The maps of modern Iran which follow were prepared by the CIA and are available in electronic form from The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection of The University of Texas at Austin Modern Iran: The ...

633-647: Islam conquers the area of present-day Iran, Iraq, Syria ... 711: Muslim conquests of Spain, Sind (part of modern Pakistan), and Central Asia. 732: Charles Martel checks Arab advances ...

In swift succession he captured Media, the dominant kingdom of Iran; then Lydia, which controlled Asia Minor (present-day Turkey); and finally Babylon, from which he inherited authority over most of ...

Today was our first day in Tehran ... on U.S.-Iran relations, which are unlikely to have been soured by feminist concerns when our close alliance with feminocidal Saudi Arabia has not been affected).