History of Iran

Iran Hostage Crisis The Iran Hostage Crisis was a discretionary standoff between Iran and the United States. In 1979, a group of Iranian students went to the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages. Fifty-two hostages were held for 444 days, from November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981. The reputation of Iran's leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, started to become awful as the Hostage Crisis kept going. Ayatollah Khomeini was the Iranian Shia Muslim religious leader and politician and

In the novel All The Shah's Men we are introduced to Iran, and the many struggles and hardships associated with the history of this troubled country. The Iranian coup is discussed in depth throughout the novel, and whether the Untied States made the right decision to enter into Iran and provide assistance with the British. If I were to travel back to 1952 and take a position in the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) for the sole purpose of examining the American Foreign Intelligence, I would have

On October 26, 1919, in Tehran, Iran, a man was born who would change the course of history forever. This man fostered some of the best nationalization policies in his country, in addition to new development programs designed to better the lives of Iranians. His name: Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (Encyclopaedia Britannica). In 1979, Pahlavi was exiled from his country because of a political revolution, but it was perhaps his exile more than anything else he did in his life that was the real turning

The memoir of Marjane Satrapi growing up in Iran is written as a very personal account in the comic book Persepolis. This is a story that describes her life during the Islamic Revolution which includes her moral, physical, religious, and psychological struggles she endured. Being the setting of a bloody war with Iraq, Iran was not the ideal environment Marjane’s parents wanted her to grow up in. Persepolis represents a unique life of a child in Tehran, Iran and the actions she took in order to survive

Engagement with Iran This essay recommends a policy of engagement reinforced by the key tenets of liberal theory for dealing with Iran. It will also discuss a principal weakness of engagement as well as demonstrate how Nixon’s foreign policy doctrine serves as a useful historical precedent for a policy of engagement. Engagement seeks to heighten shared interests through building diplomatic communications to achieve desired outcomes. Over the past three decades, contacts between the United States

Why Diplomacy is Necessary to Bring Reforms in Iran Aizaz Khan Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy Tufts University Introduction The people of Iran came out with great hope on the streets of Tehran on June 23 2009, as spontaneous mass demonstrations erupted against the victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the general elections. However, the protests were brutally suppressed. Neda Agha Soltan, a philosophy student was shot and killed by the Basij Militia; though the Iranian government denied it

shows a negative but accurate view for Islam in Iran. Persepolis shows negative representations of revolution, imperialism, nationalism, religion, and their class system. The book Persepolis is a story from the point of view of a girl growing up in Iran during the Iran vs Iraq war. The girl’s name is Marjane Satrapi and she is a rebellious Islamic girl that doesn’t want to wear a burka and wants to wear westernized clothes. There are many examples of Iran being viewed in a negative light due to it being

simple protest by students in Tehran, Iran brought to be by shifts in government and the shut down a reformist newspaper company became a violent battle between the government and students which continues to resonant in history today. In the political fight, former presidents, Mohammad Khatami and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani fight for reforms and support while the new president. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and his mentor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran. Khatami and Rafsanjani support the

the US green card lotto program. This was an opportunity for us to leave Iran, a country that was close minded and traditional; a country that did not value freedoms such as religion and speech. A country that did not value challenging the status quo. In Iran the state mandated religion is Islam. Over 96% of the country adheres to Shi’ite Islam and growing up in there I had never met anybody who wasn’t Muslim. Back home in Iran, nobody would ever dare to challenge Islam by learning about or exploring

Is the Iran deal an effective form of Non-Proliferation policy? Non-Proliferation policy derives from the Non-Proliferation treaty, “it is an international treaty with the objective to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament”(UNODA) . First signed in 1968, the treaty officially began in 1970. as agreed in the treaty, after 25 years there