Following the 2009 Iranian election, the government of Iran said that they won. However, the Iranian people seem to have a very different view of who won and have went to the streets to protest. Instead of providing the evidence of the win, the Iran government is flat out fighting its own people in defiance. The government needs to listen to its own people and accept that it is time for change. But of course they won’t. They even justify murder in order to keep their own power. Dictatorship sticks personal army on them, beating, shooting and arresting political prisoners. They would shut down all foreign media, trying to control all media and information getting out of the country. And the government also can try to control protesters getting information to each other. But Iranians can get around censors through use of internet, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Dictatorships have gotten away with this before, but can't because people can document human rights abuses with the use of cellphones and computers and laptops, exposing the corruption and abuse of the Iranian government - everyone is a journalist. And the rest of the world who is also connected via TV, internet etc. can know all about it (Allen). We should care about Iran because religious expressions, women rights, beatings and torture is happening all the time in Iran.
In Iran, one of their human rights that they violate is that they have really strong religious expressions and beliefs, and not letting other religions be practiced. Ramadan is an especially holy time for Muslims. The entire month is taken up by various festive events and various fasting. Breaking ones fast during Ramadan days is treated very harshly. In Iran, it cost a 14-year-old boy his life because ...
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...from the evil government in Iran? Probably not, because of his Christian base of supporters would have also support such an action.
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The Iranian government is fighting a losing battle against a rapidly growing Western force. Although Iran is not physically waging war against the United States, the government is fighting to eradicate its increasing cultural influence in Iran. The young, Iranian population is currently speaking out against the Islamic Republic’s attempts to rid the country of Western culture, demanding more freedom and less censorship, similar to how Marjane Satrapi acts out against the regime in Persepolis.
This conflict was something that had been brewing for centuries. Modern day Iraq and Iran have conflicting interests and disputes over borders and control dating back to the Ottoman Turkish Empire as well as the Persian empire under the Safavids (Hiro, 1991). The majority of this war was fought by Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran. Both political leaders fighting to protect what they thought was theirs and what they wanted to take from the other side.
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A revolution is a mass movement that intends to violently transform the old government into a new political system. The Iranian Revolution, which began in 1979 after years of climax, was an uprising against the Shah’s autocratic rule resulting in much religious and political change. Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi made efforts to remove Islamic values and create a secular rule and “westernize” Iran through his White Revolution. In addition, his tight dictatorial rule and attempts at military expansion felt threatening to the people, who desired a fairer governmental rule immensely influenced by Islam. Afterwards, governmental affairs became extremely influenced by Islamic traditions and law which created changes religiously and politically for years to come. Although the Iranian Revolution was both a political and religious movement in that it resulted in major shifts in government structure from an autocracy to a republic and that Islamic beliefs were fought to be preserved, it was more a religious movement in that the primary goal of the people was to preserve traditional ideology and in that the government became a theocracy intertwined with religious laws and desires of the people.