^ And you could cross borders with relative ease.
- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ There was a window where unseen I could observe these novel visitors as they approached the house.
.^ There was an unspoken threat: the U.S. Strategic Command, supported by the Air Force, has been drawing up plans, at the Presidents direction, for a major bombing campaign in Iran.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Check the security situation
in the region, due to the unsolved PKK conflict. .
- There are also buses from Van to
Urmia crossing from
Esendere-Sero border.^ Indeed, a money currency only began to make headway in these districts in the 4th century B.C. In the eastern provinces, on the other hand, the primitive method Of exchange by barter still held the field.
^ But, he added, Nasrallah has got to make it clear that he wants to play an appropriate role as the loyal opposition.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He needs to demand that Mr. Maliki stop protecting the militias and make it clear that there will be serious consequences if he continues to refuse.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Contrary to our expectations, the path was covered with deep snow, which forced us to quit the takhts, and wade more than ankle-deep through it for long distances.
^ Adding the cost of oil security, America pays more than $90 for the same barrel of oil.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.
- You can also take mini buses to the town Yüksekova near the
border and ask for taxis to bring you to the border.^ Erzeroom is a large town, dirtier and more disagreeable, I think, than.
^ I had become so accustomed to fine mountain scenery as to be comparatively indifferent to it; and I had learned to be far more anxious about good roads than good views.
^ The British Mission has more than once been of use in bringing these unruly chiefs to a proper sense of obedience.
.^ It has come to the point of no return, and diplomacy wont stop Iran.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The group has been conducting clandestine cross-border forays into Iran, I was told by a government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon civilian leadership, as part of an effort to explore alternative means of applying pressure on Iran.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ MSNBCs Chris Matthews then interjected, And it could be the rationale for going into Iran at some point.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Get rid of the dozens of Iranian taxi drivers and simply keep
walking down the street. One by one the drivers will follow you and
offered prices for a ride to the next bigger town (Urmia) will drop
by the minute.
Pakistan
.^ American military and special-operations teams have escalated their activities in Iran to gather intelligence and, according to a Pentagon consultant on terrorism and the former senior intelligence official, have also crossed the border in pursuit of Iranian operatives from Iraq.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ September 19, 2008 6:07 PM Iran knows that Israel's current political situation is unstable.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Indeed, this senior government official told me the first step between Iran and the United States must be for each side to accept that the other is secure, and to say so.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
You can
NOT get a visa
on the border. Overnight buses leave from
Quetta arriving in
Taftan in the early morning, from there you can
either hire a taxi to the border or walk a couple of kilometers.
.^ The US hopes that an attack on Iran will inevitably result in a chaos in the country, and that it will be possible to bribe some of the Iranian generals and thus to create a fifth column in the country.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Such sanctions could include penalties against foreign companies that sell Iran refined petroleum and provide an insurance policy for Iranian shipping.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Pre 67 Borders Jayzee 01/08/2007 22:36 How Pre 67 do you think Israel needs to go to achieve peace with the Pals?- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The policy shift has brought Saudi Arabia and Israel into a new strategic embrace, largely because both countries see Iran as an existential threat.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The government consultant told me, More and more people see the weakening of Iran as the only way to save Iraq.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ That is all the more so when they are combined with a fourth new source of friction between America and Iran.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Iraq
Afghanistan
There are daily buses between
Herat and
Mashad. The buses go through Dogharoun Border.
The road has been built by Iran and is reported safe.
Turkmenistan
By boat
.^ Advocates of an American invasion of Iran say that last months strengthening of the American armada in the Persian Gulf has frightened the Iranian regime.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ (I) into the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf, 135,000 sq.
^ The southern boundary is the coast line of the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf from Gwetter to the mouth of the Shatt el Arab, a distance of about 870 m., comprised Southern , .
They are usually of low quality.
.^ These were two Englishmen who entered the service of the Shah, and who, by their ability and military qualities, raised themselves to high favour.
^ February 23, 2007 Arab States, Wary of Iran, Add to Their Arsenals but Still Lean on the U.S. By HASSAN M. FATTAH ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Feb.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
This service is of nominal fee (@ $50 USD) and the journey across
one of the busiest stretches of water is sure to entertain.
.^ The small ports, known as invisible piers, were constructed two decades ago by Irans Revolutionary Guards to accommodate small private boats used for smuggling.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
While the entry/exit process at the airport is fairly well
established, it is unknown if the process is as well managed when
entering via the docks. It is likely to be more chaotic and it is
not know whether visas are issued on the spot as is the case at the
airport. There are also ferries from
Bandar Abbas to
Dubai and
Sharjah in UAE, and also ferries from
Bushehr to
Qatar,
Kuwait and
Bahrain.
Get around
.^ The problem was that at the very moment that Iranian vulnerability was at its greatest, thanks to America's swift march to Baghdad, Washington was at its most triumphalist.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Reza Arasteh, "The Education of Iranian Leaders in Europe and America," International Review of Education 8:3-4 (1963), pp.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
.^ December , 1850.–Persia has at least one recommendation: life is very free and easy; there is not much choice of action, but, such as it is, it is free and uncontrolled.
^ In few places is it out of one's power to ascend from a hot, burning plain to a delightful yeilāk, where one is revived by comparatively cool breezes.
^ There are very few Catholics in Tehran, and the greater part of these were Europeans.
.^ "My argument has always been that this war is senseless if you don't give it a regional context."- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
By plane
For anyone on a tight deadline, affordable domestic air services
are a blessing.
.^ George W. Bush and his top national security aides unnerved network anchors and other senior news executives with suggestions that a major confrontation with Iran is looming.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ "It could mean that in order to prevent Iran getting nuclear weapons, we could be handing them to a terrorist nation."- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ There was an unspoken threat: the U.S. Strategic Command, supported by the Air Force, has been drawing up plans, at the Presidents direction, for a major bombing campaign in Iran.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
) link
Tehran with most regional capitals and offer inter-regional flights
for no more than US $60.
Their services are frequent, reliable and safe are definitely
worth considering to skip the large distances within Iran.
.^ Still enough remains of fine bridges, mosques, beautiful avenues of plane-trees, and crumbling palaces, to attest its former greatness.
^ He has vowed that America, Israel and Britain will disappear "like the pharaohs" of Egypt and he believes that oil-rich Iran is well on its way to becoming the regional superpower.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Willem Floor, "The Art of Smoking in Iran and Other Uses of Tobacco," Iranian Studies 35:1-3 (2002), pp.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ The other was US anxiety that Israel would not succeed in disabling Iran's nuclear facilities in a single assault even with the use of dozens of aircraft.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Some Russians were killed and wounded, and ten or fifteen persons, men and women, were carried into slavery by the Toorkomans, who returned without delay to the mainland.
.^ His revenue was entirely derived from the voluntary contributions of his flock; and even this scanty source of subsistence had recently, owing to some disagreements, ceased.
^ In a recent interview, however, Armitage acknowledged that the issue has become somewhat more complicated.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Half the world at one time or another seems to have fallen under their dominion; and not only did they achieve, but, more difficult still, they often contrived to preserve their conquests.
^ Bush has directed StratCom to draw up plans for a massive strike against Iran, at a time when CentCom has had its hands full overseeing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The soldiery, on or off duty, always carry one of these or their sidearms, sometimes both.
.^ Without eyes and air cover, the Iranian army will not react effectively in a 12-hour operations window.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
If you insist on flying, try getting
some of the new planes leased from Russia.
Tickets can be bought at airports or travel agents dotted
through the most major cities.
.^ While it is impossible to verify the claims, the PKK leader, Murat Karayilan, said the PJAK fighters had killed at least 150 Iranians in Iran since August.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
It is possible to pay extra
to get onto a booked flight by bribing someone or paying them to
take their seat on the plane. Some flights will auction off the
last few seats to the highest bidder. For westerners, the
conversion makes it easy to outbid everyone.
.^ Bombing Iran and expecting the Iranian public to rise up and overthrow the government, as some in the White House believe, Armitage added, is a fools errand.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The difference would be that with regime change no longer a threat, Iran will be more likely to find reasons to change its course.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Regime change, or even the more modest goal of removing Iran as a regional influence are beyond the ability of the US military.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Indeed, this senior government official told me the first step between Iran and the United States must be for each side to accept that the other is secure, and to say so.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ A farther extract from my note-book of those days may have some interest, by illustrating the condition of the Persian army, as well as the manners of that country:– .
Be prepared to argue,
bargain and make sure you bring someone, who is able to translate
for you.
By bus
The Iranian
domestic bus network is extensive
and thanks to the low cost of fuel, very
cheap.
.^ September 20, 2008 1:14 AM It is clear that Iran is ganging up full speed for a 'surprise' nuclear attack on Tel Aviv.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Ahmadinejad insists that Iran is developing only peaceful nuclear energy, but the development of long-range ballistic missiles such as the Shehab-3 suggests a different story.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ As for me, I felt so indignant that I only wished to quit a country where such crimes are sanctioned by the Government, and committed without remorse.
.^ Oil hijacking has been variously estimated as between one and two billion dollars a year.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Within one or two years at the most, there will be total Sunni areas, total Shiite areas, and total Kurdish areas.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ There is great similarity between the two Armenian churches, "orthodox" and Catholic.
.^ You know, some of these infractions have taken place in a reactor that we provided them in the first place.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ They are a simple, uneducated class, more rustic and uncouth in their appearance and manners than Mahommedan Persians of the same condition.
.^ So there can be little incentive for Iranian or North Korean leaders to follow the Iraq model of disarmament and inspections.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ They spent several hours daily in walking up and down before their door, without bonnets or shawls, gaily attired in nicely fitting dresses.
