She was Jewish, and when the Islamic revolution happened, she and her family left Iran for Israel. We were forbidden from sending mail to Israel, so I had to send my letters through another country. Her address changed a lot, and it was in Hebrew, an alphabet that looked to me like ...
The small piece of information here that is true is that Brian Nahed's parents were themselves born in Iran. However, they permanently left that country to immigrate to the U.S. forty years ago, well before the Iranian Revolution of 1979, and now live in Los Angeles (where Brian's fathe...
The bloody revolution is followed by a full-scale with Iraq, as Iran's government cracks down on the civil rights of its citizens and openly discriminates against Bahais. Katrin who sees no future for herself in Iran decides to leave for the United States, but she has to brave a trip ...
Chris Hedges: Let’s talk about blowback. Let’s end there. We have to mention that the 1979 Revolution was seized by the clerics and Khomeini but certainly, on the university campuses, most of those kids were communists. They were crushed by Khomeini but there were powerful secular elem...
When nearly a million people gathered at this very place after the Revolution, some on foot, Khomeini, referring to this huge gathering, said I do not understand why people have gathered for some bones and dead flesh! Dr. Mosaddegh came from nobility, yet he went against that nobility. (...
The administration spun it as a ‘refund’ plus interest on an arms deal that was scrapped following the 1979 Iranian revolution; $400 million plus 25 years’ worth of interest. But of course, Iranian ‘revolutionaries’ captured and held American diplomatic staff hostage for 444 days afterward...
The Revolution of 1979 Citizens weren't called Persian after therevolution of 1979, during which the country’s monarchy was deposed and an Islamic Republic government was put in place. The king, who was considered to be the last Persian monarch and had attempted to modernize the country, fled...
Contrary to the stereotype images of Muslim males through the media most Iranian men do not have beards and if they do, it is not necessarily for religious reasons. However in Iran itself since the revolution beard has become a mark of alliance to the theocratic government and for this reason...
Speaking in the city of Kerman on November 12, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani acknowledged for the first time that "Iran is experiencing one of its hardest years since the 1979 Islamic revolution" and that "the country's situation is not normal." ... ... In addition, the Islamic ...
If Khomeini had had hiswish, his credo that his Islamicrevolution was neither“western nor eastern,”that is, neither capitalist nor socialist but some kind of an Islamic“thirdway,”would have been applied to the foreign policy of the newlyestablished Is-lamic Republic. However,evenafanatic ...