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	Iran - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		By the 20th century Iranians were longing for a change and thus followed the Persian Constitutional Revolution of 1905/1911.
		The Iranian climate is mostly arid or semiarid, though subtropical along the Caspian coast.
		Most Iranians are Muslims; 89% belong to the Shi'a branch of Islam, the official state religion, and about 10% belong to the Sunni branch, which predominates in most Muslim countries.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/i/r/a/Iran.html (3058 words)

	Islam and Modern Science
		It produced a very large number of scientists and engineers, some of whom very brilliant and studying in the best institutions of the world like here, but it produced practically no major philosopher and historian of science until just a few decades ago.
		Modern science is successful in telling you the weight and chemical structure of a red pine leaf, but it is totally irrelevant to what is the meaning of the turning of this leaf to red.
		Pure scientists have a lot of trouble finding money for their work; it is the applied aspect which is emphasized.
	www.muslimphilosophy.com /ip/nasr1.htm (7093 words)

	THE IRANIAN: Reza Pahlavi, Farhad Savadkouhi
		Furthermore, we ask the current Iranian government to issue a non-conditional, broad, unequivocal amnesty to members of any armed and non-armed Iranian opposition groups and organizations if they accept to put down their arms and abide by strict rules of non-violence and instead pursue their aims through peaceful means, political participation, non-violent activism, and dialogue.
		What made the Iranian Revolution of 1979 was that under the rule of my father, a sufficient portion of Iranians had reached the level of economic welfare and security which would allow them to think beyond their immediate needs and reflect on the political and social state of the country.
		Iranian population is so caught in the affairs of daily survival that no member of it can afford the time to reflect on anything beyond the immediate basic survival needs.
	www.iranian.com /Features/2002/June/Dream (1869 words)

	Why Does the Muslim World Lag in Science? - Middle East Quarterly
		Further, the emigration of so many scientists and engineers from Iran after 1979, coupled with the devastating effects of the war with Iraq, meant that the authorities were most concerned with nurturing the remaining research community.
		Scientists, engineers, and physicians have left, primarily to the Persian Gulf countries.
		Science and engineering students are drawn primarily from urban middle-income backgrounds; few of the much larger number of poor students can pursue research careers.
	www.meforum.org /article/306 (5025 words)

	Scientists Explore Mars from Earth's North Pole - Space - RedOrbit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The scientists and researchers are spending two and a half weeks at the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean north of Norway.
		Scientists also will observe how the sterilization process affects the joints of the suit, as well as watch for any damage or deterioration that may happen during fieldwork.
		Expedition scientists are looking at both abiological and biological agents that may produce the Earthly carbonate spherules to better understand what may have formed similar structures on Mars.
	www.redorbit.com /news/space/615430/scientists_explore_mars_from_earths_north_pole/index.html (766 words)

	Print news - IPS Inter Press Service
		A probe is underway into 13 top nuclear scientists, engineers and administrators to see what their participation in this export of nuclear technology, and results are expected in a week.
		The Iranian revelation has been a direct hit at Pakistan's security establishment that is led by, and works under the supervision of, the Pakistan Army.
		Many have written in the press that the idea of some rogue scientists doing this is hard to believe: each of such scientists or engineers had layers of military security.
	www.ipsnews.net /print.asp?idnews=22062 (1013 words)

	54th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs: Bridging a Divided World Through International Cooperation and ...
		Scientists have been revered for their contribution to the expansion of our frontiers of knowledge and for the improving quality of life for many on this planet.
		The most obvious example of misuse is, of course, allowing scientific knowledge to become a destructive force in the hands of dictators or even, I dare say, politicians who are not strictly controlled by the general population and held accountable both by their constituents and by the wider community of nations.
		The majority of competent scientists, professionals and technologists were forced to work on military programmes, to develop weapons of mass destruction: chemical, biological and nuclear.
	www.pugwash.org /reports/pac/54/seoul2004-hodgkin.htm (3467 words)

