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unusual facts about Iran’s Book of the Year Awards


Andrew J. Newman

His work on Safavid Iran won Iran's book of the year prize for 2007 in the category of Iranian Studies.


2011 Iranian embezzlement scandal

3,000 billion Toman embezzlement in Iran (also 2,800 billion embezzlement, approximately $2.6 billion USD) was a fraud involving the use of forged documents to obtain credit from at least seven Iranian state and private banks to purchase state-owned companies.

Abbas Yari

He is one of the three founders of FILM Monthly, the oldest post-revolutionary film magazine in Iran (founded in 1982 with Massoud Mehrabi and Houshang Golmakani).

Aeromist-Kharkiv

On 23 December 2003 at 19:29 local time, an Aeromist Antonov An-140 (registered UR-14003) crashed into a mountain near Isfahan, Iran, whilst approaching Isfahan International Airport in poor visibility conditions.

Alabama Policy Institute

In 2005, it criticized Democrats for failing to take on a hardline position against Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's statements about Israel.

Andreas Görlitz

Shortly after signing for Bayern, Görlitz made his debut for the Germany national team, appearing in the last five minutes of the 1–1 friendly with Brazil, on 8 September 2004; the following month, he assisted veteran Thomas Brdaric as the striker closed the score at 2–0, in another exhibition game, now with Iran.

Andrew Hutchison

Hutchison delivered a response in late 2005 to the call for the destruction of Israel by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, condemning Ahmadinejad for his remarks which incite "hatred of the Jewish people and supporting violence against them."

Ari Ben-Menashe

Legendary Israeli spy Rafi Eitan told author Gordon Thomas, for Thomas' book Gideon's Spies, that he had worked with Ben-Menashe on setting up the US-Israeli network for covertly supplying arms to Iran, and had collaborated with Ben-Menashe on using PROMIS for espionage.

Asadi Tusi

As a result of the violence, Asadi, who lived the first twenty years of his life in Khorasan, left Khorasan for the Iranian province of Azarbaijan and stayed there till he died.

Bahram Radan

Radan has left Iran and currently resides in Toronto, where he is recording music for his forthcoming album.

Beheshti

Mohammad Beheshti, one of the main architects of Iranian Islamic Revolution and the constitution of the Islamic Republic in Iran who was assassinated in 1981

Charan, Iran

Charan is situated among a cluster of villages located in Alborz mountain range north of Tehran in Iran.

Cheetah reintroduction in India

Stephen J O'Brien, world's leading conservation geneticist and Chief of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), USA, has clarified that there is no significant genetic difference between the African and the Iran's Asiatic cheetah, as per genetic research carried out by him African and Indian cheetahs were only separated just some 5,000 years ago which is not enough for a sub-species level differentiation.

Darbar, Iran

Darbar, Khuzestan (داربر - Dārbar), a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran

Dariush Homayoon

Fifteen months later, he left Iran through the border with Turkey and went to Paris.

Dehnow, Khorramabad

Dehnow, Dehpir, a village in Dehpir Rural District, Central District, Khorramabad County, Lorestan Province, Iran

Dehnow, Azna, a village in Azna Rural District, Central District, Khorramabad County, Lorestan Province, Iran

Dust Muhammad

The emperor Humayun sitting on some stone likeness of the throne, and in the distance under the trees playing three boys, one of whom the future Emperor Akbar I. Restless nature Doust Muhammad gave him root and in the court of the Mughal emperors - in the early 1560s, is already under Emperor Akbar I, Dust Muhammad left India and returned to Iran, where he lived out the last days in Qazvin.

Egyptian Islamic Jihad

It is "likely that the notion of suicide bombing" was inspired by Hezbollah as al-Zawahiri had been to Iran to raise money, and had sent his underling Ali Mohamed, "among others, to Lebanon to train with Hezbollah".

Fruit in Iran

Since 1963 Iran is one of the major leading producer and exporters of dried fruit such as all kinds of pistachios, Sultana raisins, golden raisins, sun-dried raisins, Malayer raisins, Kashmar raisins, all kinds of Iranian dates and with its modern facilities is ready to provide its customers with all these products.

Ganj Darreh

Ganj Dareh, an archaeological site in Kermanshah Province, Iran

Iran–United Arab Emirates relations

The island has been under Iranian control until 1908 when Britain gained control of the island.

Khanabad, Lorestan

Khanabad, Aligudarz, a village in Aligudarz County, Lorestan Province, Iran

Kumbhoj

The former name is apparently free from Iranian or Paisaci influence since Maharashtra location was far removed from the north-west division of ancient India.

Larijani

Ali Larijani, is a dr and is the current Speaker of the Majlis of Iran

Leslie's House

Leslie said she was saving an old newspaper because it had the "first rumblings of Iran-Contra", a reference to the scandal in which U.S. figures facilitated the sale of arms to Iran.

