• A constitutional referendum was held in Iran on 2 and 3 December 1979. The new Islamic constitution was approved by 99.5% of voters. The referendum was...
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    A referendum on creating an Islamic Republic was held in Iran on 30 and 31 March 1979. Ayatollah Khomeini did not allow an open referendum, insisting that...
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    loyalists in armed combat. Following the March 1979 Islamic Republic referendum, in which 98% of Iranian voters approved the country's shift to an Islamic...
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    when the office was abolished after a constitutional referendum. The prime minister was the head of government of Iran. Ali Asghar Khan was the first and...
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  • Referendums held in 1979 were: 1979 Scottish devolution referendum 1979 Welsh devolution referendum March 1979 Iranian Islamic Republic referendum 1979...
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    Iran portal Law portal Politics portal 1989 Iranian constitutional referendum Blasphemy laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran December 1979 Iranian constitutional...
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    February 1979. Ebrahim Yazdi was elected as the Foreign Minister. The constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran was adopted by referendum on 24 October...
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  • the 1979 revolution. When Khatami's presidency began, more than 95 percent of Iranian girls went to primary school In 1997–98, 38.2 percent of Iranian women...
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    was created and ratified by referendum during the first week of December in 1979. According to Francis Fukuyama, the 1979 constitution is a "hybrid" of...
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    served 8 years in office from 2013 to 2021. After the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and referendum to create the Islamic Republic on March 29 and 30, the...
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    Constitutional Convention elections were held in Iran on 3 and 4 August 1979. The result was a victory for the Islamic Republican Party. There were 10...
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  • Throughout history, women in Iran have played numerous roles, and contributed in many ways, to Iranian society. Historically, tradition maintained that...
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    helped establish the first modern Iranian college in the mid-nineteenth century. In the nineteenth-century, the first Iranian university, modeled after European...
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    attack against Iran cited the need to prevent Ruhollah Khomeini—who had spearheaded the Iranian Revolution in 1979—from exporting the new Iranian ideology to...
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    the Byzantine Empire. The Iranian Empire proper begins in the Iron Age, following the influx of Iranian peoples. Iranian people gave rise to the Medes...
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    dynasty (Persian: دودمان پهلوی) is an Iranian royal dynasty that ruled for almost 54 years between 1925 and 1979. The dynasty was founded by Reza Shah...
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    Pahlavi Iran (Persian: ایران پهلوی), officially the Imperial State of Persia until 1935 and the Imperial State of Iran from 1935 to 1979, was the Iranian state...
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    Sassanid kings, strove to protect the Iranian populations from the plundering of Ghuzz bands and save Iranian culture from the Turkoman menace." Nishapuri...
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    Iranian Turkey border has dug 376 kilometers moat along border , there is a four meters height concrete wall. Iran–Afghanistan border (921 km) Iran–Armenia...
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    also proposed sign forms for Proto-Elamite (recasting it as "Early Proto-Iranian"). This new proposal was not met with universal agreement. Although the...
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    put on display in Iran. In 2005, the Iranian Reformist paper Shargh was shut down by the government after it interviewed an Iranian author, living in...
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    of Azerbaijani ethnicity. Most Iranian Azerbaijanis are bilingual in Azerbaijani and Persian. They are mainly of Iranian descent. They are primarily found...
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  • education in Iran Cinema of Iran Iranian calendar Iranian continent Iranian Studies Qahr and Ashti Media of Iran Museums in Iran Persian cuisine Persian theatre...
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    Safavid Iran or Safavid Persia (/ˈsæfəvɪd, ˈsɑː-/), also referred to as the Safavid Empire, was one of the largest and long-standing Iranian empires after...
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    democracy in Iran, particularly gaining support from Iran's middle class intelligentsia. The MEK boycotted the 1979 constitutional referendum, which led...
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    Iran's eastern borders in large amounts. Total annual opium intercepts by the Iranian authorities are larger than in any other country. The Iranian government...
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  • lower class. Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says 60 percent of his country's wealth is controlled by just 300 people in Iran. The gini coefficient...
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  • focuses on the status of ethnic minorities in contemporary Iran. The majority of the Iranian population is formed by the Persians (estimated at between...
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    Mohammad Khan Qajar in 1796, who would establish a new native Iranian empire and restore Iranian suzerainty over several of the aforementioned regions. The...
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