Chapter 11: The Islamic Republic of Iran

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Qom
\________ is a major seminary city located about eighty miles from Tehran, and most prominent Shia clerics teach and preach from the city.
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Assembly of Religious Experts
The \________ must meet at least twice every six months by law, but their purpose is unclear.
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Mohammad Khatami
presidency is often referred to as the "Tehran Spring "due to his reform program.
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Khomeini
\________ believed that Shari'ah required local judges to decide cases, so the Iranian judiciary rarely uses its appeals hierarchy.
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Oil price
\________ drops or Western European economic sanctions cause major recessions in Iran.
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Supreme Leader
The \________ chooses the Expediency Council every five years, but it automatically includes the president, Majlis speaker, Chief Judge, government ministers, and Majlis committee members responsible for the topic being debated.
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Viewership
\________ is less diverse than media ownership.
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clerical elite
The \________ restricts linkage institutions to preserve community spirituality.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
\________ ran with the Islamic Society of Engineers (ISE) in 2005 and the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran (ABII) in 2009.
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Authoritarianism
\________ has suppressed the cradle of civilization under various guises.
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Islamic Consultative Assembly
The Majlis (\________) is elected every four years before a presidential election.
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Shi' a descendants of Muhammad
\________ claimed the right to interpret Islam, leading to church- state separation.
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Baha'is
\________ can only bury their dead in unmarked graves in government- approved wastelands.
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Reza Shah
\________ ordered foreign embassies to use Iran instead of "Persia "in 1935.
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Iranian Revolution
The 1979 \________ was fueled by anger over the state's intrusion into private life, particularly its secularization of religious groups.
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Islamic Republic
Iran's constitution allows free association as long as it doesn't "violate the criteria of Islam, or the basis of the \________ ..
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Moderation and Development Party
The \________ (MDP), which has only existed since 1999, ran Rouhani for president for the first time in 2013.
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Iranian bureaucracy
\________ manages many large state- owned enterprises and monitors information for the theocracy in addition to law approval and enforcement.
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Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance
The \________ in Iran restricts commercial, artistic, and political media deemed problematic.
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Muhammad Reza Shah
\________ succeeded the shah after he was forced to abdicate.
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Expediency Council
The \________ was established in 1988 to resolve Majlis- Guardian Council disputes.
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Private business interests
\________ are a small part of the Iranian economy and even less involved in politics.
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Iranian constitution
The \________ proclaims the doctrine of Twelver Shiism, asserting that the hidden Twelfth Imam will return one day to establish a perfect kingdom of justice on earth.
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Guardian Council
The 1997 \________ rejected 234 candidates and allowed four to run.
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Guardian Council
The \________ exerts a number of major powers crucial to the preservation of the theocratic nature of the Iranian state.
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Supreme Leader
The \________ is considered the chief jurist, the leading interpreter of Islamic law (the Shariah) for the Shia people.
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Iran
\________ is a constitutional republic with theocratic religious institutions supervising elected republican institutions.
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Authoritarian, but not totalitarian
Irans history has long-running themes of authoritarian political leadership, but not totalitarianism
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Union of Political and Religious Leadership
In the ancient empire, Zoroastrianism was established as the official religion
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Shariah Law
The Shariah is an Islamic legal system based on the religious principles of Islam, especially those expressed in the Koran, Islams holy text, which Muslims believe was verbally revealed to the prophet Muhammad
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West vs east
Since the early rivalry between Greece and Persia, Iran has long been positioned as a middle-eastern power resistant to Western influence
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Mohammad Ahmadinejad
was a conservative mayor of Tehran known for reversing liberal reforms in the city, and he carried that record into the presidency
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Hassan Rouhani
Rouhani was characterized as a more reformist candidate than his opponents during the 2013 election
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Shariah
Shariah acts as the supreme law of the system, as interpreted by the Supreme Leader and the Guardian Council
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Civil Law (Qanun)
Civil law has no basis in sacred texts or Shariah interpretation, and it covers all aspects of modern life regarding business contracts, labor standards, the environment, and anything else not perceived as needing religious interpretation
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Iran
has been a sovereign state since at least 625 b.c.e., when it was known as the Achaemenid Empire (called the Persian Empire by rival Greece).