^ Only this time have your sons and daughters sign up to serve in the military.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In all of your conflicts, you won by stepping up and kicking ass leaving no doubt in anyones mind who the winner was.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The Persian women I have had in my service used to begin the night by smoking a little, then they would take tea, then eat a surprising quantity of fruit, and after their meal just before dawn would go to sleep, and sleep without intermission almost all day.
^ The Sheghaghees use two languages indifferently, Turkish and their own Lekee, a dialect of Persian.
^ Two years ago they were thirty-eight Americans in number, men, women, and children, who enjoy English protection.
If you're cash strapped
and brave enough to try, however, remember that the buses are
segregated. Men enter via the front or rear door and hand their
ticket to the driver before taking a seat in the front half of the
bus.
.^ They spent several hours daily in walking up and down before their door, without bonnets or shawls, gaily attired in nicely fitting dresses.
^ Persian Women seated on a carpet gossiping outside the Doctor's door.
^ Finding that he was sitting near the door, and wishing to be polite, I was seating myself between him and the door, and was surprised that he should motion to me to take, what I believed to be, the higher place, but in reality the lower.
Tickets, usually around
IR 200, are sold from booths near most bus stops.
By train
Raja Passenger Trains
[6] is the passenger rail system.
.^ Contrary to our expectations, the path was covered with deep snow, which forced us to quit the takhts, and wade more than ankle-deep through it for long distances.
^ Surfeited with Russian navigation, and anxious to see something more of the Crimea, we determined to travel by land through the interior of the country to Kertch.
^ If we were more comfortably lodged, the repose after our harassing journey would be rather a luxury than otherwise.
.^ At the gate they mounted their horses, and went home, the gentleman preceding, as the nobler half, and the lady followed by a train of mules carrying the whole of her household goods.
The rail network is comprised of three main trunks.
.^ For the provinces remaining tinsubdued on the extreme frontiers to the west, the north and the east are in their view almost negligible quantities.
^ Under their dominion, on the contrary, it expanded with great vigour, not only in the west (Armenia, north Syria and Asia Minor, where it was the official religion of the kings of Pontus and Cappadocia), but also in the east, in the countries of the Indian frontier.
^ Azerbaijan in the north-west to Baluchistan in the south-east, may aptly be called the Central Range.
The second and third extend south of Tehran but split at Qom.
.^ One was US concern over Iran's likely retaliation, which would probably include a wave of attacks on US military and other personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as on shipping in the Persian Gulf.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The southern boundary is the coast line of the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf from Gwetter to the mouth of the Shatt el Arab, a distance of about 870 m., comprised Southern , .
^ This Darius replaced by a new capital, ~feiwes deeper in the centre of the country, which bore the ~name Persian (Pdrsa), the Persepolis (q.v.
.^ Bundahish and other Parsee books, which date Zoroaster al 258 years before Alexander, are, in the present writers opinion a complete failure.
^ It was impossible to sleep during the great heat of the day; and often the nights were so hot that the only moment one could repose was the cool hour when we were forced to rise.
^ A month later, during Ramadan, the price of fruit reportedly doubled while that of chicken rose 10 percent in mere days.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
First
class tickets cost roughly twice the comparable bus fare.
.^ They appealed to us piteously for succour, and we sent them on their way rejoicing, after we had softened the hearts of the yemshiks in the manner most efficacious in Russia, as well as in other countries.
As an added benefit; you'll get to meet the people, sample food and
see other tourists. You also avoid all the checkpoints will driving
on the road. Trains are frequently delayed so leave plenty of time
between destinations.
By taxi
.^ The Travels of Pedro Teixeira (Lor,don, 1902) and other publications of the Hakluyt Society relating to Persia are also of great historical value.
^ So great and unexpected was the crowd, that the supplies ran low, and purchases were obliged to be made at the cook-shops in the bazar.
.^ "In my mind it was one of those things you throw up in the air and say I can't believe we did this."- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The Shah, with a large portion of the court, has already left the city, and gone to reside in one of his summer or garden houses, near the walls, and by-and-by he will move up to the mountains.
^ There may be said to be only one city in Geelan, that of Resht.
Savari taxis are faster than buses and Taxis will only
leave when four paying passengers have been found, so if you're in
a hurry you can offer to pay for an extra seat.
.^ The great majority of the civilized provinces were subdivided into local administrative districts governed by officials of the king and his satraps.
^ The city of Resht is some miles from the sea, and is well protected by jungles and by the most abominable roads conceivable.
^ Peabody, have been most kind in lending us this comfortable house during our stay in this city.
Recently the
taxis are turning into yellow, also on busy routs there are green
vans with a capacity of 11 passengers.
.^ They are all the same, too.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ No, he said, they are all the same.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ How can you say they are all the same?- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The great majority of the civilized provinces were subdivided into local administrative districts governed by officials of the king and his satraps.
^ Traffic over Lines Earnings in N r~ fit f th between adon ih~san~sof Government Dept.
^ The Iranians are believed to have installed only 500 centrifuges at Natanz and they will reach 2,000 by spring at the earliest.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Hailing one of these taxis is an art you'll soon master. Stand
on the side of the road with traffic flowing in your intended
direction and flag down a passing cab.
.^ But if you think that he is the credible source for information about issues of life and death, you're certainly within your rights to believe him.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ "We don't give a damn about your ending the critical dialogue," said Supreme Leader Khamenei upon hearing the German court ruling.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ But the dictator offered, Yeah, well give you back your highly enriched uranium, America.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
If the driver is
intereseted, he'll slow down enough for you to negotiate the
details.
If you're in a hurry, you can rent the taxi privately. Just
shout the destination followed by the phrase
dar bast
(literally 'closed door') and the driver will almost be sure to
stop.
.^ All the shipping on the Caspian is under the Russian flagi and no returns of the arrivals and departures of vessels at the Persian ports were published before 1906.
^ He approved apparently of our mode of living, for he hid himself in an empty room in the Mission for two days after their departure, and remained with us ever since.
^ At his death in 338, imfnediately before the final catastrophe , the empire to all appearances was more powerful and more firmly established than it had been since the days of Xerxes.
.^ Who got you your pay?
^ Her meditations were turned upon paying a visit to the Khan, and on ejecting these two rivals.
^ Students, who number some 40,000, enter Qom at an average age of 17.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
By car
.^ Only 29% in each country agreed the UN should stop countries from producing their own nuclear fuel, but provide them with the fuel they need.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The Saudis are driven by their fear that Iran could tilt the balance of power not only in the region but within their own country.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The fiery rhetoric between Iran and the US of recent months has made it appear that the two countries are on a collision course.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ In a recent interview, however, Armitage acknowledged that the issue has become somewhat more complicated.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ This week Iran's Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki caught the US State Department by surprise when he arrived in Tblisi to meet with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In his effort to engage Iran, he will need to promise a complete end to its international isolation in exchange for a halt to its nuclear program.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Aujourd'hui déjà, les sociétés étrangères ne sont plus attirées à effectuer des investisse-ments en Iran.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Thus the cities became the main factors in the diffusion of Hellenism, the Greek language and the Greek civilization over all Asia as far as the Indus.
^ Tradition makes it one of the most ancient cities of Persia; but now, like most towns in that country, all is decay.
^ May God bless and keep Obama and Ahmednijad far away from all of us.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Do not underestimate the sheer chaos of Iran's
traffic.
.^ The nonproliferation treaty is a deal between nuclear and non-nuclear states: We give you technology, you promise not to use it to build a bomb.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ I want justice, and you have come, by the help of the Prophet, to give it to me.
Drivers frequently top 160 km/h
(100 mph) on intercity highways. Laws requiring car occupants to
wear seatbelts is are not always complied with.
.^ In Tehran their abode is the Mission garden, where I have sometimes seen two hundred of this primitive people collected under the trees, where they live.
Avoid large rocks in the middle of highway.
.^ Altogether there is a considerable air of substantial comfort in these houses, which I often envied for our countrymen.
Afterward, a
passerby will offer to replace your tire for $50 USD. This is of
course a scam that occurs mostly at night time but has diminished
due to aggressive policing.
You can also rent a car, usually for 20 - 50 dollars a day.
.^ "Israel may be adopting the same tactics: 'You produce a weapon; you die'."- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The shahs visit to Europe in the same year cost the exchequer about 180,000.
^ The transparency of these petrifactions makes it possible that what is termed marble may be, in fact, alabaster, in which sulphur was the agent instead of carbon.
Talk
.^ Zend is the language of the so-called Ayes/a,3 the holy book of the Persians, containing the oldest documents of the religion of Zoroaster.
^ Their subjects, on the contrary, speak absolutely different tongues: for the attempts to explain the languages of the Cossaeans, Mitannians, and Arzapians as Indo-European (Iranian) have ended in failure (cf.
^ In the Indo-Scythian Empire the Persian gods were zealously worshipped; in Armenia the old national religion was almost entirely banished by the Persian cults (Gelzer, Zur armen.
.^ Zend is the language of the so-called Ayes/a,3 the holy book of the Persians, containing the oldest documents of the religion of Zoroaster.
^ The Sheghaghees use two languages indifferently, Turkish and their own Lekee, a dialect of Persian.
^ With such materials the cuneiform script could not be used; instead, the Persian language was written in, Aramaic characters, a method which later led to the so-called Pahlavi, i.e.
.^ Hassan A. Ronaghy, "Major Source of Air Pollution in Iranian Cities," Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis 17:1 (April 2001): 56-65.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ Their subjects, on the contrary, speak absolutely different tongues: for the attempts to explain the languages of the Cossaeans, Mitannians, and Arzapians as Indo-European (Iranian) have ended in failure (cf.
^ It surprises one to find oneself in almost the chief city of Persia, and yet not to hear a word of Persian spoken.
Road
signs are often double signed in English,
but few other signs are.
