Portal:Iran

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Encyclopedias

• "Persia," in Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
• "Persia," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Abbas I (Persia)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Baluchistan (Persia)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Iran," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Persia," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "Iran," in The World Factbook, (ed.) by CIA (1982)
• "Iran," in The World Factbook, (ed.) by CIA (1990)
• "Iran," in CIA World Fact Book, (ed.) by CIA (2004)

History

Including letters, documents, and primary sources

General

• The History of Persia by John Malcolm (1815) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Persia by Frederic Shoberl (1828)
• History of the early kings of Persia by Mirkhond Shea and David Shea (1832) (external scan)
• The Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun by Henry Rawlinson (1846) (external scan)
• A History of Persia by Robert Grant Watson (1866) (transcription project)
• A General Sketch of the History of Persia by Clements Robert Markham (1874)
• Eastern Persia (Vol 1: The Geography) by John Lovett and Euan Smit (1876) (external scan)
• Eastern Persia (Vol 2: Zoology and Geology) by William Thomas Blanford (1876) (external scan)
• Historical and Archæological Notes on a Journey in South-Western Persia, 1877–1878 by Albert Houtum-Schindler (1880)
• Persia and the Persians by Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin (1887) (external scan)
• The Coins Of The Shahs Of Persia by Reginald Stuart Poole (1887) (external scan)
• The Discovery and Decipherment of the Trilingual Cuneiform Inscriptions by Arthur John Booth (1902) (external scan)
• Persia past and present by Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson (1906) (external scan)
• A History of Persia by Percy Molesworth Sykes (1915)
• A Catalogue of the Persian Printed Books in the British Museum by Edward Edwards (1922)
• Travels to Tana and Persia by Josafa Barbaro and Ambrogio Contarini (1923) (external scan)
• Persia by Percy Molesworth Sykes (1922)
• Ancient Persia And Iranian Civilization by Huart Clement (1927) (external scan)
• Ancient Persia And The Parsis by Jehangir Barjorji Sanjana (1935) (external scan)

Ancient Persia (to 651)

• The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World by George Rawlinson (1871)
• Media, Babylon and Persia by Zénaïde Ragozin (1889)
• History of Zoroastrianism by Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla (1938)

Before 550 BC

• History of Early Iran by George Glenn Cameron (1936) (transcription project)

Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BC)

• The Anabasis; or, Expedition of Cyrus by Xenophon - John Selby Watson (1893) (external scan)
• History of the Persian Empire by Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead (1948)
• Esther (Bible) a book set during the reign of Ahasuerus (possibly Xerxes I), attributed to his servant Mordecai, a leader of the Jewish community in exile.

Seleucid Empire (312–63 BC)

• The House of Seleucus by Edwyn Robert Bevan (1902) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)

Parthian Empire (247 BC – 224 AD)

• The Sixth Great Oriental Monarchy by George Rawlinson (1873) (external scan)
• The Story of Parthia by George Rawlinson (1893) (external scan)
• Catalogue of the Coins of Parthia by Warwick William Wroth (1903) (external scan)
• A Political History of Parthia by Neilson Carel Debevoise (1938)

Sassanid Empire (224–651)

• The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy by George Rawlinson (1875)
• An Introduction to the History of the Assyrian Church by William Ainger Wigram (1910)

Timurid Empire (1370–1501)

• Zafarnama by Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi (1425)
  • The History of Timur-Bec, translated into English from the French translation by François Pétis de la Croix (1723) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)

Safavid and Afsharid dynasties (1501–1796)

• The Journal of Robert Stodart by Robert Stodart (1628–29), edited by Edward Denison Ross (1935)
• The Voyages and Travells of the Ambassadors Sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia (transcription project) by Adam Olearius, translated by John Davies (1625-1693) (1662)
• The Travels of Sir John Chardin through Mingrelia and Georgia into Persia by John Chardin (1686)
• The Revolutions Of Persia by Jonas Hanway (1753) (external scan)
• Calendar of State Papers (China and Persia 1625–1629), edited by W. Noel Sainsbury (1860) (external scan)

Qajar dynasty (1789–1925)

