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History of Iran

Historic Periods & Events
Dynasties from Elamite, Achaemenids to Sassanid Empire; Arab to Mongol invasion; from Constitution Revolution to Islamic Revolution of 1979.

Historic Personalities
From Kings to Politicians; Generals to Revolutionaries; Freedom Fighters to Statemen.

Iranian Personalities
From Intellectuals to Scientists; Philosophers to Human Right Activists; Mathematicians to Physicians; Historians to ...

Articles

Achaemenid Army
By: Professor A. Sh. Shahbazi

Achaemenid Society and Culture
By: T. Cuyler Young, Jr.

Alexander and ‘the Interests of Historical Accuracy’: A Reply
By: Professor Ian Worthington, 1999

Anabasis of Alexander: The Battle of Gaugamela
By: Arrian (Lucius Flavius Arrianus)

Anabasis of Xenophon, (A reference of Persian Empire of Achaemenian era)
By: Xenophon

An Overview of the Sassanian Persian Military
By: Chris Cornuelle

A Review of Sassanid Images and Inscriptions
By: Asghar Mahmoudabadi

Armano-Iranian Relations in Pre-Islamic Period
By: Nina Garsoian, 2004

Arming Iraq (against Iran): A Chronology of U.S. Involvement
By: John King

A short account of American planned 1953 Coup
Operation code-name: TP-AJAX

Burning of Persepolis by Alexander the Great
By: Diodorus Siculus

Chemical Warfare In The Iran-Iraq War 1980 - 1988
SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) Fact Sheet,
Authors: Julian Perry Robinson and Jozef Goldblat

Common Origin of Croats, Serbs and Jats
By: Dr. Samar Abbas

Constitutional Revolution, 1906 - 1911

Cyropaedia of Xenophon, The Life of Cyrus The Great
By: Xenophon

Cyrus the Great: The decree of return for the Jews, 539 BCE
Edited by: Charles F. Horne

Darius the Great's Inscription at Naqshe Rostam

Dehiya on the Jat Iranic Identity of the Mauryas
By: Dr. Samar Abbas

Economy In Sassanian Iran
Rika Gyselen

Emperor Ardeshir and the cycle of history
By: Dr. Richard Frye

Eye of the king, (Inspector in the Achaemenid empire)
By: Jona Lendering

Frenemies: Iran and America since 1900
By: Douglas Little, 2011

Health & Medicine in Ancient Iran
By: Philippe Gignoux

Historical Background of Perfume and Perfume Manufacturing in Iran
By: Mohammad Hossein Abrishami

Histories of Herodotus, (A reference of Persian Empire of Achaemenian era)
By: Herodotus of Halicarnassus

History of ancient Medicine in Mesopotamia & Iran
By: Massoume Price

History of Banking in Iran, (Until Islamic Revolution of 1979)
From: Tejarat (Trade), The Internal Publication of Bank of Tejarat

History of British Graveyard in Tehran
By: Khosrow Motazed

History of the Breakup of Iran
By: Dr. Houshang Taleh

History of the Tudeh Party of Iran, (From the birth of communist movement in Iran)

How ‘Great’ Was Alexander?
By: Professor Ian Worthington, 1999

Identity of Croatians in Ancient Iran

Immortals, (Elite regiment in the ancient Achaemenid empire)
By: Jona Lendering

India's Parthian Colony, (On the origin of the Pallava Empire of Dravidia)
By: Dr. Samar Abbas

Iran After the Death of Alexander and Its Resistance to Hellenism
By: Maryam Hedayati

Iran after the victory of 1979's Revolution

Iran and the Polish Exodus from Russia 1942
By: Ryszard Antolak, 2004

Iran-Iraq War 1980 - 1988, (A short account of Iraqi invasion)

Iran: Understanding the Enigma: A Historian's View
By: Nikki Keddie, 1998

Is there an ultimate use for historians? Reflections on Safavid history and historiography
By: Professor Roger M. Savory

Lifting the Veil; Life in Revolutionary Iran
By: John Simpson & Tira Shubart

Marking Boundaries, Marking Time; The Iranian Past and the Construction of the Self by Qajar Thinkers
By: Juan R. I. Cole

Oil in Iran between the Two World Wars
By: Dr. Mohammad Malek

Oil Nationalization, 1949 - 1951

Older Than The Egyptian Civilization
By: M. Sadeq Nazemi-Afshar, 2003

Palestine Under the Persians 539-332 BCE
By: Dr David F. Graf

Pan-Arabism’s Legacy of Confrontation with Iran
By: Dr. Kaveh Farrokh, 2004, (revised on October 20, 2010)

