by Amir Taheri
Kashmir
Kasravi, Ahmad
Kayhan
Kaykhosrow (King of Kings)
Kazakhstan
Kennedy, John F. and Cuban missile crisis
Kennedy, Robert F.
Kermani, Ahmad Janati
Kerry, John
Khadijah
Khadivar, Hissmaud-din
Khair-Baksh, nawab
Khaksar movement
Khalatbari, Abbas Ali
Khalifah, Aqlal
Khalilzad, Zalmay
Khalkhali, Sadeq on Great Satan on “Islamistan,” on Jewish conspiracy as “Judge Blood,”
Khamenehi, Ali adulation of as “Ali Shah,” as “Ali the Beggar,” and Arabic language assassinations and Assembly of Experts career of and Clinton “convergence” office and death cult on “Death to America,” election of on freedom and gender apartheid on Hidden Imam on hijab and IRGC on Israel and Khatami limits of prestige on loyalty vs. expertise on “madness for America,” modest image and music as nongoverning president and “office of the leader,” opium rumors on patriotism and Persepolis and Persian culture and Rafsanjani rejects U.S. offer on Rushdie sayyed claim and Souleh prison as “source of imitation,” and succession issues on U.S. “black republic,” on U.S. destruction weakness of and Yugoslavia
Khamenehi, Mohsen
Khamoushi, Hadi
Khan, A. Q.
Kharsah, Ghada al-
Khatami, Ahmad
Khatami, Muhammad: apostasy law assassinations and Clinton and Combative Clergymen and “dialogue of civilizations,” dissatisfaction with and economy family ties on hijab as Hojat al-Islam Holocaust denial on Hussein as model on Israel and Khamenehi on modernity and nuclear program pessimism of as “progressive,” repression by “revolution in one country,” and Rushdie sayyed claim secret talks on secularization as “smiling face,” on stoning moratorium on student protests and Tabassi and Western leftist models
Khatami, Muhammad-Reza
Khodayar, nasser
Khoei, Esmail
Khoiniha, Muhammad Mussavi
Khomeini, Ahmad
Khomeini, Hussein Mussavi
Khomeini, Ruhallah on Ali’s divine right antinationalism Arab claims of and Arabic language as arbiter of Islam austere image and Banisadr and Carter censorship by on child brides clerical opposition to on common folk and Communist support for and constitution contempt for expertise and cult of personality and death cult on democracy and embassy hostages executions in exile expedience and Gorbachev Hal al-Masa’el (“Solution to Problems”) and Hindi name and Hojatieh as “imam,” and Imam Committees as “innovator,” on insurance intellectual supporters of on international law and Iran-Iraq war on “Islamic governance,” on Jews & Israel and Jihad Sazandegi and Khamenehi on killing linguistic oddity Lugo’s homage to and lunar calendar on music and Mussavi name and national emblem on “permanent revolution,” and Persepolis and Persian language poems of political prisoners of on “rage of youth,” and Red Crescent reassurances to U.S. and rial and Rushdie fatwa as “saint,” sayings of as sayyed as second Muhammad on Socrates spying children fatwa and state structures successor question and taqiyyah Tahrir al-Wassilah (“Release of the Means”) on temporary wives as uncompromising on United States on usury and walayat e faqih on women writings of on Zoroastrians
Khonsari, Muhammad
Khorassan
Khorramabadi, Jalaleddin Taheri
Khorramdin, Babak
Khorsandi, Hadi
Khosrow Anushiravan
Khosrow Parviz
Khrushchev, nikita
Khuzestan
Khuzestan Welfare Party
Kim Il-Sung
Kim Jong-Il
Kissinger, Henry
kitman
Koran on adultery and Arabic education on common folk 48; Communist Manifesto comparison composition of on fighting unbelievers and governance and Hidden Imam hijab in on homosexuality Iranian production of Jewish “alteration” of Jewish sources of killing in Mein Kampf comparison on “merciful and compassionate,” Moses in polygamy in and Ramadan on Seal of the Prophets Shiite view of tampering charges as unchangeable in vernacular women in
Kosovo
Koulai, Elaheh
Kurdish Communist Party
Kurdistan and Soviet Union
Kurdistan Democratic Party (PDK)
Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran
Kurdistan Workers’ Party
Kurds: and Ahmadinejad in Iraq language of massacre of as “other,” Pejak rebels as Sunnis in Turkey
Kuwait and Iraq Shiite radicals in
Kyrgyzstan
labor unions as anti-Islamic and “Islamic councils,” and Islamic Labor Code in Kurdistan strikes by
