Mosque‚ is a mosque in Isfahan‚ Iran standing in south side of Naghsh-i Jahan Square. Built during the Safavid period‚ it is an excellent example of Islamic architecture of Iran‚ and regarded as one of the masterpieces of Persian Architecture. The Shah Mosque of Esfahan is one of the everlasting masterpieces of architecture in Iran. It is registered‚ along with the Naghsh-i Jahan Square‚ as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its construction began in 1611‚ and its splendor is mainly due to the beauty
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internal pressures for "self-determination." In 1921‚ Major-General Edmund Ironside‚ the British commander in the region‚ arranged for a new leader‚ Reza Khan‚ to take control of the country. In February 1921‚ Reza Khan marched on Tehran and deposed the British-supported monarch with General Ironside’s approval. Reza Khan took the throne for himself as Reza Shah Pahlavi‚ and in 1935‚ changed the name of the nation from Persia to Iran. Following World War II‚ Jewish survivors of the Holocaust looked to
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World History III Middle East Notes Diaspora: 132 C.E. by the Romans—“dispersal” and in the 70 CE the Roman’s destroyed the 2nd temple. Dreyfus Affair: 1894—Captain Alfred Dreyfus (French Jew) is convicted of selling military secrets to the Germans. --Anti-Semitism greur Zionism – Theodore Herzl‚ Is a secular Jew and Journalist. He believed in assimilation until the Dreyfus Affair. 1897—First Zimist Congress Pre-WWI situation in the Middle East: Under the control of the Ottoman
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Iranian Hostage Crisis The relationship between the American people and their government drastically changed in the 1970s. The people began to distrust their government after The Watergate Scandal‚ oil prices‚ and the falling economy. President Jimmy Carter‚ elected in 1976 was seen by the public as an honest man that was working for the people not for the evils of Washington DC. Carter‚ being an outsider‚ grew very popular with the American people. His lack of insider perspective became troublesome
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leader who made Iran the world’s first Islamic republic in 1979. In 1962‚ Khomeini was arrested for his opposition to the pro-Western regime of the Shah. His arrest raised him to the position of national hero. In 1964‚ he was exiled‚ living in Turkey‚ Iraq and then France. He still urged his supporters to overthrow the shah. By the late 1970s‚ the shah became hated and there were riots‚ strikes and mass demonstrations across the country. In January 1979‚ the shah’s government collapsed and he and
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The film Ok Mister is an Iranian comedy that explores the concept of western imperialism and the West’s interaction with people in third world countries. The film criticizes the rapid modernization of Iran under Mohammad Reza Shah’s regime and the careless spending of the wealth that the country gained from sudden increases in oil prices in the 1970s.The film also depicts Edward Said’s concept of Orientalism. The setting of the film‚ a remote Iranian village‚ depicts Orientalism. The setting provides
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and consolidate the ruler’s power.16 Throughout the centuries‚ there were continual attempts to organize armies from tribal contingents and to centralize government. None were particularly successful until 1730‚ when Shah Nadir Quli revamped the army and reestablished the calvary as an elite unit. He then successfully waged war on India and Bahrain‚ but was assassinated in 1747. The pattern of rise and fall of governments within Iran continued
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about how the Shah came to power‚ so father gladly obliges by telling Marji Satrapi that the Shah seized the thrown not by the power of god‚ which Marji Satrapi thought and what the Shah preaches to the subjects of Iran‚ but because the British help the Shah overthrow the previous government and use the Shah as a puppet in order to gain access to vast oil reserves in Iran. Regardless of how oblivious the ruling Shahs act‚ those that do not have an education do not realize this about the Shah and accept
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revolution had another cause. The Iranian revolution was a cultural‚ religious revolution‚ while the French revolution was a liberal bourgeois revolution. The Iranian revolution started because people discontent with the monarchy under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi‚ and the social injustice. And also‚ the people believed their leader was only a puppet from the US and was contaminating their country. The French revolution was a long and bloody revolution that lasted for 10 roughly years (1789-1799).
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three-decade battle against radical Islam. Modernization‚ if Not Democracy The revolution and its implications caught most Americans completely off guard. The Shah‚ Mohammad Reza Pahlavi‚ had ruled Iran since inheriting the throne from his father in 1941. During the Cold War between the U.S. and its allies and the Soviet Union‚ the Shah sided with the West and served as a bulwark against Soviet power and the spread of Communism in the region.
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