Iran

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Iran

• BY CADET BONNIE

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• Location

Middle East, bordering the Gulf of Oman, the
Persian Gulf, and the Caspian Sea, between Iraq
and Pakistan
Slightly larger than Alaska
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• rugged, mountainous rim high, central basin with
  deserts, mountains small, discontinuous plains
  along both coasts

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7th century BC Media a Great Power.Around 600
BC Zarathustra lives in eastern Iran.6th
century BC Persians win the whole of Iran and
the Middle East (under kings like Cyrus 2,
Kambyses, Dareios 1). The Persian Empire rules
from the capital Perspolis.5th century BC Wars
against the Greeks. Land is gained all the way to
the Ægian Sea.4th century BC The structure of
the state dissolves.330 BC Alexander the Great
warfare subjugates the northern and most
populated parts of Iran. 324 BC The returning
campaign of Alexander's takes control over the
southern parts of Iran.3rd century BC After
years of fighting at the aftermath of Alexander,
the Partians become the new rulers, and their
kingdom becomes one of the big powers in the
Middle East.225 AD Kingdom of the Sassinids, a
new grand era. Zoroastrianism becomes the state
religion.630s, 640s Arabs conquer Iran. From
this time on, the people of Iran are slowly
converting into Islam.
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• mostly arid or semiarid, subtropical along
  Caspian coast

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• Known as Persia until 1935, Iran became an
  Islamic republic in 1979 after the ruling
  monarchy was overthrown

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US-Iranian Relations

• Iranian-US relations have been strained since a
  group of Iranian students seized the US Embassy
  in Tehran on 4 November 1979 and held it until 20
  January 1981.
• Nov. 4, Tehran, Iran Iranian radical students
  seized the U.S. embassy, taking 66 hostages.
  Fourteen were later released. The remaining 52
  were freed after 444 days on the day of President
  Reagan's inauguration.

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