	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Modern Iranian scientists and engineers
		Ali Rezazadeh, Head of Microwave Engineering Research Group and Director of the Electromagnetics Centre, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.
		Khosrow Behbehani, Director of Biomedical Engineering Dept, University of Texas at Arlington.
		Mohsen Meydani, Director, Vascular Biology Laboratory, and Jean Mayer USDA HNRCA Senior Scientist at Tufts University.
	www.fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Modern_Iranian_scientists_and_engineers (2190 words)

	Modern Crusader
		Today, as its Iranian patron calls on the Muslim world to exterminate the Jews and finish Hitler’s job, Hezbollah is blessed by the embassy of America’s most prominent leftist, and better still, a self-hating Jew.
		Their remarkable story is told in a television documentary, to be screened next week, which shows scientists studying their movement, but also their struggle to fit in with modern society.
		Scientists believe this may be the way hominids moved to protect their fingers for more delicate movements.
	moderncrusader.blogspot.com (3073 words)

	Religions of Iran: A brief history of Iranian Jews (Page 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Scientists and intellectuals from all over got together and thousands of books were translated into Arabic from Greek, Hebrew, Persian and other languages.
		The first modern Jewish School, Alliance was opened after a long and frustrating debate with heavy pressure from Europeans and the International Jewish Alliance in 1891 by an order from Nasser E' din Shah.
		Reza Shah was the first Iranian Monarch after 1400 years that paid respect to the Jews by praying to the Torah and bowing in front of it, when visiting the Jewish community of Esfahan.
	www.iranchamber.com /religions/history_of_iranian_jews2.php (2823 words)

	Iranian War Games: Exercises, Tests, and Drills or Preparation and Mobilization for War?
		The Iranian Armed Forces—the Regular Armed Forces and the Revolutionary Guards Corps—began the first stage of massive nationwide war games along border areas of the province of Sistan and Baluchistan1 in the southeast of Iran bordering the Gulf of Oman, Pakistan, and NATO garrisoned Afghanistan to the east on Saturday, August 19, 2006.
		It is worth noting that the Iranian war games are taking place within the window of time that has been predicted by analysts for the initiation of an American or of an American-led attack against Iran.
		During the second phase of the unfolding military exercises the Iranian military test-fired surface-to-surface missiles from Kashan in coordination with other military movements.11 It must be noted that Kashan is a city which is strategically located in a central position where it can provide air defence(s) for both Iranian nuclear facilities/installations and the Iranian capital.
	www.globalresearch.ca /index.php?context=viewArticle&code=DAR20060821&articleId=3027 (755 words)

	Iranian's People & Nations
		The majority of Iranian ethnic types are descendants of the Aryan tribes whose origins are lost in the antiquity.
		That is why, after an eight-year heroic resistance against Iraqi aggression of Iran in 1980-88 Iran-Iraqi War, Iranians are doing their best to modernize their country, and it is with this in mind that the foreign visitor is hoped to board a plane for Tehran.
		The fact is that when one looks at Iran's 7,000-year old history -or its modern newspapers -one will find that such diversities have always acted as a unifying factor and created an attractive national landscape as beautiful as the Iranian carpet designs.
	www.irantour.org /Iran/people/IRANIANS-Nations.html (1310 words)

	Mars Exploration: Features
		Engineers are often stereotyped as 'nuts and bolts' people, but they also need to have an eye for grand design."
		So, from workshops and laboratories across the country, engineers are busy machining spacecraft that can explore past or present martian environments where life might have gained a foothold in the presence of water.
		With a modern "astronomical dome" not wholly unlike Brunelleschi's arising metaphorically from Earth to receive libraries of data from Mars, this artist's concept of Mars Telecom Orbiter depicts the growing link between Earth and Mars and the knowledge legacy it will leave to the future.
	mars.jpl.nasa.gov /spotlight/architects-of-exploration.html (2466 words)

