Category Archives: Modern Iran

Here is a link to a BBC interactive webpage featuring maps of Iran. These maps show you where nuclear sites are located, where different ethnic groups within Iran live, and the size of the population in Iran’s major cities.
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Here is an excellent website that breaks up the Iran- Iraq War into 6 phases. The phases are as follows: Original Iraqi Invasion; Iranian Mobilization and Resistance; The Iranian Counteroffensive; The War of Attrition; Internationalization of the War; Gradual Superpower Involvement; The Tanker War.   Continue reading →

I found an article from the World Policy Journal written by Mansour Farhang.It was written five years into the eight year long war between Iran and Iraq from 1980-1988. Mansour touches on the severity of the conflict, citing human wave tactics, poison gas, suicide bombing, attacks on oil tankers, and air raids on civilian targets. […] Continue reading →

Here is an intersting write up about chamical warfare being wrongfully used throughout the Iran Iraq war. Both Iran and Iraq had been prohibited by the UN to use chemical warfare. Iran made allegations that Iraq had been using chemical warfare in certain instances. Iraq had disputed the claims and said they had not been […] Continue reading →

Here is a short video on YouTube which follows the discussion of the Nuclear issue in Iran. Continue reading →

  Here are two articles posted by the BBC about the Iranian Military. The first article entitled Iran Says it Could Attack First, goes into some detail about how if Iran does feel other countries are threatening them or if Iran feels its national interests are endangered they are able and willing to attack. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17116588 […] Continue reading →

Here is yet another great photo essay of Iran, featuring pictures from today’s Iran. The pictures provide an interesting mix of tradition and modernity and even feature pictures from Iran’s small Jewish community. Enjoy!
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Here is an article from BBC about Evin Prison, the most notorious jail in Iran. This jail is most famous for housing opponents against the Shah and the SAVAK before the 1979 Revolution. However, after the revolution, the categories of the prisoners changed from opponents of the Shah to supporters of the Shah who were […] Continue reading →

Here is a documentary about the fatwa that was issued by Ayatollah Khomeini to Salman Rushdie on February 14, 1989 because of his book The Satanic Verses, which was published in 1988. Salman Rushdie is a native of Bombay, India and grew up in a liberal Muslim family, however he grew up in Britain. He […] Continue reading →

Here is a link to a great photo essay picturing photos from Iran before 1979. With each picture the photographer provides you with information about the photo. Among the photos are pictures of Iranian women, wearing clothes and hairstyles similar to those in the West at the time. There is also a picture of the construction of […] Continue reading →