by Amir Taheri
Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Armenia
Armenians
Arsacids
Aryamanesh, Kurosh
Asgari, Muhammad-Reza
Asgharzadeh, Ibrahim
Ash’ari, Abu-Mussa
Asharq Alawsat
Ashraf, Princess
Askar-Owladi, Habiballah
Assad-Abadi, Jamaleddin (al-Afghani)
Assar, nassir
assassination of Baha’is of Caliphs by counterrevolutionaries of exiles
Assembly of Experts and Combatant Clergy and constitution
Association of Friday Prayer Leaders
Assyrians
Atossa (Queen)
Attar, Farid ud-Din on beards
Attar, Hussein Sheikh
Attlee, Clement
Avengers of the Imam
Averroës (Ibn Rushd)
Avesta, Mehrdad
Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
Ayesha and Battle of the Camel as evil
Ayyeri, Yussuf al-
Azan
Azarmidokht (Princess)
Azerbaijan and Caspian Sea Gorbachev invasion of
Al-Azhar Academy
Aznar, Jose Maria
Baathists: in Iraq in Syria
Baghdad Pact
Baha’is and apostasy law assassinations of Hojatieh attacks on
Bahar, Mehdi
Bahar al-Anwar (“Sea of Lights”)
Bahrain Shiite radicals in
Bahremani, Ali-Akbar. See Rafsanjani, Ali-Akbar Hashemi.
Bakhtiar, Shahpur (Colonel)
Bakhtiar, Teymur assassination of
Bakhtiaris
Balta, Paul
Baluchistan and Baluch rebels
Baluch Liberation Front
Bandung Conference
Bangladesh
Bani Abbas
Bani Hashem
Banisadr, Abol-Hassan: and Algerian independence dismissal of on hijab Israel visit and mullahs on nationalism as “philosopher,” “revolution in one country,” sayyed claim
Baqai, Muzaffar
Baqi, Emadeddin
Barmaki, Jaafar
Barmakids
Baseej Mustadafeen (Mobilization of the Dispossessed) and Arab protests as strike-breakers and student protests
Bashir, Omar Hassan al-
Batebi, Ahmad
Bayat, Assadallah
Bazargan, Mehdi and Brzezinski pro-American on “revolution,” on Supreme Guide
beards in history of mullahs
Begum, Emineh
Begum, Ruqiyah
Behbahani, Simin
Beheshti, Muhammad
Behesht Zahra (Paradise of Flowers)
Behrouz, Zabih
Belgium
Belqees (Queen of Sheba)
Berbers
bin Baz, Abdul-Aziz
bin Laden, Osama and jihadi council and Palestinians prestige of Taliban protection
bin Laden, Sa’ad
bin Laden, Seyf al-Islam
Blood of Allah. See Thar Allah
Bokharai, nasser
Bokhari, Abdallah al-
Bolivia
Bolshevik Revolution as catastrophe commissars of intellectuals divided by Jews blamed for see also Soviet Union
Boqrat, Elahe
Borujerdi, Kazemeini
Borujerdi, Muhammad Hussein
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Brazil
Britain. See Great Britain
British Empire in India Iranian annexations
British Petroleum
Bruguière, Jean-Louis
Brzezinski, Zbigniew and Bazargan
Bulahab
Burma (Myanmar)
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W. as aberration and Afghanistan Ahmadinejad challenge to and “axis of evil,” democratization policy “engaging” Iran on Iranian people and Iraq war on IRGC and rael on “unelected” offices vacillation of waiting out
Byzantine Empire: and Muhammad Muslim war on schismatic refugees from women in
calendar: anti-Persian lunar vs. solar mourning days Ramadan Shiite vs. Sunni
Camp David accords
Carter, Jimmy appeasement on “diplomatic solution,” and embassy hostages
Castro, Fidel
Ceausescu, nicolae
censorship and beards Ctesiphon library destruction Khatami’s Khomeini’s and Tehran Book Fair and women’s role
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Bay of Pigs and Mossadeq
Central Treaty Organization
Chaldeans
Chamberlain, neville
Chamran, Mostafa
Chavez, Hugo
Chechens
Chile
China, People’s Republic of Cultural Revolution executions in infanticide in as informal ally military technology and nixon as shah’s supporter Uighur in and Vietnam War Xinjiang
