Critical Juncture
The 9/11 attack in the United States made Iran and the US more closer together
TRUE!
The U.S. war on terror brought Iran and the United States closer together since Iran for years had seen both the Afghan Taliban and Iraq’s Saddam Hussein as its own mortal enemies
From who did Iran's navy buy their Nuclear powered submarines from ?
A. US
B. Russia
C. China
D. Iraq
B. Russia
TRUE OR FALSE
Differences over how to govern the economy are still being debated in Iran and are the source of much political contention.
TRUE!
What is the definition of Bazaars?
A. An urban marketplace where shops, workshops, small businesses, and export-importers are located.
B. a country whose political or economic system has become so weak that the government is no longer in control.
C. A term for the intermingling of Islam with politics and often used as a substitute for Islamic fundamentalism.
D. A cleric elected to be the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
A. An urban marketplace where shops, workshops, small businesses, and export-importers are located.
In the Article entitled "Fifty Years of Treason" it charged the shah and his family with all of the following EXCEPT ..
A. establishing a military dictatorship; collaborating with the CIA
B. trampling on the constitution
C. rigging parliamentary elections
D. organizing multi party state
d. organizing multi party state
Why in the first decade of the Islamic republic did peasants continue to migrate to cities ?
A. Environmental issues
B. Natural disasters
C. Lack of agricultural land and irrigation
D. Money
C. Lack of agricultural land and irrigation
One of the Major unifying features of the Iranian people is
A. Support for islamic extremism
B. Arabic language and religious tradition
C. Shi'ism
D. Arabic nationalism
C. Shi'ism
What is the definition of the word Political Islam ?
A. Literally, “sign of God.” A high-ranking cleric in Iran.
B. The Persian word for the Persian language. Fars is a province in south Iran.
C. A term for the intermingling of Islam with politics and often used as a substitute for Islamic fundamentalism.
D. A state dominated by the clergy, who rule on the grounds that they are the only interpreters of God’s will and law.
C. A term for the intermingling of Islam with politics and often used as a substitute for Islamic fundamentalism.
When did Khomeini develop his own version of Shi'ism populism ?
A. Teaching at the seminary from 1930's - 50s
B. When teaching at the Shi’i center of Najaf in Iraq from 1964 until 1978.
C. When he denounced the White Revolution
D. During the 1920s, when he studied in the famous Fayzieh Seminary in Qom with the leading theologians of the day
B. When teaching at the Shi’i center of Najaf in Iraq from 1964 until 1978.
Why did negotiations between the US and Iran brake down under the George W. Bush administration?
A. The US demanded that Iran cease forthwith all uranium enrichment
B. The United States implicitly accepted Iran’s right to enrich uranium so long as it provided verifiable guarantees that it would not enrich to the point of producing weapons.
A. The US demanded that Iran cease forthwith all uranium enrichment
Does the Shari'a law and the democratic idea contradict each other ?
A. YES, Democracy is based on the principles that all individuals are equal, especially before the law, and that all people have inalienable natural rights. The shari’a is based on inequalities—between men and women, between Muslims and non-Muslims, between legitimate minorities
B. NO , It doesn't because they're both guides of government. Although the Shari'a law is religious it still presents many similar characteristics as an democratic idea
A. YES, Democracy is based on the principles that all individuals are equal, especially before the law, and that all people have inalienable natural rights. The shari’a is based on inequalities—between men and women, between Muslims and non-Muslims, between legitimate minorities
What is the definition of the word Jurist's guardianship?
A. A committee set up in Iran to resolve differences between the Majles (parliament) and the Guardian Council.
B. A committee created in the Iranian constitution to oversee the Majles (the parliament).
C. The Iranian parliament, from the Arabic term for “assembly.”
D. Khomeini’s concept that the Iranian clergy should rule on the grounds that they are the divinely appointed guardians of both the law and the people.
D. Khomeini’s concept that the Iranian clergy should rule on the grounds that they are the divinely appointed guardians of both the law and the people.
Khomeini denounced monarchies in general as part of the corrupt elite exploiting the oppressed masses.
All are considered oppressors except
A. Large landowners
B. High ranking military
C. Millionarie palce dwellers
D. bazaar shopkeepers
D. bazaar shopkeepers !
TRUE OR FALSE
The Islamic Republic has one of the biggest, but outdated, conventional armies in the region, a large land mass, considerable human resources, a respectable gross domestic product (GDP), and vast oil production.
TRUE!
TRUE OR FALSE
The State emphasis on Shi'ism has to some extent alienated the 10 percent of Iranians who are Sunnis.
TRUE
What does Hezbollahis mean ?
A. The Persian word for the Persian language. Fars is a province in south Iran.
B. Prayer leaders in Iran’s main urban mosques.
C. Literally “partisans of God.” In Iran, the term is used to describe religious vigilantes. In Lebanon, it is used to describe the Shi’i militia.
D. A book of the sacred text of revelations made to Muhammad by Allah.
C. Literally “partisans of God.” In Iran, the term is used to describe religious vigilantes. In Lebanon, it is used to describe the Shi’i militia.
TRUE OR FALSE
By the late 1990s Khomeini's followers did not care about the important of public participation over clerical hegemony
False
Khomeini followers were stressing the importance of public participation over clerical hegemony, of political pluralism over theological conformity, and of civil society over state authority in other words, of democracy over theocracy.
Khomeini did NOT do which of the following?
A. Launched a research program to build medium-range missiles and nuclear power possibly even nuclear weapons.
B. He denounced the proposals for Arab-Israeli negotiations over Palestine.
C. He permitted the Islamic Republic’s intelligence services to assassinate some one hundred exiled opposition leaders living in Western Europe.
D. Carried out a coup d etat and replaced the cabinet and consolidated power in his own hands
D. Carried out a coup d etat and replaced the cabinet and consolidated power in his own hands
TRUE OR FALSE
The Obama administration persuaded the UN to place dire economic sanctions on Iran because they wanted to make sure that if they accepted Iran's right to enrich uranium they would not enrich to the point of producing weapons
What does Assembly of Experts mean?
A. Group that nominates and can remove the Leader. The assembly is elected by the general electorate, but almost all of its members are clerics. A term for the intermingling of Islam with politics and often used as a substitute for Islamic fundamentalism.
B. A society and economy that are sharply divided into a traditional, usually poorer, and a modern, usually richer, sector. There are also significant inequalities within the traditional and modern sectors.
C. An organization dedicated to achieving stability in the price of oil, avoiding price fluctuations, and generally furthering the interests of the member states.
D. A committee created in the Iranian constitution to oversee the Majles (the parliament).
A. Group that nominates and can remove the Leader. The assembly is elected by the general electorate, but almost all of its members are clerics. A term for the intermingling of Islam with politics and often used as a substitute for Islamic fundamentalism.