Radical Views Of The Iranian Constitution

The overthrowing of the Iranian government was deemed unsuccessful. The revolution helped Iranian’s break away from the relationship with the Savak Police. Who were known for being brutal and torture (Claire Fink, Iranian Revolution 1979), but still many of Iran’s citizens were brutally murdered during the riots. After the revolution the citizens could not agree on a government that would replace the monarch. This gave birth to urban radical Islam, which began

As Susy Kassem once said, “Just like freedom, truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But what is freedom, if there is no truth? And what is truth, if there is no freedom? Both are worth fighting for – because one without the other would be hell” (Kassem). In the beginning of 1980, the Cultural Revolution began, and with it the people of Iran fought back against the existing regime. The government oppressed the citizens by changing their education into a religious based system and forcing the women to wear veils, stripping them of both their truth and their freedom. Refusing to conform, the revolutionists had to secretly rebel while hiding from the government and their neighbors. In Marjane Satrapi’s

Allotayah Khomeini (1902-1989) came into power after the Iranian Revolution of 1979 replacing the Shah as the supreme religious leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran and was later named the political and religious leader of Iran for the rest of his life. Khomeini was able to take over due to his strong belief that Iran’s government should be returned to its traditional Islamic ways, returning it to its secular government. In the following essay I will discuss the extent of cultural and religious changes he brought to Iran during and after his reign, proving whether or not he was an effective ruler and how he changed Iran in the long run.

Political: Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Ayatollah Khomeini Clergy, status, who made the decisions, (extremist, misinterpretation o texts)

President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who supports the right of freedom has signed many treaties and document about the violation of human rights. The president of Iran is not honoring to the treaties and documents that he has signed. ("U.N. Again Calls On ....").Under the eight years of Ahmadinejad's government which enjoyed the full support of the Leader and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for the first six years, the people of Iran has been experiencing an increasing of human rights violations, especially of women's rights, and there are also an increase of restriction on the media and civil society organizations ( Tohidi ). The number of journalists, academics and human rights defenders who have gone to prison during President Ahmadinejad's term in office has increased (Memarian). Iran has been discriminating their people by their religious, ethnic minorities, denial of political and civil rights. A Special Rapporteur

The Iranian Revolution determined who would have the power to govern the country. In Khomeini’s document, “Unveiling the Mysteries”, he apprises who should have the power to govern a country. He believes the religious leaders should take control when he says, “... the Government must be directed and organized according to the divine law, and this is only possible with the supervision of the clergy”. According to Khomeini, religious leaders should control the government. There would be a president

The hardline conservatives are one of the most influential groups in Iranian politics. They have successfully used their institutional control of the Iranian government to continually influence the country’s domestic policies, even when the president is not a member of their coalition. Their platform can be summarized in six key points. First, they are completely devoted to the rule of the supreme leader, who holds absolute power over the country, as an extension of the Prophet and the Shi’i imams. Second, they see their opposition parties, primarily the Pragmatists and Reformists, as acting against Islam for wanting to reform the system that was put in place by the supreme leaders Khomeini and Khamanei. Also, the principles for which the opposition stands for such as human rights, democracy, and trade with other countries are

Throughout the history of present day Iran it has been contested whether the Shi’i ulama or the Shah are the logical leaders of the community. It is true that the ulama have gained control of Iran, and that Islam “changed much in Iran, but in some respects continuity from the past was far stronger than the new concepts” (Frye 36) due to the fact that the power of the Shah remained for hundreds of years after the introduction of Islam. The Iranian people have a long history of traditions and culture and even when Islam spread throughout the country it was adapted to include some of the Iranian traditions. The most significant example of this is the Shah’s adaptation and endorsement of Islam. The long history, tradition, and the decline of

The Iranian Revolution was the first of many popular civil insurrections that resulted in the overthrow of an autocratic monarchy which lasted from 1977 to 1979. It consisted of non-violent demonstrations by the revolutionaries until late 1978, due to the shah’s decision to violently silence demonstrators. The shah, during the time period, was Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. He was viewed by many to be a western-puppet who implemented a variety of systems and programs that suggested westernization. Iran was being transformed under his rule, and there were efforts to separate from Islamic culture and religious values. However, because of Pahlavi’s anti-traditional changes, he saw a broad coalition of forces formed against him. These revolutionaries

