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	Iranian's People & Nations
		The majority of Iranian ethnic types are descendants of the Aryan tribes whose origins are lost in the antiquity.
		Nearly 20% of the nation speaks Azari, a Turkish-sounding language.These are Azaris, or Iranian Turks, who form the largest minority of the country.
		In the 20th century, some governments have in vain attempted to carry out national integration, or Personalization, of this heterogeneous population (particularly during the reign of Reza Shah), in the hope that tribal and cultural distinctions would disappear with the economic and political development of the country.
	www.irantour.org /Iran/people/IRANIANS-Nations.html (1310 words)

	Balochistan People's Party English Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		For state of Iran to last, it must in general start from the effort to give Iranian nations their true national boundaries, which are determined by language and culture.
		Nations have their own cultural boundaries and historic right and language, it continuously been depressed by totalitarian regime and self-claim moderate Persian parties.
		Iranian minorities’ nationalism is a historic fact that is waiting for process of modernization to begin.
	www.ostomaan.org /200510/M_S_Baloch.htm (763 words)

	Brief On Iran - Iranian Resistance has potential to bring about democratic change in Iran — Maryam Rajavi
		Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, highlighted the threats posed by the religious dictatorship ruling Iran and reiterated that change in her homeland is within reach.
		The Iranian Resistance has the potential and the elements necessary to bring about democratic change in Iran." She then assured the meeting, "We do not aim to assume power at all costs.
		Thus, the National Council of Resistance of Iran is committed to hold free elections for a constituent and national legislative assembly within six months of the current regime's overthrow and hand over the affairs of the country to their elected representatives.
	briefoniran.com /content/view/294/29 (1907 words)

	Nations agree on Iran sanctions - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		UNITED NATIONS — Six world powers including the United States agreed Thursday on new economic and military sanctions aimed at increasing pressure on Iran to stop uranium enrichment.
		Actions in the United Nations draft resolution include freezing the foreign assets of a major state-run Iranian bank and formally barring Iran from supplying weapons to other countries or Mideast militant groups, among other measures.
		Nations would be required to notify a Security Council committee if those officials enter their countries.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2007-03-15-un-iran-sanctions_N.htm?csp=34 (847 words)

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		In each nation there is an element (or constellation of fundamental elements) which is more salient than other elements which makes a different in the course of history and distinguishes X from Y in crucial sense as one individual from another one.
		A further wave of 15,000 Muslim (Iranian) soldiers came in 1070 and 1080 at the invitation of the Northern Song Chinese emperor to establish a buffer zone in northeastern China between his diminished kingdom and the expanding Khitan Empire.
		But whatever the outcome of the future research on the role of this Iranian element and Ananda’s role in Chinese history one fact remains intact and that is the spiritual constitution of Chinese thought that remains heavily indebted to Iran.
	www.iranianstudies.org /lectures/albania.htm (4269 words)

	Kayhan international (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		TEHRAN, Oct. 3 (Dispatches) All Iranians have a major duty to present a model society for world nations that are exhausted of all-man-made doctrines, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday.
		The Iranian nations is wise, vigilant and determined, he said, and added that any one trying to move against the forces of the people and sovereign government will fail.
		The president said that enemies are harming their own nations, and further called on the western states to resort to justice and humanity, asserting that revival of justice and human behavior are mandatory prerequisites for the U.S. if the White House desires other nations revise their relations with the United States.
	www.kayhanintl.com /oct4/d4.htm (569 words)

	Greater Iran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Iranian elementary school texts teach about the Iranian roots not only of cities like Baku, but also cities further north like Derbent in southern Russia.
		The western provinces of Pakistan, which comprise the North West Frontier Province and Baluchistan, are predominantly Iranian-speaking regions where Pashtuns and Baluchis comprise the vast majority of the local populations and remain an extension of Iranian civilization in the east.
		Pakistan's national language, Urdu borrows heavily from Persian, while the nation's national poet, Muhammad Iqbal wrote the majority of poems in Persian.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iranian_nations (2840 words)

