Zand

• February 2006, Mohammad Zaki Amawi, Marwan Othman El-Hindi and Zand Wassim Mazloum: Accused of providing material support to terrorists, making bombs for use in Iraq.

Think Progress » CIA’s top spy: U.S. intelligence hasn’t ‘suffered at all’ from banning waterboading. 2010

Fear was clear and present in the voice of family members of Hossein Akhtar Zand, the young man who was thrown from the top a medical clinic in Isfahan, on 15 June.

Masoumeh Alinejad: An Open Letter to the 
United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran Masoumeh Alinejad 2011

Manda Zand Ervin told a U.S. congressional briefing in July 2010, This was a revolution bound to happen.

The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010

His supporters within the government were called “reformers,” but opponents of the regime rejected that description.10 “The followers of Khatami wanted the same republic as Khomeini but with economic viability, while the followers of Khamenei would take Iran to its economic downfall to maintain the ideology of Islamism,” Mrs. Manda Zand Ervin, founder and president of the Alliance of Iranian Women, told me in 2007.

The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010

Douglas Reed in his book written in the 1950s, comes to the same conclusions as Zand.

A Short History of the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict: Past Is Prologue 2009

The crowds Wednesday packed several miles on Karim Khan Zand Avenue in central Tehran, forcing it to close three traffic lanes to cars, according to eyewitness reports and amateur videos.

Iran Arrests Reformers as Huge Protests Continue 2009

Years before, the Afsharid Shah Rukh had cut his balls off, and then the Zand hereditary Prime Minister Karim Khan had him locked up in a dungeon for years.

Eric Lurio: Notes on the Iran/Persia Conflict: A Travelogue -- Part Two 2009

Zand wrote his book for a purpose - to debunk accepted myths, Zionists who advance them, and promote the idea that Israel should be a democratic state for all its people, not just for Jews alone.

A Short History of the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict: Past Is Prologue 2009

Segev explained that "Zand did not invent (this) thesis; 30 years before (Israel's) Declaration of Independence, it was espoused by David Ben-Gurion, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (Israel's second president), and others."

A Short History of the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict: Past Is Prologue 2009

For example the Safavid dynasty, Afshar dynasty and Zand dynasty.

The US Government and Kurds 2008