.^ With such materials the cuneiform script could not be used; instead, the Persian language was written in, Aramaic characters, a method which later led to the so-called Pahlavi, i.e.
^ Their features are more delicate than those of the other inhabitants of Persia, and bear a strong resemblance to those of the ancient Persians, as they are preserved in the sculptures at Persepolis and Shahpoor.
^ They both speak dialects the greater part of which is Persian, bearing a strong resemblance to the colloquial language of the present day, divested of its large Arabic mixture.
This can make comparing typed words
in phrase books--such as 'bank' and 'hotel'--to signs on buildings
quite difficult.
.^ There are, however, a few illicit gains, which a Persian loves so dearly, in the shape of traffic in small portable objects between Persia and Turkey.
^ With such materials the cuneiform script could not be used; instead, the Persian language was written in, Aramaic characters, a method which later led to the so-called Pahlavi, i.e.
Be aware that Kurdish and
Azeri languages are also spoken
in areas of large Kurdish and Azeri populations.
Buy
Currency
.^ And the message that Irans most senior officials seem to be sending is that Mr. Ahmadinejad, with his harsh approach and caustic comments, is undermining Irans cause and its standing.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Israeli intelligence, however, has also failed to provide specific evidence about secret sites in Iran, according to current and former military and intelligence officials.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In interviews, Russian and European officials said they believed the arrangements, while face-saving, made no economic or technological sense for Iran.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ To make the following statements intelligible, it is necessary to explain that a toman is roughly estimated at about ten shillings sterling, and that a kherwar is equal to 650 lbs., or 6 cwt.
As of May 2009, the exchange rate is about
IRR 9,807 per U.S. dollar.
Coins are issued in values of 50, 100, 250, 500 and 1000 rials
with banknotes produced in 100, 200, 500, 1000, 2000, 5000, 10000,
20000, 50000, 500000 and 1000000 rial denominations.
As a general guide, written prices are given in rials and prices
quoted in conversation are in tomans.
.^ With all their alacrity to endure a life of roughness, or even hardship, they have a vast aptitude for luxury and enjoyment; which may be regarded as the high road to civilization.
^ The drainage of the rivers which have no outlet to the sea and form inland lakes and swamps (kav-ir) may be estimated at 350,000 sq.
^ Even Kazee Bey, said to be 14,000 feet high, was divested of any terror.
.^ After a few years' exile they return with a competence to their native land to spend the remainder of their days.
^ A few days' interval brought to Serab the Ameer e Nizam, a most excellent but weak man, whose first act was to put the intriguing major's feet into the fellak and flog him until he became insensible.
^ A few days afterwards, as we were driving outside the walls of the town, I unexpectedly approached within a few yards of a party travelling towards Ispahan.
Be
careful, and if in doubt, always ask a shopkeeper or moneychanger
if they are quoting a price in rials or tomans.
Carrying money
.^ I was paying my hotel bill in Tehran, didn't have enough cash and asked if I could use a credit card.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Now it is desolate enough; and one can scarcely bring oneself to credit that here was once a great city.
^ Someone, it appeared, had used my corporate credit card to do just that.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The US dollar is trending lower in value as the price of oil is trending higher.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ They had gained their success largely by the aid of the Persians, who began, thenceforward to recover their lost sense of nationality; according to the Spanish author Ibn.
^ The first section was constructed by the Persian government in 1883 at a cost of about 12,000, purchased by the Imperial Bank of Persia in 1890 for 10,000, and reconstructed at a cost of about 45,000.
^ That something might mean for a more stable oil supply than competitive countries, or a return to the US dollar as the only currency for energy trading.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ You are running out of time and choices, even if you succeed in delaying this, it is just a matter of short time till you face the same situation again.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ There had been no purchase of clothing in Dubai, of course; but some Dubai business debited my credit card there (where such a transaction is legal) for the amount of my hotel bill, simultaneously crediting the company that owns the hotel in Tehran with that sum for the purchase of goods or services in Dubai.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ I was paying my hotel bill in Tehran, didn't have enough cash and asked if I could use a credit card.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ I was paying my hotel bill in Tehran, didn't have enough cash and asked if I could use a credit card.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Travellers' cheques Although in theory central
banks in provincial capitals are able to cash them, the paperwork
and time involved make them impractical for tourist use.
ATMs exist in most cities, and there are
point-of-sale devices in some larger stores for only Iranian
customers, but only local bank cards and some cards from Arabian
countries are accepted,
Money and daily life
.^ Turkish is so completely the colloquial language of Azerbijan, that, excepting in towns, and even there only among the better classes, Persian is not understood.
^ But there is a better way than an armed strike.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ It will teach them what they did not know before,–that there are better men and braver soldiers in the world than themselves.
.^ They are looked on as confidential servants, are entrusted with large sums of money, and the conduct of the most important affairs; and seldom abuse their trust .
^ Three, you cant trust the uniformed military, and four, its got to be run out of the Vice-Presidents officea reference to Cheneys role, the former senior intelligence official said.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ You are running out of time and choices, even if you succeed in delaying this, it is just a matter of short time till you face the same situation again.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
A better compromise are the
private exchange
offices (
sarāfi) scattered around most large
cities and major tourist centres.
.^ Few of their women venture so far as Tehran: those who have appeared were plain in feature and coarse in expression; so, too, were the men, wholly unlike the men of the true Persian tribes, although, I suppose, both the Gebrs and these tribes are of the same race.
^ Not a trace of ruins is to be found in Demawend, although among Persian traditions its antiquity reaches the fabulous days of their history–those of Kaïomers and Jemsheed.
^ "They weren't going to waste [Colin] Powell's rapidly diminishing capital on something that unlikely."- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ That something might mean for a more stable oil supply than competitive countries, or a return to the US dollar as the only currency for energy trading.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Other
currencies are harder to change. $100 unfolded notes attract the
highest prices, and you will be quoted lower rates for any old or
ripped notes.
Bargain ruthlessly when buying handcrafts, rugs
or big ticket items and modestly when hailing private taxis. In
most other aspects of life prices are fixed.
.^ They bought the bills from the payees, who were in general happy to receive 10 or 20 per cent.
.^ The drainage of the rivers which have no outlet to the sea and form inland lakes and swamps (kav-ir) may be estimated at 350,000 sq.
.^ Up to now Iran has been playing for time.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Bombing Iran and expecting the Iranian public to rise up and overthrow the government, as some in the White House believe, Armitage added, is a fools errand.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Such sanctions could include penalties against foreign companies that sell Iran refined petroleum and provide an insurance policy for Iranian shipping.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The other side is making pronouncements so they have to as well, he said, speaking of Irans recent announcements about its weapons capacity.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Like many in Washington, Wurmser believes that, so far, theres been no price tag on Iran for its nuclear efforts and for its continuing agitation and intervention inside Iraq, the consultant said.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In recent months, however, he has increasingly been seen by many Sunnis not as a symbol of Arab unity but as a participant in a sectarian war.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ They fast abundantly, and eat no animal food at such periods.
^ In contrast, Iran's nuclear facilities, which are officially described as intended only for civilian purposes, are dispersed around the country and some are in fortified bunkers underground.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Hakim and Sadr command some 80,000 to 100,000 men, who are armed, funded, and trained by Iran.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ "You never want to threaten something you don't follow through on," he said.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Eat
.^ US objectives and interests would be better served by giving Iran a vested interest in stability.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ If Israel and the US are wise, they will use the extra time to ratchet up international economic sanctions on Iran.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The Israeli- Hizbullah war has boldly ratcheted up Iran's regional stature at the same time it has depleted US influence and prestige.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
and dinner is often eaten after
9:00PM.
.^ For these and other reasons explained below, an attack on Iran is fast becoming the only card left to play.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Homa Katouzian, "The Aridisolatic Society: A Model of Long-Term Social and Economic Development in Iran," in IJMES 15 (1983).- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
.^ Some among them are so scrupulous that they refuse to pronounce the decrees of the law, lest perchance they should be guilty of injustice.
The importation and consumption of alcohol is
strictly banned. Penalties are severe. Religious minorities,
however, are allowed to manufacture and consume alcohol, but not to
sell or import it. Pork and pork products are
forbidden and, like alcohol, their import is illegal.
The good news for travellers is that Iranian cuisine is superb.
.^ To do this, he must convince Europe, China and Russia that a nuclear Iran will be catastrophic for Middle East stability as well as for their own economies.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Farhad Kazemi and Zohreh Ajdari, "Ethnicity, Identity and Politics: Central Asia and Azerbaijan between Iran and Turkey," in David Menashri, ed., Central Asia Meets the Middle East (London: Frank Cass, 1998), pp.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ Mina Agha, "The Biographical Significance of Flight and Exile," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 20:1-2 (2000): 165-170.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
.^ I rather them die however than me and mine.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Then came high-level personnel shifts signaling a new focus on naval and air operations rather than the ground combat that predominates in Iraq.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In both countries, particularly in Turkey, a Mahommedan landlord much prefers that his tenants should be composed of Armenians rather than Mussulmans.
An
invitation to an Iranian home for dinner will be a definite
highlight of your stay.
.^ I must confess, however, that I once saw a princess, during a visit, with a special teapot by her side, out of the spout of which she drank from time to time.
Flowers, sweets or pastries
are popular gift choices.
Traditional cuisine
Fragrant
rice (برنج,
berenj) is the
staple of Iranian food. Boiled and then steamed, it is often
coloured with saffron or flavoured with a variety of spices. When
served plain as an accompaniment it is known as
chelo
(چلو).
.^ Over the past two decades, Tehran has nurtured cultural, economic, and political ties with various regional forces, most notably the Shiites of Iraq.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The urussi, or Russian shoe is the most common; next, the kafsh or slipper of various kinds.
