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They feared he would inculcate ideas of true independence as well as accountability into a nascent class of patriotic Persian leaders.

Soon they were there. In the dark, the Persian felt the wall carefully with his hands.

"His lifestyle, " the authors conclude, "can be compared to that of a Persian Gulf monarch or a flamboyant oligarch. "

The name of its capital, Ashgabat, is derived from Persian as well, loosely translating as "the city of loveliness" .

Iran has been a state since the creation of the Persian empire in the sixth century BC.

Here's how the great Persian poet Rumi put it: "Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. "

Bahrain is the only Arab state so far in the oil-rich Persian Gulf beset by unrest amid protests across much of the rest of the Mideast.

And you know it takes anywhere from a few months to several years to create a hand-woven Persian carpet.

Mrs. Clinton decided to delay her departure for the Persian Gulf to Saturday from Friday to be with her husband.

'Wait, 'the Persian said. He put his hands on the big mirror, first here, then there.

Bahrain was perceived to be a liberal oasis in the Persian Gulf, with a robust banking sector and a per capita income to rival Europe's.

They were prompted only by a desire to preserve their liberty. And yet they never openly aided the Persian King.

The Great Persian King Darius I announced that the official language of the western half of the Persian Empire was to be Aramaic.

I believe you know that we are going to take two or three of our tankers off the Persian Gulf run, either this year of next.

Take your Persian cat to your veterinarian if the cat is squinting, the eye looks red or the cat seems to be in discomfort.

Consider this scenario: A Westerner walks into the office of a Persian colleague and admires a painting on the wall.

Iran has been a state since the creation of the Persian Empire in the 6th century BC.

Mausolus was a satrap, or governor, in the Persian Empire, and his fabled tomb is the source of the word "mausoleum. "

True or not, there's no doubt that Persian rugs have dazzled people for centuries.

The operation under way at night, taking place in the predawn darkness at the Persian Gulf involves allied air forces of four nations.

That means if you do not understand Persian , you are missing out on a lot of valuable information, he says .

The loss of a minesweeper, at a time of rising tension in the Persian Gulf over Iran's nuclear programme, was questioned by opposition MPs.

A bazaar is an oriental market-place where a variety of goods is sold. The word perhaps comes from the Persian word 'bazar'.

In his own childhood, he was immersed in both Persian and French culture thanks to his parents' backgrounds.

This left the Caucasus unprotected, and the Caucasian and Persian civilians starving after years of war and depravation.

But the religious fermentation of the world did not leave the supremacy of Zoroastrianism undisputed in the Persian Empire.

Methane from the bottom of the Persian Gulf is part-combusted and filtered in a spaghetti-like tangle of steel pipes.

Pushing East once more, Alexander learns that Darius has been captured by Persian conspirators and is being held prisoner.

He referred to Greco-Persian astrology, meaning that which I practice at present and I don't know where he got that idea.

Energy official say oil from the Persian Gulf is now eleven percent of all the oil used in the United States.

The strategy was to hold the Persian force long enough until the Spartan and Athenian state could organize a much larger and stronger force.

President Nicolas Sarkozy opened France's first military facilities in the Persian Gulf as part of a realignment of its overseas bases.

The Cyrus Cylinder is an artifact of the Persian Empire, consisting of a declaration inscribed on a clay barrel.

I took an independent Persian language course and began my own metablog that I used to track the Iranian blogosphere.

Yemen also overlooks a maritime "choke-point" -- a narrow passage like the Strait of Hormuz at the tip of the Persian Gulf.

With the end of the long Persian new year holiday, the pragmatic wing apparently reasserted control.

A third century dualistic religion, founded by Mani, who fused Persian, Christian, and Buddhist elements into a major new faith.

January's launch of BBC Persian TV infuriated the Iranians, whose harassment forced the closure of the British Council offices in Tehran.

It doesn't matter whether you are japanese, jewish, persian, african, or european. In times like this everyone needs to help each other out.

Legal requirements to hire a certain number of locals have left the state firms of several Persian Gulf emirates hopelessly over-staffed.