Chomsky, noam
Christianity: beards in church control conversion to and house churches liberation theology
Christians: Arians assassinations of as Hezballah allies and Mahdi Maronites as refugees
Christopher, Warren
Churchill, Winston
Clark, Veronica
clergy. See mullahs
Clerici, Leonardo
Clinton, Bill: apologies by appeasement by and “grand bargain,” on “engaging” Iran and Mogadishu on “progressive” Iran sanctions by and Taliban
Coelho, Paulo
Cold War and détente end of and “Finlandization” of Iran and Mossadeq see also Soviet Union
Colombia and FARC
colonialism: and Arab despotism and Enlightenment and Israel and Mossadeq and nationalism and rule of law and U.S. as scapegoat
Communist International
Communist Party. See Tudeh (Masses) Party
Communist Party of Kurdistan (Komaleh)
Communists. See Marxists
Constantinople
Constitutional Revolution of 1906,
Constitution of 1906, Belgian model and Jews as model for Khomeini
Constitution of the Islamic Republic (1979) on Supreme Guide on women
Correa, Rafael
Corsica
Council for the Consolidation of the Students’ Unity (Tahkim)
Council for the Discernment of the Interests of the Established Order
Council of Ministers
Council of the Guardians of the Constitution
crime & punishment adultery dress code “hooliganism,” “sexual proximity,”
Crusades
Cuba aid to as ally and missile crisis
Cutler, Lloyd
Cyrus the Great and human rights and Jews and Jerusalem temple mausoleum of
Czechoslovakia
Daneshi, Muhammad
Danish cartoons
Dashti, Ali
death cult
De Gaulle, Charles
Delkash
democracy as alien to Islam appeal of and Cold War divisions constitutions in demonstrations for and elections exiles for Greek critics of in Israel as Jewish invention Khomeini’s pretense and labor unions and Mossadeq myth as “prostitution,” “religious democracy,” and “republic,” terms for and uncertainty
Democratic Party of Iran
Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan
Democratic Party of Kurdistan (PDK)
demography advantage in and armed forces and economy and Saddam Hussein
dhimmitude
dissidents and arts “disappeared,” murder of and NGOs political prisoners see also exiles; protests
divorce in Koran rates of shah’s reforms
drug addiction
drug trade
Druze
Duke, David
Dulles, Allen
Dulles, John Foster
Ebadi, Shirin
Ebtekar, Massoumeh
economy: and Ahmadinejad and bonyads (foundations) crisis in and demogra
phy GDP golden age and oil poverty rate and Rafsanjani, and “self-sufficiency,” social stratification state control of and strikes
Ecuador
Egypt: Arabization of and Cold War as Muslim leader propaganda vs. shah radicals in and Suez fiasco
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Elahi, Homayun
elections limits on for Majlis of president of Supreme Guide turnout
Elizabeth II (Queen of England)
Elqanian, Habib
Enlightenment
Erhard, Ludwig
Eshkevari, Hassan Yussefi
Esrafilian, Hussein
ethnic minorities oppression of rebellion by
Ettelaat
European Common Market
European Union Ahmadinejad on nuclear program as trading partner and Turkey
executions of armed forces Montazeri’s opposition to for “waging war against Allah,”
exiles; assassination of former allies IRGC officers Khomeini Kurds (Pejak) mullahs opposition groups PDK leaders shah
Fadlallah, Sayyed Hussein
Faisal ibn Abdul- Aziz (King)
Fallahian, Ali
Family Protection Act
Fanon, Franz
Farah (Empress)
Fardid, Ahmad
Farouq (King of Egypt)
Farzad, Massoud
fascism: antimodern antireligious and death cult Italian and language leader cult and social grievance and terrorism totalitarianism and tradition/ superstition uniforms war cult xenophobia
