Iran Flashcards
When was the Iranian Revolution?
1979
What are some key qualities of Iran?
Deep segregation between men and women
Other countries are dependent on it’s oil source
Improving health, education and literacy
Fundamentalism (Shia Islam)& theocracy
What are the key differences between the US and Iran?
Animal based food vs plant based
Rise of free trade & individualism vs. communist
Liberal/democratic tradition in US
Why are they so in favour of anti-Americanisation?
Transnational Islam is growing a shared identity
Transnational military used in Gulf Wars and by Al-Quaeda
Desire to get back to Persian style superpower
Isolationism
Manifest themselves through Islam
Rejection of America’s free culture
1997-2005 Iranian Spring (return to hardline fundamentalist Islam)
Why is there an internal clash in Iran?
Between the youngest generation who don’t have this hardline passion and growing consumerism