And with a little Spartan help your Persian scouts supplied the mortar.

Smith himself is partial to views like this one, which offer what he calls a "Persian rug effect. "

We called some of our clients in the Persian Gulf, in Kuwait and said, 'why aren't you guys buying gold?

With his Persian-accented Arabic, striking physical appearance and unflagging energy, Sadr earned respect across the sectarian divide.

Most recently the launch in January by the BBC of a Persian-language television channel has roused the ire of the Iranian regime.

The extreme case of favorable physical resource endowments is, of course, the Persian Gulf oil states.

Since then, between the Greek and Persian wars lasted for many years to Persia ended in failure, known as the "Persian war. "

In terms of overall strategic significance, the South China Sea could become, as some have said, a "second Persian Gulf. "

Twenty thousand Persian soldiers had fallen before that handful of men.

The room was covered in Persian rug designs, glass multi-colored lights, brass tables, and cushions against the wall around the perimeter.

India, the Arab area, the center in the Persian Gulf near the production area is now widely Zhi Zai in the subtropical regions.

Witness the Bahrain World Trade Centre. Two 50-storey glass "sails" rise over 240 metres into the sky along the shores of the Persian Gulf.

Burmese, Persian, Oriental and Siamese breeds were all entered into this year's contest.

The Indus Valley civilization of Pakistan traded with Mesopotamian civilization and with Persian Gulf communities.

I am away at work each day, so this was not a problem until my beautiful purebred Persian cat came into heat.

Persian itself would serve as a lingua-franca not at the time of the empire's greatest heights but roughly from 1000AD to 1800.

Arabic, Persian and Turkish literature feature a Sufi sage, known as Juha or Mullah Nasreddin, notable for buffoonery, wit and wisdom.

For more than a decade, Iraq has tried to evade the disarmament provisions it agreed to at the end of the Persian Gulf war.

The Greek strategy was to delay the land force and to defeat the Persians at sea, then starve the Persian army.

Some Australian military personnel will remain in Iraq to protect diplomats and a navy vessel will continue to patrol the Persian Gulf.

In an apparent show of strength, the country launched air force exercises over the Persian gulf, Iranian state radio reported.

The Persian put his hands on the wall.

The name Mithras was the Persian word for 'contract'.

He firmly declines the deal by spearing and then throwing a bunch of Persian yes-men into what appears to be a bottomless pit.

Thick enough to completely obscure the satellite's view of the planet's surface, the dust plume hides part of the Persian Gulf.

The oil slick in the Persian Gulf seriously threatened the marine life around the sea .

Scouts sent by Alexander to the Persian camp witness another terrifying sight; one hundred thousand campfires sparkle like a city.

Go and look at those persian carpets, and one of these days the answer will come to you.

In contrast to most other sectors of the art market, Persian carpets have continued to show strong demand through 2008 and 2009.

Iraq has a small coastline with the Persian Gulf (Known as the Arabian Gulf among Arabs).

For thousands of years the present area of Uzbekistan was a part of the Persian Empire.

Afghanistan was an Islamic country and also the path to the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean.

On the cup's side panels are figures in motion: a Persian dancer clapping her hands above her head, musicians playing various instruments.

He speaks fluent Persian, and his wife, Parvaneh, was born in Iran.

At the time we were still hundreds of years behind Persian Empire and Roman Empire in such fields as medicine, astronomy and mathematics.

So he would identify himself as a Greek god with a Persian god.

The architectural design is just but amazing as it makes use of Persian, Indian as well as Islamic architecture in its design.

Professor Smith is well posted up in Persian history.

In one instance, a group of Persian-speaking men hurried out of the hotel once word spread that a reporter was asking about them.

People living in the South of Iran around the harbour of the Persian Gulf are called BANDARI.

In Middle Persian myths the messenger of the gods. He was sent down from heaven to announce to a king that his last hour had struck.

Now he is less cautious: in a message for the Persian new year he told Iran's young that they were not "bound by the chains of the past" .

