Iran: Economics n' Stuff

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Across
  1. 4. Permitted to take power after a 1989 constitutional revision, which allowed for the selection of lower-ranking clerics
  2. 5. Type of government in Iran
  3. 6. Resolves policy disputes between the Guardian Council and the parliament
  4. 10. In contrast to the peasant class, more likely to embrace Western culture and more suspicious of the Iranian regime
  5. 11. Corporation that is owned or partially owned and controlled by the government
  6. 13. Intended to protect the country's Islamic system
  7. 15. A high ranking title given to Shia clerics
  8. 16. 1978 rumors that you could see his face in the moon
  9. 18. Became PM in 1951; overthrown in 1953
  10. 19. Canonical law of Islam, based on the Koran. Used often in Iranian politics, and especially upheld by the Guardian Council.
  11. 20. Senior clergy should have all encompassing authority over society. Clergy can best determine what’s best for the people.
  12. 23. Women under the Islamic constitution and jurisprudence are not necessarily unequal to men, but their equality is based on the Islamic recognition of their difference
  13. 24. Contribute to about 20% of Iran’s GDP; government-funded, legally classified as a charitable organization. Compete against interests in the public sector
  14. 25. The holiest day in Islam; when the Supreme Leader delivers his weekly address
  15. 26. Protests following the 2009 re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  16. 27. Represented in the Iranian government by institutions such as the Supreme Leader and the Guardian Council
  17. 28. First phase of the economy after the 1979 Revolution; lots of nationalization
  18. 30. Conservative former president of Iran; reelection in 2009 led to protests
  19. 31. One of the shah's ideas that rubbed many Iranians the wrong way
Down
  1. 1. Generally characterized by patronage, corruption, and mismanagement
  2. 2. Internet censors
  3. 3. Organization tasked with internal security, including monitoring dissent and protest
  4. 7. Overt seizure of a state by the military or other elites
  5. 8. a penalty placed upon a country (or group or individual) in the form of trade barriers, tariffs, or restrictions on financial transactions.
  6. 9. One element was land reform that redistributed land from the landlords to the peasants
  7. 10. Is not a rubber-stamp institution; undergoing a trend of anticlericalism.
  8. 12. The Shah's fearsome secret police
  9. 14. Moderate president who began structural readjustment after Iran-Iraq war
  10. 17. The "furnace filter" of the Iranian institutions
  11. 21. a country that obtains a hefty income by exporting raw materials or leasing out natural resources to foreign companies
  12. 22. Number of American hostages taken in 1979
  13. 29. Intergovernmental organization with 13 member nations, including Iran and Nigeria. Stated purpose is to control the amount of oil available in the global economy.