Flavoured rice, known as
polo, is often served as a main course or as an
accompaniment to a meat dish. Examples include
shirin polo
flavoured with orange zest, young cherries and honey glazed
carrots, the broad-bean and herb heavy
bāghli polo and
sabzi polo laced with parsley, dill and mint.
The ubiquitous Persian Kabab is often served with both plain rice
and a special (yellow cake) rice called tah-chin.
.^ Kouderood , May 21 st. We quitted Tehran on the 11th, and have got over only half our most fatiguing journey.
A grilled skewer
of meat is served on a bed of fluffy rice, and accompanied by an
array of condiments.
.^ You know, some of these infractions have taken place in a reactor that we provided them in the first place.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Raw onion and fresh basil
are used to clear your palate between mouthfuls. Variations in
kabāb dishes come from the meats they are served with. You
will commonly see:
- Kabāb koobideh (كباب كوبيده) - a kebab of minced beef,
shredded onion and spices.
- Kabāb barg (كباب برگ) - pieces of lamb marinated in
lemon juice and shredded onion.
- Kabāb makhsoos (كباب مخصوص) - usually the most
expensive option, this big kebab uses the highest quality
meat.
- Joojeh kabāb (جوجه كباب) - a skewer of chicken pieces
marinated in lemon juice and saffron.
- Kabāb bakhtiāri (كباب بختیارِی) - great for the
indecisive eater, this is a skewer of alternating chicken and lamb
pieces.
At home people most often eat rice with a
thick
stew (
khoresht, خورشت) containing a modest amount
of meat.
.^ The balance, when there is any, is spent in various uncertain expenses, such as diamond-hilted swords, decorations, extraordinary military expenses caused by insurrection, &c.
Hearty Iranian soups (āsh, آش) are
meals in themselves. The most popular is the vegetarian āsh
reshteh (آش رشته) made from herbs, chickpeas and thick
noodles, and garnished with yoghurt and fried onions.
Flat bread (nān, نان) is another
pillar of Iranian food. It is served at breakfast with herbs, feta
cheese and a variety of jams, or as an accompaniment to meals.
Sangak (سنگك) is a dimpled variety cooked on a pebbled
oven while lavāsh (لواش) is a thin and bland staple.
International Cuisine
.^ Within even thirty miles of Tehran, there are two places where coal can be procured in abundance, at the mere cost of digging and conveying it to the city.
^ A French gentleman in Tehran described it well when he said that it was "une vie de pantoufle."
^ (A U.N. inquiry strongly suggested that the Syrians were involved, but offered no direct evidence; there are plans for another investigation, by an international tribunal.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
A common fast food venue in Iran
Most food outlets in Iran are either kabābis or fast food
outlets serving a standard fare of burgers, sandwiches, felafels or
pizza (پیتزا). A burger and a soft drink at a snack shop will fill
you up at lunchtime for around IR 15,000, while pizzas start at IR
20,000.
Many teahouses (see
Drink below) also serve
traditional snacks and light meals. The most common of these is
ābgusht (آبگوشت) a hot pot made from
lamb, chickpeas and dried limes that is also known as
dizi, also the name of the dish in which its served.
.^ Still the old idea that every religion contained a portion of the truth, and that it was possible to borrow something from one and amalgamate it with another, had not yet lost all its power.
Drain the broth into the
smaller bowl and eat it like a soup with the bread provided. Then
pound the remaining meat and vegetables into a paste with the
pestle provided and eat with even more bread, pieces raw onion and
wads of fresh herbs.
Sweets and desserts
The neverending demand for dentists in Iran lies testament to
the country's obssession with sweets and pastries, known
collectively as shirini (شیرینی).
.^ A more miserable spot than Julfa (as this frontier post was called) we had not met, unless perhaps on the Kuban.
^ If the MEK has been cast as the Iranian counterpart to the I.N.C., there are more than enough Iranian and Syrian Ahmad Chalabis to go around.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ That calculus would call for stationing more than 150,000 troops in Baghdad alone (there are currently 17,000 there), far more than is politically feasible today.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Sohan
is a rich pistachio brittle popular in Qom, and freshly-baked
pastries are often taken as gifts to people's houses.
Lavāshak fruit leathers are delicious fruit leathers made
from dried plums.
Honey-saffron and pistachio are just two local flavours of ice
cream, while fāloodeh (فالوده) is a deliciously refreshing
sorbet made from rosewater and vermicelli noodles made from starch,
served with lashings of lemon juice.
Special needs
.^ Netanyahu may be able to convince Mr. Obama that Iran poses an Amalek-sized threat to Israel, but he will have a much more difficult time convincing him that Iran poses an existential threat to America.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The barren hills and nearly equally barren plains of Persia produce a most somniferous effect on the plodding wayfarer, particularly if he travels, as I did, in a carriage at a walking pace.
^ The most conspicuous clue was a four-letter word that Bush uttered six times in the course of his speech: Iran.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Most snack shops sell felafels (فلافل) and
garden salads (
sālād-e-fassl, سالاد فصل) and greengrocers
are common. Most
ash varieties are meat-free and filling,
as are most variations of
kookoo (کوکو), the Iranian take
on the frittata. The phrases
man vegetarian hastam (I am
vegetarian) and
bedoon-e goosht (without meat) will come
in handy.
.^ The United States does not want to go into Iran, but, if Israel feels more and more cornered, there may be no other choice.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ At that moment they all embrace and wish each other a happy new year; they then partake of food.
^ No matter what aides may be telling Mr. Bush and Mr. Olmert or what they may be telling each other an attack on Iran would be a disaster.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Drink
Black
tea (
chāi, چای) is the national
drink of alcohol-free Iran. It is served strong and with
crystallised or cubed sugar (
ghand, قند) which is held
artfully between the teeth while tea is sipped through.
.^ And so, when you look at the big picture, there's not a whole lot of monitoring of this material around the world, not as much as there should be.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ If youre a military planner, you try to weigh options.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Every acquaintance of the Minister of suitable rank must be visited; the days are spent in visits, and every visit produces its deluge of tea, coffee, and pipes (water pipes).
^ The richest deposits of nickel, cobalt and antimony ores are also situated in localities where there is little water and the nearest useful fuel some hundred miles away.
Lovers of coffee (ghahveh, قهوه) have little to cheer
in Iran but their choices have increased recently. Where available,
it is served Turkish style, French coffee or espresso. Imported
instant coffee (nescāffe, نسكافه) and instant Cappuccino
are available also.
A wide variety of fruit juices (āb miveh, آب ميوه) and
drinks are available from shops and street vendors including cherry
cordial (sharbat ālbāloo, شربت آلبالو) and banana
milkshakes (shir moz, شير موز).
.^ Both parties knew well that any report I might make would be exactly in conformity with truth, or what I believed as such, and that the testimony of an English officer would be decisive.
Note
that "Coca-Cola Original" and "Pepsi Original" etc. are NOT made of
original The Coca-Cola Company's and PepsiCo's ingredients and
taste exactly the same as
ZamZam.
.^ Our road led us close to the lake, lifeless and still as that of Palestine, the intense saltness rendering it impossible for fish or other animals to exist in its waters.
.^ Tell Iran and the world that you have 'em and will use 'em!- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ "If you take down Iraq, you eliminate Iran's No.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Let the US take the heat...Iran is a US problem moer that Israeli r - usa 01/08/2007 18:24 US is is next doior in Iraq.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
It is the same as Turkish
Ayran.
Drinking
alcohol is illegal, and if seen by
police may be met with punishment.
.^ The difference would be that with regime change no longer a threat, Iran will be more likely to find reasons to change its course.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ And as we've seen in Iran and other places, sometimes theyre just told, you know, go away, or come back another time.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ These hospitable people insisted on making us their guests during our stay, with our large party of servants and horses.
.^ But the US believes that Iran has failed to be open about its nuclear programme and needs to abide by UN demands that it halt its activity first.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ They believe they can manage their long- and short-term interests with Iran, and still manage the security interests, Leverett said.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Non-alcoholic drinks
are widely available.
Sleep
.^ The small ports, known as invisible piers, were constructed two decades ago by Irans Revolutionary Guards to accommodate small private boats used for smuggling.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The small sandy island of Ashoorada is situated in the gulf or bay of Asterabad, about twelve miles from the coast nearest to that city, which is twenty miles from the sea.
.^ Clearly, none of these obligations apply at all for non-peaceful, i.e.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Thus the name of Iranians is understood to comprehend all these people of Aryan nationality.
^ All of these private initiatives are vital for raising public awareness in the West about the lethality of the Iranian threat to Israel and to global security in general.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Bushs tough talk about Iran also comes as Israel is reported stepping up preparations for air strikes against Iran, possibly including the use of tactical nuclear bombs, to destroy Natanz and other Iranian nuclear facilities.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Hassan A. Ronaghy, "Major Source of Air Pollution in Iranian Cities," Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis 17:1 (April 2001): 56-65.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ Bush announced other steps that could be interpreted as building a military infrastructure for a regional war or at least for air strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Learn
.^ The Bush administration has not allowed its stated opposition to Iran's uranium conversion at Isfahan to block the Russian offer.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Haleh Afshar, "The Army," in Haleh Afshar, ed., Iran: A Revolution in Turmoil (New York: State University of New York Press, 1985), pp.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ Misagh Parsa, States, Ideologies, and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of Iran, Nicaragua, and the Philippines (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
.^ Hooshang Amirahmadi, "The state and territorial social justice in post-revolutionary Iran," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 13 (1989).- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ Iran is a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, under which it is entitled to conduct nuclear research for peaceful purposes.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The nonproliferation treaty is a deal between nuclear and non-nuclear states: We give you technology, you promise not to use it to build a bomb.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Work
Foreigners with special expertise and skills have little
difficulty in obtaining permits.