• A geographical memoir of the Persian empire, accompanied by a map by John Macdonald Kinneir (1813) (external scan)
• A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople by James Justinian Morier (1816) (external scan)
• Second Journey Through Persia by James Justinian Morier (1818) (external scan)
• Narrative of a Journey into Persia by Moritz von Kotzebue (1819) (external scan)
• Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, Ancient Babylonia by Robert Ker Porter (1821) (transcription project)
• Travels in Various Countries of the East, more particularly Persia by William Ouseley (1823) (external scan)
• Sketches of Persia by John Malcolm (1827) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• The Modern Traveler: Persia and China (1827) (external scan)
• Eight Years In Persia by Justin Perkins (1843) (external scan)
• History of the War in Afghanistan by John William Kaye (1851) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia by Justin Sheil, Lady Mary Leonora Woulfe Sheil, Mary Sheil (1856) (external scan)
• The Present State Of Persia by William Aston Shepherd (1857) (external scan)
• A journal of two years' travel in Persia, Ceylon, etc Robert Blair Munro Binning (1857) (external scan)
• Journal of a Diplomate's Three Years' Residence in Persia by Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1864) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• The Tennesseean in Persia and Koordistan by Dwight Wright Marsh (1869) (external scan)
• Through Persia by Caravan by R. Arthur Arnold (1877) (external scan)
• Six Months in Persia by Edward Stack (1882) (external scan)
• The History Of Persia (Vol 2) (1885) (external scan)
• Persia as it is by Charles James Wills (1886) (external scan)
• In the land of the lion and sun by Charles James Wills (1891) (external scan)
• Persia and the Persian Question by George Nathaniel Curzon (1892) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Persia Revisited by Thomas Edward Gordon (1895) (external scan)
• Ten Thousand Miles in Persia by Percy Molesworth Sykes (1902)
• Persian children of the royal family by Wilfrid Sparroy (1902) (external scan)
• The struggle for Persia by Donald Stuart (1902) (external scan)
• Across coveted lands; or, A journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, overland by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1903) (external scan)
• The heart of the Orient by Michael Myers Shoemaker (1904) (external scan)
• Mariam: A Romance of Persia by Samuel Graham Wilson (1906) (external scan)
• Across Persia by Eliot Crawshay-Williams (1907) (external scan)
• Queer things about Persia by Eustache de Lorey and Douglas Sladen (1907) (external scan)
• Persia, the awakening East by William Penn Cresson (1908) (external scan)
• Twenty Years In Persia by John Wishard (1908) (external scan)
• Problems of the Middle East by Angus Hamilton (1909) (external scan)
• Persia and its people by Ella Constance Sykes (1910) (external scan)
• Persia And Turkey In Revolt by David Fraser (1910) (external scan)
• Overland to India by Sven Anders Hedin (1910) (external scan)
• Through Persia In Disguise by Colonel Charles Stewart (1911) (external scan)
• The strangling of Persia by William Morgan Shuster (1912) (external scan)
• Peeps into Persia by Dorothy Hermalle (1913) (external scan)
• Persia, the land of the magi by Samuel Kasha Nweeya (1913) (external scan)
• The reign of terror at Tabriz by Edward Granville Browne (1914) (external scan)
• From Moscow To Persian Gulf by Benjamin Burges Moore (1915) (external scan)
• With the Persian expedition by Martin Henry Donohoe (1919) (external scan)
• From Persian uplands by F. Hales (1920) (external scan)
• Around the world to Persia by Kate Brigham Jackson (1920) (external scan)
• The raiders of the Sarhad by Reginald Dyer (1921) (external scan)
• The New Persian Woman by Clara Colliver Rice (1921)
• Persia by H. F. haig (1923) (external scan)
• American Task In Persia by Arthur Millspaugh (1924) (external scan)

Modern Iran (1925-1979)

• Persia Old And New by Wilson Cash (1927) (external scan)
• Mazandaran and Astarabad by Hyacinth Louis Rabino (1928)
• Persian Pictures by Gertrude Bell and Edward Denison Ross (1928) (external scan)
• Persia: Romance And Reality by Onera Amelia Merritt-Hawkes (1935) (external scan)
• The Pageant Of Persia by Henry Filmer (1937) (external scan)
• Americans In Persia by Arthur Millspaugh (1946) (external scan)
• Author:Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran 1941-1979
• NSC 136: United States Policy Regarding the Present Situation in Iran (1952)
• Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ratified by Iran in 1970.
• The Crimes of the Shah, February 18, 1978 by Author:Ruhollah Khomeini

Islamic Republic of Iran (1979-present)

