Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

On November 4, 1979 the Iranians had had enough with the United States. Thousands of protesters gathered around the United States embassy, yelling anti-American slogans. At about 10 that morning approximately three thousand people started to climb over the 10-foot wall that surrounded the embassy, forcing their way into the chancery building. The guards were ordered not to fire at the crowd in case it should start a war, but use tear gas. The tear gas was unsuccessful however and the protesters captured

Suraj Shrestha PSCI 2000 Current event assignment Professor Grace Cheng 18th Feb 2016 Situation of the present Iran Iran was known as Persia before 1935 and was the ultimate empires of the olden period. When the monarchy system ended in 1979, Iran became an Islamic republic and the political system was under the control of the supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini. Now it is known as the Islamic republic of Iran. The ‘Iranian revolution’ was the finish line for the Shah rule that had isolated affective

Since colonization or even before, Western powers have been practicing policies that promote their economic interests and political expediency through which they have used any and all available tools to advance and maintain their supremacy. In the Middle East as in the rest of the world, we have witnessed Western powers trying to impose their civilization or way of life onto the people of the Middle East with complete disregard for their culture, tradition, and heritage, which for the most part,

Iran had a liberal dictator leader by the name of Muhammad Mossadeq from 1951-1953. He was the first democratically elected Prime Minister in Iranian history with democratic views. Mossadeq was determined to make Iran and free, independent, democratic state who were able to support themselves economically without international leaders “help”. At the time England had established in oil company based in Iran called the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC). Democracy symbolised freedom, an opportunity

Through the usage of allusions and the retelling of her memories, author, Marjane Satrapi manages to describe the struggle in human rights following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The Islamic Revolution was an uprising that led to the fall of the monarchy that had set place in Iran. The goal, which they achieved, was the creation of the Islamic Republic. In 1980, a “cultural revolution” took place. It was a time where the veils were forced onto females, schools were divided based on gender and bilingual

This investigation will explore the question: To what extent was the weakness of The Shah a direct cause of the Islamic revolution of 1979 in Iran? This essay will examine the actions of The Shah prior to the revolution and will mainly be focusing on the causes of the revolution and to what extent it was caused by The Shah. The first source which will be evaluated in depth is The Shah by Abbas Milani first published in 2011. Milani is the Hamid & Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies and

The Iran You Don’t Know Xiaoxi Zhang What words will you use when you are trying to describe Iran? Most of us may think about “fundamentalism, fanaticism and terrorism” (Persepolis, Introduction) because the images we got from news or TVs are always negative; however, Marjane Satrapi tells us a different Iran. In the book Persepolis, even though the Iranian revolution poses obstacles in front of them, Marji and some other Iranians are still trying to survive from this dark period and looking for

In Marjane Satrapi’s short graphic novel Persepolis, Satrapi takes readers on a journey through the everyday life and struggles of Iranians following the 1979 revolution, and their fight for freedom over corrupt government rule. Satrapi portrays the major events that occur in her life growing up through the text, as the comic would lack emotion without her illustrations. Satrapi’s simple and intriguing images effectively convey emotion in the panels through the use of emanata, but the illustrations

Confinement, Oppression and Rebellious Nature in Persepolis. by Joonyoon Tan In the book Persepolis authored by Marjane Satrapi, she writes about her life experiences growing up in the midst of a revolution in Iran which involves war and oppression not only to the Iranian’s lifestyle choices but also to the religious beliefs of the people. Marjane lives in a society where freedom is taken away and one certain religion is forced upon them, what she wears, where she goes and what she does

The first part of Persepolis adventures into the life of Marjane Satrapi during pre and post-revolutionary Iran alongside the Iran/Iraq war, as well as the political and social changes that accompanied the war. Due to the intense content of the book it was surprising that Satrapi wrote in such a blunt and direct manner. Satrapi shows her direct and to-the-point style when she draws and talks about the torture of those people taken to prison during the revolution (54). The drawing is showing how graphic