History of Iran


Articles
Achaemenid Army
By: Professor A. Sh. Shahbazi

Achaemenid Society and Culture
By: T. Cuyler Young, Jr.
Alexander and ‘the Interests of Historical Accuracy’: A Reply
By: Professor Ian Worthington, 1999

Anabasis of Alexander: The Battle of Gaugamela
By: Arrian (Lucius Flavius Arrianus)

Anabasis of Xenophon, (A reference of Persian Empire of Achaemenian era)
By: Xenophon

An Overview of the Sassanian Persian Military
By: Chris Cornuelle

A Review of Sassanid Images and Inscriptions
By: Asghar Mahmoudabadi

Armano-Iranian Relations in Pre-Islamic Period
By: Nina Garsoian, 2004

Arming Iraq (against Iran): A Chronology of U.S. Involvement
By: John King

A short account of American planned 1953 Coup
Operation code-name: TP-AJAX

Burning of Persepolis by Alexander the Great
By: Diodorus Siculus

Chemical Warfare In The Iran-Iraq War 1980 - 1988
SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) Fact Sheet,
Authors: Julian Perry Robinson and Jozef Goldblat

Common Origin of Croats, Serbs and Jats
By: Dr. Samar Abbas

Constitutional Revolution, 1906 - 1911

Cyropaedia of Xenophon, The Life of Cyrus The Great
By: Xenophon

The Cyrus the Great Cylinder
The first known Charter of Rights of Nations, 539 BCE.
Edited by: Shapour Ghasemi

Cyrus the Great: The decree of return for the Jews, 539 BCE
Edited by: Charles F. Horne

Darius the Great's Inscription at Naqshe Rostam

Dehiya on the Jat Iranic Identity of the Mauryas
By: Dr. Samar Abbas

Economy In Sassanian Iran
Rika Gyselen

Emperor Ardeshir and the cycle of history
By: Dr. Richard Frye

Eye of the king, (Inspector in the Achaemenid empire)
By: Jona Lendering

Health & Medicine in Ancient Iran
By: Philippe Gignoux

Historical Background of Perfume and Perfume Manufacturing in Iran
By: Mohammad Hossein Abrishami

Histories of Herodotus, (A reference of Persian Empire of Achaemenian era)
By: Herodotus of Halicarnassus

History of ancient Medicine in Mesopotamia & Iran
By: Massoume Price

History of Banking in Iran, (Until Islamic Revolution of 1979)
From: Tejarat (Trade), The Internal Publication of Bank of Tejarat

History of British Graveyard in Tehran
By: Khosrow Motazed

History of the Breakup of Iran
By: Dr. Houshang Taleh

History of the Tudeh Party of Iran, (From the birth of communist movement in Iran)

How ‘Great’ Was Alexander?
By: Professor Ian Worthington, 1999

Identity of Croatians in Ancient Iran

Immortals, (Elite regiment in the ancient Achaemenid empire)
By: Jona Lendering

India's Parthian Colony, (On the origin of the Pallava Empire of Dravidia)
By: Dr. Samar Abbas

Iran After the Death of Alexander and Its Resistance to Hellenism
By: Maryam Hedayati

Iran after the victory of 1979's Revolution

Iran and the Polish Exodus from Russia 1942
By: Ryszard Antolak, 2004

Iran-Iraq War 1980 - 1988, (A short account of Iraqi invasion)

Iran: Understanding the Enigma: A Historian's View
By: Nikki Keddie, 1998

Is there an ultimate use for historians? Reflections on Safavid history and historiography
By: Professor Roger M. Savory

Lifting the Veil; Life in Revolutionary Iran
By: John Simpson & Tira Shubart

Marking Boundaries, Marking Time; The Iranian Past and the Construction of the Self by Qajar Thinkers
By: Juan R. I. Cole

Oil in Iran between the Two World Wars
By: Dr. Mohammad Malek

Oil Nationalization, 1949 - 1951

Older Than The Egyptian Civilization
By: M. Sadeq Nazemi-Afshar, 2003

Palestine Under the Persians 539-332 BCE
By: Dr David F. Graf

Pan-Arabism’s Legacy of Confrontation with Iran
By: Dr. Kaveh Farrokh, 2004, (revised on October 20, 2010)

