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	999 Iran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Iran's makeup has several intricately connected governing bodies, some of which are democratically elected and some of which operate by co-opting people based on their religious inclinations.
		According to Iran's Constitution, the Supreme Leader of Iran is responsible for the delineation and supervision of "the general policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran." In the absence of a single leader, a council of religious leaders is appointed.
		Iran is considered to be one of the fifteen states that comprise the so-called "Cradle of Humanity".
	www.999iran.com (2703 words)

	Iran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Iran borders Armenia, Azerbaijan (including its Nakhichevan exclave), and Turkmenistan to the north, Pakistan and Afghanistan to the east, and Turkey and Iraq to the west.
		Iran is considered one of the fifteen states that comprise the "Cradle of Humanity".
		Iran is also hoping to attract billions of dollars worth of foreign investment by creating a more favorable investment climate, such as reduced restrictions and duties on imports and the creation of free-trade zones like in Chabahar and the island of Kish.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iran (4042 words)

	Iran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Iran traces its national origin to Persia, derived from Persis, the ancient Greek name for Iran, that emerged in the 6th century BC under the Achaemenid dynasty as a vast empire that controlled an area from northwestern India to Greece.
		Iran's makeup has several intricately connected governing bodies, some of which are democratically elected and some of which operate by co-opting people based on their religious expertise.
		According to Iran's Constitution, the Supreme Leader of Iran is responsible for the delineation and supervision of "the general policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran." In the absence of a single leader, a council of religious leaders is appointed.
	www.worldslastchance.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Iran (2735 words)

	Iran - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Iran's makeup has several intricately connected governing bodies, some of which are democratically elected and some of which operate by co-opting people based on their religious inclinations.
		According to Iran's Constitution (http://www.salamiran.org/IranInfo/State/Constitution/), the Supreme Leader of Iran is responsible for the delineation and supervision of "the general policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran." In the absence of a single leader, a council of religious leaders is appointed.
		Iran is considered to be one of the fifteen states that comprise the so-called "Cradle of Humanity".
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Iran (2585 words)

	Iran
		The Islamic Republic of Iran is a country in the Middle East, in the southwest of Asia.
		Iran's economy is a mixture of central planning, state ownership of oil and other large enterprises, village agriculture, and small-scale private trading and service ventures.
		Iran's population size increased dramatically in the latter part of the 20th century.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ir/Iran.html (955 words)

	Demographics of Iran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Iran's population was estimated to be 68,688,433 in July 2006, with nearly two-fifths of its people being 15 years of age or younger.
		[1] [2] Iran is also ethnically and linguistically diverse, with some cities (such as Tehran) bringing various ethnic groups together.
		Today, there are about 8,000 Assyrian Christians in Iran, who belong to the Chaldean Catholic Church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Demographics_of_Iran (352 words)

	Iran : search word
		Iran borders Pakistan (909km of border) and Afghanistan (936km) to the east, Turkmenistan (1000km) to the northeast, the Caspian Sea to the north, Azerbaijan (500km) and Armenia (35km) to the northwest, Turkey (500km) and Iraq (1458km) to the west, and finally the waters of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman to the south.
		Main article: Politics of Iran Since the revolution of 1979 the Supreme Leader is the rahbar, or in the absence of a single leader a council of religious leaders.
		Iran is considered to be one of the fifteen states that comprise the so-called "Cradle of Humanity" See also: List of cities in Iran.
	www.searchword.org /ir/iran.html (1720 words)

	Open Source » Blog Archive » Iran: Demographics and Democracy
		Seventy percent of Iran’s population is under 30; Persian now ties French for the second most-used language in the blogosphere.
		Some of the strands of the discussion: what can be learned about Iran from its technologically savvy youth; the emerging power and politics of the blogosphere; and — whether it’s in films or blogs or underground newspapers or coffee shop discussions — how the coded language of dissent actually works.
		Barnett suggested in an Esquire article a while back (and in his book) that a pillar of US policy should be to co-opt Iran by cutting a deal with them acknowledging them as a regional power and blessing their having the bomb in exchange for opening up their markets/connecting them to the world more.
	www.radioopensource.org /iran-demographics-and-democracy (1100 words)

	Iran - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Iran is currently led by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and overseen by the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
		Iran is a member and co-founder of OPEC and is important in international politics due to its large supply of petroleum.
		Iran's makeup has several intricately connected governing bodies, some of which are democratically elected and some of which are appointed.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Iran (3820 words)

	Who's Behind the Coming War With Iran? - by Scott Horton
		Iran is run by conservative Shi'ite mullahs, while bin Laden and his followers are radical Salafist Sunnis.
		Iran is four times the size and has three times the population of Iraq, where U.S. forces have had plenty of trouble despite the majority Shia, for the most part, not even fighting.
		Demographics suggest Iran's population is heavy on fighting-age males.
	antiwar.com /horton/?articleid=6888 (2166 words)

