The region that is now called Iran is a highly misunderstood country. It is located in an ideal location (Middle East), has lots of history and, there is a lot of interactions between the people and where they live. This paper will discuss Iran’s location, region, human-environment interaction, movement and place.
Iran is located at 32°North latitude, 53°East longitude. Iran is located in the Middle East. It borders the Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf, and the Caspian Sea. It is to the east of Iraq, south east of Turkmenistan, and is to the west of Pakistan and Afghanistan. (Fact Monster)
Some formal regions in Iran are Yazd, Kerman, and Fars. These are all cities located in Iran. Some functional regions in Iran are the Khuzestan plain and the Caspian plain. The Khuzestan plain is located in southwestern Iran. It is the largest plain in Iran and is one of the richest agricultural areas in the world. It is mostly notable for its oil resource that provides oil for the Iranian people.
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It is high, contains a central basin with deserts and mountains. It has small discontinuous plains on both coasts. The climate is mostly arid or semiarid. It is subtropical along the Caspian Sea. Many people in Iran speak Persian, Azeri Turkic and Turkic dialects, Kurdish, Gilaki and Mazandarani, Luri, Balochi, Arabic, and others. (Iran cia.gov) The most common religions are Islam, Shi’a, Sunni, Zoroastrian, Jewish, Christian and Baha’i. (Fact monster) Iran’s government is a theocratic, unitary state, Presidential system, Islamic republic, and a Parliamentary system. The current population in Iran is 76.42 million people. The ethnic breakdown in Iran is 61% Persian, 16% Azeri, 10% Kurd, 6% Lur, 2% Balochi, 2% Arab, 2%Turkmen and Turkic Tribes, and other ethnicities are
Not only did the religious history play a large role in Iran’s beliefs but also foreign invaders have been imposing their power on the Iranian region for thousands of years. Iran...
Prior to the Islamic Revolution, Iran was ruled by the Shah, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, and furthermore, not governed by religion. The Shah’s White Revolution launched a series of reforms in 1963 that are indicative of where women’s rights for Iran were heading prior to the Islamic revolution. The reforms included, giving women the right to vote, run for office and to become lawyers and judges. This large of a reform in regards to women’s rights, was far more drastic than anything Iran had experienced in the past, and the shock of these “extreme” measures, received a large backlash from over 90% of the population1, the Shia Muslims.
The Iranian government is fighting a losing battle against a rapidly growing Western force. Although Iran is not physically waging war against the United States, the government is fighting to eradicate its increasing cultural influence in Iran. The young, Iranian population is currently speaking out against the Islamic Republic’s attempts to rid the country of Western culture, demanding more freedom and less censorship, similar to how Marjane Satrapi acts out against the regime in Persepolis.
In the sixth century B.C, the land that we now call Iran was the center of the largest empire in the world. The kings of Ancient Persia( such as Cyrus the Great) were the leaders of a great civilization that made amazing advances in laws, goverment and communication. Founded in 550 B.C by King Cyrus the Great, the Persian Empire spanned from Egypt in the west to Turkey in the north, and through Mesopotamia to the Indus River in the east. Unlike most empires at that time, the Persian kings were benovelent rulers, and allowed a diverse variety of diffrent people with diffrent ethnic backgrounds. The Persian empire was split into three diffrent empires with three diffrent time periods but the first empire was called the Achaemenid Empire. It began with King Cyrus the Great and ended with King Darius III.
Jordan is an Arab Kingdom in Western Asia. The kingdom bordered by Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Climate and terrain in Jordan depends on what region of the country you are in, as Jordan is generally divided into three separate regions. These regions are known as the Jordan Valley, the Mountain Heights, and the Badia Region. Western Jordan is comprised of the Jordan Valley and Mountain Heights, while the eastern
Persia has always been known to its own people as Iran ( the land of Aryans ), although for centuries it was referred to as Persia (Pars or Fars ) by Europeans. In 1935 the government specified that it should be called Iran; however, in 1949 they allowed both names to be used. Most people today, know Persia through its carpet , its caviar, or through its importance as one of the world's major oil producer countries. Yet,Persia has one of the richest and oldest cultures in the world. Iran history life began as early as 4000 B.C, when the Iranian plateau was occupied by people with variety of cultures. Persia'sfirst growth began in the Neolitic era, and by the third millennium, under Cyrus the great , it became one of the world greatest empires.