All revolutions need revolutionaries, because unified revolution can be best organized with the agenda of a single person. Thus, the Iranian Revolution was only possible with the emergence of Ruhollah Khomeini, the revolutionary who would forever change Iran’s future. Khomeini’s critical importance to leading the revolution started when he was just six months old, as his father was murdered in 1903. His hatred for such a regime spawned at a young age, and his grand literary talent and religious connection enabled him to utilize such hatred towards

Because of Shariati’s brilliant mind, his political theories and interpretation of Islam as the revolutionary ideologue for social change, strongly ignited the desire and determination of the Iranians particularly Ayatollah Rohullah Khomeini to overthrow the Shah regime. The Iranian Revolution, was a popularly supported response to a corrupt regime, but unlike many prior revolutions, the main ideology fueling the revolution was religion. Although it was Shariati’s Shiism revolutionary ideologue that fueled the desire of the Iranians for change, much of the ideological justification was routed through Shi‘ism espoused by the ideological mastermind of the revolution, Khomeini who was at the same time influenced by Shariati’s ideas. Shariati died before the revolution, but Khomeinin borrowed mostly his idea from him and applied it. If not only his death, he could have sparked more debates and spread his brilliant political theories that will challenge other

There are many names for Iranian revolution which took place in 1979. One of the named for this revolution was Islamic revolution of Iran. This revolution is about to over throw an old monarchy system with a new system. Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi was the leader of Iran before the revolution. He was also supported by the United States, but Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini replaced his government with an Islamic republic. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was the man who started the revolution. He has a lot of support from different Islamic organizations such as Iranian student movements. Although, Soviet Union suddenly recognized the new Islamic republic of Iran, but they did not supported the revolution. Soviet Union saw this as an opportunity to further advance their communist agenda and increase its allies in Middle East. In October 1977, there were demonstrations against the Shah and campaign of civil resistance that was based on

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The Iranian government depends on Khomeini’s ideology for lawmaking. Khomeini’s ideology affected the country negatively. It changed the whole instruction of the country domestically and internationally. Due to his hate to the United States, he and his followers captured and killed many Americans to show that Iran has power and strength over the international power. Khomeini’s ideology created some sort of hate and anger against anyone who is not Shia or Iranian. However, Islam in general, despite Sunni or Shia sects, did not teach Muslims to be violent, but Khomeini promoted violence and his people followed his lead. He created the Revolutionary Guards as a religious special army for himself to protect him because he did not trust the military, but it seemed like this religious army has participated in many violent events. The recent conflict that they have engaged themselves in is the civil war in Syria. Starting in 2015, the Revolutionary Guards has been helping the Assad regime in Syria along with the Russians on the ground to kill innocent people. Some of the senior commanders such as, Hussein Hamedani have been killed near Aleppo in October 7th, according to the Hill.com. Therefore, Iran has forgot what Islam said originally about violence and killing, but its religious Shia regime has been using the religion to promote their terrorist ideology and recruit

However, the ideas had already spread throughout the Iranian people and religious protesting escalated continuously. People’s ideas of recreating a religious based government persisted to an unstoppable level. Khomeini, whom many protesters felt to be a hero, said in a speech in 1979, “Do not try to westernize everything you have! Look at the West, and see who the people are in the West that present themselves as champions of human rights and what their aims are. Is it human rights they really care about, or the rights of the superpowers? What they really want to secure are the rights of the superpowers. Our jurists should not follow or imitate them” (Ayatollah Khomeini: speech on the uprising of Khurdad 15, 2010). Based on this quote, the “voice” of the protesting Iranians was that westernization was not a good thing because the west does not care for human rights and freedoms of the lesser powers in the world and that the way to change for the better is to impose the Islamic values that already existed into society. In January of 1979, the Shah fled the country under the pressure of the people and Khomeini returned to Iran to be greeted as a hero (Bentley & Ziegler, n.d., p. 1117). Fighting erupted between Khomeini’s supporters and remaining military officials and on the eleventh of February the government fell. On the first of April, Khomeini proclaimed the beginning of the new Islamic republic (Islamic