Iran–Iraq War

and erratic behaviors of President Donald Trump, President Vladimir V. Putin and President Bashar al-Assad, it is difficult to foresee a diplomatic solution to the Syrian civil war. The United States’ continued involvement in battling, providing financial support and assisting specific allies engaged in the Syrian proxy war impacts the coalition between the US and Russia, the affiliation with Syria and dealings amongst middle eastern countries; continual involvement or lack thereof, will result…

during the 1979 seizure of the United States Embassy in Tehran. The diplomat’s 52 fellow employees were taken hostage and held captive for 444 days enduring harsh conditions. The CIA drafted specialist Tony Mendez to sneak the six Americans out of Iran at a time when anti-American fervor was high. Many of the obstacles the film throws at Affleck’s character Tony Mendez, who is impersonating a movie production manager, and the six American embassy escapees posing as the film’s production crew…

without any difficulty. The UNHCR ultimately resettled 1.3 million Southeast Asians in countries around the world, including more than 800,000 in the United States (Mother Jones). If the United States was able to place 800,00 refugees after the Vietnam War why can’t the US do it again? The substantial amount of Syrians escaping their country, and in need of an asylum has placed a lot of pressure on many countries. If every country accepted approximately 4,000 Syrian refugees then every refugee…

In her autobiographical graphic novel, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Marjane Satrapi tells of her childhood during the Islamic Revolution and the subsequent Iran-Iraq War. She lived in Tehran, Iran’s capital city, and was ten years old when the Shah fled Iran to escape the revolution. The 1979 revolution overturned the existing political order, thus creating what appeared to be an atmosphere for idealized social change and progress. The revolution was situated unquestionably in Marxist…

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has a structure quite similar to the old Ottoman Empire, in that the Ottomans and ISIS both have its caliphate foundation. In another example, the Ottoman Empire started to grow when the Western powers began to decline. The modern day ISIS also grows larger and stronger, and though their power may not grow as much as the Ottomans did, the Eastern identity increased when the Western powers ever so slightly lagged to enforce power. Furthermore, a key…

was mentioned. One major piece of context is that of the Syrian refugee crisis, currently occurring within Europe, Pope Francis’s home continent. The Syrian refugee crisis is the movement of over four million Syrian refugees as they flee from a Civil War occurring within Syria. A country in turmoil because of religious extremists. Most of the refugees mentioned fled to Turkey, and other countries within the Middle East. The rest sought refuge within European…

The war itself has many different actors aiding both sides. At the current time there is a lot of confusion on who allies with who. In many cases, groups side with certain issues and disagree with them on others, thus fighting them at times. This causes much confusion and makes it difficult to decide who the real enemy is. The United States and Russia both play large roles in the civil war going on. Russia sees the Assad Regime as the legitimate…

Without mentioning any countries by its name, Ebadi utilized logos to point to the blatant violations of universal human rights being perpetrated under the cloak of war against terrorism. To further evoke emotions from her audience, Ebadi implies in her lecture, that the West is indifferent to the violations of various United Nations resolutions set out to safeguard human rights even in the course of fighting terrorism…

Quran and the Sharia provided a guide for all of life and a blueprint for a distinctly Islamic modernity. The individuals Ansary encountered practiced a different Islam, an alienated Islam unaware about the West and the Islam he remember before the war. Ansary met Abdul Qayum, an advocated of the Sharia on his second day in Istanbul. “The Sharia is more than a legal system, it 's a marker that show where [the true] road [of Islam] is” . Qayum insist that as long as they stay on the road, they…

media that Iranians are extremist and as well agree with terrorism acts of the past. 2. She was motivated by friends she was working with at a studio to tell her stories on behalf of other Iranians, more so who had suffered in the war and to convince his readers that Iran as a whole should not be blamed because of the acts of some few extremist. The Veil 1. The novel begins when the writer is ten in 1980, just after the Islamic revolution. 2. Education was negatively affected after abolition of…