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| | IRAN FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09) |
 | | Although locally- known as 'Iran', at least since the Sassanian period, until 1935 the country was referred to in the West as Persia. |
 | | In 1953 Iran's prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, 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"). |
 | | While the number, percentage, and definition of the different Iranian peoples is disputed, the major ethnic groups in Iran include the Persians (51%), Azeris (24%), Gilaki_and_Mazandarani (8%), Kurds (7%), Arabs (3%), Baluchi (2%), Lurs (2%), Turkmen_people (2%), Qashqai, Armenians, Persian_Jews, Assyrians and others.¹ ''See also: Ethnic_minorities_in_Iran''. |
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