.^ In its present form the Avesta is not the work of a single author or of any one age, but embraces collections produced during a long period.
In special
cases, temporary work permits valid for a maximum period of three
months may be issued.
.^ We had now concluded our long journey of more than three months and a half.
.^ Even the name Elburz , which European geographers apply to the chains and ranges that extend for a length of over 500 in.
.^ It is presumed that the fate of the prime minister or kaim-makam, who was strangled in prison, was no more than an ordinary execution of the law.
^ Just eight days later, on December 14, Bush found a study that was more to his liking.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Plato and Aristotle , as the true king, who is a god among men, bound no more than Zeus by a law, because himself he is the law.
.^ It was impossible to sleep during the great heat of the day; and often the nights were so hot that the only moment one could repose was the cool hour when we were forced to rise.
Friday is the weekly
day of rest. Overtime is payable at 40 per cent above the normal
hourly wage.
.^ The duty paid to Government was above 10,000 l ., being at the rate of 5 per cent.
^ They bought the bills from the payees, who were in general happy to receive 10 or 20 per cent.
evening, morning and night)
Workers are entitled to public holidays and a paid annual
one-month leave.
.^ In size it is about a mile and a half in length, and less than a mile in width.
^ Ten years later, "A Clean Break" looks like nothing less than a playbook for U.S.-Israeli foreign policy during the Bush-Cheney era.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In Tajrish, an election official told me that he had seen just 200 voters far fewer than in the presidential election less than two years ago.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The 10th of each month the mail was "due," and every one anxiously expecting it, but alas!
^ And this world he is not to eschew, like the Brahman and the Buddhist, but to work in it, enjoying existence and life to the full.
^ She complained of the solitude of her life, as she had no children; and, in going away, begged we would leave her our visiting-cards as a souvenir, .
.^ Ten years later, "A Clean Break" looks like nothing less than a playbook for U.S.-Israeli foreign policy during the Bush-Cheney era.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In Tajrish, an election official told me that he had seen just 200 voters far fewer than in the presidential election less than two years ago.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He was then fifty-seven years of age, and had ruled over part of Persia for more than eighteen yearsover the kingdom generally for about three years, and from his coronation for about one year only.
.^ Electors must be males and Persian subjects of not less than 25 years of age and of good repute.
^ He must have been some sixty-six years of age, having come to the throne at fourteen.
^ The age of Zend must be examined in connection with the age of the Avesta.
Women are entitled to a 90-day
maternity leave.
There is a minimum national wage applicable to each sector of
activity fixed by the Supreme Labour Council. Workers and employers
have the right to establish guild societies. Collective bargaining
is allowed. Membership in the social security system for all
employees is compulsory.
To have a valid contract concluded under the
Law, the following provisions must be included:
- 1. Type of Work, vocation or duty that must be undertaken by
the worker;
- 2. Basic compensation and supplements thereto;
- 3. Working hours, holidays and leaves;
- 4. Place of performance of duties;
- 5. Probationary period, if any;
- 6. Date of conclusion of contract;
- 7. Duration of employment; and
- 8. Any other terms and conditions required according to nature
of employment.
The employer may require the employee to be subject to a
probationary period.
.^ One Israeli official told The Washington Times that the working group intends to meet at least once a month.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In the mean time, however, nothing can exceed the misery of their apparent condition in Poland.
During the probation period, either party may
immediately terminate the employment relationship without cause or
payment of severance pay.
.^ This remark is applicable to the entire tract in this part of Russia, it being only at the very foot of the Caucasus that any considerable difference of elevation is perceptible.
^ His conversation revealed the object of his visit, wine and brandy being the only topics on which he would converse; but he was sorely discomfited when I produced one bottle of wine, my entire stock.
^ He performed both offices with a solemn gravity which a Spaniard only could assume, and which entirely overcame the feeling of his being engaged in a menial occupation.
^ At his death in 338, imfnediately before the final catastrophe , the empire to all appearances was more powerful and more firmly established than it had been since the days of Xerxes.
^ Not only amongst Iranian languages, but amongst all the languages of the Indo-European group, Zend takes one of the very highest places in importance for the comparative philologist.
.^ Formula for the future My 90-minute conversation with the senior Iranian government official ended with him describing a way forward between the United States and Iran.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Iranian officials have told me that their government does not think Gazprom would be the ideal partner, compared with Western companies, but it deems such a deal preferable to continued stagnation.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Indeed, this senior government official told me the first step between Iran and the United States must be for each side to accept that the other is secure, and to say so.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ For the sake of peace, the world must not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.''- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Such sanctions could include penalties against foreign companies that sell Iran refined petroleum and provide an insurance policy for Iranian shipping.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Shahrough Akhavi, "Elite Factionalism in the Islamic Republic of Iran," The Middle East Journal 41:2 (Spring 1987): 181-204.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
.^ The mother is always the most important member of the household, and the grandmother is treated with veneration.
.^ The approach to the town of Ooroomeeya is highly picturesque; it is situated in a fine plain bearing the same name, with the mountains of Koordistan on one side and the lake on the other.
The same is true for private citizens who
are particularly religious.
Stay safe
.^ But while China can provide capital, its state-owned energy companies are not much more technically capable right now than Iran's.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In the next year or two, were much more likely to be negotiating with Iran than bombing it.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ "But," said he, "as for your servants, the sons of dogs, they may go to hell, but they shall not come here near my wife and children–but you are welcome."
^ But there is disagreement about the extent to which Nasrallah would put aside Hezbollahs interests in favor of Irans.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He demanded, Dont you have prisoners in your country?- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Shah, ministers, meerzas, soldiers, priests, merchants, all went pell-mell into Tehran, although a month of the country season still remained.
^ Still, the Pentagon is continuing intensive planning for a possible bombing attack on Iran, a process that began last year, at the direction of the President.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Its relatively low production levels make it one of the few states with the potential to greatly increase its exports of both oil and gas over the next two decades.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Nervous people take various precautions against these unwelcome visitors.
^ You are not allowed to gather weapons that are not allowed by Islam, even against your enemies.''- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ You come from a long list of giant killers so take your place in history.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
In particular, the tourist center of
Isfahan has had problems with muggings of
foreigners in unlicensed taxis, and fake police making random
checks of tourists' passports. Only use official taxis, and never
allow 'officials' to make impromptu searches of your
belongings.
Iranian traffic is horrendous. Drivers attack
their art with equal amounts of aggression and incompetence and
road rules are ignored enough to be non-discernable! Guidelines are
lax and rarely followed. Take care when crossing the roads, and
even greater care when driving on them - Iranian drivers tend to
overtake along pavements and any section of the road where there is
space. Watch out for joobs (جوب), the
open storm water drains that shoulder every road and are easy to
miss when walking in the dark.
.^ Should Israel take such a drastic step, it would inflame world opinion particularly in Muslim states and unleash retaliation from Iran and its allies.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ For a Western traveler in Iran these days, it is hard to avoid a feeling of cognitive dissonance.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
The
drug trade thrives based on smuggling heroin from Afghanistan.
There is plenty of associated robbery, kidnapping and murder. Some
cities, such as
Zahedan,
Zabol and Mirjaveh are particularly dangerous, although not every
place in this region is dangerous. Chahbahar, which is close to the
Pakistani border, is a very calm and friendly city.
Iranian Perceptions of
Outsiders
.^ And so officials seek to distract people from their economic woes with ideological posturing and anti-Western rhetoric.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Even then, America and Iran may be fated to lock horns in the Middle East.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The Beni Kurt (or Kart), who had governed in Khorasan from 1245, became independent in the early 1 4th century; they were abolished by Timur (c.
^ I paid a visit to one of the former, who showed me over the fine hospital, where sick strangers are admitted without regard to creed or country.
^ The sources work for a European head of government who met the Israeli leader some time after the Bush visit.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ A retired American diplomat, who has experience in the Gulf, confirmed that the Qatari government is very scared of what America will do in Iran, and scared to death about what Iran would do in response.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ As there was nothing under the thin gauze, the result of course was more display than is usual in Europe.
^ I had become so accustomed to fine mountain scenery as to be comparatively indifferent to it; and I had learned to be far more anxious about good roads than good views.
However, it is always best to err on the side of caution and avoid
politically-oriented conversations, particularly in taxi cabs.
.^ North Korea threw out inspectors three years ago, and one senior American official said recently that "the Iranians have looked closely at that model."- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The Pentagon consultant confirmed that hundreds of Iranians have been captured by American forces in recent months.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ America also recently accused the Iranian bank Saderat of channelling hundreds of millions of dollars to Hizbollah and other violent Palestinian groups.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ This brings to my mind a circumstance which gives an idea of the kind of animal considered fit for food by Persians.
^ Under Artaxerxes I. and Darius II., these insurrections were still rare.
Photography
.^ The United States does not want to go into Iran, but, if Israel feels more and more cornered, there may be no other choice.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The other was US anxiety that Israel would not succeed in disabling Iran's nuclear facilities in a single assault even with the use of dozens of aircraft.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Bush announced other steps that could be interpreted as building a military infrastructure for a regional war or at least for air strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Photography near military and other government installations
is strictly prohibited. Any transgression may result in detention
and serious criminal charges, including espionage, which can carry
the death penalty.
.^ Bush announced other steps that could be interpreted as building a military infrastructure for a regional war or at least for air strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ But, like so many military facilities with dual-use potential, it also could be used for other things, such as testing fuel for rockets, which routinely takes place at Parchin.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Be aware
that this rule is taken very seriously in Iran.
