Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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Persia | Yes | No | No | No |
People's Mujahedin of Iran | Yes | No | No | No |
Persia (noun) | People's Mujahedin of Iran (noun) |
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a theocratic Islamic republic in the Middle East in western Asia; Iran was the core of the ancient empire that was known as Persia until 1935; rich in oil | a terrorist organization formed in the 1960s by children of Iranian merchants; sought to counter the Shah of Iran's pro-western policies of modernization and opposition to communism; following a philosophy that mixes Marxism and Islam it now attacks the Islamic fundamentalists who deposed the Shah |
an empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC |