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  • monarch of Iran from September 16, 1941, until the Iranian Revolution on February 11, 1979. He was the second monarch of the Pahlavi House and the last Shah ...
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  • Mohammad Fazlollah Zahedi (1896 - 1963) was an Iranian general, Prime ... and Americans to use him in overthrowing a democratically elected government ...
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  • (CIA) Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup d’état against Iran's ... ended the Shah's reign, condemned him as a puppet of the decadent West. ...
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  • The 1953 Iranian coup d'état deposed the government of Prime Minister ... The coup was precipitated when Mosaddeq nationalized Iran's oil ...
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  • (June 16, 1882 – March 5, 1967) was a major figure in modern Iranian ... which had been under British control through the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company ...
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  • from November 4, 1979 until January 20, 1981, a 444-day period. During the crisis ... The United States launched a rescue operation, Operation Eagle Claw, ...
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  • is the third largest global energy company, a multinational oil company ("oil ... In 1914, the British government purchased a majority share in the company ...
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  • of Iran from September 16, 1941, until the Iranian Revolution on February 11 ... in 1979, to his overthrow and exile. Two and a half thousand years of monarchy ...
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  • Benazir Bhutto (Urdu: بینظیر بھٹو) (June 21, 1953 in Karachi ... Bangladesh and Indonesia. As the daughter of a political dynasty, she continued ...
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  • The Qajar dynasty (also known as Ghajar or Kadjar) is a common term to ... Britain and Iran fought a war in 1856 over territory between Iran and ...
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  • the pan-Arabist ideology named after him, won a great following in the Arab World ... Nasser is still seen by many throughout the Arab World as a symbol of ...
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  • A dictatorship is a form of government which is characterized by a leader ... competitive for the opposition. Stability in a dictatorship is maintained through ...
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  • of thought in ninth-century Persia, each had a decisive impact on the progress ... The name Persia comes from a region in the south of Iran, called Fars ...
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  • Ichkeria, Chechnia, Chechenia or Noxçiyn), is a republic of Russia. It is located ... from nexça, or sheep cheese, or nox, a plow. Some say it refers to the ...
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  • Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic is a Middle Eastern country ... was the seat of the Umayyad Empire and a provincial capital of the Mamluk ...
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  • movement known as Post-Colonialism. A particularly active period of ... each newly independent nation cherished as a sign of membership in the community ...
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  • PC (November 30, 1874 –January 24, 1965) was a British statesman, best known ... Churchill saw himself as a champion of democracy against tyranny, and ...
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  • Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (August 13, 1926 – November 25, 2016) was ... When the attempt to overthrow Cuban President Fulgencio Batista in 1953 ...
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  • Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in south ... later inhabited by Greeks and Romans. It is a successor of the powerful European ...
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  • , commonly known as Russia (Rossiya), is a transcontinental country extending ... Formerly the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), a ...
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