The introduction to Persepolis gives a great deal of background information to the unrest in Iran leading up to the Islamic revolution. Iran had been in a state of unrest for “2500 years” (page11). Iran was ruled by foreign nations and exploited by the western world for its rich expanses of oil. In 1951 the prime minister of Iran tried to take back his country’s wealth by nationalizing
One thing that I noticed with regard to the differences between the Iran and America culture is that the Iran culture is more conservative while the American culture is more liberal. For example, in Iran if a couple goes out on a date, it is always the
In the book Persepolis the author states: “From Alexander the Great, from its Arab neighbors to the west, from Turkish and Mongolian conquerors, Iran was often subject to foreign domination.” (Satrapi,1). She refers to different invasions throughout the history of the country. As an example, the victory of Alexander the Great, when the Battle of Gaugamela, was fought in the year 331 BC, on Iranian territories, called Persian up to that time. The battle led to the defeat of the Persian Emperor King Darius III, and the territories of Mesopotamia, Babylon, and half of Persia, were now under the reign of Alexander. (“Alexander defeats the Persians, 331 BC. 2000). Or when the Mongols Invaded Iran after the death of Malik Shah, the king in 1092. Iran was under control of different Mongol Dynasties, that on a period of 200-300 years, conquer many other dynasties over the middle east. Genghis Khan and the rulers after him, didn’t really worry about the improvement of Iran; which was going through a hard situation because of so many casualties due to the many battles (Courtis, Hooglund.
Marjane Satrapi is the author of the book “Persepolis”. She writes about the misconceptions of how Iran is portrayed to the world. People think poorly of Iran because there are many atrocious things going on. Wars and many heinous acts others hear only. Satrapi gives her insight on how Iran was from her perspective. Another literature text is the poem “You Tell Us What To Do”.The author is Faiz Ahmad Faiz. He wrote about how the reader and many other people are in a boat trying to escape from a country. They failed and the reader has to tell them what to do. Then it talks about how the reader and the people saw the wounds of their country on them. They applied medicine on themselves, but it didn’t work. They told the reader
In the 1970’s Iran, under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was a very centralized military state that maintained a close relationship with the USA. The Shah was notoriously out of touch with working class Iranians as he implemented many controversial economic policies against small business owners that he suspected involved profiteering. Also unrestricted economic expansions in Iran lead to huge government expenditure that became a serious problem when oil prices dropped in the mid 1970’s. This caused many huge government construction projects to halt and the economy to stall after many years of massive profit. Following this was high rates of inflation that affected Iranians buying power and living standards. (Afary, 2012) Under the Shah, political participation was not widely available for all Iranians and it was common for political opposition to be met with harassment, illegal detention, and even torture. These measures were implemented by the Iranian secret police knows as ‘SAVAK’. This totalitarian regime combined with the increasing modernisation of the country paved the way for revolution.
The Islamic revolution in Iran came from discontent for westernization and secularization in Iran. It was the Iranian supporters of Khomeini rebelling against shah and his westernized approach and dictatorship of the country. The Iranian felt as if Iran’s leader the Shahan shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Aryamehr was too westernized and was contaminating Iran with modernization and also creating a separation of democracy and religion. Also, powerful and entrenched groups in Iran did not like how shah imposed his westernize reforms (Goldschmidt, 2013). They were also dissatisfied with the allowance of United States interference or influence to curb the groups they viewed as blocking Iran’s modernization. This included landlords, ulama and bazaar
To understand the power struggle relating to foreign policymaking, it is crucial to understand what foreign policy entails. The Foreign Policy Agenda of the U.S. Department of State declares the goals of foreign policy as "to build and sustain a more democratic, secure, and prosperous world for the benefit of the American people and the international community." While this definition is quite vague, the actual tools of foreign policy include Diplomacy, foreign aid, and military force.
Unlike what most Westerners believe, Iran is not full of citizens that commit terrorists acts, fundamentalism, and support corrupted governments of Iran’s past. Marji combats these stereotypes by showing the outsiders that Iranian citizens are just like westerners. Marjane Satrapi is a well off adolescent who is born into the time during when the Iranian Revolution took place. Her parents do not favor the regime, and she soon adopts these views as her own and rebells against them. Marjane shows that not all Iranians support the Regime and its effects, Marji writes the book Persepolis to give Westerners a chance to see what life was like and not everything in Iran is like what the myths have told us. Marjane challenges
Although the Iranian Revolution was both a political and religious movement in that it resulted in major shifts in government structure from an autocracy to a republic and that Islamic beliefs were fought to be preserved, it was more a religious movement in that the primary goal of the people was to preserve traditional ideology and in that the government became a theocracy intertwined with religious laws and desires of the people. Although the Iranian Revolution was caused by combination of political and religious motivations and ideas, the desires of the people supporting the movement were more dominantly religious ideas that were wished to be imposed in society and in a new government. The Shah, or king, of Iran at the time was Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, who had developed relations with nations in the “western” world, specifically with the United States. The United States supported the White Revolution, which was a series of social reformations the Shah made to remove Islamic values, law and tradition from the government to boost the country’s economy (White Revolution, 2010).... ...