Women
.^ Ali Mohammadi, "The sixth Majles election and the prospect for democracy in Iran," in Ali Mohammadi, ed., Iran Encountering Globalization: Problems and Prospects (London: Routledge, 2003), pp.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ G. Reza Ghorashi, "Economic globalization and the prospects for democracy in Iran," in Ali Mohammadi, ed., Iran Encountering Globalization: Problems and Prospects (London: Routledge, 2003), pp.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ Ali Akbar Mahdi, "Iranian women: between Islamicization and globalization," in Ali Mohammadi, ed., Iran Encountering Globalization: Problems and Prospects (London: Routledge, 2003), pp.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
.^ Their subjects, on the contrary, speak absolutely different tongues: for the attempts to explain the languages of the Cossaeans, Mitannians, and Arzapians as Indo-European (Iranian) have ended in failure (cf.
^ As has already been indicated, it was in their religious attitudes that the essential difference lay between the Sassanid Empire and the older Iranian states.
^ Those sprung from purely Sclavonic blood, or from the descendants of Rurik's companions, differ little in regularity of feature and expression of countenance from the handsomest races of Europe.
In
Tehran and several bigger cities Western
clothing and formality is accepted but wearing a hijab may be
required in most of rural areas. Women by law must wear a headscarf
in public.
Gay and Lesbian Travel
.^ Elchees, or envoys, from time to time arrive from distant countries, who usually visit the Mission, but I am excluded from seeing them, although I should have liked very much to listen to these semibarbarous ambassadors.
^ Not only has this lost its cachet with much of the Iranian public, it also serves to compound Irans economic problems by blackening its image abroad.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ At this moment, when public attention is so much directed to the East, I have thought my recollections of the scenes I have visited may not be without interest to a few readers.
.^ Husayn Mehrpur, "The Council of Guardians under the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran," Islamic and Comparative Law Quarterly 8 (1988): 65-76.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ Unlike Iraq under Saddam, Iran has a complex power structure with elements of pluralism and many checks and balances.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Naturally, however, the wild tribes of the mountains and deserts, who could be curbed only by strict imperial control, asserted their independence and harassed the neighboring provinces.
^ Of course it may be that all that is being said at the top is only an assessment, and that those responsible for our defense against Iranian missiles have full confidence in the Arrow.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ They, however, only pronounce the law: the execution of it rests with the officers of Government.
.^ Such sanctions could include penalties against foreign companies that sell Iran refined petroleum and provide an insurance policy for Iranian shipping.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ We should have learned that we should be very careful about assessing our intelligence.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ But it could also exacerbate Iranian paranoia about U.S. intentions and Israel's role in formulating U.S. foreign policy."- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ This was a substantial breakfast for two persons, but I was rather surprised to see two more trays of precisely the same description carried in, and presently, two more still.
^ Their vengeance was to be apprehended, as about this time many persons were unaccountably murdered in Tehran, who, it was supposed, had been too explicit in the expression of their feelings against Bābeeism.
^ Still, the Iranian government is not monolithic, and many academics argue that outreach to more pragmatic factions might encourage them at the hardliners' expense.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Emergencies
.^ Only once he speaks of the gods of the clans, and once of the other gods which there are.
^ A retired American diplomat, who has experience in the Gulf, confirmed that the Qatari government is very scared of what America will do in Iran, and scared to death about what Iran would do in response.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ But that there is no good unmixed with evil is true of Persian as of all other things.
The
international number 112 is available from cell phones, and will
usually connect you to the Police.
.^ Such sanctions could include penalties against foreign companies that sell Iran refined petroleum and provide an insurance policy for Iranian shipping.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Stay healthy
.^ The last class, quite distinct from all these organizations, was formed by the city-states (irXets) with an independent Th Cli constitutionwhether a monarchy (as in Phoenicia ), svites.~ an.
^ Israel should however use any and all weapons other than nukes to destroy Irans nuke facilities.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ All an Israeli air strike against Iran's nuclear facilities will do is set its nuclear program back for a couple of years.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ In all of your conflicts, you won by stepping up and kicking ass leaving no doubt in anyones mind who the winner was.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Just as the IDF is not being asked to explain why it failed to intercept Hezbollah missiles, it is also relieved of its obligation to explain its flawed preparations in retaliating against Iran's missiles.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
For minor ailments, your hotel can contact an
English-speaking doctor.
.^ "Did you ever see," asked the Ameer, "an English major incite the soldiers to pelt the lieutenant-colonel?
.^ I have a petition to make to your service.
^ This is most contrary to equity, and against the law, and I make this petition in your service that I may receive justice."
.^ It is hazardous to offer a prediction of the result of warlike operations in a remote country, where chance, an unskilful commander, the interception of a convoy, may defeat the most adroit combinations.
^ The city of Resht is some miles from the sea, and is well protected by jungles and by the most abominable roads conceivable.
^ Tradition makes it one of the most ancient cities of Persia; but now, like most towns in that country, all is decay.
Bottled mineral water (
āb
ma'dani) is widely available. Also, on many streets and sites,
public water fridges are installed to provide drinking water.
Respect
In general, Iranians are warm,
friendly and generous individuals
with a strong interest in foreigners and other cultures. In dealing
with Iranians, the following tips relating to customs and etiquette
may prove useful:
.^ Haideh Moghissi, "Public Life and Women's Resistance," in Saeed Rahnema and Sohrab, eds., Iran after the Revolution: Crisis of an Islamic State (London: I.B. Tauris, 1995), pp.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ Y. Noori, Legal and Political Structure of an Islamic State: Implications for Iran and Pakistan (Royston, 1986).- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ Patricia J. Higgins, "Women in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Legal, Social, and Ideological Changes," Journal of Women in Culture and Society 10 (1985).- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
.^ But though he remains highly respected among clerics, Rafsanjani is not a beloved figure in Iranian public life.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ But if you dont take on Syria we will be face to face in Lebanon with Hezbollah in a long fight, and one we might not win.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ You come from a long list of giant killers so take your place in history.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ It doesn't take much technical expertise if you have enough to create nuclear fission, so thats why theres so much worry about highly enriched uranium.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Tradition makes it one of the most ancient cities of Persia; but now, like most towns in that country, all is decay.
^ Throughout the Middle East, it would likely be seen as another example of American imperialism.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Farhad Kazemi and Zohreh Ajdari, "Ethnicity, Identity and Politics: Central Asia and Azerbaijan between Iran and Turkey," in David Menashri, ed., Central Asia Meets the Middle East (London: Frank Cass, 1998), pp.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
Guests are often treated extremely well.
.^ The United States does not want to go into Iran, but, if Israel feels more and more cornered, there may be no other choice.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He delayed here and there on the road to beguile some of that time which Persians find to hang so heavily on their hands.
^ Some scholarl attribute it to the Iranian family; others prefer to regard it as a separate and independent member of the Indo-European group.
Iranian Nationality
.^ Farshad Malek-Ahmadi, Trapped by History: 100 Years of Struggle for Constituionalism and Democracy in Iran (London: Routledge, 2003).- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
.^ From all time Assyrians, Scythians, Toorks, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Turks, Afghans, and Russians have made it their battlefield.
.^ Advocates of an American invasion of Iran say that last months strengthening of the American armada in the Persian Gulf has frightened the Iranian regime.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Iran Nuke weapon will kills Arabs and Iranians, not Israelis 22:31 .- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ It refused to engage Iran over the future of Iraq and instead focused its energies on containing Iranian influence in the Persian Gulf and rolling back Iran's nuclear program.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ All of these private initiatives are vital for raising public awareness in the West about the lethality of the Iranian threat to Israel and to global security in general.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The deliberate initiation of war with Israel in July 2006 by Hizbullah, most probably at the direction of the Iranian regime, confirmed the worst fears about Ahmadinejad?- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ To most of the provinces the Achaemenid dominion was synonymous with two centuries of peace and order.
The ban resulted in the elimination of many basic Parsi
words from the language.
.^ At the same time, an Iran concentrating on the development of the talents of its people and the resources of its country should have nothing to fear from the United States.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ And the message that Irans most senior officials seem to be sending is that Mr. Ahmadinejad, with his harsh approach and caustic comments, is undermining Irans cause and its standing.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In this house, built expressly for the accommodation of the Russian representative, was signed the treaty which, twenty-eight years ago, concluded the last war between Russia and Persia.
.^ He insisted that Iran was abiding by international agreements, but said, Time is now completely on the side of the Iranian people.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
the ." that the Iranians, authorities as well as general
public, are extremely sensitive about and insist that this
internationally recognized name be used for the body of water.
^ Advocates of an American invasion of Iran say that last months strengthening of the American armada in the Persian Gulf has frightened the Iranian regime.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The southern boundary is the coast line of the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf from Gwetter to the mouth of the Shatt el Arab, a distance of about 870 m., comprised Southern , .
^ All of these private initiatives are vital for raising public awareness in the West about the lethality of the Iranian threat to Israel and to global security in general.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The only other instance of downright inhospitality I ever encountered was under circumstances exactly similar, while still in the army, and therefore travelling in somewhat humble array.
Dress
.^ Those arguing for the loopholes include clerics closely identified with the country's most hard-line conservatives, the most ardent defenders of Iran's theocratic system.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ They used to go once a week to the bath, and come home painted, and their hands and feet as well as their hair dyed.
.^ Their dress is equally remarkable and unbecoming; it consists of red narrow trousers, and a coarse red cloth coat or vest reaching below the knee, surmounted with yellow handkerchiefs on the head and neck.
^ What seemed to surprise her most was, that we took the trouble to undress every night going to bed; and she asked me, was it true we put on a long white dress to pass the night in?
.^ In the full-dress of the court, the tall black lambskin cap is changed for a turban of shawl; and in place of the stockings without shoes, on entering the room a pair of red cloth boots reaching to the knee is worn.
.^ They used to go once a week to the bath, and come home painted, and their hands and feet as well as their hair dyed.
.^ They live, especially the married women, in a state of seclusion much more severe than that imposed on Persian females.
