Abadan, movie theater fire in, 48
Abdo, Geneive, 79, 84, 85
Abraham, 7
Abu Bakr, 11
Ahmad (son), 22, 62
alcoholic drinks, 60
Alexander (the Great) of Macedon,
8
Ali, 41
Ali al-Rida, 21
Ali ibn Abu Talib, 11, 21
Ali Rajai, Muhammad, 65
Allah(God), 11
Allies, 16
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC),
27, 28, 29
Arabs, and Persian Empire, 9– 12
Arafat, Yasir, 57, 77
Arak, Khomeini studying in, 20
Aristotle, 22
Arjomand, Said Amir, 66
art, and Islamic Republic of Iran,
72
Aryans, 15
Axis powers, 16
Azhari, Gholam-Reza, 50
Baath Party, 64
Babylonians, 7
Baghdad, 9
Bahonar, Javad, 65
Bakhtiar, Shahpour, 53, 55
Bani-Sadr, Abolhassan, 63, 65, 66
Basandidah Musawi (brother), 20,
71
Bazargan, 59, 60, 62– 63
Beheshti, Ayatollah Muhammad, 42,
63, 65
“Black Friday,” 50
Borujerdi, Ayatollah Muhammad
Husayn, 24, 25, 35, 37
Bronze Age, 7
Brumberg, Daniel, 22, 69– 70
Bush, George W., 85– 86
caliph, 9
Carter, Jimmy, 47, 62, 63
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 29
Christianity, and Khomeini, 78
Clarification of Points of the Sharia
(Tauzih al Masail), 37
Cleveland, William C., 76– 77
Cold War, 16, 28
corruption, Khomeini on, 25, 37, 42,
45
Cossacks, 14
Council of Experts, 75, 82
Cyrus the Great, 7, 31
Daniel, Elton L., 60
D’Arcy, William Knox, 27
Darius I, 7–8, 31
doshak,24, 71
drugs, and Islamic Republic of Iran,
87 – 88
earthquake (December 2003), 86
economy
and Islamic Republic of Iran, 66, 69,
70, 87
and Muhammad Reza Pahlavi,
44 – 45
education
and Islamic Republic of Iran, 72, 87
and Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, 30
and Reza Shah Pahlavi, 15, 25
Egypt, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi flee-
ing to, 3, 52– 53
elective office, and Muhammad Reza
Pahlavi, 30
Eta’laat(newspaper), 47
Farah Diba, 52
Fatimah Ma’suma, 14, 21
Fedai-ye Khalq-e Iran, 45
filmmaking industry, and Islamic
Republic of Iran, 72, 87
France, Khomeini exiled to, 50–51, 63
fundamentalism, and Islamic Republic
of Iran, 84, 85, 86– 87
Governance of the Jurist: Islamic
Government, The (Velayet-e Faqih:
Hukumat – e Eslami), 42103