Essays on Iran

The Stuxnet is believed to be a computer worm that surfaced in the mid 2010 year. It revolutionized the world of cyber-attacks which represented a major development in the cyber war battleground. This infamous computer worm was/is known to initially spread via an operating system mostly the on the Microsoft Windows with an objective target on industrial software systems and equipment.

The Stuxnet worm is believed to have been developed and created by the United States and the Israel to facilitate attacks on the Iranian nuclear systems, and facilities via the use of systematic step by step programmable and ...

Alain-Yves Huc. “Heavy Crude Oils: From Geology to Upgrading - An Overview”U.S.A: Editions TECHNIP, 2010. print.

Alain-Yves Huc wrote this source. He wrote this book in order to bring to light some of the countries where crude oil is obtained. In his book, he defines Crude oil as the raw oil which has been taken directly from the ground. It is the oil that has not yet been processed and refined. According to Alain-Yves Huc, crude oil is made from decaying plant matter which has been under pressure inside the Earth’s crust for a long period of ...

Critical Thinking Paper: ENVI-423-003 Geography of Middle East

Three issues that have served as effective learning supplements in Geography of Middle East class include the following: the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Israel, continuing troubles in Iraq in the post-War on Terror era and the effects of high concentration of funds to Jewish organizations in the United States (US). The foregoing issues provide significant impacts on understanding the nature of Middle Eastern politics better, given the complicated interests of nations therein and their volatile status towards one another, the US and its allies. Key to understanding the complicated nature of Middle Eastern politics is the divisiveness brought ...

Questions

According to Robert A. Pape, What is the main strategic objective of suicide terrorism and to what extent is it effective, if at all? Terrorism is a strategic effort to achieve political goals through intimidation and fear. The targets are governments, and normally the objective is to make them change policies or withdraw forces from a given territory the terrorists view as theirs. Suicidal terrorism seeks to maximize the number of casualties at the cost of losing support to the terrorist cause. Coercion and the threat of future of even more attacks are what create the political leverage in ...

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Political repression is a theme that transverses across the two novels including Chinua’s Things Fall Apart and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis. Though the political repression is caused by different players in the two accounts, the reaction of the main characters in the two novels to the political oppression is both similar and distinct in several ways. The similarities in the response of the two main characters; Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart and Marjane in Persepolis can be attributed to the resemblance in the political regimes affecting them. On the other hand, the contrast in the ...

Presently Iran’s economy is largely dependent on oil revenues. The dependence began between 1954 and 1960 when a rapid and sudden increase in the oil prices led to Iranian main export being oil. In fact, between the fiscal years of 1964 and 1978 Iran’s gross product grew at the phenomenal rate of 13 percent. The oil, gas and other petroleum industries expanded by almost 500 percent. Even after the tumultuous events such as the 1979 revolution and the Iran-Iraq war oil the revenue on the oil production remained the principal earner for the government. When one examines ...

The rapid advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against Iraqi forces represents yet another critical milestone in Iraq’s turbulent recent history. The policy options available to the United States are complicated by the regional dimensions of the conflict and the divergent interests of key players, most notably Iran, Syria, Russia, a loose coalistion of Western countries and Sunni-regimes in the region. While most of the policy options may be framed as a search for the “least bad” policy to address this quagmire, there may be a path worth exploring to transform the situation ...

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Iran and Turkey are predominantly Islamic countries. Women since time immemorial share the same sentiments of male domination and severe violence and non-participation. On the other hand, both countries have women’s movements that are still in place up to this day. Both of the movements have ebbs and flows but they were able to withstand the wrath of patriarchy, and most importantly, they were able to fight back. From being marginalized and subjected to state fascism, women in Iran and Turkey are now enjoying some of the fruits of the long-running women’s movements. Their dreams of ...

Abstract

Fuelled by the protests that marred the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the 1979 Energy Crisis was caused a decline in oil production in Iran. The attack Iran by Iraq under the leadership of Saddam Hussein worsened the situation. Attack of Iran by Iraq almost brought to a halt oil production in Iran. The attack also causes a severe reduction in oil supply by Iraq. The 1979 Energy Crisis had a colossal impact on both the oil producing and oil consuming states. Nonetheless, the oil-consuming states such as the United States were more affected. The reaction of the populations affected by ...

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Introduction

Global warming refers to the gradual rise in the total temperature of the atmosphere of the earth. The rise in temperature is attributed to the effects of the greenhouse gases, which is caused by an increase in the levels of chlorofluorocarbons, carbon (IV) oxide and other pollutants. Global warming affects the climate system of the earth’s atmosphere by increasing both the terrestrial radiation and the radiation from the sun. The ozone is an essential element in the issue of global warming. The ozone absorbs the heat radiated from the sun and the surface of the earth, leading ...