Taj Mahal was commissioned by the Emperor Shah Jahan as a mausoleum for his Persian wife Mumtaz Mahal.

Zeus stabs the sky with thunderbolts. . . and batters the Persian ships with hurricane wind.

The word "faravahar" actually is Pahlavi , or Middle Persian.

She told the BBC's Persian-language service Wednesday the site will aim to answer questions on traveling and studying in the U. S.

Now, he was a cupbearer in the Persian king's court and it was his responsibility to choose wine and safeguard it from poison.

"It was not the well-organised Persian Empire that brought about the fall of Rome, but the barbarians, " he writes.

Satellite photos reveal two dry riverbeds flowing toward the Persian Gulf near where the Tigris and Euphrates also terminate.

Over the years, scholars have vacillated between Persian and Turkish attribution for this collection.

Followers in the West and on the Arab side of the Persian Gulf, as well as in Lebanon, generously funded his charities.

i was not without some anxiety about embarking on a persian war , but the arguments for it were compulsive.

Mahle spent most of her 14 years as a spy in the Persian Gulf, the Occupied Territories and North Africa.

Down the beach from the Burj Al Arab and four kilometers into the Persian Gulf, another mammoth construction project is underway .

Founded around 518 B. C. by Darius the Great, the site served as the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid (or Persian) Empire.

"The dogs don't know it is a Persian rug, but they know it is soft, " he said.

If like Daniel, you are put in a den of lions, you will rise to be in charge of the Persian empire.

The credit crunch and the global slowdown's hit to oil prices have left the economies of the Persian Gulf looking unusually shaky.

In its text Rustam is said to possess great strength, be protected by magic, and symbolise Persian honour and virtue.

So too was the Persian derivative Mithra, who was a "benevolent god" and the bestower of health, wealth and food.

When the Iranians separated from their Indian brethren, Mitra became known as "Mithra" or "Mihr, " as he is also called in Persian.

Budapest, Hungary, October 21, 2008--A four-week-old Persian leopard cub looks into a camera during a media unveiling at the Budapest Zoo.

The Persian Rose skincare range is designed for those with sensitive skin and for those of us who simply love the rose.

Im Proudly Persian because Oldest Place of my Great Country who prove that I wasn't terrorist and Im not terrorist.

Nor should it be for some of the other countries that maintain pegs, notably China and several of the Persian Gulf's oil exporters.

Qatar's location in the Persian Gulf has made it an important ally in a region vital to U. S. economic and security interests.

But there's a huge gap between the Persian Gulf states like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and the more impoverished states.

At sea the Persian armada of 800 vessels bore down on the retreating Greek fleet who were hopelessly outnumbered.

By Monday evening, there already were 6, 860 entries for her on the Persian-language Google Web site.

Such a move by Iran, Zeihan says, would endanger the Persian Gulf oil supplies and force a U. S. response.

The child speaks of the Persian ghosts, known from the ancient times.

He probably knew Persian well, his knowledge of English was quite fair, but in neither of these directions lay his ambition.

Later, Persian navy and Greek fleet began to fight in Sarah Meath.

A thick plume of dust, however, hovers over the Iraq-Iran border, and obscures the coastline of the Persian Gulf.

They were written in Elamite, the language of the Persian chancellery, and deal with economic transactions up till 493.

The Persian War has long been considered the trigger for the fall of Persian Empire, even to cause the collapse of the Persian Empire.

To Me. a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcoMe. than the most luxurious Persian rug.

An Iranian ( Shaun Toub) is thought to be an Arab, although Iranians are Persian.

The dust often blows toward the southeast, spreading into Iran or traveling over the Persian Gulf.

Do not be coy or stupid, Persian. You can afford neither in Sparta.

Oil rich countries, particularly those in the Persian Gulf, as eager to buy more weapons, with which to defend their assets.

But what she and others refer to as Mediterranean food is familiar on Turkish, Greek, Israeli, Armenian, and Persian menus, to name a few.

