1. Modern
Iran
(1925-today)

2. The Basics Language: Persian Religion: Shia Islam
Economic: Large Oil Resources

3. Iran’s Important Location

4. 1800’s

5. : Protest

6. Iran: 1907

7. The Strong Man:Reza Khan

8. Operation Barbarossa: Hitler’s Biggest Mistake

9. Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin
The “Big Three”
Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin

10. Shah Reza Pahlavi Q5

11. The Struggle of Ideas GOAL  spread world-wide Communism
Soviet & Eastern Bloc Nations [“Iron Curtain”]
US & the Western Democracies
GOAL  spread world-wide Communism
GOAL  “Containment” of Communism & the eventual collapse of the Communist world.
METHODOLOGIES:
Espionage [KGB vs. CIA]
Arms Race [nuclear escalation]
Ideological Competition for the minds and hearts of peoples around the world [Communist govt. & command economy vs. democratic govt. & capitalist economy]

12. Cold War World

13. Nuclear Arms Race

14. Iran after WWII

15. Anglo-Iranian Oil Company

16. Iranian Oil Resources

17. Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh, Prime Minister of Iran
Became Prime Minister in 1951.
Nationalized the foreign oil companies.
Got rid of corrupt military officials.
Called for land reform Q4

18. The Korean War: ( )
Kim Il-Sung
Syngman Rhee
“Domino Theory”

19. Kermit Roosevelt

20. Shah Reza Pahlavi (r – 1977)
the majority of his people live in poverty.
Brutal suppression of dissidents  SAVAK Q5

21. Iran under
shah reza pahlavi
( )

22. The Shah & His Wife, Farah
Iranian elite/upper- and intellectual classes: very pro-Western.

23. “The White Revolution” The Shah’s Reform Program (1963)
Land reform – 90% of Iran’s peasants became land owners.
Massive government-financed heavy industry projects.
Granted women more political power – the right to vote.
Poured government money into education – especially in rural areas where illiteracy was very high.
Profit-sharing for industrial workers.
Nationalization of forests and pasture lands.

24. The Shah at George Washington’s Home, 1950s

25. The Shah with Several American Presidents

26. The Shah with President Jimmy Carter

27. The
Iranian
Revolution

28. Reasons for the Fall of the Shah
The Shah spent the oil profits for top of the line American military hardware.
Little money to reinvest back into the Iranian economy.
Religious leaders angry with the Shah for too much “Westernization.”
Government corruption.
The Shah’s constitutional violations of the basic human rights of his citizens.

29. Anti-Shah Protests

30. The Shah’s Chief Opponents?
Oil field workers.
Students and other intellectuals.
Middle class businessmen.
Iranian nationalists.
Muslim clerics. Q6

31. Anti-American Pin (1960s)

32. Iranian Students Protest in Beverley Hills

33. The Shah leaves Iran on 1/16/79.
Anarchy & Revolution
The Shah leaves Iran on 1/16/79.

34. Ayatollah Khomeini Leads the Revolution
Khomeini returns to Iran on February 11, 1979. Q7

35. Ayatollah Khomeini (r. 1979-1989)
1902 – 1989.
Became an Islamic scholar (studied in Qom).
Began to speak out against the Shah in the 1960s.
Arrested and imprisoned several times by the Shah.
Deported in 1978 & went to France.

36. Triumphant Muslim Clerics & Iranian Soldiers
A theocracy is created! Q8

37. SAVAK Suspects Taken

38. Iran Revolutionary Poster When the devil leaves, the angel returns!

39. American Embassy in Tehran Taken OverQ9

40. 52 Americans Held Hostage for 444 Days!

41. President Carter Becomes a Hostage, Too

42. Hostage Rescue Disaster

43. 52 American Hostages Released in Jan., 1981

44. The
Islamic
Republic
of Iran

45. The Khomeini Revolution

46. Women in Iran
A woman’s hijab represents her Islamic and moral values.

47. Political Cartoon Commentary
The dictatorship is gone! Bring on the dictatorship!

48. Support for the Palestinian Cause
Funds Hamas and Hezbollah.
The Ayatollah with Yasir Arafat.

49. The
Iran-Iraq
War ( )

50. The Iran-Iraq War ( )
Q10

51. The Iran-Iraq War: Taking Sides

52. Secretary Rumsfeld & Saddam Hussein: 1983

53. Iraqi Soldiers At the Front 375,000 Iraqi casualties & 60,000 POWs!

54. Iranian Soldiers
Over 1,000,000 Iranian casualties!
Q11

55. the Ayatollah Khomeini
Iran
Since the
Death of
the Ayatollah Khomeini

56. Khomeini’s Death (June, 1989)

57. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
The Ayatollah represents the fundamentalist Mullahs.

58. The Ayatollah is considered a political moderate.
Ayatollah Khatami
The Ayatollah is considered a political moderate.
Q12

59. Support for the Shi’ites in Iraq Today
Moqtada al-Sadr, radical Shi’ite leader in Fallujah, Iraq

60. US satellite photo of Iranian nuclear facility near Arak.
Another Nuclear Power?
US satellite photo of Iranian nuclear facility near Arak.

61. An American view of Iranian nuclear power
PINOCCHIAYATOLLAH Scott Stantis (Birmingham News) 1/28/05

62. A view of Iran’s nuclear power from Al-Jazeerah
Nobody else (particularly Iran and Arab countries) should have nuclear weapons except Israel, says Bush Hassan Bleybel 10/23/03

63. Another Future Revolution?

64. Reza Pahlavi (III?), 43 year-old son of the deposed Shah.
A “Shah” in the Waiting?
Reza Pahlavi (III?), 43 year-old son of the deposed Shah.

65. Bibliography “Iranian.com.” www.iranian.com/Revolution/war.html.
“23 Year Pictorial History of Iran.”
“Iranian.com.”
“Iran Hostage Anniversary.” CBS News iran/main shtml.