Mohammed introduced Islam, or submission to God, to the people of Mecca in 610 (Ro). The religion combined some Jewish and Christian traditions and later on included set of laws influencing most aspects of life. The religion proved to be influential and an empire that included Central Asia and Spain was established. However, his death 1400 years ago caused a divide amongst the Muslims. Debates about who will succeed Mohammed ensued, with some saying that a qualified member should be the next successor, while the others insisting that the next ruler should come from Mohammed’s bloodline. In the ...

Shirin Ebadi was born June 21, 1947 in Hamadan (western Iran) in the family of a prominent Iranian lawyer and professor of commercial law. She graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Tehran. From 1975 to 1979 until the Islamic Revolution in Iran Shirin was the president of the city court of Tehran and she also was the first female-judge in this country. However, after the revolution, just like all other women she had to leave her post. But Ebadi did not leave the judicial system and took the position of clerk of the court. According to ...

Conflict in Syria

The conflict in Syria pits two sides against each other. On the one hand, there is the group loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and on the other hand those who are against his rule. The conflict has forced about nine million people to run away from their homes. The democracy protests started in March 2011 after a number of teenagers were arrested and tortured for painting anti-regime graffiti. The protests demanded the president’s resignation and by July 2011, the situation had escalated. In August 2013, hundreds of people were killed after rockets with the nerve agent sarin got ...

Iran Economics Analysis

Introduction and Data Presentation Iran's economy is one of the richest countries in Asia - the 18th in the world by volume of national production (according to the CIA, 2010) and the largest among the countries of Western Asia, the Middle East and OPEC. Iran in terms of GDP is the largest economy in the Islamic world after Turkey. The volume of GDP in 2011, $ 928.9 billion, GDP growth - 2.5%. At competitive occupies 23 place on innovation - 27, the index of the knowledge economy - 34th place among the other nations of the world. Iran possesses the ...

P5+1: Negotiations on Iran’s Uranium Enrichment Program Russia continues to demonstrate its political authority in international relations with little sign of relenting in its role to polarize the West from the rest. The manufactured crisis in Ukraine positions Russia as the charitable nation for ceding any control in eastern Ukraine, despite its role in orchestrating the crisis, not to mention its annexation of Crimea. In 2013 Russia acquired international recognition for beating back US threats of air strikes in Syria by convincing its Middle East ally to agree to terms to destroy its chemical weapons stockpile. And ...

Abstract

The project deals with the Iranian Revolution of 1979. The first sections considers such essential aspects as popular sentiments dominating the society, ideological groups taking part in the revolt, the unique nature of the Iranian Revolution that differentiated it from conventional European analogues, the factors of success, and rationales behind the revolt like corruption, repression, excessive westernization, economic reforms, and other reasons. The next sections give insight into the major achievements of the revolution and people who took part in the revolt and made accomplishments possible. The final chapter summarizes the focal points of the research. Keywords: revolution, Iran, ...

Yemen is facing internal conflicts of rebels who want to topple the government. The country is also facing hostile relationships with a number of Asian countries such as Iran and Kuwait. The country is accusing the Iran government of supplying the rebels with weapons and other military aids. Thus, the relation between the two countries is intense. Iran is in the process of setting up nuclear weapons and other chemical weapons of mass destruction facilities. Yemen, however, does not oppose Iran having nuclear weapons as long as it’s for peaceful purposes (Fulton et al., 2011). On the other ...

Arab spring is the series of mass street protests, revolutions and internal armed conflicts in several Arab countries, which began in late 2010 in Tunisia and continuing in some countries today. The impetus for the beginning of the protests was the self-immolation of Tunisian street fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi on 18 December 2010. His self-immolation was the protest against the tyranny of the police, who confiscated his goods. Consequently, in Tunisia began mass protests that led to the resignation of the president of Ben Ali on 14 January 2011. The success of the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia gave impetus ...

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: THE IRAN NUCLEAR CRISIS

Iran’s burgeoning nuclear activities seem to bear a threat as well as a challenge to international order. Iran has continued to mock the rule-based traditional system for preventing nuclear proliferation. In case the Islamic Republic decides to take a step further and weaponize the nuclear abilities of the country, the threat of war in the Middle Eastern region will become enhanced since Iran as well as its neighbors continue to modify themselves with the constant shifts in power and the stakes continue to grow higher.

Background

Nationalism in Iran coupled with the prevalent religious and ethnic tensions within the ...

US History

In 2012, critical acclaim, academy awards, and millions of box-office of dollars went towards the film Argo.1 A movie about the Middle East and terrorism, Argo touches upon this familiar topic in the United States. The film portrays a segment of the Iranian Hostage Crisis of 1979-1981; a tense period of 444 days in which fifty-three American hostages were seized from the American Embassy in Tehran.2 Argo chooses to ignore those fifty-three victims, and focuses on the successful escape of six Americans from the embassy in November 1979. Tony Mendez, the CIA operative who came up with the ridiculous, ...

Iran-United States Relations

Abstract This paper is on the topic of relation between the global superpower the United States of America and the Islamic republic of Iran. This paper will discuss the various events and their timeline in the history of this relation. The paper will identify the sources of conflict between these countries and the impact of these conflicts on these countries. The paper will cover events from 1953 to present and the role played by the United States in the development and changes in Iran in past 60 years. Finally, the paper will summarize the events with information in brief ...