	Iran
		Iran borders (936 km) to the east, revolution led by the theocratic Islamic Republic, making the present full name of the country The Islamic Republic of Iran (جمهوری اسلامی ایران).
		Iran traces its national origin to Persia, derived from Persis, the ancient Greek name for Iran, that emerged in the Sassanid Empires.
		The Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Iran's USA and the UK, the Shah further modernised Iranian industry but crushed autocratic rule, including systematic torture and other human rights violations, led to the Iranian revolution and overthrow of his regime in 1979.
	www.med-help.info /?p=Iran (2050 words)

	ESR \| March 15, 2004 \| Iran: Delivering Armageddon
		It is Iran that has been systematically seeking to develop a nuclear arms program since the 1980s and lying about it.
		It is Iran that will not only be able to destroy an American city with a nuclear device, but it is also Iran's leaders who are the most likely to do so.
		It was Iran that funded the attack in 1996 on the Khobar Towers barracks for US military personnel in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, that killed nineteen soldiers and injured 400 others.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0304/0304iran.htm (974 words)

	Iran - Gurupedia
		Mohammed Mossadeq, who had been elected to parliament in 1923 and again in 1944, and who had been prime minister since 1951, was removed from power in a complex plot orchestrated by British and US intelligence agencies("Operation Ajax").
		As a consequence, the Western World largely considered Iran to be a hostile power, and treated it as such until a certain
		Strict Islamic law was implemented, women lost many of their rights, and in some confirmed cases, Human rights abuses such as torture and violent executions continued.
	www.gurupedia.com /i/ir/iran.htm (1098 words)

	Best Guide To Iran
		Iran is the third largest producer of copper in the world.
		Iran is the most populous country with the second largest economy in the Middle East.
		Despite the fact that Germany, Italy and Japan are counted as leading exporters to Iran, Iran's trade initiatives and policy in recent years, provide ample opportunities for other countries beyond the small circle of the world's major trading partners.
	www.bestguidetoiran.com /business_in_anut_shell.asp (514 words)

	True Blue Liberal » Why the West Will Attack Iran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Iran needs nuclear weapons, I believe, not to attack Israel, but to support imperial expansion by conventional military means.
		Iran’s oil exports will shrink to zero in 20 years, just at the demographic inflection point when the costs of maintaining an aged population will crush its state finances, as I reported in Demographics and Iran’s imperial design (September 13, 2005).
		Just outside Iran’s present frontiers lie the oil resources of Iraq, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, and not far away are the oil concentrations of eastern Saudi Arabia.
	www.trueblueliberal.com /?p=3127 (337 words)

	Demographics of Iran: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Most Iranians are Muslims; 89% belong to the Shi'a (Shi'a: One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam; mainly in Iran) branch of Islam, the official state religion, and about 10% belong to the Sunni (Sunni: One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam) branch, which predominates in neighboring Muslim countries.
		Ethnic groups: Persians (Persians: The language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms) 51%, Azeris (Azeris: An ethnic group living in Azerbaijan) 24%, Gilaki (Gilaki: gilaki or guilaki () is one of the north-western...
		Iran (Iran: A theocratic islamic republic in the Middle East in western Asia; Iran* was the core of the ancient empire that was known as Persia until 1935; rich in oil; involved in state-sponsored terrorism)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/demographics_of_iran (759 words)

	The Geopolitics of Oil: Iran
		Share of petroleum sector in the economy: oil and gas constitute 82% of Iran's exports.
		Political situation: Since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran has been ruled by a repressive religious regime which adheres to outdated social customs.
		The nation is currently divided between the conservatives who control the military and most government institutions and the moderates who enjoy broad public support.
	www.iags.org /iran.html (164 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Iran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Known as Persia until 1935, Iran became an Islamic republic in 1979 after the ruling monarchy was overthrown and the shah was forced into exile.
		Iran has been designated a state sponsor of terrorism for its activities in Lebanon and elsewhere in the world and remains subject to US economic sanctions and export controls because of its continued involvement.
		Iran's economy is marked by a bloated, inefficient state sector, over reliance on the oil sector, and statist policies that create major distortions throughout.
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/ir.html (1441 words)

	Pundita: Iran by the numbers
		That is a preemptive response to the inevitable depopulation of rural Iran, in keeping with a totalitarian program for all aspects of Iranian society.
		Reengineering the shape of Iran's population, the central plank of the new government's domestic program, should be understood as the flip side of Iran's nuclear coin.
		Iran claims that it must develop nuclear power to replace diminishing oil exports.
	pundita.blogspot.com /2005/10/iran-by-numbers.html (953 words)