Levan of Kartli

Thereafter he was appointed as naib of Kerman, Iran, and, as a commander of Georgian auxiliary forces, he secured the eastern provinces of the Persian empire from the rebellious Baluchi tribesmen from 1698 to 1701.

M. William Howard, Jr.

Howard conducted Christmas services for the U.S. Embassy personnel held hostage in Tehran, Iran.

Miaad Shahriar Tehran F.C.

Miaad Shahriar Tehran Football Club is an Iranian football club based in Shahriar, Iran.

Middle East

These were followed by the Hittite, Greek and Urartian civilisations of Asia Minor, Elam in pre-Iranian Persia, as well as the civilizations of the Levant (such as Ebla, Ugarit, Canaan, Aramea, Phoenicia and Israel), Persian and Median civilizations in Iran, North Africa (Carthage/Phoenicia) and the Arabian Peninsula (Magan, Sheba, Ubar).

Mohammad Vali Mirza Farman Farmaian

After the 1979 revolution he left Iran for Geneva, Switzerland with his family and not to return to Iran until he died at the age of 92.

NART TV

NART TV (National Adighe Radio and Television) is a Circassian television channel broadcast from Iran.

Nochiya Region

The sub-district of Nochiya is a mountainess area with possibly the most spectacular natural beauty in all of southern Turkey, it lies very close to the Iraq-Iran borders and at the time contained some 40 Assyrian and Kurdish villages.

Noh Alam Shah

He scored in the 1–3 defeat to Iran at the National Stadium in Singapore and in the final group game against Jordan, which Singapore lost 1–2, at the King Abdullah Stadium in Amman.

Nosratabad, Lorestan

Nosratabad, Azna, a village in Azna County, Lorestan Province, Iran

Organ trade

Dr. Sigrid Fry-Revere has conducted ethnographic research in Iran, studying the medical ethics of compensating organ donors.

Parviz Gharib-Afshar

Many celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor, Anthony Quinn, William Holden, David Frost, and many more visiting Iran, were guests in his show.

People's Government

Azerbaijan People's Government (1945–1946), Soviet-backed client state in northern Iran

Project Dark Gene

Special equipment was provided by Rockwell International and funding was largely provided by the Shah of Iran.

Robert Levinson

On January 13, 2009, U.S. Senator Bill Nelson revealed during Hillary Clinton's confirmation hearing that he believes Robert Levinson is being held in a secret prison in Iran.

Robert S. Bennett

Bennett is also famous for representing Judith Miller in the Valerie Plame CIA leak grand jury investigation case, Caspar Weinberger, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, during the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s, Clark Clifford in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) scandal, and Paul Wolfowitz in the World Bank Scandal.

Rokni Haerizadeh

Haerizadeh is in a number of notable collections globally, namely the Tate Modern, London, UK, Rosenblum Collection, Paris, France, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran, Charles Saatchi Collection, London, UK, JP Morgan Collection, NY, USA, Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, India, British Museum, London, UK, Francois Pinault Collection, Paris, France, Rubell Family Collection, Florida, USA, UCCA, Beijing.

Saffron Sky

"This lyrical memoir evinces the author's passion for constructing an American life with the spiritual fervor and deeply aesthetic rituals that were part of her childhood in Iran. Asayesh, who immigrated to North Carolina as a girl, writes too of her struggle to arrive at an acceptable sexuality in the face of parental panic, and tells of her frustration, during later trips to post-Shah Iran, with "the sisters," the Ayatollah's ubiquitous enforcers of female modesty."

Sargon Stele

"Summary of the military successes: the subjugation of the Babylonian cities; the rule over all people between the Upper Sea and the Lower Sea; the victories against Elam, in Iran and in Hatti; the humiliation of Urzana of Musasir and Rusa of Urartu; the defeat of Hamath"—paragraph 3.

Saturn AL-31

Some reports suggested that Russia was offering AL-31F to Iran to re-engine its F-14 Tomcat air fleet in the late 1990s.

Seistan Force

Raids on the lines of communication of the force were made by certain tribes of Persian Baluchistan, notably the Damanis of Sarhad.

Sudan – South Sudan Border War

On 15 April 2012, according to IRIB World Service, an Iran Broadcasting channel, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said that Iran fully monitors the developments in the region, and calls on South Sudan to immediately and unconditionally pull back its forces and return to its territory behind the designated borders.

Talebi

Talebi, Khoshab, a village in Khoshab County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran

The Stoning of Soraya M.

The son of a former Iranian ambassador, French-Iranian journalist and war correspondent Freidoune Sahebjam has also reported on the crimes of the Iranian government against the Bahá'í community in Iran.

Wadh

The Highway is 813 km long and stretches from Karachi-Lasbela-Khuzdar-Wadh-Kalat-Mastung-Quetta-Chaman and further onto Iran and Afghanistan.

Zaravand

300–800, in the area of Khoy (present-day Iran), it is also the name of a modern day city in Iran.


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