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Iran and Iraq, though neighbors for many centuries, share both a common and a contentious history. Though both are Muslim nations, they have long been divided by their differing affiliations with the Shia and Sunni branches of Islam and by a cultural tension between Persian and Arab. These tensions have occasionally erupted into all-out warfare, most recently in the 1980s, when half a million Iraqis and Iranians were killed in a decade-long war. Today,...
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Iran's senior leadership and government officials claim to be pursuing a legitimate, civilian nuclear energy program. However, many believe Iran is also operating a secret program to develop nuclear weapons. What is the truth? This book takes an evenhanded approach to looking more closely at the Iranian nuclear energy program and its global implications.
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The history of Iran is a long, rich, multi-layered one. Iran was once known as Persia and was devoted to an ancient religion known as Zoroastrianism. The Persian people converted to Islam following the Arab conquest. Persia contributed as much to Islam as it received. Indeed, it eventually developed along a separate path from most Arab Muslims, as it adopted the Shia branch of the faith. Though the Shia would always be a minority within Islam, the...
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Following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Iran's conservative Muslim religious leaders assumed all positions of power in the new regime. This timely and thorough book discusses Iran's ruling clerics and their immense influence in both Iranian public and private spheres.
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