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1 Ayatollah ________ became an active critic of the Shah's White Revolution and publicly denounced the government.

2 [129] Before the ________, the legislature was bicameral, but the upper house was removed under the new constitution.

3 [29] Its area roughly equals that of the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Germany combined, or somewhat more than the US state of ________.

4 Which of the following lead to the establishment of Iran?

5 With American support, the Shah was able to rapidly modernize Iranian infrastructure, but he simultaneously crushed all forms of political opposition with his intelligence agency, ________.

6 What is the population of Iran?

7 What is the area of Iran in square km?

8 What timezone is Iran in?

9 The population density of Iran: How many people are there per square mile?

10 Iran consists of the Iranian Plateau with the exception of the coasts of the ________ and Khuzestan.

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • 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 in 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 authored legislation requiring state 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, only two out of 36 delegates were workers?
  • the 2008 Bandar Abbas earthquake leveled walls in the village of Zeynabi, Iran?
  • the Iran-Pakistan barrier is currently being constructed by Iran along its border with Pakistan to stop illegal migration and thwart terror attacks?
  • the nearly completed Sivand Dam project in 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 selected the 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 (131 items) includes measures for biofuels and synthetic fuels, veterans' health bills, divestiture from Iran, and tariff exemptions for herbicides?
  • as a result of t'aarof, it is not uncommon for Iranian employees to work unpaid for a week before even discussing wages?
  • although formally banned, the Iranian communist Central Council of United Trade Unions was able to revive its activities under the rule of Mohammad Mosaddegh in the early 1950s?
  • IR-40, an 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 live in Iran, Georgia, Turkey, Iraq and the United States, as well as Azerbaijan?
  • Tanaz Eshaghian's film Be Like Others explores the experiences of transsexuals in Iran, a country that outlaws homosexuality but sanctions sex-reassignment surgery?
  • Marzieh Meshkini's 2000 film The Day I Became a Woman depicts three stages in the lives of Iranian women, focusing on a nine-year-old girl, a married woman, and an elderly widow?
  • Louis Merrilat played 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 is on death row in 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, Egypt's first ambassador to Iran?
  • a Transporte AĂ©reo 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 by Nobel Prize winner Herta MĂĽller, 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 is the first documentary film about Iran's Jewish minority?
  • riots broke out among Azeris in Iran after a newspaper published a cartoon about a cockroach?
  • Iran and Cuba have been seeking to strengthen their relationship in recent years?
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