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