Foreign relations of Iran Foreign relations of Iran The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Canada is the embassy of Iran in Ottawa, Canada. It is located at 245 Metcalfe Street in the Centretown neighbourhood of Ottawa. Iran moved into the facilities in the summer of 1991, previously they had been based in a building on Roosevelt Street in Ottawa's west end. On April 5 1992 the embassy was stormed by a group of Iranian exiles linked to the Iraq backed MEK. No one was seriously injured in the raid but the mob ransacked and destroyed much of the interior. Most of those responsible were later arrested. The ambassador lives in a house in Rockcliffe Park, across the street from Stornoway. ...more on Wikipedia about "Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Ottawa"
Encyclopædia Iranica is a grand project of Columbia University's Center for Iranian Studies to create a comprehensive and authoritiative English language encyclopedia about the history and culture of Persia ( Iran). ...more on Wikipedia about "Encyclopædia Iranica"
*It takes stances against the United States and Israel, the former as a military power that threatens it in the Persian Gulf, and the latter as part of its continuing post revolutionary Islamic Propaganda. See U.S.-Iran relations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Foreign relations of Iran"
The Great Satan ( Persian شيطان بزرگ, Shaytan Bozorg) is a common epithet for the United States of America in Iranian foreign policy statements. Ayatollah Khomeini used the terms Iblis and Shaitan, both Islamic terms for the devil, or Satan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Great Satan"
The Interests Section of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the United States is a part of the embassy of Pakistan in Washington, D.C. and is the de facto diplomatic representation of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Interests Section of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the United States"
By 1975, The US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, had signed National Security Decision Memorandum 292, titled "U.S.-Iran Nuclear Cooperation," which laid out the details of the sale of nuclear energy equipment to Iran projected to bring U.S. corporations more than $6 billion in revenue. At the time, Iran was pumping as much as 6 million barrels of oil a day, compared with an average of about 4 million barrels daily today. ...more on Wikipedia about "Iran and weapons of mass destruction"
The Islamic Republic of Iran's nuclear program goes back many decades. In recent years global political change has caused Iran's program to fall under intense scrutiny and even occasioned charges that Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons. Iran, however, has maintained that the purpose of its nuclear program is the generation of power; any other use is a violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, of which Iran is a signatory. ...more on Wikipedia about "Iran's nuclear program" It's my shortopedia! shortopedia
Iran-Israel relations have alternated from close political alliances between Iran and Israel during the times of the modern Shahs to hostility following the rise of the modern Ayatollahs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Iran-Israel relations"
(List of United States ambassadors to Iran) * Henry H. Jessup - nominated for Chargé d'Affaires but withdrawn before approval ...more on Wikipedia about "List of United States ambassadors to Iran"
Operation Merlin is an alleged United States covert operation under the Clinton Administration to provide Iran with a flawed design for building a nuclear weapon in order to delay the Iranian nuclear weapons program. ...more on Wikipedia about "Operation Merlin"
Pan-Iranism is an ideology that advocates solidarity and reunification of the peoples living in the Iranian plateau (falaat-e-Iran), including Azeris, Baluchis, Ironians ( Ossetians), Kurds, Qizilbash, Hazaras, Pashtuns, Persians and Tajiks. These peoples (except the Kurds, whose lands became divided between the Ottomans and Safavids) lived in a single state much of the time until the mid 1800s, when the Iranian plateau was divided and conquered by the Russian and British Empires, the colonial powers of the time. The term Pan-Iranism was first introduced by Dr. Mahmoud Afshar Yazdi in the early 1920s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pan-Iranism"
Relations between Iran ( Persia) and the United States officially started in the late 1800s when King Nasser-al-Din Shah sent an ambassador to Washington D.C. even though Americans had been coming to Iran since the mid 1800s. From then on, up until WW2, relations remained cordial and many constitutionalist Iranians came to view The U.S. as a "third force" in their struggle to break free of the humiliating British and Russian meddling and dominance in Persian affairs. The American presence however came not without a price. ...more on Wikipedia about "U.S.-Iran relations"
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