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Persians
conquered neighboring territories because Iran has little arable land.
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Authoritarian
Iran’s history has long-running themes of authoritarian political leadership, but not totalitarianism.
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Union of Political and Religious Leadership
In the ancient empire, Zoroastrianism was established as the official religion.
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Shari’ah law
The Shari’ah is an Islamic legal system based on the religious principles of Islam, especially those expressed in the Koran, Islam’s holy text, which Muslims believe was verbally revealed to the prophet Muhammad.
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west vs. east
Since the early rivalry between Greece and Persia, Iran has long been positioned as a middle-eastern power resistant to Western influence.
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Safavid shah
did not rule absolute.
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Qajars
could not rule by heredity like the Safavids because they were Turks.
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Shi'a
descendants of Muhammad claimed the right to interpret Islam, leading to church-state separation.
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Colonel Reza Khan
leader of the Cossack Brigade, overthrew the Qajar monarchy and became Reza Shah Pahlavi, the new shah.
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Reza Shah
was an absolute monarch who gradually weakened the Majlis until it was no longer a political check.
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Ayatollah Khomeini
a leading cleric, to unite religious, liberal, and working-class forces together against the regime
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Hassan Rouhana
was characterized as a more reformist candidate than his opponents during the 2013 election.
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Azeris
concentrated in the northwest, are Iran's largest minority at 16%. 10% are western Kurds.
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Urban Iranians
are more educated, middle class, and westernized.
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Social class
divides urban-rural regions.
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Young Iranians
worry about joblessness and religious restrictions on self-expression, while older Iranians who lived under the shah support the current regime.
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Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians
are religious minorities under the constitution and should be respected, but authorities have harassed, intimidated, discriminated, and persecuted all religious minorities, including Sunnis.
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Post-revolution
the state still imposes religious values on secular institutions.
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Theocracy
defines Iranian politics.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
ran with the Islamic Society of Engineers (ISE) in 2005 and the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran (ABII) in 2009.
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Moderation and Development Party
which has only existed since 1999, ran Rouhani for president for the first time in 2013.
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Majlis
(Islamic Consultative Assembly) is elected every four years before a presidential election.
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Private business interests
are a small part of the Iranian economy and even less involved in politics.
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Viewership
is less diverse than media ownership.
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Globalization
is affecting Iranian information access.
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Supreme Leader
is considered the chief jurist, the leading interpreter of Islamic law (the Shari’ah) for the Shia people.
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Guardian Council
exerts a number of major powers crucial to the preservation of the theocratic nature of the Iranian state.
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Expediency Council
was established in 1988 to resolve Majlis-Guardian Council disputes.
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president
is the head of government, possessing many administrative powers, but his actions are always under the shadow of the Supreme Leader, who may dismiss him from office at any moment he chooses.
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Iranian bureaucracy
manages many large state-owned enterprises and monitors information for the theocracy in addition to law approval and enforcement.
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Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance
in Iran restricts commercial, artistic, and political media deemed problematic.
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President Rafsanjani
declared that “Islam favored families with only two children” in 1988, and the Health Ministry introduced family planning, contraceptives, and sex education.
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Khamenei
called Iran's contraceptive services "wrong" and cut family planning funding, reversing 24 years of policy.
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Qom
is a major seminary city located about eighty miles from Tehran, and most prominent Shi’a clerics teach and preach from the city.
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1970s
Khomeini's \________ book on government formed the basis of the final product.
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HASSAN ROUHANI
\________ (2013- PRESENT): Rouhani was characterized as a more reformist candidate than his opponents during the 2013 election.