What Role Did The Iranian Revolution In 1979 Play?
Iranian modern history has shown permanent vacillation among extremes. Nationalism has emerged into an anti-other diatribe and religious adherence has turned into fanaticism.
This report is the result of long and often difficult research and conceptualizing on the relationship among the Iranian government and religious and ethnic minorities (Armenians, Assyrians, Bahais, Chaldeans, Iranian Christian converts, Jews, and Zoroastrians) in order to survey the driving force of this extremism and its impact. What role did the Iranian Revolution in 1979 play? What is a response of international communities and what has been the response of religious minorities?
(How far could an ideological state go in implementation? What form has this dogmatic …show more content…
However, even though the importance of these issues is undoubtedly high, the international community must not disregard the very afflicting humanitarian circumstance in the country, the problem of which is not of less importance: daily infringements of essential ensured rights (basic guaranteed rights ).
Since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the government of Iran has steadily offended the human rights of thousands of its fellow citizens. The victims of the system have consisted of a vast gathering of average Iranians, the only “crime” of which was usually one of identity – ethnicity , sexual orientation, religion or gender - that was a threat to the theocratic vision of the ruling elite of the country.
After the Iranian Revolution, the official religion of the state of Iran became Islam. The Constitution, which was written after the Revolution, indicates that rights of non-Iranians and non-Muslims must be recognized. In reality, the persecution of ethnic and religious minorities has dramatically increased since the 1979. Recently, two ministries of the government, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security and the Ministry of Islamic Culture, jointly control religious activity. (American Jewish Committee, …show more content…
The defendants were restricted to contact the advocates until just few weeks before the trial, which was held in a closed Revolutionary Court. It is interesting, that the evidence against the suspects was kept in secret, and in addition, according to the defender’s lawyers, was solely based on enforced confession made during closed interrogations without the presence of any juridical counsel. Thanks to forceful international pressure, including numerous interventions which criticized the absence of due process in the trial, all 10 Iranian Jews were gradually released, most before their sentences were
This report is the result of long and often difficult research and conceptualizing on the relationship among the Iranian government and religious and ethnic minorities (Armenians, Assyrians, Bahais, Chaldeans, Iranian Christian converts, Jews, and Zoroastrians) in order to survey the driving force of this extremism and its impact. What role did the Iranian Revolution in 1979 play? What is a response of international communities and what has been the response of religious minorities?
(How far could an ideological state go in implementation? What form has this dogmatic …show more content…
However, even though the importance of these issues is undoubtedly high, the international community must not disregard the very afflicting humanitarian circumstance in the country, the problem of which is not of less importance: daily infringements of essential ensured rights (basic guaranteed rights ).
Since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the government of Iran has steadily offended the human rights of thousands of its fellow citizens. The victims of the system have consisted of a vast gathering of average Iranians, the only “crime” of which was usually one of identity – ethnicity , sexual orientation, religion or gender - that was a threat to the theocratic vision of the ruling elite of the country.
After the Iranian Revolution, the official religion of the state of Iran became Islam. The Constitution, which was written after the Revolution, indicates that rights of non-Iranians and non-Muslims must be recognized. In reality, the persecution of ethnic and religious minorities has dramatically increased since the 1979. Recently, two ministries of the government, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security and the Ministry of Islamic Culture, jointly control religious activity. (American Jewish Committee, …show more content…
The defendants were restricted to contact the advocates until just few weeks before the trial, which was held in a closed Revolutionary Court. It is interesting, that the evidence against the suspects was kept in secret, and in addition, according to the defender’s lawyers, was solely based on enforced confession made during closed interrogations without the presence of any juridical counsel. Thanks to forceful international pressure, including numerous interventions which criticized the absence of due process in the trial, all 10 Iranian Jews were gradually released, most before their sentences were