Fatah, Al-
Fatemi, Hussein
Fath Ali Shah
Fatima
Fatimid Caliphate
Faurisson, Robert
Fawziah
Fazel, Javad
Fedayeen Islam
Ferdowsi
Fifth of June Foundation
Firuz (Abu-Laulau)
Fischer, Joschka
Ford, Gerald
Forqan
Foruhar, Dariush
Foucault, Michel
Fouladvand, Firuz
Foundation for the Dispossessed and Self-Sacrificers
France constitution of exiles in military equipment from and nuclear program
French Revolution and Jews
Fukuda, Yasuo
Ganjeh’i, Kamaleddin
Ganji, Akbar
Garcia, Alan
Garcia Márquez, Gabriel
Gaza
Genscher, Hans-Dietrich
geography
Georgia, Republic of
Germany Berlin Criminal Court “critical dialogue,” nazis in and nuclear program
Gharazi, Muhammad
ghayr (“other”)
Ghaznavi, Sanai
Gilan province
Gilani, Muhammad
Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry
Goebbels, Joseph
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
“Golden Age,”
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Great Britain: anti-Americanism in appeasement by and Baghdad Pact diplomacy and Iran’s nuclear program loans to military equipment and Mossadeq and oil see also British Empire
Greeks (ancient) on democracy and reason
Guevara, Ernesto “Che,”
Gugush
Habash, George
Habermas, Jürgen
Habibi, Hassan Ibrahim
hadiths and Israel and Jews Khomeinist origins Shiite on women
Haerizadeh, Abol-Hassan
Hafez
Hafiz, Abdul-Halim
Hafsa
Haideh
Hajj quotas for
Halabi, Ali-Akbar
Halabi, Mahmoud
Hal al-Masa’el (“Solution to Problems”)
Hamas funding of and IRGC limitations of on Tehran visits
Hamzah
Hanafi Mazhab (school)
Hanifs
Haniyeh, Ismail
Haroun al-Rashid
Harriman, Averill
Hashemi, Mahdi
Hashemites
Hassan, “Mad Mullah,”
Hassan II (King of Jordan)
Hassan bin Ali mourning of and Muawyyah wives of
Hegira
Heidegger, Martin
Heir to Colonialism (Bahar)
Hejazi, Fakhreddin
Hejazi, Hussein
Hejazi, Muhammad
Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin
Henderson, Loi
Heraclius (Emperor)
Heydaris
Hezballah Argentine Jewish massacre IRGC financing Khobar attack in Kurdistan, in Latin America in Lebanon Marine barracks attack missile testing as prison staff as strike breakers and Victorious Companions of the Party of God and women (attacks on)
Hidden Imam (Mahdi / Muhammad ibn Hassan) Ahmadinejad on and American scholars and beards and child “martyrs,” feast day for Grand Occultation and “holy table” parties and Israel and Jamkaran and Koran and Myanmar cyclone “nails” of and nuclear program pretenders and Sunnis and Tehran
High Council of the Judiciary
hijab and acid attacks alternative forms banning of colors of etymology of history of on Ka’aba in Koran and manto in Persian literature in schoolbooks in schools as submission (gender apartheid) Western acceptance of
Hind
Hindus
Hitler, Adolf and German language and Munich accords
Hizb Islami
Hizb Tahrir Islami
Hojatieh. See Jamiyat e Hojatieh (Society of the Pledge)
Hokumat Islami (“Islamic Government”)
Holocaust Denial Institute
Holy Struggle for Construction
Holy Warriors of the Islamic Revolution
Homayoun, Assad
Homayoun, Dariush
homosexuality
Houti, Sheikh al-
Hoveyda, Amir Abbas
Hoveyda, Fereydoun
Hungary
Hussein bin Ali (imam) as eternal model mourning of and Princess Shahrbanu as “revolutionary,”
Hussein, Saddam and ceasefire (1991) and Iran-Iraq war on Israel/Palestine and Mujahedin Khalq nuclear & chemical weapons
Ibn Kathir
Ibn Muqaffah (Ruzbeh)
Ibn Saba, Abdallah
Ilchibey, Abulfazl
imamate see also Hidden Imam
Imam Committees
Imam Reza Foundation
