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The 1905-1911 Iranian Constitutional Movement stands as one of the most significant events in the Middle East history, particularly in the history of Iran. This movement showed the desire of Iranians for freedom, dignity, equity, and independence. Despite the years of political and economic issues of Qajar period, Iranians tried to shift the policies of their government in the benefit of the people. During the Pahlavi period, Iranians achieved a relative modernization and development. However,…

In the United States, Muslims have become the target of an alarming rise in hate crimes and verbal abuse. As the country continues to reel in the aftermath of the horrific acts conducted by ISIL, Hezbollah, and Hamas, Anti-Muslim sentiment has become widespread and accepted. Muslim-Americans report an increase in verbal and physical abuse. There has been an increase in the number of news stories which report women who wear hijab being spit at and having their veils torn off. Similarly, mosques…

weapon. The war also created the Syrian-Iranian alliance that still exists today. Additionally, in the 1980s the U.S. State Department added Iran to the state sponsor of terrorism list due to its support of terrorist organizations, specifically Hezbollah. By the mid-1980s, Iran’s leaders’ national interests included building a nuclear weapon, protecting Iran from any perceived external threat including the ongoing threat posed from the Iraqis, supporting terrorist organizations to combat…

The Social Conflict Theory on Cyberterrorism: Understanding and Counteracting Research According to the social conflict theory, tensions and conflicts occur when resources, status, and power are unequally dispersed between groups in society, and as a result these conflicts become the instrument for social change. Based on Karl Marx’s perspective, social class and inequality are created because the social structure is founded on conflict and contradictions. Numerous social psychologists describe…

America needs to continue to Defend the safety of Israel Imagine being in a country no smaller than the state of New Jersey where you are surrounded by enemies on all sides of your borders. These enemies pose a serious threat because they have a hate that cuts deep to the bone. They actively yearn to kill you. Their hate doesn’t end there; it extends to any outside country that is a friend. "Death to you" is their call. “We want you wiped off the face of the earth.” If you lived in this…

In January of 2015, Barack Obama issued an executive order banning the use of solitary confinement as a disciplinary tool for juveniles in federal prisons. The President explained his decision, and discussed his understanding of the consequences of solitary, in a Washington Post Op-Ed that same month. Obama wrote that solitary confinement, “has the potential to lead to devastating, lasting psychological consequences”, and that subjecting inmates to unnecessary and prolonged solitary is “an…

Evolution and Psyche of a Terrorist Paul page 6 In the 1970’s psychologist believed terrorist were suffering from a personality disorder such as clinical psychopaths, narcissist, or were paranoid. Over the year’s individual psychopathological profiles. Individuals who choose to step into to the world of terrorism are often unemployed, socially alienated, who have dropped out of society. Through research they found many…

Great Satan vs Axis of Evil: the Iranian perspective The aim of this work is to address Crocker's article The Strategic Dilemma of a World Adrift, in which he describes the present-day geopolitical situation: policymakers struggle to create sound strategies in an increasingly complex world (7). I am going to deal with a particular point of his argumentation: In the course of the article he compares the current period with the fifteen years (1991-2005) after the end of the Cold War, describing…

In his book, Malcolm Byrne lays out a few prominent reasons for the American sale of weapons to Iran, and the greatest of these motivations was a new hostage crisis2. In the mid-1980’s, Hezbollah, an Islamic extremist group backed by the Khomeini regime, took several American hostages. Certain members of the Reagan administration believed that working with moderates in Iran’s government would result in the release of the hostages and the…

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as “ISIS” or “ISIL”, is a militant extremist group that has been committing brutal war crimes, attacks against humanity, and acts of terror to put fear in the minds of many people all around the world. This group is known to be one of the most extreme groups of radicals that has ever existed. While many people are fearing ISIS, others are preparing for a war against them. Although there are many ideas of how and why they have come to be the biggest…