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10 de sept. de 2024 · The movie begins with a brief narration of the events leading to the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and the following Iranian Revolution and opens on the scene of the U.S. embassy in Tehran surrounded by militant protesters. Inside, staffers are frantically shredding and burning documents.
Hace 1 día · Men associated with Mosaddegh and his ideals dominated Iran's first post-revolutionary government. The first prime minister after the Iranian revolution was Mehdi Bazargan, a close associate of Mosaddegh.
Hace 2 días · Tehran was first chosen as the capital of Iran by Agha Mohammad Khan of the Qajar dynasty in 1786, because of its proximity to Iran's territories in the Caucasus, then separated from Iran in the Russo-Iranian Wars, to avoid the vying factions of the previously ruling Iranian dynasties.
16 de sept. de 2024 · During Ahmadinejad’s term as mayor of Tehrān, a number of the reforms instituted by his moderate predecessors were scaled back. In 2005 Ahmadinejad was elected president of Iran, and he was replaced as mayor of the city by the pragmatic Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.
16 de sept. de 2024 · The city mixes tradition with modernity and religious imagery with secular lifestyles, as evident in the large roadside boards that display revolutionary religious iconography standing alongside those advertising consumer goods. Tehrān - Cultural, Urban, Modern: Even though the city is the meeting point of many ethnic and linguistic ...
Hace 1 día · Siamak Namazi, an American who spent eight years wrongfully detained in Iran, tells CNN’s Christiane Amanpour of his painful experiences in an exclusive TV interview.
Hace 5 días · Kirsten Fontenrose, nonresident senior fellow at the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative in the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Programs, testifies before the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs on how Tehran’s terror campaign threatens the US and allies. Below are her prepared remarks.