language Arabization Greek concepts Khomeinist newspeak of Koran “revolution,” political terms see also Arabic language; Persian language
Lapidation Act
Larijani, Ali Ardeshir
Latin America
League of Arab nations
Lebanese
Lebanon aid to Hezballah in Iranian dominance over Khomeini cult in Marine barracks attack and PFLP proxy war in
Legion of Mankind’s Servants of Humanity
Lenkorani, Muhammad Fazel
Le Pen, Jean-Marie
Libya and Israel
life expectancy
Lin Biao
L’Oreal
Lugo, Fernando
Lula da Silva, Luiz Inácio
Machel, Samora
Machiavelli, niccolò
Mahallati, Fazl-Allah
Mahasti
Mahathir Mohamad
Mahdavieh Charitable Society
Mahdavi-Kani, Muhammad-Reza
Mahdi al-Muntazar. See Hidden Imam
Mahfouz, neguib
Mahzoon, Ali
Maistre, Joseph de
Majlis. See Islamic Consultative Assembly
Majlisi, Muhammad Baqir
Makarem-Shiraz, nasser
Makki, Hussein
Maleki, Khalil
Maleki, Mahmoud
Malenkov, Grigori
Malik ibn Anas
Maliki Mazhab
Malkam Khan, Mirza
Manuchehrian, Mehrangiz
Mao Zedong and Red Guards
Mar’ashi-najafi, Shahabeddin
marja taqlid (source of imitation)
martyrdom advantage of Ahmadinejad on Hussein bin Ali
Martyrs’ Foundation
Marxism Jews blamed for and Shariati
Marxists: beard style of and hijab color as hypocrites as Khomeini allies in Latin America terrorist groups see also Tudeh (Masses) Party
Marzieh
Mash’al, Khalid
Mash’had
Mashreqi, Enayatallah
Maudoodi, Abul-Ala
Mauritania
Maybodi, Ali-Reza
Mazdakites
Mazluman, Reza
Mecca deities of “the Generous,” Ka’aba in pilgrimage to
Mehrbanu
Mesbah-Yazdi, Muhammad-Taqi
Meshkini, Ali-Akbar
Mexico
military. See armed forces; Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; nuclear program
Milosevic, Slobodan
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Intelligence and Security
Ministry of Islamic Guidance and Culture anti-Jewish propaganda and Chomsky “Great Satan” poetry contest and Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Ministry of Islamic Orientation
Ministry of Justice
Ministry of Public Health
Ministry of the Interior
Mirfenderesky, Ahmad
Mir-Fetros, Ali
Mitterrand, Danielle
Mitterrand, François
Mobilization of the Dispossessed. See Baseej Mustadafeen.
Mohajerani, Abbas
Mohajerani, Ata-Allah
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar
M
ohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi Carter’s pressure on and China in exile Family Protection Act Islamic Summit and Israel military resources and Mossadeq and national service corps opposition to and political prisoners religion under and Soviets as U.S. friend Western plot against women’s enfranchisement
Mohammadi, Akbar
Mohammadi, Manuchehr
Mohit-Tabatabai, Muhammad
Mohri, Hussein
Mohtashami-Pour, Ali-Akbar
monarchists
Mongols
Montazeri, Hussein-Ali break with regime reform potential
Morales, Evo
Morocco
Mortazavi, Saeed
Moshiri, Bahram
Mossadeq, Ghulam-Hussein
Mossadeq, Muhammad and “balance of negatives,” and British and CIA as defense minister and Hojatieh as “martyr,” and mullahs myths of oil nationalization parliament dismissal as populist shah’s power over state of emergency and “surveyed residence,” andTudeh (Communist) Party as uncompromising
Mostafavi, Rahmat
Motahari, Morteza and Popperites
Mottaki, Manuchehr
Mozambique
Muawyyah on crushing Iranians and Hassan infanticide
Mubarak, Hosni
Mugabe, Robert
Muhammad (Prophet): and Ayesha and Byzantine Empire cartoons of clan color conquests of goatee governance by Hegira intercession attempt on Jahilyah and Jews as masked and Persian Empire and Qureysh tribes; and Salman as Sayydena and sayyed (masters) as “Seal of the Prophets,” in Shiism successors to and tribal law and women
Muhammad, Davoud
Muhammad Baqer
Muhammad ibn Hassan. See also Hidden Imam (Mahdi)
Mujahedin Khalq (People’s Holy Warriors)
mullahs: beards & turbans and bonyads caution of ease of becoming executions of exiled imprisonment of and NIOC opposition to Khomeini and Pahlavi secularism private armies of wealth of
Muqaddam, Ismail
Musaylamah
Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan al-Moslemeen) and Hamas
Mussa bin Jaafar (Mussa al-Kazim)
Mussavi Khamenehi, Mir-Hussein.
