Reza Shah Pahlavi (1878-1944) was the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty. He rose from the ranks to become minister of war, prime minister, and then shah of Iran. As a reformer-dictator, he laid the found...
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Teheran (dpa) - Iran was determined to normalize ties with Egypt
and was just waiting for Cairo's reply to do so, Iranian Foreign
Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Saturday. ...
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Iran said Tuesday it has arrested a man on suspicion of selling nuclear secrets to an exiled Iranian opposition group, state radio reported.The report didn't identify the suspected spy, but said he...
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Ryszard Kapuscinski, a Polish writer and journalist who gained international acclaim for his books chronicling the unrest in Africa and the Middle East, died in Warsaw on Tuesday, his publisher sai...
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Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden is comparing the unrest in Pakistan to 1970s Iran, when Americans were held hostage.Biden, a U.S. senator knowledgeable on international relations, says wh...
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An Iranian air force F-4 Phantom jet crashed into the Oman Sea on Monday off the southeastern coast of Iran, the official news agency IRNA reported.The semiofficial Fars news agency said the fate o...
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An Iranian air force F-4 Phantom jet crashed into the Oman Sea on Monday off the southeastern coast of Iran, killing both pilots, the official IRNA news agency reported.The jet, belonging to the ar...
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Tehran (dpa) - Iran would be ready to reopen its embassy in Cairo
at the earliest term, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said
Wednesday on state television.
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Ryszard Kapuscinski, a Polish writer and journalist who gained international acclaim for his books chronicling wars, coups and revolutions in Africa, the Middle East and other parts of the world, d...
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Iranian police and plainclothes security agents broke up a sit-in marking Monday's anniversary of a bloody raid on a Tehran university dormitory, then stormed the offices of the country's main pro-...
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A man convicted of adultery was stoned to death last week in a village in northern Iran, a judiciary spokesman said Tuesday, the first time in years that the country has confirmed such an execution...
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Reza Shah Pahlavi
Iran waiting for Cairo's reply to normalize relations with Egypt
