Reza Shah

There are three central themes present in the two movies, Evolution of a Revolution: Live from Tehran an ABC broadcast by Peter Jennings and Persepolis by Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi. The two movies demonstrate the rising of Iranian Islamic Revolution and its cause and effect on the people of Iran. The three central themes within the movies are political culture and religion and exile. Firstly, in Evolution of a Revolution demonstrates within Iran the political powers have utilized their power

In January of 1979, the Shah of Iran was sent into exile. After a little over a year of demonstrations and protests Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last Persian monarch, was driven out of his country, and out of power. The U.S-backed Shah was replaced by the leader of the revolution, Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who replaced the Pahlavi dynasty with an Islamic Republic. In the following months after the revolution, anti-American sentiment was still very high in Iran. Iranian students and protesters

by the Qajar dynasty (1796-1925). However, in the early 1920’s during a time of instability in Iran, Reza Khan (1878-1944), an officer was able to overthrow the Qajar dynasty and crown himself as the shah in 1925. With it’s next door neighbor Turkey already modernized, Reza had ambitions for Iran; he wanted to modernize Iran as well , that being he wanted to bring change within the nation.

parts of the world. According to “Lies The Iranian Revolutionaries Told You” it states, “Lie #1: The Shah was forcing western culture on Iran. This is a total lie. The Shah brought more freedom to Iran and rolled back the policies of his father who actually had tried to force Iran to westernize/modernize.” This quote shows that the author is blaming the acts of Westernization in Iran on Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's father. The author failed to inform the readers that many Iranian revolutionaries felt as

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood is a graphic novel written and designed by Marjane Satrapi, a native of Iran, which outlines her youth and interpretation of the country before, during, and after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Many topics are conveyed within the comic, some being the root of controversy concerning Iran as an Orient from a western perspective. These topics include the history of Iran and politics, Islam from an ideological perspective, the oppression of women with the hijab,

British companies became rich from it whilst Iranians received little to no profit. In 1951, Iranians elected a man named Mohammad Mosaddeq as prime minister. The prime minister was the most powerful man in the government – even more powerful than the Shah himself. Mosaddeq vowed to nationalize Iranian oil and free Iran from foreign control by the West. When Mosaddeq tried to do so, the British claimed that he was stealing property. Along with the Soviet Union, the United States had come from World War

and influence from the beginning of time, as there were more powerful figures that ruled before him. One of the last of these rulers, the Shah of Iran, was out to capture and execute Ayatollah after rioting took place under his newfound revolutionary philosophies. The

same opportunities/privileges as the privileged estates. However, the same cannot be said for the Iranian Revolution. Instead, the revolution began because the ruler of Iran, Reza Shah, was doing too much for the people. Like many leaders, Shah Reza Shah believed that to improve his country, he had to modernize it. The Shah began instituting policies for what he considered to be the betterment of Iran, these including advances in public education, investing in the building of cross railroads, improving

revolution, there are certain contributing factors that played more of a role than others. In the Iranian Revolution, a great contributing factor was the attempt to modernize Iran by the Pahlavi family, which began with Reza Shah Phalavi and continued with his son Mohammed Reza Shah, under whom the revolution occurred. This modernization occurred in many ways, and included economic, political, and social modernization. It is this social modernization that most severely disrupted the traditional people

After this hostile takeover, his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was crowned as the Shah and would rule until 1979. During his reign though, a brief transfer of power transpired when in 1953 the Shah fled Iran when a power struggle ensued with the Prime Minister, Moahammad Mossadegh. Iranians claim that he was democratically elected and during this brief period nationalized