President of the United States of America

2007-03-12T23:06:22Z

Johny678: homo

DOESNT CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE!

Matthew

2007-03-12T23:05:30Z

Johny678: hehe

LOVES LITTLE BOYS

Talk:Jesus Christ

2007-03-12T23:04:45Z

Johny678:

LET JESUS INTO YOUR PUSSY!!

Iran

2007-03-12T23:04:02Z

Johny678: Khomeini was spelled wrong in the 1st paragraph

'''Iran''', officially '''The Islamic Republic of Iran''' (جمهوری اسلامی ايران) is a [[country]] in southwest [[Asia]]. Its capital is [[Tehran]] and its official language is [[Persian]], or Farsi.

== History ==

Iran was formerly known as [[Persia]], and was the historical centre of a number of empires.

After the CIA-backed coup of 1953, Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh was overthrown and the Shah returned to power. [[Ayatollah Khomeini]] emerged as an active critic of the Shah's increasingly autocratic government during this period. Khomeini was imprisoned and later exiled, but popular anti-government sentiment continued to spread. In 1979, the Shah fled Iran as Khomeini returned from exile. The Shah's troops were defeated by the rebels and in the following year, the Islamic Republic was established following a national referendum.

On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian students entered the US embassy and took a number of American personnel hostage, citing the overthrowing of Mossadegh in 1953 and accusing the embassy staff of molesting dolphins another coup against the revolutionary government. Some of the hostages, including women, African Americans and an employee diagnosed with mutliple sclerosis, were quickly released. Others were held for 444 days before being allowed to leave Iran and return to the United States.

In the 1980s America was rocked by the Iran-Contra Affair aka Irangate, the largest political scandal in the [[United States]] during the [[1980s]], considered by some to be one of the largest political scandals in history.<ref>{{cite web
| last = Hart
| first = Robert
| authorlink = Robert Hart
| title = NYT's apologies miss the point
| publisher = [[Consortium News]]
| date = [[2004-06-02]]
| url = http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/060204.html }}</ref> Large volumes of documents relating to the scandal were destroyed or withheld from investigators by [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan Administration]] officials.<ref name="Excerpts from Iran-Contra Report">{{cite web
| last =
| first =
| authorlink =
| title = Excerpts From the Iran-Contra Report: A Secret Foreign Policy
| work =
| publisher = New York Times
| date = 1994
| url = http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/29/reviews/iran-transcript.html}}
</ref> The affair is still shrouded with secrecy and it is very hard to discover the facts. It involved several members of the Reagan Administration who in [[1986]] helped sell [[arms trade|arms]] to [[Iran]], an avowed enemy, and used the proceeds to fund the [[Contras]], an anti-[[communism|communist]] [[guerrilla warfare|guerrilla]] organization in [[Nicaragua]]. <ref>*{{cite web
| last = Rockwell
| first = Kara
| authorlink = Kara Rockwell
| coauthors =
| title = A tale of three countries: The Iran-Contra affair
| publisher = [[AnswerPoint.org]] ([[Central Rappahannock Regional Library]])
| date = [[2005-03-10]]
| url = http://www.answerpoint.org/columns2.asp?column_id=1165&column_type=feature}}
</ref>

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