	Caspian Sea Regional Country Analysis Brief: Environmental Issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Continued economic development, improved regional cooperation, and the implementation of modern technology will be required in order to improve the state of the environment in and around the Caspian Sea in coming years.
		Iranian officials have reported a steady drop in caviar production, one of their major non-oil exports, blaming poaching and oil prospecting.
		However, the average sea level had already begun to increase in 1978, and by September 1984 planners were forced to open a spillway in the dam to permit some discharge of water in the Gulf.
	www.eia.doe.gov /cabs/caspenv.html (4038 words)

	Iran at Caribbean Topfunwebsites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Most Iranians are Muslims; 89% belong to the, Zoroastrianism, as well as Judaism and Christians in Iran.
		In fact, Iranians believe their culture to be the one and only reason why their civilization has continuously survived thousands of years of plethoric calamities.
		Modern Iranian* scientists and engineers of the modern age.
	www.topfunwebsites.com /grenada/iran.html (2498 words)

	Iranian Research centers
		Modern and advanced research facilities such as trial fields and lysimeters, several green houses and controlled rooms, 10 large phytotrons, cold rooms, tissue culture facilities, radioisotope facilities and optical room have made ABRII as the most advanced agricultural biotechnology research institute in Iran.
		The DDRC is equipped with modern facilities and technology and is composed of a cohesive group of trained physicians and expert personnel in each field, thus making it an ideal setting for research and for providing diagnostic and therapeutic care in digestive diseases.
		Modern medicine has an abstract supervision on the work of organs, tissues and genes, considering the disease as the driving force behind an imbalance in body performance.
	www.r4ir.net /centers.php (8755 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		By "Iranian", all the peoples of historic Persia are meant, i.e.
		Lotfi Zadeh, mathematician and computer scientist, and a professor of computer science who proposed the theory of Fuzzy Logic.
		A better suiting word to attribute to this list would perhaps be "List of Iranian scholars" since many of the listed were not scientists per se in the modern sense of the word, but were philosophers instead.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=List_of_Iranian_scientists_and_scholars (469 words)

	NET FOR CUBA INTERNATIONAL - Manuel Cereijo
		Russians scientists cooperated with the CIGB several times, including, according to certain intelligence sources, assisting in the development of altered strains of bacteria.
		Luis Herrera, from the CIGB, and one of the main scientists in the development of the CIGB and the biological weapon programs in Cuba, has been the operator, the facilitator, in the massive and huge cooperation between Cuba and Iran.
		The New York Times reported in December 1998 that the Iranian government dispatched a few scientific advisors attached to the office of the presidency in Moscow to recruit former scientists from the Russian program.
	www.netforcuba.org /Columnists/Cereijo/001en-CubaandTerrorism.htm (2196 words)

	Muslim Networks, Muslim Selves in Cyberspace. NMIT Working Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The discussions that followed texts on-line were dominated by persons tracked early into engineering and science, many of whom often returned to religion after training in other techniques than the traditional text-focused disciplines of tafsir, fiqh, and ijtihad.
		Iranian projects at Qom and other seminary cities put even more extensive texts of religious instruction and interpretation on-line date in the 1990s.
		After the technological adepts, jihadists, and ‘ulema’, a broad middle ground is drawing on the Internet’s widening base in the broader world of professionals that follow engineers and scientists on-line and have interests less in debating about Islam that in fitting Islam to the contours of modern life.
	nmit.georgetown.edu /papers/jwanderson2.htm (3160 words)

	Culture of Iran
		Iranian Jews are amongst the oldest inhabitants of the country.
		One Elephantine papyri mention an Iranian, Choresmian Dargamana, the son of Harshina, who served in the Elephantine garrison in the detachment of the Persian Artabana.
		Iranian sources mention attacks by the Jews of Isfahan on the city’s Magi.
	www.cultureofiran.com /iranian_jews.php (5298 words)

