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Governor Kathy Hochul appointed New York State Attorney General Letitia James to investigate a former Cornell University student's allegation of rape.
John Ghazvinian is a historian and author of a study of U.S.-Iranian relations.
Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson closely studied an ancient Greek account of Cyrus the Great.
Mr. Rouhani stated that there are genuine grounds for friendship between the American and Iranian people, and that oil will flow with a friendly relationship.
Iran formally asked governments to use the name 'Iran' rather than 'Persia' in 1935.
In 1953, the C.I.A. covertly backed a coup against Mohammad Mossadegh, a democratically chosen prime minister, after he nationalized Iran's British-run oil industry.
Shahriar Rouhani, a 29-year-old Yale University physics doctoral student, was the first junior Iranian diplomat to manage Iran's embassy in Washington after Mr. Zahedi departed.
By the mid-20th century, Iran supplied the United States with oil and became a key anti-Soviet ally.
Ardeshir Zahedi was Tehran’s ambassador to the United States.
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was a pro-Western autocrat with close ties with the United States.
Sally Quinn, a longtime Washington Post journalist, was close to Ardeshir Zahedi and attended his parties.
The 1970s was the heyday of Iran’s last monarch, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.
Mr. Zahedi decamped to Switzerland after Mr. Pahlavi fled Tehran in January 1979.
Pro-Khomeini workers hacksawed a lock off Mr. Zahedi’s office door and assumed control of the embassy.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was a fundamentalist cleric who loathed Western culture.
The Iranian Embassy in Washington was designed by Francis Keally.
The Iranian ambassador's residence on D.C.'s Massachusetts Avenue was a four-story, 46-room Georgian mansion adjacent to Iran’s embassy.
A woman at the River Café placed her necklace around Barbara McNamara Lerner's neck after Barbara complimented it.
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