Mussavi-Khoei, Abol-Qassem
Mussavi-Lari, Abdolvahed
Mussolini, Benito Latinism of
Mutallibov, Ayaz
Mutazelites
Mutuwakkil, Ahmad Wakil
Myanmar (Burma)
nabavi, Behzad
naderpour, nader
najafabadi, nematallah Salehi
najafabadi, Qorban-Ali Dorri
najafi, Aqa
napoleonic Code
naqqache, Anis
naraqi, Ihsna
nasrallah, Hassan
nasser, Gamal Abdel anti-shah propaganda and “Arabian Gulf,” on Israel and Suez fiasco
nasser Khosrow
nassiri, Yahya
nateq-nuri, Ali-Akbar
national Bank of Iran
national Iranian Oil Company (NIOC)
national Prisons Service
NATO
nazari-Jalali, Ibrahim
nazis and Heidegger and Munich accords
neckties
negus (King of Abyssinia)
New York Times on “beautiful” revolution
nicaragua
nigeria
nixon, Richard in China
nizaris
nobel Prize Clinton’s aim for
non-Aligned Movement
north Korea in “axis of evil,” economic model of and missile program
nostradamus
nouri, Abdallah
now-Ruz
nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty
nuclear power Bushehr plant hazards of
nuclear weapons program and global cartel claim and Hidden Imam and IRGC and “nuclear apartheid,” suspension of and terrorism thwarting of Un sanctions on
nuri, Abdallah
nuri-Ala, Esmail
nusairis
Obama, Barack on direct talks free gifts
Obeid Zakani
oil and Ahmadinejad’s largesse British interest in and economic boom and Iran-Iraq war Islam’s advantage in in Latin America nationalization of and technology underinvestment in and U.S. sanctions
Oman
Omar, Mullah Muhammad
Omar bin Khattab (Caliph) on book-burning conquest of Sassanids as evil and hijab murder of ultimatum to Yazdegerd III,
Omar Khayyam
One Thousand and One Nights
OPEC
OPEC Fund
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
Organization for Women’s Liberation
Organization of American States
Organization of the Islamic Conference
Ortega, Daniel
Osanloo, Mansour
Osman ibn Affan (Caliph) as evil and Koran murder of
Ottoman Empire Arabs oppressed under disintegration of
Ottomans crescent symbol in Iraq wars with and women
Pahlavi Foundation
Pahlavi Shahs economic development and intellectuals and Mossadeq secularism state structures
Pakistan and Baluch rebels Iranic languages in Jaafari Movement military technology Shiite radicals in and Soviets women in
Palestine Liberation Organization
Palestinians see also Hamas; Israel
pan-Arabism and nasser
Paraguay
Parsa, Farrokhru
Patten, Chris
Pejak (Party of Free Life in Kurdistan)
Penn, Sean
People of the Book
People’s Fedayeen Guerrilla Organization
People’s Front for the Liberation of Occupied Arabian Gulf
People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Perón, Juan
Persepolis
Persian Church of Christ
Persian Empire: and Muhammad Muslim war against revival dreams
Persian language Arabization of in armed forces gender-free “sick letters” in and Khamenehi Khomeini’s weakness in Khomeinist newspeak Pahlavi form
Persian literature censorship of contemporary hijab in Jesus in Khomeini’s ignorance of translation of “two centuries of silence” in
Peru
Peter the Great
Petraeus, David
Petroshevsky, Ilya Pavlovitch
Phalange
Phoenicians
