Susan M.

Pojer
Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
The Geography of Iran
Iranian Oil Resources
Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh,
Prime Minister of Iran
Became Prime Minister
in 1951.
Nationalized the
foreign oil companies.
Got rid of corrupt
military officials.
Was toppled in a coup
aided by the America
CIA in 1953.
The Shah of Iran
returns to power.
Q4
(r. 1941 1977)
Institutes Western
reforms & ties with
the West .

But, the majority of
his people live in
poverty.

Brutal suppression
of
dissidents SAVAK
Q5
Iranian elite/upper- and
intellectual classes: very
pro-Western.
The Shahs Reform Program
(1963)
1. Land reform 90% of Irans peasants became
land
ow
n
ers.
2. Massive government-financed heavy industry
projects.
3. Granted women more political power the
right to vote.
4. Poured government
mo
n
ey into education especially in rural areas
where illiteracy was very high.
5. Profit-sharing for industrial workers.
6. Nationalization of forests and pasture lands.
1950s
The Shah with Several
American Presidents
The Shah with President
Jimmy Carter
Reasons for the
Fall of the Shah
The Shah spent the oil profits for top of the
li
n
e
American military hardware.

Little
mo
n
ey to reinvest back into the Iranian economy.

Religious leaders angry with the Shah for too much
Westernization.

Government corruption.

The Shahs constitutional violations of the basic human
rights of his citizens.
1. Oil field workers.

2. Students and other intellectuals.

3. Middle class
busi
n
essmen.

4. Iranian nationalists.

5. Muslim clerics.
Q6
(1960s)
Iranian Students
Protest in
Beverley Hills
The Shah leaves Iran on 1/16/79.
Khomeini returns to Iran
on February 11, 1979.
Q7
(r. 1979-1989)
1902 1989.

Became an Islamic scholar

(studied in Qom).

Began to speak out against
the Shah in the 1960s.
Arrested and
impriso
n
ed
several times by the
Shah.
Deported in 1978 & went
to France.
Triumphant Muslim Clerics
& Iranian Soldiers
Q8
A theocracy is created!
SAVAK Suspects Taken
Iran Revolutionary
Poster
When the devil leaves, the angel
returns!
American Embassy in
Tehran Taken Over
Q9
52 Americans Held
Hostage for 444 Days!
President Carter
Becomes a Hostage, Too
Hostage Rescue Disaster
52 American Hostages
Released in Jan., 1981
The Khomeini Revolution
A womans hijab
represents her Islamic
and moral values.
Political Cartoon
Commentary
The dictatorshi p is
go
n
e!
Bring on the dictatorshi p!
The Ayatollah with
Yasir Arafat.
Funds Hamas and
Hezbollah.
(1980-1988)
Q10
1983
375,000 Iraqi casualties & 60,000 POWs!
Q11
Over 1,000,000
Iranian casualties!
(Ju
n
e, 1989)
Iranian Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Ali
Khame
n
ei
The Ayatollah represents the
fundamentalist Mullahs.
The Ayatollah is considered a
political moderate.
Q12
Moqtada al-Sadr, radical Shiite
leader in Fallujah, Iraq
US satellite photo of Iranian
nuclear facility
n
ear Arak.
An American view of
Iranian nuclear power
PINOCCHIAYATOLLAH
Scott Stantis
(Birmingham News) 1/28/05
A view of Irans 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
Reza Pahlavi (III?),
43 year-old son of the deposed Shah.
23 Year Pictorial History of Iran.

http://home.att.
n
et/~iranshahr/
Iranian.com.
www.iranian.com/Revolution/war.html.
Iran Hostage Anniversary. CBS News.

www.cbs
n
ews.com/stories/2001/01/18/
iran/main265244.shtml.