The name of the International Economic Forum where Rouhani recently gave a speech indicating that Iran is open for business.
What is Davos?
100
The first major political leader to visit Iran after the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979.
Who is Yasir Arafat?
100
This event reinforced a sense of grandeur in Iran’s historical consciousness which was similarly apparent in the thinking of the shah.
What is the Islamic Revolution?
100
Iranian foreign policy elites have called for the empowerment of the “third world” since this year.
What is 1979?
100
This city is known as Iran's clerical “Vatican”
What is Qom?
200
The name of the welfare state that is at the heart of the economic system of this strategic preference.
What is a "just" welfare state?
200
According to a prominent slogan of the newly established Islamic Revolutionary Guards and their Basij militia during the Iran-Iraq war, the road to Jerusalem passes through this city.
What is Baghdad?
200
The Islamic Revolution turned Iran into an antagonist to this country's hegemony in West Asia and North Africa (WANA) and the wider Muslim world.
What is the United States?
200
Iran has been a strong advocate for this group, which is a collection of states which are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc.
What is the Non-Aligned Movement?
200
Demonstrating that Iran has never really sacrificed its national interests to pan-Islamism, the ruling classes have been careful not to criticize Russia for its brutal policies against Muslim minorities in this province.
What is Chechnya?
300
The name of the global international organization that Iran has recently tried to join in an attempt to liberalize the economy.
What is the World Trade Organization?
300
The day Ayatollah Khomeini designated to the liberation of Jerusalem.
What is the last Friday of Ramadan or "Quds Day"?
300
Rouhani and this president campaigned on the basis that they will talk to the other side.
Who is Obama?
300
To achieve empowerment of the "third world" in 1979, the Islamic Republic immediately ceased its membership of this organization, which was subsequently dissolved.
What is the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO)?
300
The Iranian state pursues Islamic communitarianism primarily through this organization.
What is the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)?
400
The % of GDP that Iran invests in Research and Development.
What is 4%?
400
The name of a holy site in Jerusalem which Islamic leaders in Iran believe to be Islamic waqf -- a religious endowment that should be shared by all Muslims.
What is Al-Aqsa mosque?
400
One issue of agreement between Iran and the United States is territorial integrity of this country.
What is Iraq?
400
Emblematic of Iran's close political relationship with Latin American countries, this former President of Brazil made the bold move of proposing a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear standoff during the Ahmadinejad presidency.
Who is Lula?
400
Revolutionaries instituted this culturally driven policy to institutionalize unity between Sunni and Shia.
What is “unity week"?
500
He was the Prime Minister who inscribed the preference of maximizing economic independence into the Iranian constitution at the beginning of the revolution
Who is Mehdi Bazargan?
500
Despite their strategic preference to support the Palestinian cause, Iranian officials under Rouhani have refused to use this phrase to label Israel.
What is the "Zionist regime"?
500
To support the notion that competition with the United States does not preclude establishing full diplomatic ties, Iranian officials point to this country as an example.
What is China?
500
Iran's strategic non-aligned policy is encapsulated in slogans such as this.
What is "na sharghi, na gharbi, jomhur-ye eslami" (Neither East nor West, Only the Islamic Republic)?
500
Iran tends to support Christian-orthodox of this country in their territorial dispute with Shia-majority of Azerbaijan, another example of Iran preserving its national interests despite its interest in pan-Islamism.