Parthian Army
By: Professor A. Sh. Shahbazi

Parthian Battery: Ancient Iranians, The Inventors of Battery

Parthian History and Language
By: Dr Hassan Rezaei Baghbidi

Persian Affinities of the Licchavis - A Review
By: Dr. Samar Abbas

Persian influence on Greece
By: Janine Bakker

Persians: uncivilized savages or just non-Greek?
Use of the word Barbarian in Herodotus' Historiês

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By: Amir Kasravi

Persian Syria 538-331 BCE; Two Centuries of Persian Rule
By: Adnan Bounni

Pirooz (Son of Yazdgerd III) in China, (Persian army takes refuge in China)
By: Frank Wong

Royal Road, 5th century BCE
By: Jona Lendering

Saddam's Private Army:
How Rajavi changed Iran's Mojahedin from armed revolutionaries to an armed cult
By: By: Anne Singleton

Sassanian Army
By: Professor A. Sh. Shahbazi

Scythians / Sacae
By: Jona Lendering

Shooting Down Iran Air Flight 655 [IR655]
By: Shapour Ghasemi

Silk Road, (The ancient trade route between the Mediterranean Sea and China)
By: Jona Lendering

Soghdiana, Iranian Culture in Central Asia
By: Dr. Matteo Compareti

Some Earliest Traces of the Aryan: Evidence from the 4th and 3rd Millennium BCE

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By: Jahanshah Derakhshani

Spahbod Rustam Farrukh-Hormazd and The Faith Making Battle of Qadisyyeh
By: Sir Jehangir C. Coyajee

State of Paralysis, (Tudeh factionalism and the 1953 coup)
By: Maziar Behrooz

Territorial Challenges and Iranian Identity in the Course of History
By: Dr. Davood Hermidas Bavand, 2002

The Aryan Movement
By: Abolhassan Mobin

The Ayatkar-e Zariran (The Memories of Zariran)
Translation by: Charles F. Horne

The Battle of Gaugamela
By: Ernst Badian

The contribution of ancient Iranian civilization to the Silk-Road

The Cyrus the Great Cylinder
The first known Charter of Rights of Nations, 539 BCE.
Edited by: Shapour Ghasemi

The Early Years of Sassanid Empire and Religious Turmoil in Persia

The Ethnic of Sakas (Scythians)
By: I. P’iankov

The History of Iranian Air Transportation Industry
By: Abbas Atrvash, January 2008

The Iranian Revolution — Past, Present and Future

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By: Dr. Zayar

The Iranian Soldier-Bear of Monte Cassino
By: Ryszard Antolak, 2005

The Iran-Iraq War: Serving American Interests
By: The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.), India

The Karnamak-e Ardeshir-e Papakan
By: Charles F. Horne

The Laws of the Ancient Persians
By: S. J. Bulsara

The Old Iranian Origins of Croats

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Symposium proceedings, Zagreb 24 June 1998

The origin and development of imperialist contention in Iran; 1884 - 1921

A case study in under development and dependency
By: Younes Parsa Benab

The Persian Gulf Trade in Late Antiquity
By: Touraj Daryaee, 2003

The Past and Present of the U.S.-Iran Standoff
By: Annie Tracy Samuel, 2013

The Persian Wars
By: Professor Livio C. Stecchini

The post-Mosaddeq era and the Shah's White Revolution

The Qajar class structure
By: Ahmad Ashraf and Ali Banuazizi

The Reforms of Khosrow Anushirvan (The Immortal Soul)
By: Dr Richard Frye

The Sick Men of Persia:

The Importance of Illness as a Factor in the Interpretation of Modern Iranian Diplomatic History
By: Amir Arsalan Afkhami

The Siege of Herat 1837 - 1838
By: John Carl Nelson

The Splendor of Persia; The Great Kings
By: Robert Payne

The Splendor of Persia; Under The Conquerors
By: Robert Payne

The United States and Iran-Iraq War 1980 - 1988
By: Stephen R. Shalom

U.S.-Iranian relations, 1911 - 1951

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By: Mansour Bonakdarian

Women in the Safavid era

Women's lives in ancient Persia, (In Achaemenid era)
By: Massoume Price

Words of Darius the Great in Bisotoun's Inscription

Zolqarnain; Cyrus the Great in Qur'an
By: Baha'eddin Khoramshahi