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
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During the late nineteen hundreds‚ Iran went through two large revolutions which caused a great deal of destruction. For children like Marjane‚ this was a difficult period of time to grow up due to the strictness of laws and constant violence. The two different revolutions caused many issues in areas such as religion‚ government‚ and education. These major changes cause the amount of disorder and mayhem to escalate to a dangerous level. However‚ numerous families had different reactions to the many
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phases that happens in the Iranian Revolution. In the first phase‚ the Shah is overthrown and after the Shah is gone‚ a radical theory is established. In Persepolis‚ the main point or the outline story reflects on how the law in forcing them to change their way of living in this story. In this book‚ there were many ways of living during the revolution. In this book‚ Satrapi explains how she lived when she was a child. All the difficulties she went through during the revolutions and also how other people
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Iranian Revolt It was started October 1977 and developed into civil resistance. The revolt was not sudden. Though there were many tensions that made this revolt start such as being defeated in the Iran-Iraq war‚ national debt and the government threatening traditional Islamic values. The Iranian revolt was an uprising against the Shah government that began on January 19th‚ 1979 in the Iranian capital‚ Tehran. Ayatollah Khomeini was a Shiite Muslim who wanted to overthrow the Shah government. He
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of “American Die‚ American Die‚” and suddenly we (the sixty Americans) were blindfolded. A fear and panic rose inside of us. Imagine this is you on November 4‚ 1979 when Islamic Revolutionaries kidnapped sixty American Embassy workers. The 444 day Iranian Hostage Crisis was one of the most important turning points of the twentieth century‚ because of its impact the office of president‚ specifically Carter‚ Regan and Bush and how it shaped and molded future
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The Iranian Revolution 1979‚ often referred as the Islamic Revolution gives an impression of a religious movement against a non-religious regime‚ especially for having a religion mentioned in its name‚ “Islam” in the “Islamic Revolution”. How correctly does this statement describe the Iranian Revolution? How do we define religious movement and non-religious regime? I would define “religious movement” as the movement or revolution by a religious group to defend their beliefs which were challenged
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How Has the Iranian Hostage Crisis Affected the United States? For most Americans‚ the story begins in 1979 with the Iranian Hostage Crisis‚ when a group of revolutionary university students took over the American Embassy in Tehran‚ Iran‚ and held 52 American diplomats‚ intelligence officers and Marines hostage for 444 days. But for most Iranians‚ and to fully understand the repercussions of this aforementioned event‚ the story begins almost three decades prior‚ in 1953. This was the year that
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The book Persepolis and the article‚ The Friendly Iranians‚ present different ideas when it comes to describing what the TV means to the population of Iran. The book shows Margie‚ that has never had contact with a TV satellite antenna hearing one of her friends tell her that Fariborz‚ a close friend‚ which had just won that kind of antenna with international channels. Excited she jumps into a car and drives to her friend’s house where she watches MTV and EUROSPORT. She says‚ “We could finally experience
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Iranian Social Classes In Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis‚ it is explained that life before the Iranian Revolution was not perfect‚ social classes did still exist. These social classes affect Iranian citizens lives in many different ways. Iran’s leader‚ the Shah‚ comes into power and changes the country’s policies. This affects the Iranian people’s lives in many different ways. Throughout the graphic novel‚ Persepolis‚ Satrapi tells her story of how she and her family are affected by these new rules
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In the 1980’s the Iranian government decided to undergo a ‘Cultural Revolution’ to better their society and beliefs. Bilingual institutes were shut down‚ classes in schools were separated by sexes and young girls were assigned to wear veils. The veil carried multiple connotations and viewpoints the “fundamentalists” believed in. “And so to protect women from all the potential rapists‚ they decreed that wearing the veil was obligatory (pg. 74).” In one scene‚ Marji’s mother had been threatened by
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