	An Iranian Sales Pitch
		In Iranian school textbooks and particularly in those written during the tenure of Khatami, the issue of martyrdom is further stressed.
		The vast difference between Iranian officials' statements and actions can be explained in the context of their core mission, a mission that began in 1979 with Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution.
		Accordingly, Iranians are instructed to prepare themselves for a life-or-death global war against the infidel oppressors.
	www.aina.org /news/20061025100710.htm (724 words)

	Mehrangiz Kar Official Homepage
		As a member of the United Nations, the Iranian government is obliged to follow rules an regulations created based on the international human rights law.
		The Iranian government has arrived at a positive vote for the ratified 1948 human rights declaration, approving the contents of the human rights legislation.
		In some ways, article 9 of Iranian civil laws is in conformity with those segments of international clauses that are based on Iran’s collaboration with other governments.
	www.mehrangizkar.com /english/archives/000181.php (515 words)

	The United Nations: Iranian Fails to Appear at the Afghan Talks Attended by Albright
		NITED NATIONS -- What was expected to be the first high-level meeting in two decades between Iran and the United States did not occur Monday because Iran's foreign minister did not show up for a conference on Afghanistan attended by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
		It was only after the meeting that the Iranians announced why their foreign minister, Kamal Kharazi, was represented by one of his deputies.
		The group also called for international investigations into the killings of Iranian diplomats and a journalist, as well as unconfirmed reports of massacres in areas recently conquered by the Taliban.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/mideast/092298un-iran-afghan.html (635 words)

	Iranian activists say Rajavi must be extradited
		MP Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee also said on Saturday that there is sufficient evidence to prove that Rajavi is guilty of committing genocide against the Iraqi and Iranian people alongside Saddam Hussein.
		Falahatpisheh condemned Saddam's crimes against the Iraqi and Iranian nations, saying that the many abhorrent and unprecedented aspects of his crimes should not be buried with him after his death.
		Meanwhile, an Iranian Judiciary official told MNA on Saturday that Rajavi, as an Iranian national, should be tried in Iran.
	www.payvand.com /news/05/nov/1183.html (467 words)

	American Iranian Council - Update
		The IPC considers Iranian meddling is aimed at inhibiting the emergence of a stable and representative government in Iran and keeping the United States occupied with the Iraqi insurgency so that it will not have the interest or resources to deal with Iran’s nuclear program.
		To make clear that dialogue is aimed at changing the nature of the regime; the CPD insists that Khamenei be isolated from his support by developing relationships with the military and various services in Iran, to meet common regional objectives, and to call for the outright eradication of the Islamic Guard Corps and the Basij.
		The mission of AIC is to be a constructive force, in cooperation and partnership with other organizations, in bringing the United States and Iran together, involving the Iranian-American community in the dialogue, and bringing attention to social and political conditions in Iran.
	www.american-iranian.org /pubs/aicupdate/03312005.html (2754 words)

	An Iranian Sales Pitch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It is known, in the words of former Iranian president Mohammed Khatami, as the “Dialogue of Civilizations.”
		In Iranian school textbooks and particularly in those written during the tenure of Khatami, the issue of martyrdom is further stressed.
		Appearing before the United Nations, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke of moderate and peaceful co-existence of sovereign nations.
	frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=25094 (698 words)

	Former Iranian president criticizes Bush - Boston.com
		Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami criticized President Bush in interviews published Tuesday, as he joined Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other leaders at the U.N. for a meeting of a group that promotes understanding between Western and Islamic states.
		Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami arrives to a high-level group of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations meeting at United Nations headquarters Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2006.
		Khatami is the most senior Iranian to travel outside New York in the United States since Islamic fundamentalists seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held Americans hostage for 444 days.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/09/05/former_iranian_president_criticizes_bush (547 words)

