Reza Shah

tells her the story of how Reza Shah came overthrew the emperor of…

“Young Students Imprisoned. They are being tortured. That is what drives me. That is what compelled me to carry on with this fight”(Interview With Shirin Ebadi). Out of the one hundred and four people to win the Nobel Peace Prize there have only been sixteen women. Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer and judge, who was awarded the prestigious Peace Prize in 2003 for her civil rights work, fighting for the rights of women and children in the Islamic Republic of Iran. ("Shirin Ebadi -…

Destruction States make war look beneficial to solidify their power. Some people are manipulated into it. Civilians from all social classes often oppose war. Lives are uprooted, and people’s lives are changed. Political unrest is a consequence of what happens when people live under a ruthless government. Mistreated, people will fight back for freedom in the form of a revolution against the oppressor. What is more, in history it shows people can not evolve during such chaos. A lot of lives are…

Argo (2012) is a movie directed and starring with Ben Affleck based on the history of the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979. The crisis started when the Shah wanted to westernize Iran and it makes the Iranian people infuriate, when the majority people of Iran are Shia then the populace of Iran topples the Shah, deported cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini take over Iran and his supporters start to act violent against people who refuse to comply their cleric and people who suspected to be American…

Persepolis’s Place The Iranian Revolution took place in 1979, when Iran became a religious fundamentalist society and theocracy, changing the country as the Iranian people knew it. Clothing and fashion became centered around modesty as the new leaders believed that hair would stimulate and distract others. Children were enlisted—as young as age twelve—to go to war. The new theocratic government had a Supreme Leader who enacted legal changes, not for the will of the people, but for his own agenda…

Another deciding factor in the fall of the Shah’s rule during the revolutionary period was influenced by the reliance of the Shah on American intelligence and intellectual support. The effective mismanagement and misreading of the situation by the Central Intelligence Agency resulted in misperceptions on the Shah’s grip on power, as well as the true magnitude of Khomeini’s power, intention and influence on his followers both in Iran and in exile. Ofira Seliktar sums up the underestimation of…

Mossadegh had not overplayed his hand and dissolved Parliament and the Shah had not delivered an address from Baghdad announcing that he had signed the decrees. Mossadegh, confident that he had succeeded in foiling the coup had recalled many of the troops he had assigned to guard the city of Tehran, and the CIA and General Zahedi took advantage of this fact to launch a sneak attack against Mossadegh. This attack was to be carried out on 19 August and on this day, finally, General Zahedi and his…

In Persepolis, Marjane’s grandmother explains to her that “dynasties have succeeded each other, but the kings always kept their promises. The Shah kept none ” (27). With this in mind, the Shah’s actions fueled the Islamic revolution and consequently, exile. From a historical aspect, the Shah acted as an authoritarian under his political regime. In politics, authoritarianism occurs when a society’s government has a strong central power with limited freedoms among individuals. Approaching…

unstoppable, encouraged by her parents (voiced by Catherine Deneuve and Simon Abkarian) and applauded by her unapologetic grandmother (Danielle Darrieux). They are all caught off guard by the Islamic Revolution of 1978, which deposes the western-backed Shah of Iran and replaces his disco-tolerating leadership with an uncompromising theocracy ruled by Ayatollah Khomeini. In her teens, Iran turns into a hostile place for people like Marjane. The society she thought she lived in has disappeared, as…

The Iranian people today live under an oppressive authoritarian regime that imposes a narrow interpretation of Islamic governance across the country. Since 1979, the clerical regime has strengthened its stranglehold on almost every sphere of Iranian peoples’ lives. The first phase of the revolution lasted from 1979 -1989 until the ayatollah’s death. This tumultuous period included killing off supporters of the previous regime, taking foreign hostages and fostering its zealotry across the Islamic…