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IRAN, ISRAEL: Flexing muscles, turning up rhetoric in preparation for possible war...submarines. Israeli military experts have said that the army is expecting Iran's allies Hezbollah and Hamas to retaliate by launching synchronized rocket attacks in the event of an airstrike against Iran. Israel's new antimissile... In this article: Iran, Israel, United States, Tehran, Washington, Tel Aviv, Middle East, and Council on Foreign Relations |
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JPost.com Front Page Top Stories | 5 days ago
Interview: Planning for the unthinkable - a nuclear Iran
...a number of years, Pollack assessed. But in so doing, Israel would have to assume that Iran would retaliate through its allies Hamas and Hizbullah, which are armed and stationed on Israel's borders. A strike intended to strengthen the...
In this article: Kenneth Pollack, Iraq, Israel, US Intelligence Community, Saddam Hussein, South Africa, Iraq War, Invading Iraq, and Brookings Institution
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Miami Herald - Opinion | 4 days ago
Obama's clumsy efforts breed mistrust
...for peace and support hardliners. If the Palestinians don't think Washington will protect Israel, they will revert to the view, still held by Hamas and Iran, that Israel can and should be destroyed. The Miami Herald is pleased to provide...
In this article: Benjamin Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas, Israel, Washington, Fatah, Hamas, East Jerusalem, West Bank, and The White House
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | 2 days ago
Prisoner Swap Appears Near in the Mideast
...of Israel's citizens who are Palestinians. Moreover, since Hamas receives support from Iran, any boost for Hamas could strengthen a country that Israel considers the region's greatest menace. Among Palestinians, any prisoner release is a...
In this article: Hamas, Marwan Barghouti, Gilad Shalit, Mahmoud Abbas, Israel, Gaza, Fatah, and Middle East
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PM tries to jump-start talks with Syria
...parties and his comments were carried by state-run SANA news agency. Syria is allied with Hamas and Hizbullah as well as Iran, all of which want to destroy Israel. Still, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night,...
In this article: Binyamin Netanyahu, Nicolas Sarkozy, Syria, Ehud Barak, Bashar Assad, Israel, Barack Obama, Paris, Ehud Olmert, and Bernard Kouchner
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washingtonpost.com | November 11, 2009
Israel shows documents it says link Iran to arms
...for the Syrian port of Latakia. Israel has showcased the haul as proof of its long-standing contention that Iran is supplying large quantities of arms to Hezbollah and Hamas militants in Gaza. Israel says the confiscated arms cache -...
In this article: Israel, Hezbollah, Polyethylene, Hamas, U.N., and Isfahan
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Cellphone alert system expected in 2 yrs
...a need to set off a nationwide alert," he said. Soffer estimated that the total amount of rocket-delivered explosives possessed by Iran, Hizbullah, and Hamas is no more than 3,000 tons. "For the sake of comparison, 3,000 tons of...
In this article: Gaza, Israel, World War II, 1991 Gulf War, Arrow 2, Hamas, and Hizbullah
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BBC News | November 12, 2009
Israel call for Syria peace talks
...good relationship with both leaders. The BBC's Tim Franks in Jerusalem says Israel is keen to see Syria end its support for the Islamist groups, Hamas and Hezbollah, and to prise Syria away from Iran. Syria says it wants the entire Golan...
In this article: Israel, Syria, Nicolas Sarkozy, Golan Heights, Bashar al-Assad, Middle East, Damascus, and Paris
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Kansas City Star | 1 day ago
Israel readying new arms to meet Iran challenge
...this done." </p><p>Under their overarching fear of nuclear annihilation by Iran, whose regime has repeatedly called for Israel's extinction, the more immediate threat is seen as coming from Iranian-backed Hezbollah and Hamas.
In this article: Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iron Dome, Bill Clinton, Gaza, Tel Aviv, and Amos Yadlin
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FT.com - World | November 04, 2009
Israel seizes arms 'bound for Hizbollah'
...Iran and was heading to Syria and to Hizbollah. . . Iran and Syria are arming terror organisations, especially Hizbollah and Hamas, and are clearly acting to undermine peace in the Middle East. " Hamas is the Palestinian Islamist group that...
In this article: Israel, Hizbollah, Hamas, United Nations, Gaza, and Syria
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Iran (ایران ), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran is a country in Western Asia. Iran is bordered to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, to the west by Iraq, and by Turkey to the northwest. As Iran is a littoral state of the Caspian Sea, which is an inland sea and condominium, Kazakhstan and Russia are also Iran's direct northern neighbors. Iran has a population of over seventy million. It is the 18th largest country in the world in terms of area at 1,648,195 km². Iran is affected by a wide range of climates, from hot and dry in the eastern deserts to temperate and rainy along the Caspian coast.
The name Iran has been in use natively and came into international use from 1935, before which the country was known internationally as Persia. The name Iran is a cognate of Aryan, and means "Land of the Aryans". Aryan refers the ancient Iranian tribes that settled in the Iranian plateau: Medes, Parthians and Persians, the latter of which and eventually unified the region into one the largest empires in history, the Achaemenid Empire. The Muslim conquest of Persia led to a period of significant spiritual, cultural and scientific exchange between Persians and other Muslims. This period saw the emergence of many Persian scientists, poets and philosophers. Iran was reunified as an independent state in 1501 by the Safavid dynasty—who promoted Twelver Shi'a Islam as the official religion of their empire, marking one of the most important turning points in the history of Islam. in 1906, the Iranian Constitutional Revolution established the nation's first parliament within a constitutional monarchy.
- Name:
- Iran
- Conventional Long Name:
- Islamic Republic of Iran
- Local Name:
- جمهوری اسلامی ایران
- Capital:
- Tehran
- Language:
- Persian
- Motto:
- Independence, freedom, Islamic Republic
- Largest City:
- Tehran
- Government type:
- Islamic republic (a "theocratic republic".)
- Founding Date:
- January 01, 0625
- Formations:
- Safavid dynasty
- Area:
- 1,648,195
- GDP (per capita PPP):
- $830.058 billion
- GDP (per capita PPP) Rank:
- 17th
- GDP (nominal):
- $331.757 billion
- GDP (nominal per capita) Rank:
- 87th
- GPD (nominal) Rank:
- 29th
- GDP (nominal per capita):
- $4,477
- Time Zone:
- IRST
- Currency:
- Rial (ريال)
- Demonym:
- Iranian
- Drives On:
- right
- Currency (code):
- IRR
- Country Calling Code:
- +98
- ccTLD:
- .ir
- Anthem:
- National Anthem of Iran²
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