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Iranian

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Iranian
1. a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, divided into West Iranian (including Old Persian, Pahlavi, modern Persian, Kurdish, Baluchi, and Tajik) and East Iranian (including Avestan, Sogdian, Pashto, and Ossetic)
2. the modern Persian language
3. belonging to or relating to the Iranian branch of Indo-European


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Pointedly announcing, "We have experience of reconstruction after war," Iranian ambassador Hassan Kazemi Qumi said, according to the New York Times, that his nation would "greatly expand its economic and military ties with Iraq--including an Iranian national bank branch in the heart of the capital.
On Iranian television and radio, on Web sites and blogs, at coffee shops and around dinner tables, Iranian-Americans are debating the escalating tensions between the land of their birth and their adopted home.
Moreover, the resurgence of the fanatical spirit of the Iranian Revolution, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's commitment to exporting the revolution to Lebanon, the greater Middle East and the entire Muslim world, calls into question whether we can expect a nuclear Iran to be a rational state actor disciplined by deterrent doctrines such as "mutually assured destruction.
 
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