^ As there was nothing under the thin gauze, the result of course was more display than is usual in Europe.
^ It seemed to me he looked more distressed than usual, and on stopping the carriage to make inquiries, we found he had good reason for sorrow.
.^ I perceive, however, in the Catholic Bible, in the Book of Tobias, that there were two cities called Rages, one being at Ekbatana; so I leave the question to the antiquaries.
.^ There is also the felt coat of the Zir jamah are loose trousers and also drawers worn under the .shaivar, or tight trousers.
^ In winter an over- mantle like the kulijah, or coat of the man, with short sleeves, lined and trimmed with furs, is worn.
All colors and modest designs
are acceptable. Even when undertaking sporting activity in public
(such as tennis or jogging), the dress code described above must be
maintained.
.^ The men invariably, wear an onstarched shirt of cotton , sewn with white silk , often, particularly in the south of Persia, elaborately embroidered about the neck.
^ This was in 1838, at which time 2000 men were daily employed on the works, which it was conjectured would require seven years for completion..
Shorts and three-quarter length pants are
only acceptable on the beach. Dress attire for men is similar to
that in Europe. Neckties are better to be avoided if visiting one
of the more conservative government bodies.
.^ Sarkozy, who is often faulted for being too pro-American, proudly restated Frances friendship with the United States, where he spent a two-week vacation this summer.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
It is quite
acceptable in the areas outside though it denotes indifference
toward or opposition against state regulations and values. Jogging
in tracksuits (but not shorts) is acceptable for men.
.^ I should perhaps apologise for writing at all about our dogs, but they were so much of companions to me in Persia, I cannot avoid recurring to them.
^ They were constantly vociferating to the male passengers to depart, lest I should be profaned by being seen.
Conduct
Iran is a publicly
segregated society.
.^ A great many among the female slaves are glad to leave the country; and some young women, not slaves, who are poor and unprotected, especially orphans, often entreat their relations to sell them.
^ Two years ago they were thirty-eight Americans in number, men, women, and children, who enjoy English protection.
^ During the entire month the women and many of the men dress in black.
Greet people of the same sex with a handshake,
three kisses or both, but avoid physical contact with people of the
opposite sex in public. Place your hand over your heart and bow
slightly to greet them instead. In private, only shake hands with a
member of the opposite sex when he/ she holds out his/ her hand
first.
Be careful of initiating
political discussions.
.^ As president, Ahmadinejad looked to the extreme right rather than seeking allies among the traditional conservatives, and in so doing, he exposed himself politically.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Indeed, under Mr. Khatami, Tehran spent more on arms than it had under Hashemi Rafsanjani.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Perhaps their subjects partook with more freedom, or at least more openly, than at present of these forbidden enjoyments.
.^ Jerusalem Post, Yaakov Katz, reader comments 8 Jan 07 You'd better hold us Israelis back, 'before we do something crazy ...'- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The Iran-Hizbullah axis has hijacked the Palestinian cause and redefined the Arab-Israeli conflict.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Irish Independent January 8, 2006 You'd better hold us Israelis back, 'before we do something crazy ...'- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Tarof
.^ The Leks form the clans of genuine Persian blood, such as the Loors, Bekhtiarees, &c.
.^ Ahmed Vefeek Effendi is obliged to expend his diplomatic powers in a struggle to display an Ottoman flag over his door, like his colleagues.
^ It was only by a most fortunate chance that mine on one occasion was prevented from rushing down a precipice with me to attack one of his kind who was braying a defiance in a field below.
^ The importance attached to husbandry in this country is marked by the national ceremonies in opening the great canals for irrigation, which are annually performed in the spring by the ruler of Khiva in person."
.^ The gths are still extremely rough in style and expression; the language is richer in forms than the more recent Zend; and the vocabulary shows important differences.
^ North Korea threw out inspectors three years ago, and one senior American official said recently that "the Iranians have looked closely at that model."- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Ali Larijani, Irans chief nuclear negotiator, also declared the Holocaust a historical matter to be discussed by scholars (and not, he implied, by ignorant politicians).- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Both parties knew well that any report I might make would be exactly in conformity with truth, or what I believed as such, and that the testimony of an English officer would be decisive.
^ I advised each party to cultivate his own vineyard, to guard his own flock, to eschew contention and rivalry, of which the result might be the expulsion of both missionary establishments.
.^ Two days and two nights of each week are allotted for supplying the extensive gardens and premises of the Mission with water from one of these kanāts.
^ The two leaders authorized aides to form the working group Monday following one-on-one Netanyahu-Obama talks.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ A de-fanged Iranian government might even be prey to eventual regime change from within.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Likewise, a shopkeeper may
initially refuse to quote a price for an item, suggesting that it
is worthless.
.^ She pressed me to pay her a visit at Amol, in the level country, before winter, at which time the city was delightful, according to her account.
^ For commercial cases, not paying a bill in time, bankruptcies, &c., a kind of jurisdiction is exercised by the minister of commerce, or a board of merchants, but the decisions of the minister, or those of the board, are rarely final.
Tarof also governs the rules of
hospitality: a host is obliged to offer anything a
guest might want, and a guest is equally obliged to refuse it.
.^ If the they ever truely unite, I believe that it would be only a question of time before Isreal itself is destroyed by nukes.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
It is possible to ask someone not to
tarof (
tarof näkonid), but that raises new
difficulties, since the request itself might be a devious type of
tarof. The best approach to handle Tarof is to be politely
direct.
.^ Sure you can interpret the book anyway you wish, that s how Moslems do to support their legitimacy.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ "But," said he, "as for your servants, the sons of dogs, they may go to hell, but they shall not come here near my wife and children–but you are welcome."
^ Before the new coinage came into use (1877) the proportion of pure silver was from 92 to 9~%; subsequently the proportion was for some time 90%; now it is about 894%.
^ Even in Baghdad, there is a fear that it might be divided into two areas, one Sunni and one Shiite.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Visiting holy sites
.^ Without America invading and occupying Iranunthinkable after Iraqsuch a strike would at best delay rather than end Iran's nuclear ambitions.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ This would ease implications of discrimination against Iran and establish a pattern for the development of nuclear energy without a crisis with each entrant into the nuclear field.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In other words, Mr. Netanyahu, despite his rhetoric, would never launch a strike on Iran without the permission of Mr. Obama permission that in no way appears forthcoming.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Iranian territory," and to apply "pressure on these organizations to stop violent actions against civilians within borders of 1967."- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Treachery may have had to do with the result, for when the shahs troops entered the holy city the ealar sought refuge in the mosque of Imam Riza, and was forcibly expelled.
.^ There are certain lines you don't cross.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Ill-treatment must of course sometimes take place when there is unlimited power on one hand, and entire submission on the other.
^ In one province there is a poll-tax for males above fourteen years of age, which in another province is substituted by a house, or, as it is called, a door-tax, and again in another neither of these imposts is levied.
It is better for men to wear long-sleeved shirts
inside a mosque or shrine, though this is not mandatory.
Shoes are not worn within prayer areas of a mosque or shrine.
Busier mosques have free shoe repositories where you trade your
shoes for a token. Also try to avoid mosques on the holy day of
Friday and don't photograph a mosque while prayers are taking
place.
Holy shrines, like those in
Mashad and
Qom,
are usually off limits to non-Muslims, although the surrounding
complexes are fine.
.^ Three minutes had not elapsed after entering the room before he asked my husband to make him a present of a watch, and when informed that his watches were limited to the one he wore, the Elchee avowed his disbelief of the assertion with perfect candour.
^ The Sedr Azim's wife is a Mazenderanee, of the tribe of Nooree, and a first cousin of her husband, who, as I said before, always calls her "my uncle's daughter."
Obscene Gestures
.^ Launched with the intention of shoring up Israeli security and replacing rogue regimes in the Middle East with friendly, pro-Western allies, the war in Iraq has instead turned that country into a terrorist training ground.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ T. Cuyler Young, "The Problem of Westernization in Modern Iran," Middle East Journal 2 (1948): 47-59.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
.^ Those arguing for the loopholes include clerics closely identified with the country's most hard-line conservatives, the most ardent defenders of Iran's theocratic system.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ This is so rare among Persian women, that she was one of the few persons I saw in that country with an approach to a good figure.
.^ But once you start sending these signals, you end up in a corner and you can't get out of it."- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ "You have an Iranian nuclear threat that is spun up, using bad information that's cherry-picked and a report that trashes the inspectors."- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The Russians will tell you that these couriers often travel at the rate of more than 300 miles a day for ten successive days, which must be one of the exaggerations in which Russians occasionally indulge.
^ He was then fifty-seven years of age, and had ruled over part of Persia for more than eighteen yearsover the kingdom generally for about three years, and from his coronation for about one year only.
^ A more miserable spot than Julfa (as this frontier post was called) we had not met, unless perhaps on the Kuban.
Religion
.^ This time, the U.S. government consultant told me, Bandar and other Saudis have assured the White House that they will keep a very close eye on the religious fundamentalists.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Senior White House officials have made several visits to Saudi Arabia recently, some of them not disclosed.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The policy shift has brought Saudi Arabia and Israel into a new strategic embrace, largely because both countries see Iran as an existential threat.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ There are some Christians of Greek or Armenian descent, but they are almost wholly Circassianised: their language, dress, customs, are Circassian.
^ There will be small ethnic and confessional states, he said.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Ron Kelley, "Ethnic and Religious Communities from Iran in Los Angeles, Armenians," in Ron Kelley at al., Irangeles: Iranians in Los Angeles (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), pp.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
.^ And a day will come when he will say, I cannot do anything, since the Iraqis want the partition of their country and I honor the wishes of the people of Iraq.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Also note that the Islamic
dress codes still apply even to non-Muslims.