Nowruz is celebrated in many countries, like Afghanistan, that were once part of the powerful Persian empire.

Hwang said they did a logo for the Persian New Year after a huge online campaign and that the National Library Day design was very popular.

Persian merchants are pleased to start off on a journey with this Baozhu return ship voyage down the river road, cross-strait picturesque.

While it was hemmed in on land, it traveled to the Swahili in Africa, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, Madagascar, Indonesia, China.

BC Lucullus invades Armenia , starting centuries of warfare between the Roman and Persian empires .

Internationally, Chinese carpets with Persian motifs do not sell so well as those from India, Pakistan or Iran do.

"The Quest, " which begins with the Persian Gulf war of 1990-91 and goes up to the present, does not have the same kind of material.

India imports four-fifths of its oil, mostly from the Persian Gulf, plus liquefied natural gas from Qatar and Indonesia.

The floor was covered with a brightly designed Persian carpet.

Around the Persian Gulf War, this machine load aerial transport and other operational support duty.

To me a thick carpet of pine needles or soft grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

The area was a bone of contention between the Uzbek emirs and the Persian Kings for many centuries.

Able Seaman Green said she and her ship mates would celebrate this Christmas at sea as they conduct security patrols in the Persian Gulf.

Language Support English Arabic and Persian Preferably Front. Ideal if Back End can also be in three languages .

Koushkani immigrated to Canada in 1991, and has composed several works in which he seeks to blend classical Persian and Western styles.

She wrote her first travel book, and translated the work of a Persian poet Hafez.

Situated 66 feet below the surface of the Persian Gulf, Hydropolis will feature 220 guest suites.

That regime pledged to reveal and destroy all of its weapons of mass destruction as a condition for ending the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

She coursed, coiffed and high-heeled, through rooms filled with marble coffee tables, gilt-framed armoires and fields of Persian carpets.

Dubai, located in the southern Persian Gulf on the Arabian peninsula, is both a city and an emirate in the UAE (United Arab Emirates).

In California, Persian walnuts were first grown in the days of the early Spanish missions.

Independent groups have translated some of M. I. T. 's courses into Chinese, Persian, Spanish, Thai and Portuguese.

Owned by a local couple, this Persian restaurant has an inviting, homelike atmosphere that many restaurants lack.

In 1987 a task force known as 16 O's secret unit in an army helicopter attack in the Persian Gulf when the mine-laying vessel was found.

Baksheesh, originally a Persian word now found in many countries of the Middle East, can mean "tip" , "alms" and "bribe" .

The Persian Empire stretched from Egypt to India, but conducted business in Aramaic, a desert tongue of the Fertile Crescent.

Tehran has once again denied any military encounter with a US-contracted ship in the Persian Gulf.

The Tajikistan were part of the ancient Persian Empire that was ruled by Darius I and later conquered by Alexander the Great (333 B. C. ).

In the Persian Gulf War, the US military set out it K C-10 is completely each kind carries out the duty airplane to carry on air refueling.

Web sites are blocked throughout the Persian Gulf and North Africa based on objectionable content and this hasn't created much of a furor .

The president has been less outspoken about other Persian Gulf allies, including Bahrain, which hosts a key U. S. naval base.

Inspired by this good omen, the Greek navy daringly engaged and defeated the Persian fleet at the battle of Salamis.

Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Persian Empire, called himself "King of Iran" .

explain it as autocracy defeated democracy? Besides, Greece defeated Persia in Persian War. Herodotus, the.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than6 the most luxurious Persian rug.

Airyaman: The Persian god of friendship and healing. A philosophical concept personified as a god.

She revealed the loss of her Nobel medal in an interview on Radio Farda, a US-backed Persian language station.

Raoul turned and saw the long face of the Persian under his black hat.

The motives are references to the ancient Persian Empire and its rich cultural tradition.

The mould design of Persian blinds was introduced. By technology analysis, the mould design and manufacturing were predigested.

An ancient Persian demon of laziness who tries to prevent people from working. He is one of the Daevas.