imperialism Banisadr on Chomsky on “of compassion,” and Mossadeq and Renaissance and Soviet propaganda and Tudeh see also colonialism
India British Empire in military technology Muslim population of Zoroastrian refugees in
Indo-Europeans
Indonesia
International Atomic Energy Agency and “incentives,”
International Court of Justice
International Labor Organization
International Monetary Fund
International Trade Unions Conference
International Transport Workers Federation
International Women’s Day
Internet censorship of
Iraj Mirza
Iranian Cossack Brigade
Iranian Endowments Office
Iran-Iraq war and Ahmadinejad and child “martyrs,” Iranian Arabs in patriotism in and state structures and Un compromises and United States
Iran Labor news Agency
Iraq and “axis of evil,” and Cold War and Gulf War Iranic languages in Kurds in liberation of Mahdi Army Mosque of the Two Imams Mujahedin Khalq Osirak nuclear plant proxy war in refugees from Shiite holy cities in Shiite population of women in
Iraqi national Assembly
Iraq war (2003) and Iranian nuclear program and Quds Force Rafsanjani on and Sistani as warning
Ireland
Islambouli, Khalid Showqi al-
Islamic Consultative Assembly (Islamic Majlis) and Chamber of Commerce conservative majority of elections for gerrymandering claim and IRGC on “Islamic dress,” and Mossadeq powers of women in
> Islamic Dress Code
Islamic Government (Khomeini)
Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine
Islamic Labor Code
Islamic Majlis. See Islamic Consultative Assembly
Islamic Moral Brigades
Islamic Radio and Television
Islamic Republican Party
Islamic Republic news Agency
Islamic Review
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Ahmadinejad and Armed Forces “attacking by crowding,” and Baluch rebels and Baseej as business conglomerate doubts about regime establishment of and Hezballah indulgence of protest in Iraq and Kurdish rebels and Majlis Mediterranean control missile program and nuclear program officer corps political ambitions privileges of as “terrorist,” and Turkmen rebels
Islamic Workers’ Council
Ismailis
Israel Ahmadinejad on and Cold War and Iran-Iraq war and Lebanon leftist support for minorities in nuclear threat to and “one-state” formula Osirak nuclear plant bombing as scapegoat as shah’s ally shah’s defense of Six-Day War student support for Tehran conference on
Israel-Argentine Mutual Jewish Association
Italy Fascists in
Jaafar Barmaki
Jaafar ibn Muhammad
Jaafari, Muhammad-Ali
Jaafari Movement (Tehrik Jaafari)
Jaafaris
Jaafar-Muhammad, Jamal
Jaafar Sadeq
Jaballah, Abdallah
Jamiyat e Hojatieh (Society of the Pledge) and Ahmadinejad
Jamkaran
Jamshid
Janati, Ahmad
Japan
Jayhun, Muhammad-Jamal
Jazayeri, Shamseddin
Jerusalem
Jews Argentine massacre Babylonian captivity and conspiracy theories and Crusades Elqanian execution and European anti-Semitism and Hitler and Holocaust denial and Israel massacre of and Muhammad and neo-nazis neturei Karta in parliament Persian friendship to Sunni vs. Shiite conspiracies in Yathrib
jeziyah (poll tax)
Jigh va Daad (“Hue and Cry”)
Jizrawi, Taha Yassin
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Jordan
Jubair, Muhammad bin Ibrahim al-
Judaism see also Jews
judiciary: divided system Supreme Judicial Council women on see also Council of the Guardians of the Constitution; Shariah
Jumhuri Islami
Jund-Allah
Jünger, Ernst
Justice-Seeking University Students Movement
Kaddhafi, Muammar on “Zionist enemy,”
Kadivar, Jamileh
Kadivar, Mohsen
Kar, Mehrangiz
Karbaschi, Ghulam-Hussein
Karrubi, Mehdi on jihadi council as presidential candidate