Music
Western
music and dancing in public is banned
in Iran.
.^ But I believe that she is right that even if the costs of a strike against Iran are high, and even if they outweigh the benefits in the short-term, there may no longer be any choice.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Still, customs may
confiscate any music tapes or CDs brought in as some western music
is considered unislamic, degrading towards women and corrupting for
the minds of the youth. However, many Iranian youth have widespread
access to all kinds of music.
- H.M Australian Embassy to Iran [9] - No. .
- H.M British Embassy to Iran
[10] - 198 Ferdowsi Avenue, Tehran, Iran - Telephone: + 98 21
6670 5011 - Fax: +98 21 6671 0761
- Royal Norwegian Embassy in Tehran [11] No.^ A senior Iranian diplomat told me this month that Iran can no longer "wait for the West," and Tehran is now looking for alternative investors.
- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The letter from Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to George Bush proposing "new solutions" to their differences in early May went via the Swiss embassy in Tehran.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The US and Iran broke off diplomatic relations in 1980 after US embassy staff were taken hostage in Tehran, not long after the Islamic revolution.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
201 Dr. Lavasani St. (Ex. Farmanieh St.), Tehran, Iran - Telephone:
+98 21 22 29 13 33 - Fax: +98 21 22 29 27 76
- Embassy of Switzerland in Iran
[12] 13 Yasaman Street Sharifi Manesh Avenue, Tehran, Iran -
Telephone: +98 21 22 00 83 33 - Fax: +98 21 22 00 60 02.
- Royal Netherlands Embassy in Iran [13] Darrous Shahrzad Blvd.,
Kamassale Street, First East Lane no. .
- Embassy of the Republic of Ireland [14] North Kamranieh
Ave., Bonbast Nahid Street 8, Tehran 19369, Iran - Tel:
+98-21-22803835 (08.30-16.30 Sun-Thurs)
- Americans should go to the US Interests
Section of the Swiss Embassy if in need of assistance.^ US objectives and interests would be better served by giving Iran a vested interest in stability.
- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Go more into that, the US and Iran and nuclear weapons.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Tehran cleary received the message and viewed the US-backed Israeli war on Hizbullah as the first stage of a war on Iran.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Services are
extremely limited, and the Swiss may be reluctant and/or
unable to help in minor cases.
Phone
These are the area codes for major cities Tehran(021) -Kashan
(0361)- Isfahan(0311) - Ahwaz(0611) - Shiraz(0711) - Tabriz(0411) -
Mashad(0511) - Kerman(0341)
.^ They will use the time to increase international pressure on countries that do business with Iran and sell it arms.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ If Iran refuses to re-start negotiations, it will also be difficult for Russia and China to reject a U.N. call for International Atomic Energy Agency inspections, Clawson said.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The resolution has decreased Irans political credibility in the international community, and so other countries cannot defend Iran, said Ahmad Shirzad, a reformist politician and a former legislator.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Mobile
Irancell (MTN)
[15]
offers relatively cheap pre-paid sim-cards for international
travelers. It is possible to buy recharge cards from most
newsstands.
.^ The city of Resht is some miles from the sea, and is well protected by jungles and by the most abominable roads conceivable.
GPRS
is also available at very low prices, specially at night, for
surfing the web or checking your email with your mobile phone
(Gmail has an excellent mobile application and Opera Mini is a very
good mobile web browser).
Post
.^ Hooshang Amirahmadi, "The state and territorial social justice in post-revolutionary Iran," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 13 (1989).- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ Shahrough Akhavi, "Elite Factionalism in the Islamic Republic of Iran," The Middle East Journal 41:2 (Spring 1987): 181-204.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ As for terror, al-Qaida boss Ayman Zawahiri's recent tirade against the Islamic Republic notwithstanding, Iran has apparently intensified its cooperation with al-Qaida.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
The company provides many of the internationally available
post services. Parcel sending is very cheap and reliable.
.^ But it is a puzzle that has vexed political analysts since the president took office in August 2005, bringing with him a faction that was largely new to the post-revolutionary political scene.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Such sanctions could include penalties against foreign companies that sell Iran refined petroleum and provide an insurance policy for Iranian shipping.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Internet
.^ Stephanie Cronin, "The Politics of Radicalism within the Iranian Army: The Jahansuz Group of 1939," Iranian Studies 32:1 (Winter 1999): 5-27.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ A de-fanged Iranian government might even be prey to eventual regime change from within.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ US forces in Iraq and other countries in the region will be protected against any Iranian missile attack by an advanced Patriot missile system.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ A few years ago, no traveller was allowed to proceed without an escort, so dangerous was the passage, while the post was accompanied by two pieces of artillery and a company of infantry.
^ A FEW years ago it fell to my lot to make a journey to Persia, and to reside there nearly four years.
^ After having attained the rank of Major-General, and the dignity of Baronet for his services in Persia, Sir Henry Bethune returned to that country for the third time a few years ago.
.^ It is to the English nation that the Persian Government is indebted for all its materials of war.
^ B.C.) the union of Persian and Macedonian by the great marriage-feast, at which all his superior officers, with some 10,000 more Macedonians, were wedded to Persian wives.
^ From this double mode of administration some conception may be formed of the tide of corruption the plaintiff and defendant have to encounter.
If in doubt, any young
Iranian should be able to point you in the direction of the nearest
coffee net. Iran is the fourth largest country of bloggers.
.^ You know, some of these infractions have taken place in a reactor that we provided them in the first place.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ SAM ROE: Yeah, that just shows you how easily you can spirit this stuff away.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Towns.The principal cities of Persia with their populations as estimated in 1908 are: Teheran (280,000); Tabriz (200,000); .
^ Focusing instead on certain areas of Baghdad, he concludes that the deployment of 20,000 additional troops would be enough to pacify significant sections of the city.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ After three hours' delay three rounds of ammunition per man were distributed to us, and after a terrible uproar we marched out of the town.
More recently, some facilities in major cities use broadband
wireless or DSL connections. Most coffee net places will also have
a DVD burner for downloading photos from digital cameras.
.^ Yuri Bailer, "The Iranian Connection in Israel's Foreign Policy 1948-1951," Middle East Journal 39:2 (Spring 1985): 292-315.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ Cyrus Schayegh, "Sport, Health, and the Iranian Modern Middle Class in the 1920s and 1930s," Iranian Studies 35:4 (2002): 341-369.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
^ Raymond Gastil, "Middle Class Impediments to Iranian Modernization," Public Opinion Quarterly 22:3 (1958): 325-329.- http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html 25 January 2010 7:07 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: Academic]
- Banks. All banks were nationalized after the
revolution. Banks are generally open from 07:30 to 13:30 hrs
Saturday thru Wednesday and 07:30 to 12:00 hrs on Thursdays.
(CLOSED ON FRIDAYS). Airports have a bank open
whenever international flights arrive or depart. .
- Bus Company.^ Both parties knew well that any report I might make would be exactly in conformity with truth, or what I believed as such, and that the testimony of an English officer would be decisive.
.^ February , 1852.–If an Englishwoman were able to partake more freely in the society that Tehran affords, she would find living in that city less monotonous.
.
- Foreign Embassies.^ Despite this, when they were captured by the US military, they were disarmed of only their major weapons and are allowed to keep their smaller arms.
- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ And yet, simultaneously, Iranian officials have been sending a very different message one that has gone largely unremarked but merits close attention.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Their insignia, one analyst noted, includes a passage from the Koran that reads, "Prepare any strength you can muster against them, and any cavalry with which you can overawe God's enemy and your own enemy as well, plus others besides them whom you do not know."- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Two days and two nights of each week are allotted for supplying the extensive gardens and premises of the Mission with water from one of these kanāts.
.
- Government Offices.^ The functions of the representatives of the s/ar are now limited to civil cases, while all criminal cases are referred to the urf, which, however, also takes cognizahce of civil disputes, should the parties desire it.
^ He visits me frequently at sunset, accompanied by three or four bottles of wine and a couple of dozen of cucumbers, all of which he finishes before he retires to his own house to dinner.
^ The value of the province of Geelan is further enhanced by its fisheries of sturgeon, salmon, and other fish, from which, however, the Government does not derive an advantage at all equivalent to their value.
Generally open from 8PM to 2PM,
Saturday to Wednesday. Some offices, especially Ministries in
Tehran, are closed completely on Thursday and others open only from
8 to 11.30PM or noon. In general, Thursday is not a good day for
conducting official business.
- Principal Businesses. Open from 9PM to 1PM and 3PM to
9PM weekdays and closed on Fridays. The bazaar and some shops close
on Thursday afternoon, too.
- Museums. Each museum has its own visiting hours. It is
better to check the timings before visiting.
.^ A month later, during Ramadan, the price of fruit reportedly doubled while that of chicken rose 10 percent in mere days.- Iran re-emerges (19.6.68, update 20.5.09) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.solami.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The drinkers of wine almost always abstain during this month, taking care to give themselves ample compensation the moment the fast expires.
During
that month, Muslims are not allowed to eat or drink while the sun
is in the sky.
.^ Baluch, the language of Baluchistan, also very closely akin to New Persian, but especially distinguished from it in that all the old spirants arc changed into explosives , e.g.
Other businesses may adjust
their hours as well.
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listen)), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran[7] is a country in Western Asia.^ 
, "Dominion of the Aryans", (i.e. of Iranians), with their capital at Ctesiphon.[49] .Unlike the diadochic Seleucids and the succeeding Arsacids, who used a vassalary system, the Sassanids—like the Achaemenids—had a system of governors (MP: shahrab) personally appointed by the Emperor and directed by the central government.^ 
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: ايران , pronounced [ʔiˈɾɒn]), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (Persian
, "Dominion of the Aryans", i.e. of Iranians), with their capital at Ctesiphon.[26]
