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

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

A Brief History of Christianity in Iran
By: Massoume Price

A brief history of Iranian Jews
By: Massoume Price

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

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

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

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

Achaemenid Society and Culture
By: T. Cuyler Young, Jr.
Anabasis of Xenophon, (A reference of Persian Empire of Achaemenian era)
By: Xenophon

Anahita -The Mother of Gods-, Iran the cradle of the early gods
By: Mohammad Sadeq Nazmi Afshar

Alexander and ‘the Interests of Historical Accuracy’: A Reply
By: Professor Ian Worthington, 1999

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

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

An Overview of the Sassanian Persian Military
By: Chris Cornuelle

Armenians in Iran (ca. 1500-1994)
By: George A. Bournoutian

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

Arran Province (New Republic of Azerbaijan)
By: C. E. Bosworth

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

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

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

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 Balkh (Bactria)
By: Ramin Javid-Moshref

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 Persian Gulf, (From past to present)
By: Atefeh Maziyar

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

Identity of Croatians in Ancient Iran

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

Iranians, Pioneers of Navigation in the Persian Gulf
By: Hossein Nourbakhsh

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

Khvarvaran (Modern Iraq), An Iranian Province
By: Shapour Suren-Pahlav

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

Mishmahig Islands (Bahrain), "How was separated from Iran?"
By: Dr. P. Mojtahedzadeh

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

Parthian Battery: Ancient Iranians, The Inventors of Battery

Parthian History and Language
By: Dr Hassan Rezaei Baghbidi

Persia or Iran? (When "PERSIA" Became "IRAN")
By: Professor Ehsan Yarshater

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

Persian influence on Greece
By: Janine Bakker

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

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

The Aryan Movement
By: Abolhassan Mobin

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

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

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 Origins of Aryan People
By: M. Sadeq Nazmi-Afshar

The Persian Gulf Trade in Late Antiquity
By: Touraj Daryaee

The Persian Wars
By: Professor Livio C. Stecchini

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

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

Zoroastrianism under the Achaemenids
By: Kersi B. Shroff