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Iran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4061 words) |
 | In 1996, with the support of the Congress, U.S. President Bill Clinton signed into law the "Iran and Libya Sanctions Act" in order to prohibit American companies from investing and doing business with Iran, mainly with its strategic oil sector and also for some spare parts like for its aviation. |
| The majority of Iran's population speak one of the Iranian languages, though Persian is the official language. |
| While the number, percentage, and definition of the different Iranian peoples is disputed, the major ethnic groups and minorities in Iran include the Persians (51%), Azeris (24%), Gilaki and Mazandarani (8%), Kurds (7%), Arabs (3%), Baluchi (2%), Lurs (2%), Turkmen people (2%), Qashqai, Armenians, Georgians, Persian Jews, Assyrians and others (1 %). |
| British Empire - encyclopedia article about British Empire. (7838 words) |
| Between the Congress of Vienna of 1815 and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Britain was the world's sole industrialised power, with over 30% of the global industrial output in 1870. |
| The evolution of colonialism in India should dissuade people from sweeping generalisations and over-simplifications regarding the roles of inter-capitalist competition and accumulated surplus in precipitating the era of the New Imperialism. |
| Formal empire in India, beginning with the Government of India Act of 1858, was a means of consolidation, reacting to the abortive Indian Mutiny, which was in itself a conservative reaction among Indian traditionalists to British policy in the subcontinent. |
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