Thus it controlled access to India, also the vital Allied shipping routes to the Middle East and the oilfields of the Persian Gulf.

When an Iranian parliamentarian mentions nostalgically that Bahrain was once a Persian province, a wave of Sunni suspicion erupts.

Officials spoke to reporters Wednesday shortly after a second U. S. aircraft carrier strike group arrived in the Persian Gulf.

Small wonder then that so many Iranians regard him as the saviour of the Persian language.

Modest improvements in auto fuel efficiency could save as much oil as we import annually from the Persian Gulf.

For a time, Bush was considered unbeatable because of foreign policy developments such as the end of the Cold War and the Persian Gulf War.

The Parsees are Zoroastrians, the theological descendants of ancient Persian fire- worshippers .

At the same time, she said, she made sure to take her girls to Persian language classes.

The spelling with "o" and "e" comes from a Persian-influenced pronunciation used in Afghanistan where he lived for a long time.

For a main course, a Persian stew of yellow split peas and quinces, with turmeric and saffron.

Sheherazade, her sister Dinarzade, and Sharyar, the king she entertains, bear conspicuously Persian names.

One theory is that Marco Polo copied a sort of guide book on China written by a Persian merchant.

The Greek victory marked the turning point of the campaign, leading to the eventual Persian defeat.

The walls are carved paneling stained in mahogany, with impressive furniture groupings, rich wood floors, and the finest Persian area rugs.

Fulfilling his commitment to the Gods, Kratos defeated the Basilisk brought forth by the Persian.

Persian, which has borrowed many words from Arabic, has not kept the latter's irregular plurals .

India - Darius the Persian conquers the Indus Valley region, making the area a province of the Persian Empire.

Saudi troops have marched into Bahrain, across the Persian Gulf from Iran.

Alec Ross, a senior adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, recently discussed these efforts with VOA's Persian News Network.

For 2, 500 years it was always part of somebody's empire, beginning with the Persian Empire in the fifth century B. C.

The Persian 88 is equipped with two diesel engine MTU, 16 cylinders for 2000 horsepower each, that push the boat at a top speed of 44 knots.

But blogger Hossein Derakhshan says there is no reliable online translation program for Persian.

Moving from Thailand to the Persian Gulf now, where Iran is running a massive military drill expected to last three days.

The blogger says may be the Iranian government asked them not to show them (Persian).

Jafari uses a lot of traditional Persian folk songs with familiar themes. He describes the changes in his patients as "tangible. "

All designs in this book were originally recorded in the 1870s, primarily from Egyptian, Persian and Syrian sources.

The Persian messenger: If you value your lives over your complete annihilation, listen carefully, Leonidas.

To me a lush carpet of pine needlesorspongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grrear end is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

COULD the Persian Gulfbecome the next hot destination for medical tourism?

The department has also inaugurated Twitter feeds in Arabic and Persian, and soon will add others in Chinese, Russian and Hindi.

The empire stretched from the present-day Persian Gulf into Turkey before it abruptly collapsed less than 200 years later.

BBC's Persian service quoted an eyewitness saying that four protesters have been killed.

In ancient Persian (Zoroastrian) religion, the Fravashis (singular: Fravartin) are guardian angels or protecting spirits.

The king met Monday with U. S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates to discuss increasing joint security exercises in the Persian Gulf.

More recent scholarship has given the Persian Faravahar a more precise meaning.

pierre knew well that great room , divided by columns and an arch , and carpeted with persian rugs.

While visibility of the show is world-wide understanding is limited to Persian speaking people.

Finally the Polos reached the Persian town of Saba, to the south of the Caspian Sea.

The worship of the Indo-Persian god Mithra dates back centuries to millennia preceding the common era.

But seen through Persian eyes, Alexander is far from "Great" .

Firdausi: Persian epic poet whose Book of Kings (1010) recounts the history of Persia from the arrival of the Persians to the arab conquest.

Be afraid! Sparta will burn to the ground. A thousand nations of the Persian empire descend upon you!

