Traditional merchants who assisted the clergy in revolution and are part of the black market. After the revolution, they were granted some political access and power.
What are bazarris?
100
The events involving the overthrow of Pahlavi dynasty and the instatement of an Islamic Republic.
What is the 1979 Revolution?
100
This branch of Islam that accepts the first four caliphs as rightful successors to Mohammed.
What is Sunni?
100
28. In the Iranian government, he/she is the Head of Government and Cabinet, the Head of the Council of National Security, and the Head of the Council of Cultural Revolution.
What is the President?
100
The sixth and current President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and leader of the conservative political coalition the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran.
Who is Ahmadinejad?
200
Social and economic inequalities separated Iranian people into two sectors: the first being the modern sector, headed by elites who maintained connections with the oil state. The second was the traditional sector, constituted of the clergy, bazaaris, and the rural masses.
What is dual society?
200
It is an organization consisting of the world's major oil-exporting nations.
What is OPEC?
200
This is a state dominated by the clergy, who rule on the grounds that they are the only interpreters of God’s will and law.
What is a theocracy?
200
In English known as the "Partisans of God," this group of club-wielding vigilantes intimidated voters when electing officials in late 1979.
Who were the hezbollahis?
200
In 1977, this man, a relatively unknown cleric, was elected as president based on his promises to reform the economy, initiate communication with the West and protect individual liberties.
Who was Muhammed Khatami?
300
Women were given suffrage rights during this decade in Iran
What is in the 1960's (1963)?
300
Led by Iranian President Mohammed Khatami, this group dedicated their efforts to the election of Khatami and other reformist candidates in 1997, 1999, and 2000.
What is the Second of Khordad Movement?
300
The Islamic Republic regime islamized Iran's judiciary by enacting the Retribution Law which was based on this.
What is Shari'a?
300
The legislature, called this, is unicameral and has 290 seats with representatives directly elected every four years from multi-member districts.
What is the majiles?
300
An Iranian religious and political leader who led the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty and the instatement of the Islamic Republic, who became the country’s Supreme Leader for life.
Who was Ayatollah Khomeini?
400
This body has the power to control and shut down both private and public media
What is the government?
400
Through land reform, the essence of this bloodless 1963 reform was that the Shah hoped to ally himself with the peasantry in the countryside, and hoped to sever their ties with the aristocracy in the city.
What is the White Revolution?
400
Founded after the Iranian Revolution, this group is also called Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution.
What are the Revolutionary Guards?
400
Appointed by the Leader, this group mediates differences between the guardian council and the majlis. It also retains power to initiate laws.
What is the Expediency Council?
400
The second and current Supreme Leader of Iran and third President of the Islamic Republic.
Who is Ayatollah Khamenei?
500
This theory states that countries that receive substantial amounts of oil revenues from the outside world on a regular basis tend to become autonomous from their societies, unaccountable to their citizens, and autocratic.
What is the Reinter State?
500
This is the Persian acronym for the Organization to Protect and Gather Information for the State; also known as the pervasive secret police (DOUBLE JEOPARDY!)
What is SAVAK?
500
A male-dominated (no female allowed to sit) assembly that drafted the 1979 revolution and is charged with evaluating the performance of the supreme leader.
What is the Assembly of Religious Experts?
500
Argued for by Ruhollah Khomeini, this principle gave the senior clergy (grand ayatollahs) all-encompassing authority over the whole community; only senior clerics have the sole competence to understand shari'a.
What is guardianship of the jurist?
500
Under him Iran became one of the fastest developing countries know the Third World with an annual increase of GNP of 9.6% and growths in school enrollment and health services.