IRAN%20History%20and%20Changes

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IRANHistory and Changes
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USA / Iran Relationship

• The USA and Iran were friends until 1970s
• Iran has the worlds fifth largest oil reserves
  with the US was their largest Oil customer
• In fact, Iran was making money off all oil
  purchases and the king used the money to buy more
  weapons from the US

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Iranian Royal Family

• Shah (King Mohammed Reza Pahlavi) was in power
  until 1979 his family dynasty ruled for 100s of
  years
• He wanted to create a modern nation
• He built schools, highways, factories, and gave
  women more freedoms
• But many Iranians did not like his ideasthey
  wanted to stay traditional
• Shah used secret police to arrest and torture
  anyone against him

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• Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi Farah Pahlavi

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Iranian Revolution

• Muslim religious leaders, the ayatollahs, wanted
  the Shah out of power
• Ayatollah Khomeini, organized the people
  (students) to fight for TRADITIONS
• Shah was forced to leave Iran and was allowed
  into the USA for gallstone surgery
• Iranian Hostage Crisis- Students take control of
  US Embassy in Tehran, Iran 52 Americans held for
  444 days
• The Century 300-845 1025- http//www.youtube.c
  om/watch?vjiMLOTw66-A

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US Presidents

• Jimmy Carter 1976-1980

• Ronald Reagan 1980-1988

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• Ayatollah Khomeini

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Life After the Revolution

• Strict laws came back modernization is out
• Sharia Law came into power strong Islamic laws
  like
• Women must be covered
• Hair and beards must be long for men
• No drinking
• Traditional clothing
• Children of divorce go to daddy
• Elections free but lots of fraud
• Freedoms no freedom of expression, censorship,
  detainees

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The Laws and Women
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New Leader Emerges

• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a revolutionary
  influenced by the Ayatollah
• Likes traditional laws but is now flexing his
  might
• Became president in 2005 and 2009 but it was a in
  rigged elections
• Lets say in a village of 20 people, there were
  40 votes

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http//www.youtube.com/watch?vinjp_MsZcjk
Interview-(444 60 minutes)

• http//abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/iran-attack-americ
  a-us-intelligences-issues-warning-15486993?tab948
  2931section1206828
• (News-Spring 2012)

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Ahmadinejads Enemies

• HATES USA and most Western nations
• HATES UN because this group makes decisions for
  the world and helped create a Jewish state of
  Israel
• HATES ISRAEL anti-Semitic

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Terrorism

• Iran is the 1 sponsor of terrorist groups in the
  world
• Sponsor Hezbollah in Lebanon with money and
  weapons
• Pledged to back Palestinian government led by
  Hamas
• Supports Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Syria,
  Lebanon and Israel) with money

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Irans Nuclear Program

• Started in the 1950s with the help of the US as
  part of the Atoms for Peace program
• several research sites, two uranium mines, a
  research reactor, and uranium processing
  facilities that include three known uranium
  enrichment plants.
• After delays, Iran's first nuclear power plant,
  Bushehr I reactor was officially opened in a
  ceremony on September 12, 2011. There are no
  current plans to complete the Bushehr II reactor,
  although the construction of 19 nuclear power
  plants is envisioned. Iran has announced that it
  is working on a new 360 MWe nuclear power plant.
  Iran has also indicated that it will seek more
  medium-sized nuclear power plants and uranium
  mines for the future.
• Iran says they are making nuclear
  energy/powerAre they really making weapons to
  use on their enemies??????

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Video Clips

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vzB3BE5whlmI
  (start at 150 with Mike Wallace)
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vZ8WK9Xzhilw (Mike
  Wallace clip 2 809)
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vN9xpWNSzKecfeature
  related (Mike Wallace clip 3 817)

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IN HIS OWN WORDS

• Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the
  fire of the Islamic nation's fury.
• Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of
  the Iranian nation.
• It is not just for a few states to sit and veto
  global approvals.
• The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by
  the world oppressor against the Islamic world.
• The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against
  the world of Islam.
• The United States' administrations... must
  recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said
  that, we consider ourselves to be a human force
  and a cultural power and hence a friend of other
  nations. We have never sought to dominate others
  or to violate the rights of any other country.
• Those who insist on having hostilities with us,
  kill and destroy the option of friendship with us
  in the future, which is unfortunate because it is
  clear the future belongs to Iran and that
  enmities will be fruitless.
• If some want to misuse the generosity of our
  nation, and re-examine what was previously
  examined, they should know the fire of the anger
  of the Iranian nation will be extremely burning
  and devastating.

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