In 529 BC, Cyrus died in the expansion of the war in Asia, the Persian Empire at this time has been basically formed.

Many Persian queens don't really start showing until well after the first month, and some don't show until close to the six-week mark.

But as oil prices rebound and local stock markets rise, Persian Gulf investors are combing Africa for opportunities.

About the grape wine discovery fable popular many editions, quote many are the Persian editions.

Ancient records tell of Arab and Persian fleets that traversed Asian seas, but no such boat from the time has ever been found.

Surging domestic demand among Persian Gulf countries also continues to nibble away at available oil exports.

Becausethey lived on the edge of the Persian Empire, they were ruled by the king of Persia.

Overall, airport security stands at its highest level since the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

TV shows, and $9 per-hour consultation sessions. America had become a Persian.

His hero is in town for a concert Parsai helped organize with the Persian Student Association at the University of Toledo.

The Persian Empire in 492 BC the Greek ( EP ) ( SI ) wave after the war from prosperity to decline gradually.

Even after the emergence of Islam, the Arab world knew it as the "Bahr Fars" , the Persian Sea.

One great Persian book, The Lights of Canopus, of Sufi provenance, was derived from it, centuries after its origins.

The evaporation of savings has forced American bankers to beg sovereign wealth funds in Asia and the Persian Gulf for new capital.

peninsula; the Persian Gulf oil fields are among the most productive in the world.

In the 1970s production was concentrated around the Persian Gulf.

Spartan and Persian princes have teachers in Wisdom, Justice, Temperance, and Courage.

Mr. Roosevelt gave me for a birthday present a beautiful Persian porcelain vase.

The name means "Thunder" in Persian.

As the 1991 Persian Gulf War drew to a close, Hussein sent men to blow up Kuwaiti oil wells.

If you are worried about getting oil from an unstable Persian Gulf, consider the alternatives: Indonesia, Nigeria, Uzbekistan.

Iran is situated in Middle East, bordering the Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf, and the Caspian Sea, between Iraq and Pakistan.

Pearl collection to the base for the Persian Gulf, fisheries powerhouse.

A customer of my vet friend has abandoned a nice male persian cat at the vet.

WHILE the Arab spring unfolds all round them, the (mostly Persian) citizens of Iran seem condemned to a lonely purgatory.

Before you speak, Persian, know that in Sparta, everyone, even a king's messenger, is held accountable for the words of his voice.

This also represents the Persian cultural heritage of the Muslims of South Asia.

A country comprising an archipelago of low, sandy islands in the Persian Gulf between Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

Persian cat is a cat in the noble, gentle disposition, smart agility, Shanjierenyi less good move quiet, mellow sounds thin, flighty love.

Ancient Persian dyeing industry is flourishing, and to high quality, exquisite workmanship, and the world-famous ornate decoration.

New social actors are mobilizing everywhere, from Bolivia and Venezuela to South Africa and the Persian Gulf.

Chests are classified into Persian and Indian, depending on the place of origin.

According to Persian mythology, Mithras was born of a virgin given the title 'Mother of God'.

Some archeologists say the oldest rug is of Persian origin.

Already, the threat of deep cuts has forced the Navy to delay an aircraft carrier that was supposed to deploy to the Persian Gulf.

A lot of high-density knot silk carpets are woven in Persian style. Turkish style and other styles also can be seen in Chinese silk carpets.

The Persian messenger: Choose your next words carefully , Leonidas .

I'm shipping out to the Persian Gulf Sunday night.

As we speak, my Basilisk cleanses this land, so that it may embrace the glory of the Persian Empire.

In response, the United States defended Kuwait in the Persian Gulf War, and on March 19, 2003, the United States attacked Iraq.

In recent years, Iran and the Persian Gulf every year in the vicinity of the Strait of Hormuz at exercise.

As early as the 5th century, the Persian bazaar organized a function beyond the exhibition.

However, some would rightfully argue that original "war rugs" are old Persian rugs depicting the battles with men on horseback and swords.

India, Russia, China, and Persian Gulf countries are all accumulating gold.