	Iran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1953, Iran's socialist prime minister Mohammed Mossadeq, who had been elected to parliament in 1923 and again in 1944, and who had been prime minister since 1951, was removed from power in a complex plot orchestrated by British and US intelligence agencies("Operation Ajax").
		Iran consists of 28 provinces (ostan-haa, singular - ostan):
		The solar Islamic calendar as the main date, the lunar Islamic calendar for religious events, and the Gregorian calendar for international events (like the May Day).
	knowallabout.com /i/ir/iran.html (1129 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs
		But Iran's motives for acquiring nuclear power are not only economic but strategic.
		Iran wants effective control of Iraq through its ascendant Shi'ite majority, and ultimately control of the oil-rich regions of western Saudi Arabia, where Shi'ites form a majority.
		The rising elderly dependent ratio, that is, the proportion of pensioners in the general population, has given rise to a genre of apocalyptic literature in the West: governments will raise taxes, debase the currency, cut pensions and flail about hopelessly as the cost rises of supporting the rising number of aged.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/GI13Ak01.html (1316 words)

	e commerce iran channel kos at iranwsis.org
		Includes history, politics, geography, economy, demographics, provinces, culture, and more.
		Iran News, Persian Journal Iranian Farsi news & iran news paper
		Persian farsi news iran newspaper Iranian News Iranians Tehran news zan...
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	Wikinfo \| Iran
		In 1953, prime minister Mohammed Mossadeq, who had been elected to parliament in 1923 and again in 1944, and who had been prime minister since 1951, was removed from power in a complex plot orchestrated by British and US intelligence agencies, leading to the dictatorship of the shah (Iran's monarch), Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
		Human rights abuses, such as torture and violent executions continue.
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Iran (1158 words)

	Early Warning by William M. Arkin - washingtonpost.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I know Iran is as much as a decade away from acquiring a nuclear weapon, but the stand-off has also produced its own tensions and thus additional contingency planning.
		The claims against Iran are hollow and false, while the U.S. is openly breaching the Non-Proliferation Treaty in regards to developing new nuclear weapons instead of reducing American nuclear weapons.
		There is a probability that Iran is very close to building a nuke; there is a probability that they are at least five but less than ten years out; a probability that they are at least ten years out; and a probability that they can/will never build one.
	blogs.washingtonpost.com /earlywarning/2006/04/goldilocks_and_.html (8918 words)

	ChronWatch Reader Forum :: View topic - Bush's October surprise - it's coming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		If Iran stands down as a prospective nuclear power, it faces a rapidly graying population, declining capacity to export oil and discontent among rural folk and the urban poor.
		The president, according to one of Hersh's interlocutors, is "absolutely convinced that Iran is going to get the bomb" and believes that he must do "what no Democrat or Republican, if elected in the future, would have the courage to do", and "that saving Iran is going to be his legacy".
		Iran is a looming crisis, but it's still far enough away that you can find smart, interesting writing on the topic without having to wade through too much dross.
	forum.chronwatch.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=26862 (2442 words)

	IAS e-Newsletter - January 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		While it is estimated that between 1.2 to 2 million Iranians have diabetes now, the prevalence of DM in different populations in the EMR varied between 4.3% in Egypt to 25.5% in Bahrain.
		The wide range obtained from these studies may be explained by the lack of standardization of the blood pressure or plasma glucose measurements, varied definitions, different age groups or sample size of the studied population and finally different dates of the studies.
		In summary, our analysis indicates that although there are many reports from EMR countries and Iran concerning the epidemiological views of HTN and DM, it is obvious that still there is more need to conduct a national or regional surveys using highly standardized methodology like the (MONICA model) in a large number of EMR countries.
	www.athero.org /newsletters/2004february/reports/Iran/demographics.htm (1261 words)

	BrothersJudd Blog: REFORM OR COLLAPSE:
		In the case of Iran only, looking at the U.S. Census Bureau's International Data Base, we see that Iran had a boom in births between 1975 - 1995.
		The USCBIDB is also predicting that Iran will not have an "echo boom", as the U.S. did, nor robust immigration.
		In 2050 Iran, the graph resembles a Corinthian column with an ornate capital - top-heavy.
	www.brothersjudd.com /blog/archives/2005/09/grow_or_collaps.html (2813 words)

	The EU Trio and negotiation with Iran » Shoutwire.com
		Iran continues to lay claim to a share of Caspian Sea energy resources under the Iranian-Soviet treaties of 1921 and 1940.
		Iran has completely cooperated with the IAEA to ensure that it stays within the rules and does not develop highly-enriched, weapons grade material.
		The Bush administration does not accept the internationally-recognized treaty rights of Iran because it believes that all law flows from Washington; a fact that is tragically evident in its torturing of prisoners, spying on American citizens, and its vast destruction of Iraq.
	www.shoutwire.com /default.aspx?p=comments&id=4128 (7117 words)

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