1. Persepolis and Iranian History Background Knowledge to Help You Out!

2. Persian Empire

3. Alexander the Great’s Empire

4. Expansion of Islam IRAN

5. POLITICAL SPECTRUM LEFT WINGRIGHT WING LIBERALCONSERVATIVE MODERATERADICAL REVOLUTIONARY: Wants drastic change and believes it requires drastic action (revolution) RADICAL REACTIONARY: Wants to go back to the way things were DEMOCRATSREPUBLICANS

6. POLITICAL SPECTRUM LEFT WINGRIGHT WING LIBERALCONSERVATIVE MODERATERADICAL REVOLUTIONARY: Wants drastic change and believes it requires drastic action (revolution) RADICAL REACTIONARY: Wants to go back to the way things were

7.  Takes power in 1925  Authoritarian government  Strict censorship  Propaganda Reza Shah

8.  Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi comes to power  Reza Shah’s son  Power in Parliament  Hope to become a constitutional monarchy World War 2

9.  Prime Minister in Iranian Parliament  Nationalizes oil industry  Iran takes control of Iran’s oil!  Took it out of British hands  Taken out of power by a coup  Forcible takeover  Coup supported by the CIA  Shah back in power Mohammad Mossadeq

10.  Wanted to Westernize Iran  What does this mean?  Liberal or conservative?  Maintained control by security forces  SAVAK  Many political prisoners taken Mohammad Reza Shah Returns

11.  Ruhollah Khomeini comes to power  Called Ayatollah  Title like “king”  Moves country toward Islamic state  Instituted Sharia law  Fundamentalist Muslim rule  Conservative or liberal? 1979 Islamic Revolution

12.  The book takes place around this time period in Iranian history.  Autobiographical…author wrote about herself.  Marjane Satrapi Persepolis

13.  Strict adherence to specific religious teachings or books.  Examples:  Inherit the Wind townspeople  Zionist Jews  Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikh… Fundamentalism

14.  Women to wear “the veil”  Varieties in Muslim countries  Honor killing  The family is allowed to kill a family member who has dishonored or shamed the family.  Women killed by family because they were raped. Sharia Law Examples

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16.  Nov 4, 1979 Iranian students held Americans hostage  Held for 444 days until January 1981  Started calling the US “the Great Satan” 1979 American Hostage Crisis

17.  IRAQ (Saddam Hussein) saw opportunity to take back some land from Iran.  Oil rich land, of course  Invaded Iran  Eventually used chemical weapons  Supported by…the United Stated  Weapons, money 1980s Iran – Iraq War

18.  Ronald Reagan wanted to stop communism.  Communist threat in Nicaragua  The Contras were fighting against the communists  Contra = against!  Reagan wanted to help them. Iran – Contra Affair

19.  He secretly sold weapons to IRAN to raise money.  Give that money to the Contras.  Congress told him to stop.  He didn’t  Should have been impeached.  But…he was so grandfatherly.  Oliver North blamed  Now a FOX TV announcer! So…

20.  Reform efforts vs conservative Islamic clergy  2005 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad elected  Anti-Israel  Building up nuclear capabilities – Weaponry? Energy?  Currently – Ali Khamenei 1989 - Present