	Lawmakers Condemn Iranian President's Statement on Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Since the Iranian president's statement, members of Congress have come out individually to condemn the remarks, in which President Ahmadinejad said the state of Israel should, in his words, be wiped off the map.
		The House resolution urges the United Nations Security Council and all nations to reject the Iranian leader's statement, and condemn Iran for statements and policies aimed at Israel's destruction.
		There is no room for the president of a nation to call for the destruction of a member state of the United Nations, a Democratic ally of the United States," he said.
	www.voanews.com /english/2005-10-29-voa3.cfm (483 words)

	BBC News \| Middle East \| UN criticises Iran on human rights
		Iranian state television has reacted angrily to a United Nations report which says a year of political and social turmoil in Iran has led to an erosion of human rights.
		Mr Copithorne highlighted the killing of a number of liberal intellectuals late last year and the subsequent closure of pro reformist newspapers which contributed to major street demonstrations in July.
		Iranian television dismissed the accusations saying: "We remind you, that in all previous cases (of such accusations), the Islamic republic has rejected these baseless allegations."
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/503418.stm (375 words)

	U.S. withdrawal only solution to Iraq crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Iranian officials have often expressed deep concern over the presence of these terrorists on Iraqi soil and have tried to inform the international community of the fact that the occupying forces are unable to establish peace and security in the country.
		Another topic that should be on the agenda during Talabani’s visit is Iran’s desire to see the atrocities Saddam committed against the Iranian nation during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war addressed in the legal proceedings against the former dictator.
		Due to the religious affinities they share with Iranians, the Iraqi majority expects their government to establish political relations with neighboring countries -- including Iran -- according to religious considerations, because the Iraqi nation has not forgotten the support regional Arab countries provided to the Baath regime for over three decades.
	www.mehrnews.ir /en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=413166 (544 words)

	ABC News: Iran Tells U.N. Nuclear Program Peaceful
		Iranian president Mahmound Ahmadinejad addresses the 61st session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006.
		UNITED NATIONS Sep 19, 2006 (AP)— Iran's nuclear activities are "transparent, peaceful and under the watchful eye" of United Nations inspectors, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday.
		He reiterated his nation's commitment to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty as it faces accusations that it is seeking to develop atomic weapons.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2465769 (405 words)

	Maziar Bahari at PostGlobal: PostGlobal on washingtonpost.com
		Subsequently, the conquest of the Iranian Islamic Assembly (Majlis) by the conservative forces which was followed by the shock victory of Mahmud Ahmadinejad in the last summer's Iranian presidency elections can be seen as very salient signs of the end of the governmental reformism and the definitive return of the hardliners to the power.
		The internal national cohesion and the continuity of such nationalism are largely connected to its expansive character and to the existence of an imagined or a real external enemy which "threatens the values and the land of the Moslems".
		A cohesive and functioning nation which is even compatible to the norms of the international relations can not be achieved through the use of the violence and the exclusionary racist discourses; it is possible to be realised through adopting the universal democratic values.
	newsweek.washingtonpost.com /postglobal/maziar_bahari/2006/11/an_iranian_dissects_usiran_tal.html (16699 words)

	Iranian parries Bush at UN - Newsday.com
		UNITED NATIONS -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used a defiant address here last night to turn the tables on a U.S. call for sanctions against Iran's nuclear program - sharply challenging the United Nations instead to stand up to American "aggression and oppression" in the Middle East.
		At the podium, Bush directed his remarks to the Iranian people, saying of Ahmadinejad: "The greatest obstacle to this future is that your rulers have chosen to deny you liberty and to use your nation's resources to fund terrorism, and fuel extremism, and pursue nuclear weapons.
		By contrast, the Iranian leader let loose with a fiery speech, linking the U.S. invasion of Iraq with the recent U.S.-backed Israeli bombing of Hezbollah in Lebanon in a sort of bill of particulars that he said required action by the Security Council.
	www.newsday.com /news/nationworld/world/ny-woun204898750sep20,0,2261755.story?coll=ny-worldnews-print (880 words)

