Ruhollah Khomeini

Khomeini was not of a fan of the Shah’s ways, as he had publicly called him a “miserable man”. This is another main ingredient in a revolution, to be a tyrant, and use tyranny to expose the regime. Ayatollah had a major impact on the nation at the time, mainly…

Persepolis is a graphic novel that centers around the life of Marjane Satrapi. Satrapi’s memoir provides an insightful point of view on the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Marjane, a typical teenager, goes through the hardships of living through a war; her story shows the evolution of a young girl. The censorship of Persepolis is quite absurd; the graphic novel has the chance to relate to, encourage, and educate a child’s mind. Throughout the world many children go through hardships, in Satrapi’s…

Within his post-mortem examining the failure of the Central Intelligence Agency 's National Foreign Assessment Center to warn of the Shah of Iran 's inability or unwillingness to respond forcefully to the Islamic revolution led by the Ayatollah Khomeini in the late 1970s, Robert Jervis calls for comparative case studies of intelligence success and intelligence failure (Jervis, 35). In directly comparing intelligence successes with intelligence failures, the Intelligence Community and scholars…

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 Marjane and other women are forced to wear restrictive hijabs and family members – including a beloved uncle…

Marjane Satrapi is a talented Iranian author well known for her autobiographical graphic novel “The Complete Persepolis”. With this novel, Satrapi shows her journey as a young child thrown into the fire of war, as a teenager trying to find her own identity in a foreign country and as a young adult who feels guilty for fleeing her country in the midst of a revolution. Marjane Satrapi’s brave, assertive and strong willed personality had a lot to do with her parents, grandparents, and uncle being…

“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 -…

The hardline conservatives have been a mainstay as one of the most influential factions in 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…

Firstly, instead of increasing the people’s loyalty towards the Shah, the White Revolution effectively united the public against him. Secondly, Khomeini became the face of the common folks who felt that the ulama were more sympathetic of their struggles than the extravagant Shah and his royalist. Both of these were the prerequisites towards collective social actions such as mobilisation and demonstration…

Khaled Hosseini is a medical doctor, writer, who is well known for his notable works, the “Kite Runner” and “A Thousand Splendid Suns”. He was born in March 4, 1965 in Kabul, Afghanistan in an affluent Wazir Akbar Khan district, and is known as a growing, thriving, cosmopolitan city in which woman and men were regarded as equals (Wikipedia). Hossein’s parents’ were both highly educated: his father worked as a diplomat at the Afghan Foreign Ministry, while his mother was a high school teacher who…

Iran as well. In 1979, the number of students in Iran’s Universities numbered about 175,000. This number shot up to 1.25 million students in the early 1990s. The drastic increase of both men and most notably women attending university in the post Khomeini death period, added to an intensifying atmosphere of new expectations for democracy, civil rights and pragmatism. This generation rebelled in many ways from the revolutionary Islamic ideology, disapproving the government’s moral police and…