Piruz
Pishdadi dynasty
Plato
Point Four program
Poland
political prisoners Kurdish under shah
polygamy
Popper, Karl and Sorush
Popular Arab Islamic Conference (1993)
popular culture American
Pound, Ezra
Pour-Fatemi, Muhammad-Mahdi
Pour-Mohammadi, Mostafa
Prague Spring
Pravda
president: election of powers of
prostitution
Protagoras
protests: Arab and archaeological sites Baluch Kurdish labor union strikes repression of and shaving students teachers women
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Qabel, Hadi
Qaeda, al- and Clinton Cole attack safe haven for
Qajar dynasty
Qalibaf, Muhammad-Baqer
Qarani, Valiallah
Qassem, na’im
Qassemlou, Abdul-Rahman
Qavam, Ahmad
Qavami, Jalal
Qom Khomeini in and Sistani
Qomi, Mahmoud Hojat
Qotbzadeh, Sadeq
Quds (Jerusalem) Corps
Qutb, Sayyed
Rabbani-Amlashi, Mohsen
Radmanesh, Reza
Rafsanjani, Ali-Akbar Hashemi (Bahremani): on Arabic language assassination trial and Assembly of Experts and Chamber of Commerce at “convergence” conference and courts and “dialogue of civilizations,” distrust of and economy failure of an
d Hamas on hijab as Hojat al-Islam Holocaust denial on Israel and Khamenehi missile project and moderates and nuclear program power base presidential election and Prophet’s clan purges by on “revolution in one country,” and USSR on U.S. vulnerability wealth of
Rafsanjani, Mehdi
Rahimian, Muhammad-Hassan
Rahnavardi, Zahra
Rajai, Muhammad-Ali sayyed claim
Rajavi, Maryam
Rajavi, Massoud
Ramadan
Ramin, Muhammad-Ali
Rastakhiz Islami
Razmara, Haj Ali
Reagan, Ronald arms to Iran and Beirut and Contras toughness
Red Crescent
Red Guards
Renaissance
Renan, Ernest
resurrection (Ma’ad)
Reza (Imam)
Reza Khan see also Reza Shah Pahlavi
Reza Pahlavi
Reza Shah Pahlavi: abdication anticlerical campaign hijab ban Iranian Academy Mossadeq opposition and Tehran University
Rezai, Mohsen
Rezvani, Mahdi
Rice, Condoleezza
Richardson, Bill
Riggi, Abdul-Malik
Rihai, Muhammad-Taqi
Robinson, Mary
Rodinson, Maxime
Roman Empire
Romania
Roosevelt, Kermit
Roshangar, Majid
Rouhani, Mahdi
Rumi on beards
Rushdie, Salman
Russia and Armenia and Bolsheviks diplomacy as informal ally Iranic languages in nuclear fuel provision military technology Tehran embassy seizure see also Soviet Union
Russian Empire
Ruzbeh (Ibn Muqaffah)
Rwanda
Saadi
Sacred Precinct of Imam Reza
Sadat, Anwar: assassin of and Cold War
Sadiqi, Hussein
Sadiqi, nader
Sadr, Moqtada
Sadr, Musa
Safavids lion emblem Mazdakite massacre and sayyeds
Sahih (Bokhari)
Sahraroudi, Muhammad-Jaafar
Sajjadi, Muhammad
Salafis
Salehi, Mahmoud
Salman Farsi
Samareh, Mojtaba Hashemi.
Sanai
Sane’i, Hassan
Sanjabi, Karim
Santiago, Lynda
Sarshar, Homa
Sassanid Empire fall of women in
Satanic Verses, The (Rushdie)
Saudi Arabia: and bin Laden and Cold War and Hezballah Khobar bombing and oil rial in Shiite radicals in and Sudan terrorist opposition in Wahhabism in
SAVAK (State Intelligence and Security Organization) and Ahmadinejad Bakhtiar assassination and Hojatieh renamed and Shariati and Soviets
sayyed and black turban making of presidents as