Iran–Iraq War

Iran is a vast country with many different ethnic groups. Most groups have been in Iran for centuries, and in some cases for thousands of years. The diverse peoples of Iran are separated by language, religion, and way of life. One such community that have existed for thousands of years and still exist today are the Iranian Jews. Judaism has a rich and millennial history in Iran including the era 2,500 years ago when the first Persian ruler declared religious freedom. But during the Islamic…

without being scared about what they might do. Some think we do not need boots on the ground in foreign countries but to stop them we are going to have to. We need to protect this country before it goes downhill even more. Getting involved on the war on terror is not only imperative for our standard way of living this also will protect our future. Williams states how ISIS is killing innocent and trying to kill off religious people "mass beheadings of Christians, children burned alive in cages,…

affected by the revolution? When Marjane was 10 years old there was a war between her home country Iran, and Iraq. Most people fled the country because they knew there was not going to be a future for their children. Marjane is a girl who is trying to escape from the war to get a better life. The revolution affected Marjane because she started to protest, she was forced to wear the veil and her life became a struggle because of the war. The revolution affected her from a young age, especially…

modernize and westernize Iran, but while this was taking place, oil was discovered in Iran. The Iranian revolution was the overthrowing of the Pahlavi dynasty, the ruling house in Iran, which was a monarchy. This was led by Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. He was supported by the United states. One of the leaders of the revolution was Ayatollah Khomeini, who was an Iranian religious scholar. He did not believe in equality for women in Iran. In 1980, Iraq and Iran went to war against each other. This…

Gallons of It Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis is based off her childhood that takes place during the Islamic Revolution in Iran, her home, and the Iran/Iraq war. Marjane and her family are against the tyranny of the regime, especially the rules of how women must be fully covered and all western products are banned. Her parents are activists against the Revolution. Marjane is having a hard dealing with this strife within her country, since she is only a child and she…

determination and fortitude to achieve goals. “Persian Girls” is the story of hope, dreams, sisterhood and oppression. Since the past many decades Iran…

have argument that we still need more weapon because he start giving a lot of real example when Hiroshima and Nagasaki happen. He said that “For humanity’s sake, we must do everything possible to ensure that nuclear weapons are never again used in war. The consequences are simply too grave”, he also mention that if we use nuclear weapon make the world more dangerous, but at the same time Blake still considers to increase nuclear weapon, because he don’t want to denied what would happen in past…

Nile Green notes that while Iran didn’t reach out, other states did, such as the Ottoman Empire. He states “In 1904, for example, the Ottoman government dispatched books to fill a Muslim school library in Beijing and also made arrangements to send teachers, leading in 1907 to the…

Iran-contra affair, in U.S. history, secret arrangement in the 1980s to provide funds to the Nicaraguan contra rebels from profits gained by selling arms to Iran. The Iran-contra affair was the product of two separate initiatives during the administration of President Ronald Reagan. The first was a commitment to aid the contras who were conducting a guerrilla war against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. The second was to placate "moderates" within the Iranian government in order to secure…

In 1978 Iran suffered the first televised modern religious revolution the world had ever seen. It was a time where the leader thought more of his country that the people did themselves. The Islamic revolution was a subject of a popular uprising that took place in Iran for two years (1978-79); it mainly resulted in the overthrowing of the Shah monarchy. On April 1st Islam became the first the Islamic state, with Ayatollah Khomeini as its lifelong leader. The revolution in Iran was the result…