Parthian Army
By: Professor A. Sh. Shahbazi

Parthian Battery: Ancient Iranians, The Inventors of Battery

Parthian History and Language
By: Dr Hassan Rezaei Baghbidi

Persian Affinities of the Licchavis - A Review
By: Dr. Samar Abbas

Persian influence on Greece
By: Janine Bakker

Persians: uncivilized savages or just non-Greek?
Use of the word Barbarian in Herodotus' Historiês
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By: Amir Kasravi

Persian Syria 538-331 BCE; Two Centuries of Persian Rule
By: Adnan Bounni

Pirooz (Son of Yazdgerd III) in China, (Persian army takes refuge in China)
By: Frank Wong

Royal Road, 5th century BCE
By: Jona Lendering

Saddam's Private Army:
How Rajavi changed Iran's Mojahedin from armed revolutionaries to an armed cult

By: By: Anne Singleton

Sassanian Army
By: Professor A. Sh. Shahbazi

Scythians / Sacae
By: Jona Lendering

Shooting Down Iran Air Flight 655 [IR655]
By: Shapour Ghasemi

Silk Road, (The ancient trade route between the Mediterranean Sea and China)
By: Jona Lendering

Soghdiana, Iranian Culture in Central Asia
By: Dr. Matteo Compareti

Some Earliest Traces of the Aryan: Evidence from the 4th and 3rd Millennium BCE You need Acrobat Reader to view this file, Please click on this icon to obtain it from the site of Adobe.
By: Jahanshah Derakhshani

Spahbod Rustam Farrukh-Hormazd and The Faith Making Battle of Qadisyyeh
By: Sir Jehangir C. Coyajee

State of Paralysis, (Tudeh factionalism and the 1953 coup)
By: Maziar Behrooz

Territorial Challenges and Iranian Identity in the Course of History
By: Dr. Davood Hermidas Bavand, 2002

The Aryan Movement
By: Abolhassan Mobin

The Ayatkar-e Zariran (The Memories of Zariran)
Translation by: Charles F. Horne

The Battle of Gaugamela
By: Ernst Badian

The contribution of ancient Iranian civilization to the Silk-Road

The Early Years of Sassanid Empire and Religious Turmoil in Persia

The Ethnic of Sakas (Scythians)
By: I. P’iankov

The History of Iranian Air Transportation Industry
By: Abbas Atrvash, January 2008

The Iranian Revolution — Past, Present and Future You need Acrobat Reader to view this file, Please click on this icon to obtain it from the site of Adobe.
By: Dr. Zayar

The Iranian Soldier-Bear of Monte Cassino
By: Ryszard Antolak, 2005

The Iran-Iraq War: Serving American Interests
By: The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.), India

The Karnamak-e Ardeshir-e Papakan
By: Charles F. Horne

The Laws of the Ancient Persians
By: S. J. Bulsara

The Old Iranian Origins of Croats You need Acrobat Reader to view this file, Please click on this icon to obtain it from the site of Adobe.
Symposium proceedings, Zagreb 24 June 1998

The origin and development of imperialist contention in Iran; 1884 - 1921
A case study in under development and dependency

By: Younes Parsa Benab

The Persian Gulf Trade in Late Antiquity
By: Touraj Daryaee

The Persian Wars
By: Professor Livio C. Stecchini

The post-Mosaddeq era and the Shah's White Revolution

The Qajar class structure
By: Ahmad Ashraf and Ali Banuazizi

The Reforms of Khosrow Anushirvan (The Immortal Soul)
By: Dr Richard Frye

The Sick Men of Persia:
The Importance of Illness as a Factor in the Interpretation of Modern Iranian Diplomatic History

By: Amir Arsalan Afkhami

The Siege of Herat 1837 - 1838
By: John Carl Nelson

The Splendor of Persia; The Great Kings
By: Robert Payne

The Splendor of Persia; Under The Conquerors
By: Robert Payne

The United States and Iran-Iraq War 1980 - 1988
By: Stephen R. Shalom

U.S.-Iranian relations, 1911 - 1951 You need Acrobat Reader to view this file, Please click on this icon to obtain it from the site of Adobe.
By: Mansour Bonakdarian

Women in the Safavid era

Women's lives in ancient Persia, (In Achaemenid era)
By: Massoume Price

Words of Darius the Great in Bisotoun's Inscription

Zolqarnain; Cyrus the Great in Qur'an
By: Baha'eddin Khoramshahi