	Modern Mutations of Global Terrorism
		During recent decades, we have witnessed a spate of aircraft hijackings, the Iranian seizure of the U.S. embassy in Teheran, destruction of other embassies and facilities in the Middle East, and repeated attacks on valuable property and equipment of American companies in Colombia and elsewhere.
		It is imperative to redirect the efforts of Iraqi scientists and engineers to peaceful pursuits.
		Similar initiatives, which allow former weapons scientists to join international efforts to address global development problems, particularly in the fields of health and agriculture, are under way in the former Soviet Union.
	www.nae.edu /nae/bridgecom.nsf/weblinks/NAEW-4NHMKQ?OpenDocument (3311 words)

	Modern Iranian scientists and engineers - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The following is a non-exhaustive list of highly-respected Iranian scientists and technologists around the world from the modern era.
		Babak Hassibi, Professor of electrical engineering at Caltech.
		Hamid Mowlana, Director of the Division of International Communication at American University in Washington D.C., and former President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Modern_Iranian_scientists_and_engineers (2312 words)

	Earthquake management in Iran
		It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern Iranian history, and similar in destruction to the Roudbar earthquake in northern Iran in 1990.
		In modern time, earthquakes are studied with more authenticity, as high quality seismic and geodetic data are available globally.
		Although the Iranian seismic code has addressed this basic concept, the policies have been enforced by the different governments and to take effective measures for preparedness for earthquakes.
	www.vojoudi.com /earthquake/management/management_eq_mit_eng.htm (6679 words)

	News no. 26001 from www.uruknet.info :: informazione dall'Iraq occupato :: news from occupied Iraq - it
		The Iranian war games are significant in themselves in demonstrating Iranian determination for consolidating Iran’s international status, but are even more momentous in light of the recent Israeli attacks—which have been reported to be the diagrammed template for a broader assault on Iran by Seymour Hersh
		It must be noted that Kashan is a city which is strategically located in a central position where it can provide air defence(s) for both Iranian nuclear facilities/installations and the Iranian capital.
		The city is probably part of a central air defence grid in note of its location in the western central Iranian province of Isfahan, near the skirt of the Zagros Mountains, in close proximity to the various nuclear energy complexes
	www.uruknet.info /?p=m26001&l=i&size=1&hd=0 (1953 words)

	THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tehran is concerned about strong U.S. ties with the GCC states because these states have received substantial amounts of modern Western conventional arms, which Tehran seeks but cannot acquire, and because U.S. security guarantees make these states less susceptible to Iranian pressure.
		Although this program is in the research and development stage, the Iranians have considerable expertise with pharmaceuticals, as well as the commercial and military infrastructure needed to produce basic biological warfare agents.
		All fissile material was removed from Iraq by the IAEA, but considerable expertise (scientists and technicians) and possibly some documentation and infrastructure, survived.
	www.defenselink.mil /pubs/prolif97/meafrica.html (6625 words)

	Scoop: The Rankin Thursday Column: Valuing Scientists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A scientist is a person educated to at least Masters level in a university or an institute of technology, and who pursues a paid or unpaid vocation that builds upon that education.
		A scientist's education instils capacities for critical reflection and innovative thought, plus a concept of wellbeing that is more sophisticated than the maximisation of profit.
		New Zealand scientists are gratefully accepted in the academies and laboratories of rest of the world.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL9907/S00086.htm (2249 words)

	Iranian.com: Arshia Archetypical Architect
		This is someone who theoretically forms the direction of modern civilization, someone who can make us do things merely by controlling the shapes and environment that we encounter in our day to day lives.
		In general I enjoy the drum and bass genre, UK electronica and even some acoustic bands and of course I can't go on without mentioning my friend Max Sharam (No, she is not Iranian).
		I tend to keep it underground, through a friend, Brandon Labelle who pretty much runs the experimental music scene in LA at "Beyond Baroque", I got introduced to the work of Koji Asano a kid from Japan who is somebody to watch.
	www.iranian.com /BruceBahmani/2002/April/Arshia (2893 words)

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