terrorism. Importance of Pakistan Location Location of Pakistan Pakistan is located between 23 degrees.30 North to 37 degrees North Latitude and 61 degrees East to 77 degrees East Longitude. China lies in the north of Pakistan while Afghanistan and Iran are in the West of it. India lies in the East and in the South is Arabian Sea. The Importance of Location The location of Pakistan is not only unique in the world but of special importance in South Asia. Pakistan links the east with the west. Some
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Ayatollah Khomeini The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khumeini born in Khomein‚ Iran‚ 1901 bacame leader of Iran in 1970 by forcing the overthrow of the SHAH(MUHAMMAD REZA SHAH PAHALVI) and Prime Minister Shahpur Bakhtiar. The son of ayatollah of the Shiite sect‚ he achieved the high religious rank of ayatollah in the 1940’s and by 1962was one of the 6 grand ayatollah’s of Iran’s Shiite muslims. Exiled in 1963 for his part and religious demonstrations against shah‚ he moved to France in 1978. In Paris Khomeini
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political‚ and social systems after the fall of a government were the collapse of Czar Nicholas II’s government‚ which led to the creation of the U.S.S.R‚ and the fall of Reza Pahlavi’s government‚ which led to the creation of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Both had certain historical circumstances that led to their collapse‚ and many different changes that occurred as a result of the collapse. When Czar Nicholas II came into power in 1894‚ he continued the autocratic rule that Russia had in place
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Persian poetry reached its zenith. This claim does not mean that the word of Ferdowsi‚ or Sa’adi or Rumi the Zenith‚ rather that this zenith had never before been international. During his lifetime‚ the current of his thought and poetry extended from Iran to Bengal‚ from Shiraz to Baghdad and Tabriz captured the hearts and imagination of people‚ and after his death blazed across the universe and reached Wolfgang Goethe and the Romantics thinkers in Germany and indeed the whole of Europe. Today‚ Hafez
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Furthermore‚ the death of her uncle Anoosh triggers the change of her perspective towards Iran. The Revolution and the Iran-Iraq war broke many of her friendships‚ and eventually Satrapi would have to leave her family behind. How can children identify the negative characteristics of Islam and single them out? Marie Philippe said “… religion guides social
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province (Fars province) of Iran. It was formed under Cyrus the Great‚ who took over the empire of the Medes‚ and conquered much of the Middle East‚ including the territories of the Babylonians‚ Assyrians‚ the Phoenicians‚ and the Lydians. Cambyses‚ Son of Cyrus the Great‚ continued his conquests by conquering Egypt. The Achaemenid Persian Empire was ended during the Wars of Alexander the Great‚ but Persian Empire arose again under the Parthian and Sassanid Empires of Iran‚ followed by Iranian post-islimic
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servants. The Iranian Revolution is a prime example of both ends of the spectrum. Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Moosavi Khomein was an Iranian religious leader and politician and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution that led the overthrow of the Shah of Iran. Khomein and his fundamentalist government took over the country through terror. Following the revolution and a national referendum‚ Khomeini became Iran’s Supreme Leader – a position created in the constitution as the highest ranking political and
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the Siemens SCADA systems. Iran and a few other countries use that system for their nuclear or power plant power. The first inspection of the virus showed that the programmers had avery good knowledge of the SCADA systems. Also it spread out by USB ports instead of Internet‚ that was because the Natanz facility had no connection with the internet and the only way of transferring data was memory and flash cards. and the majority of the 30‚000 infected IPs were placed in Iran. So some spy should bring
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strongly shape these nations into what it has become today although some nations are still at struggle. Ayatollah Khomeini‚ leader of Iranian Revolution has led his nation to independence by abolishing western ways and restoring Islamic law to Iran. While Iran’s leader Shah ( king ) Mohammed Reza Pahlevi embraced western governments with the support of the U.S‚ by the end of the 1950’s Iran’s capital featured skyscrapers‚ banks‚ and modern factories. However‚ many Iranians lived in poverty. The
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How does Marjane Satrapi use repetition to explore the theme of war? War and the threat of war is a continuous aspect of life in Iran‚ as it has been for “2500 years” (Satrapi 11). The Iranian people have suffered tremendously‚ and this immense anguish is both articulated‚ and illustrated by Marjane Satrapi in her 2003 graphic novel Persepolis. Through Satrapi’s use of repetition‚ in both her illustrations and narrative‚ she is able to not only explore the theme of war‚ but allow the reader to view
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