backed the former King and when Pahlavi came to America looking for refuge this caused a serious situation. The United States learned that Pahlavi had cancer and made a choice to let him in for treatment. This angered the people of Iran and forced Iranian students to protest outside of the American embassy. On November 4th‚ 1979 the students decided to storm the Embassy creating the four hundred and forty-four day suffering. Pahlavi was forced into exile and the people of Iran welcomed Ayatollah Khomeini
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Jimmy Carter and the Iranian Hostage Crisis Since 1908‚ the United States have repositioned their foreign interests towards the Middle East for the abundance of Petroleum within the region. Attracting the west‚ Britain and the United States have maintained a dominating role in Iran for their rich supply of oil. In 1953‚ Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh nationalized the Iranian oil fields. The United States responded by implementing a coup d’état in Iran‚ overthrowing Mossadegh‚ and placing “Shah”
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conflict‚ leading to the Iranians holding American Embassy members hostage as revenge for them feeling betrayed by the United States. It also informs us about other events that occurred in a decade that caused the United States many problems. Reading this book taught me a lot more than what I was expecting. I was expecting it to be a boring hard to read book‚ but it honesty grasped my attention. I like the fact that Farber talked about all the events that lead to the Iranian Hostage Crisis. Yes we
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Persepolis is a graphic novel written by Marjane Satrapi‚ who was growing up during the Iranian Revolution in the late 1970’s. The novel displays her experience during the Revolution and shows how it impacted her as a child and the environment she lived. Almost all of the pictures she draws in the graphic novel have a lot more thought put into them than the average reader might think. For example the image to the right (Persepolis‚ page 44‚ far-right center) shows many different things when looked
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Speigelman’s ‘Maus’ and his use of the medium of graphics combined with words in narrating a pensive horror story of the holocaust in WW2‚ Marjane writes about her own life story when she was growing up in Iran before‚ during and after The Islamic Revolution in her book Persepolis 1: The story of a childhood. In her second book Persepolis 2: The story of a return she continues
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show us how the Iranian Revolution/ the mandatory wearing of the veil affected her life‚ while the older Marji’s role was to show us how Iranian cultural expectations of gender differ from Western cultural expectations of gender. These women were forced into these prescribed roles and some managed to rebel against them. Two example of this was when it became mandatory to wear the veil at school and when she was held up by the guardians of the revolution. In 1979 the Islamic revolution took place and
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Women in Islamic nations have the right to obtain an education‚ but only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Iranian women have the opportunity to get an education‚ but it is not strongly enforced. Though they must usually gain their education through an all girls’ school‚ this is an advantage that the women are given. In the past many women were not allowed to attain an education. Next‚ under the Iranian Constitution it is the duty of the clergymen to construe laws dealing with women. Only religious males
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According to the perspective of Marjane‚ both the Shah and the Islamic fundamentalist regime are characterized as bad rulers of the Iranian people and it is difficult to say which was worse for the Iranian people. Satrapi seems to say that each regime is one side of the same coin. The Shah was brutal to his people‚ imprisoning many of the political revolutionists‚ in his attempt to maintain power and to serve Western interests. The Islamic regime used the same brutality for the same reasons in order
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Hostilities and border clashes occurred between Iraqi and Iranian forces before the 22nd of September 1980;[1] however‚ this date marks the official start of an eight year war that has in many ways become the most destructive and the bloodiest conflict since World War Two.[2] On that date the Iraqi government initiated synchronised strikes against Iranian airfields located within the range of its bombers‚ while Iraqi ground forces advanced into the Iranian province of Khuzistan.[3] Numerous explanations of
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portrays radical Islamic men oppressing their female counterparts. Many American citizens have narrow opinions on Iranian women‚ most of them dealing with the infamous veil that Islamic girls wear females. Marjane Satrapi in her biographical novel Persepolis examines Iranian women’s roles in the Islamic Revolution‚ breaks the myth of the oppressing veil‚ and demonstrates how Iranian boys and girls are socially constructed. Satrapi does all of this with a nontraditional writing style as she challenges
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