Military
Government Responsibilities
(Pre) Revolution
Reforms
Post-Revolution
100
Lasting from 1980 to 1988, this conflict helped to unite and mobilize the Iranian people after the Islamic Revolution.
What is the Iran-Iraq war
100
In Iran, one of the responsibilities of this is to censor the media
What is the Iranian government
100
The Shah leaving Iran kick started what major movement in Iran’s history?
What is the 1979 Revolution
200
This weapon-focused program has caused tension and the need for international negotiation “talks”
What is the nuclear program
200
This branch of Iran’s government, based on traditional reading of the shari’a, gave the central state supreme authority only after the revolution.
What is Judiciary
200
He was an Iranian politician whose government was overthrown in a coup d’etat orchestrated by the British Secret Intelligence Service and the American CIA.
Who is Muhammed Mossadeq?
200
This man led the opposition of the Shah and spread his message through musical cassettes that were smuggled into Iran and were distributed all around the country.
Who is Ayatollah Khomeini
300
Compelling attractiveness or charm that can inspire devotion in others
What is charisma?
300
The king of Iran from September 1941 until his overthrow by the Islamic Revolution in February of 1979 and was the last monarch of the House of Pahlavi.
Who is Mohammed Reza Shah?
300
The name of Iran’s Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s series of reforms built to legitimize the dynasty by redistributing land to families, establishing literacy in rural areas, and advancing women’s rights
What is the White Revolution
300
This man has earned himself the reputation as a “hard-line conservative” and a political following that consists of those who believed president Khatami was too liberal. He was the sixth president of Iran.
Who is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
400
A branch of Iran’s military whose goal is to protect Iran’s Islamic System.
Who are the Revolutionary Guards?
400
This is an appointed and constitutionally-mandated 12-member council that wields considerable power and influence in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
What is the Guardian Council?
400
The secret police, domestic security and intelligence service established by Iran's Mohammad Reza Shah with the help of the United States' Central Intelligence Agency. SAVAK operated from 1957 to 1979, when the Pahlavi dynasty was overthrown.
What is SAVAK?
400
After the 1979 election, the voting age of Iranian citizens decreased from 18 to this.
What is 15?
400
This Iranian assembly has the tasks of selecting the supreme leader, dismissing him if he unable or perform his constitutional duties, and supervising the supreme leaders capabilities to determine whether he is able to perform his duties.
What is the Assembly of Religious Experts
500
This is s a post-Age-of-Occultation theory in Shia Islam which holds that Islam gives a faqīh (Islamic jurist) custodianship over people.
What is the guardianship of the jurist?
500
These were the rulers of the last dynasty that was overthrown by the Iranian/Islamic Revolution
Who are the Pahlevi Shahs?
500
After losing the presidential election to Ahmadinejad in 2005, this man gained the chairmanship of the Assembly of Religious Experts. On top of that he has a chairmanship of the Expediency Council and to this day remains one of the most powerful clerics in the Islamic Republic.
Who is Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani
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