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residents of Changureh, Iran threw stones at the car of a government minister in anger following the 2002 Iran earthquake
the 999-year-old Gonbad-e Qabus Golestan , Iran is the world's tallest brick tower at 70 meters (230 feet)?
on December 14, 1947, a rival government-supported Iranian union, ESKI , carried out an attack on a club building of the Central Union of Workers and Peasants of Iran
in 2007 California Assemblyman Joel Anderson pension funds to divest from investing in companies that do business with Iran ?
at the 1949 congress of the government-sponsored Iranian trade union centre ESKI
the 2008 Bandar Abbas earthquake Iran ?
the Iran-Pakistan barrier Iran along its border with Pakistan to stop illegal migration and thwart terror attacks?
the nearly completed Sivand Dam Fars Province , Iran will flood 130 archaeological sites and hasten the destruction of the ancient Persian city of Pasargadae ?
the song "Push The Button " was believed by some to relate to Iran 's attempt to build nuclear weapons ?
the modern border between Iran and Iraq dates back to the Treaty of Zuhab , which concluded the Ottoman–Safavid War of 1623–1639
the New Fighter Aircraft program CF-18 Hornet (pictured) for the Canadian Forces Air Command when attempts to purchase Iran 's fleet of F-14 Tomcats failed?
the list of bills sponsored by Barack Obama biofuels and synthetic fuels , veterans' health bills, divestiture from Iran , and tariff exemptions for herbicides ?
as a result of t'aarof Iranian employees to work unpaid for a week before even discussing wages?
although formally banned, the Iranian communist Central Council of United Trade Unions Mohammad Mosaddegh in the early 1950s?
IR-40 Iranian heavy water reactor , could produce 10 kilograms (22 lb) to 12 kilograms (26 lb) of plutonium , enough to build two nuclear weapons , each year?
Lake Urmia Iran 's largest lake , is too salty to support fish ?
Azerbaijanis Iran , Georgia , Turkey , Iraq and the United States , as well as Azerbaijan ?
Tanaz Eshaghian 's film Be Like Others transsexuals in Iran , a country that outlaws homosexuality but sanctions sex-reassignment surgery ?
Marzieh Meshkini 's 2000 film The Day I Became a Woman Iranian women, focusing on a nine-year-old girl, a married woman, and an elderly widow?
Louis Merrilat football with Dwight Eisenhower at West Point , trained Iran 's Persian Guard, and served as a soldier of fortune in China and with the French Foreign Legion ?
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani Iran for the crime of adultery , and was originally to be executed by stoning ?
King Farouk I of Egypt secretly communicated with representatives of Nazi Germany during World War II through his father-in-law Youssef Zulficar Pasha Iran ?
a Transporte Aéreo Rioplatense Canadair CL-44 crashed in the Soviet Union in 1981, after smuggling arms from Israel to Iran during the Iran-Contra affair ?
The Land of Green Plums Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller , depicting life in a totalitarian state, became a favorite of Iranian activist Mohammad-Ali Abtahi soon after he was released from jail?
Jews of Iran documentary film about Iran 's Jewish minority ?
riots broke out Azeris in Iran after a newspaper published a cartoon about a cockroach ?
Iran and Cuba have been seeking to strengthen their relationship
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