• Portal:Iranian revolution, C.f. w:Iranian Revolution
• Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran 1979
• Portal:Documents seized from the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, 1979
• Executive Order 12170 of November 14, 1979, Blocking Iranian Government Property by POTUS Jimmy Carter during the w:Iran hostage crisis
• Author:Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran since 1989
• Implementation of the NPT safeguards agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran by the IAEA 2003^[1]
• Public Law 109-293, Iran Freedom Support Act by the 109th Congress of the United States, 120 Stat. 1344, H.R. 6198, enacted September 30, 2006
• Letter to George W. Bush from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (March 2006) by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
• Executive Order 13645 of June 3, 2013, Authorizing the Implementation of Certain Sanctions Set Forth in the Iran Freedom and Counter-Proliferation Act of 2012 and Additional Sanctions with Respect to Iran, by POTUS Barack Obama. C.f. w:United States sanctions against Iran
• Author:Hassan Rouhani Seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021
• Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) [1] finalized 14 July 2015 between Iran and the P5+1, the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus the European Union, in response to the w:Nuclear program of Iran.
• S/RES/2231 [2] resolution of the United Nations Security Council, 2015 July 20 endorsing the JCPOA
• Speech to the 70th UN General Assembly by Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu 2015 October 1
• Speech to the 72nd UN General Assembly by Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu 2017 September 19
• Ceasing U.S. Participation in the JCPOA and Taking Additional Action to Counter Iran’s Malign Influence and Deny Iran All Paths to a Nuclear Weapon 2018 May 8 by POTUS Author:Donald Trump, initiating the w:Maximum pressure campaign
• Remarks by President Trump on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action 2018 May 8
• Remarks by President Trump on Iran 2020 January 8, regarding the w:Assassination of Qasem Soleimani
• NPT Safeguards Agreement with the Islamic Republic of Iran Resolution adopted on 21 November 2024 during the 1746th session of the IAEA [3]
• Author:Masoud Pezeshkian, w:Masoud Pezeshkian
• NSPM-2 Imposing Maximum Pressure on the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Denying Iran All Paths to a Nuclear Weapon, and Countering Iran’s Malign Influence, 2025 February 4, by U.S. President Donald Trump
• IAEA Director General's Introductory Statement to the Board of Governors 2025 March 3 by Rafael Grossi [4]
• Verification and monitoring in the Islamic Republic of Iran in light of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231 (2015), [5] European Union Statement at the IAEA Board of Governors, 2025 March 5

Fiction

• The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan, 1824 by James Justinian Morier (Fiction) (external scan)
• The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan in England, 1828 by James Justinian Morier (Fiction) (external scan)
• Zohrab the Hostage, 1832 by James Justinian Morier (Fiction) (external scan)
• The Mirza, 1841 by James Justinian Morier (Fiction) (3-Vol.) (external scan)

Language, literature and art

• Persian Miscellanies, by Sir Gore Ouseley (1795) (external scan)
• Dictionary of the Persian and Arabic Languages, by Joseph Barretto (1804) (external scan)
• Dictionary English, Persian and Arabic, by John Richardson and Charles Wilkins (1810) (external scan)
• Persian moonshee, by William Henry Carmichael-Smyth and Francis Gladwin (1822) (external scan)
• Grammar of the Persian language. 1828 by Sir William Jones and Samuel Lee (external scan)
• Biographical notices of Persian poets, 1846 by Sir Gore Ouseley (external scan)
• A catalogue of the Persian printed books in the British Museum by British Museum (1870) (external scan)
• Persian Manual - A pocket companion, 1877. by CLARKE
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, by Omar Khayyam
• West-eastern divan by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832); Translated by Edward Dowden, (1843-1913)
• English-Persian Dictionary, 1882. by Arthur N. Wollaston
• The Universal Anglo-Persian Grammar by Syed Abdul Latif (1887) (external scan)
• A Hymn of Zoroaster by Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson (1888) (external scan)
• The Avestan alphabet and its transcription by Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson (1890) (external scan)
• History of Art in Persia, 1892 by Georges Perrot and Charles Chipiez
• Avesta, the Bible of Zoroaster by Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson (1893)
• Zoroaster, the prophet of ancient Iran by Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson (1899) (external scan)
• Modern Persian conversation-grammar : with reading lessons, English-Persian vocabulary and Persian letters. (1902) by William St. Clair Towers Tisdall
• A Literary History Of Persia by Edward Browne (1909) (external scan)
• From Constantinople to the home of Omar Khayyam by Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson (1911) (external scan)
• The Kashf al-mahjúb, the oldest Persian treatise on Súfiism by Reynold A. Nicholson (1911)
• The Persian Mystics by Rumi (1912) (external scan)
• Nadir The Persian And Other Poems by Herbert Sherring (1913) (external scan)
• The Kitáb al-luma' fi'l-Tasawwuf of Abú Nasr al-Tusi by Reynold A. Nicholson (1914)
• Press and poetry of Modern Persia by Edward Browne (1914) (external scan)
• A Vedic reader for students by Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1917) (external scan)
• The Persian Mystics by Jami and Frederick Hadland Davis (1918) (external scan)
• Early Persian poetry by Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson (1920) (external scan)
• Persian Women And Their Ways by Colliver Rice (1923) (external scan)
• Persian Literature by Reuben Levy (1923) (external scan)
• Persian Literature by Charles Ambrose Storey (1927) (external scan)

1. "Implementation of the NPT safeguards agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran". International Atomic Energy Agency. GOV/2003/40. Archived from the original on 10 June 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2017.