Ali Khamenei

Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban." Now Malala is opening schools for girls all over the world, with all its expenses covered by the Malala Fund which has over 10 million dollars in it, given money by the Pakistani President Asif Ali…

Midnight’s Children The history of India and its neighbouring countries, Pakistan and Bangladesh, is a rich and luminous tale as it encompasses the countless successes and hardships each country experienced during its development as independent entities. In 2012, Deepa Mehta, an Indo-Canadian film director with a screenplay by Salman Rushdie, a British Indian novelist, produced the film “Midnight’s Children.” Together they brought to the screen a magical yet historical tale on the partition of…

It is routine and expected from the students, they are not rebelling but meeting the expectations set for them. The student’s conformity to these expectations only feeds further categorization of the students as a group outside of mainline French culture. Within the walls the students are monolithically believed to be incapable of reading ‘real’ French texts, like Voltaire. Outside of the walls — outside the systemic dictates— one student is capable of reading and digesting Plato’s Republic.…

The desire for political and civil rights have driven numerous societies to revolt against an oppressive rule in hopes to achieve a more democratic lifestyle. Thus, when Middle Easterners began becoming more fed up with oppressive regimes, the desire for a revolution emerged. The political outcomes of the Arab Spring uprisings were different for each country involved. While civil war arose in some countries, other countries did not have substantial revolts; there were even states that became so…

on the edges. The capital of Iran is Tehran located in the Elburz Mountains. Iran consist of 77,555,000 inhabitants and is a unitary theocracy. The official language is Farsi and the official religion is Islam. The Supreme Leader, Sayyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei, head of state and government, is more powerful than Iran’s president, President Hassan Rouhani, and effectively oversees Iran’s economic, political and social systems. Iran has a theocratic form of government and a parliamentary system…

1982-1988, which the American played Iran and Iraq. The United States sent military aid and money to Iraq but continued to send aid after Iraq used chemical weapons on their citizens and Iran. Khomeini passed away in 1989 and replaced by President Khamenei as the supreme leader after the following…

Iranian politics. Since the inception of Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979, the hardliners have successfully expanded their power in the non-elected bodies of the Iranian regime, headed by the ideological leader of their movement, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. However, the Iranians have not had nearly as much luck in obtaining control of the elected bodies in Iran. Since the Revolution, the hardliners have had difficulty in gaining control the presidency as well as the Iranian parliament. These…

The regime, led by supreme leader Ali Khamenei, relied on the nuclear dispute to appeal to radical conservatives within the country, by portraying international pressures on Iran to stop stockpiling enriched uranium as an attempt by the West to hold Iran back scientifically and undermine its…

Application of Liberalism Theory: Liberalism theory is optimistic about the possibility of peace between countries. In the international system there are multiple actors, such as a private individuals and interest groups. They are trying to avoid risks. The interest of a state’s foreign policy and behavior on the international level reflects domestic political power. The system’s style of the Iranian government is a parliamentary style. However, Iran’s foreign policy and behavior are…

The Middle East suffers from a broad deficit in freedom and human rights compared to the rest of the world, especially regarding women’s rights and freedom of speech. There have been cases of severe infringement upon human rights, sparking popular uprisings in the Arab world and a war in Libya. Restraints on rights include the ability to report and speak freely. People who openly criticize the government are at risk of being thrown in jail. Overall, censorship in the media forces the loss in an…