	The United Nations: Clinton Urges World Action on Terror
		NITED NATIONS -- President Clinton told world leaders Monday that the fight against terrorism was "at the top of the U.S. agenda," and proposed steps for better international cooperation to prevent and punish attacks.
		His audience knew that if he looked preoccupied, which he did, it was because he was in the awkward position of addressing the United Nations at the same time that a videotape of his testimony to a grand jury investigating the Monica Lewinsky matter was playing on television screens and computer monitors around the world.
		Samuel Berger, the national security adviser, told reporters in a briefing Monday that the warm reception the president received was a surprise.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/global/092298un-clinton.html (1125 words)

	The United Nations: Iranian President Paints a Picture of Peace and Moderation
		NITED NATIONS -- Introducing himself as "a man of the East" from "a great and renowned nation," President Mohammad Khatami of Iran tried to woo his global audience Monday with talk of how freedom-loving and law-abiding Iran is these days and asked for help in resolving the crisis in neighboring Afghanistan.
		Khatami branded the recent killing of nine Iranian diplomats and a journalist by the Sunni Muslim Taliban part of a pattern of genocide against Shiite Muslims and called on the United Nations to bring all the warring parties into negotiations.
		The woman, identified by United Nations officials as Laila Jazayeri, a 37-year-old Iranian, was subdued by the United Nations security police, who handcuffed her and strapped her to a wheelchair before turning her over to the New York police.
	www.ishipress.com /un-iran.htm (948 words)

	RIA Novosti - Russia - Iranian president appreciates relations with Russia and rules out deadlock on "nuclear ...
		TEHRAN, August 21 (RIA Novosti, Nikolai Terehov) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stressed the importance of enhancing Russian-Iranian relations and said he was sure talks with the European Union on the Iranian "nuclear dossier" would not come to a deadlock.
		Touching upon the problem of the country's "nuclear dossier", the Iranian leader said talks between Iran and the European troika (the United Kingdom, France and Germany) were unlikely to reach a deadlock.
		In his estimation of the Iranian "nuclear dossier" problem, President of the United States George Bush did not rule out the possibility to use force to solve the problem.
	en.rian.ru /russia/20050821/41197896.html (405 words)

	Support for Release of Iranian Pollsters
		World research organisations ESOMAR, EFAMRO and WAPOR have this week joined forces in the case of two Iranian survey researchers arrested earlier this month and have addressed the matter to the EU Government, the United Nations, the Iranian Government and other international bodies in order to release the Iranian pollsters.
		At the beginning of February two Iranian pollsters who outraged hard-liners with a survey that found strong public support for contacts with the United States were sentenced to prison on charges of selling secrets to groups linked to the CIA.
		The ESOMAR statement reiterates the fact that the right to conduct and publish polls freely is part of the modern democratic process which allows citizens to voice their opinions as upheld by Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
	www.payvand.com /news/03/aug/1055.html (295 words)

	Iranian Foreign Relations - NCBuy Country Reference for Iran
		Iran demanded the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Iranian territory and the return to the status quo ante for the Shatt al-Arab as established under the 1975 Algiers Agreement signed by Iraq and Iran.
		Nations with strong fundamentalist movements, such as Egypt and Algeria, also mistrust Iran.
		Relations with west European nations have taken a turn for the better with Iran attempting to present itself as a more reliable partner in diplomatic and commerical affairs.
	www.ncbuy.com /reference/country/backgrounds.html?code=ir&sec=backforeignrelations (534 words)

	Iranian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This branch of languages is called 'Iranian' because its principal members, including Persian, have been spoken in an area centered around the Iranian plateau since ancient times.
		Historical distribution in 100 BC: shown is Sarmatia, Scythia, Bactria and the Parthian Empire.
		The Indo-Iranian languages probably originated in Central Asia - the Andronovo culture is the near-universally preferred candidate for the common Indo-Iranian culture ca.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iranian_languages (1280 words)

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