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That day, the Iranian consulate annex building in the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike. Iranian ambassador Hossein Akbari alleged that the consulate building "was targeted with six missiles from Israeli F-35 warplanes". The Guardian stated that Israeli warplanes were responsible for the attack.
Iran–Ukraine relations. The Islamic Republic of Iran and Ukraine established formal diplomatic relations on 22 January 1992. Iran recognized Ukraine as an independent sovereign state on 25 December 1991, four months after the Ukrainian SSR issued the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine amidst the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Notable people. Notable Pakistani people of Iranian descent include: Aga Khan III. Nusrat Bhutto, of Kurdish Descent and wife of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Benazir Bhutto served as the 11th and 13th Prime Minister of Pakistan. Lady Abdullah Haroon. Muhammad Ali Shahki. Abul Hassan Ispahani. Asghar Ali Ispahani.
At the height of its intervention in 2015–18, an estimated 10,000 IRGC forces and 5,000 Iranian Army members had been deployed to Syria. As of 2018, 2000 officers of the Quds Forces command an estimated 131 military garrisons and tens of thousands of Iran-backed Shia jihadists across regime-controlled regions. [30]
Iranians in France. (Statistics from 1999. May include non-Iranians.) Iranians in France include immigrants from Iran to France as well as their descendants of Iranian heritage or background. Iranians in France are referred to by hyphenated terms such as French-Iranians or French-Persians .
v. t. e. The " Canadian Caper " was the joint covert rescue by the Canadian government and the CIA of six American diplomats who had evaded capture during the seizure of the United States embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 4, 1979, after the Iranian Revolution, when Islamist students took most of the American embassy personnel hostage ...
Iran is a mixed economy with a large public sector. Some 60% of Iran's economy is centrally planned. [26] [needs update]. Iran's economy is characterized by its hydrocarbon, agricultural, and service sectors, in addition to manufacturing and financial services, [27] with over 40 industries directly involved in the Tehran Stock Exchange.