Tropical moist climates (A): They have high precipitation and an average temperature of 18 0C. Tropical rainforest climate (Af), occur within 5-100 latitudes, average precipitation of 60 mm, temperature may up up to 250C, found in South and Central America. Tropical monsoon climate (Am) has rainfall less than 60 mm during the driest month e.g. South America. Tropical wet and dry or savanna (Aw) has pronounced dry and seasons with rainfall less than 60mm and less than 1125 annually e.g. Mumbai, India and Bangkok, Thailand. Dry climates (B): Experience precipitation less than the potential evapotranspiration. If the ...

1. Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi 's diary of experiencing childhood in Iran throughout the Islamic Revolution. In effective dark and-white funny cartoon pictures, Satrapi recounts the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the topple of the Shah's administration, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the crushing impacts of war with Iraq. The savvy and candid humor of submitted Marxists and the remarkable granddaughter of one of Iran's last heads, Marjane takes the stand concerning adolescence particularly weaved with the historical backdrop of her nation. Persepolis paints a life-changing picture of ...

The French Revolution (1789-1794)

The French Revolution was the democratic revolution of 1789-94 in France, which put an end to feudal-absolutist system and cleared the way for the development of capitalism. It was a natural result of a prolonged crisis of outdated feudal-absolutist system, the result of a crisis that reflected the growing conflict between the old, feudal relations of production and the new capitalist concepts and capitalist production. The main contradictions that predetermined the revolution were exacerbated with state bankruptcy, commercial and industrial crisis which began in 1787, lean years that resulted in famine all over France. In 1788 peasant uprisings swept ...

The struggle started with this news, when Hamid Karzai’s government quietly started to release prisoners from Bagram prison in 2013. Parwan Detention Facility or also called the Bagram Theater Internment Facility is located in U.S. airbase, in Bagram. This facility has a long dramatic history, were torturing dozens of prisoners were disclosed. The control of this prison was handed to Afghan Authorities in a small ceremony on September 10, 2012. Later the Afghan authorities started to classify the prisoners into two groups: The first group is identified as criminals and they’ll wait for criminal prosecution, the second ...

Lipstick Jihad is a book written by Azadeh Moaveni and centered on revisiting the forgotten memories of the Iranian. In this book, Azadeh Moaveni is presented as the daughter of immigrants from Iranians who was initially born in California just three years before Islamic Revolution began. Moaveni is portrayed as a memoir of Iranian growing up in America and thus American in Iran is her only account of how her childhood would have been if she grew up in her homeland (Moaveni 7). She moves back to Iran in her quest to search for her Iranian identity. According to ...

- In the six-way race for the presidency in Iran, the four conservatives that were aligned with the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khameneii finished last. Of these four, the frontrunner was Saeed Jalili, a close ally of Ayatollah Ali Khameneii and Iran’s nuclear negotiator. Saeed Jalili received a mere 11 percent of the vote. The victory went to the moderate candidate, Hassan Rowhani, who won by a significant margin with over 50 percent of the vote. Many Iranians were happy, if not surprised, that Rowhani won the election because previous elections in Iran, including the 2009 election, are ...

Introduction

Iraq War is one of modern world’s most long lasting conflicts. Having started in 2003 with the invasion of the U.S. armed forces in Iraq in 2003, aiming at changing existing political regime of Saddam Hussein, and ended only in 2011, the war was concerned with variety of long-term effects-related events for the people of Iraq, namely extremely high costs of the war, severe humanitarian crises and wide range of human rights abuses, being committed by Iraqi government, coalition forces and private contractors, as well as insurgent groups. With these events of war in mind I will be ...

In his article, ‘Are the Shia Rising?’, Maximilian Terhalle advances the argument that nothing could be further from the truth. He asserts that what is being termed as the ‘Shia rise’ is a phrase that was coined by various political players in the Gulf Region so as to enable them achieve their own selfish political interests. He however notes that while the role played by the Shia in the gulf region has increased significantly in the latter half of the last decade, this was not attributable to any goals of seeking political power. On the contrary, Terhalle argues that ...

Iran’s nuclear program development attracts massive international response and more prominence in USA, Britain and other foreign governments and the entire public. The dispute poses major fundamental questions about the nuclear non-proliferation regime given that its result could have a major negative effect on the regional and international security. The news media reporting is the one majorly entrusted with the role of providing a public understanding of most foreign affairs and in this case, the Iran’s nuclear program development. The news media play an essential role in framing the public’s understanding on various matters of interest. ...

Who is an ordinary person? This is a question that has numerous answers depending on various circumstances. Some of the conditions may include; the environment, the culture that surrounds the individual or what the person or society at large has been led to believe by their doctrines and each other’s expectation. One of the many definitions of an ordinary person is a person who often settles for expectations of the society and does whatever it takes for that approval. They put their wishes and desires aside fearing that changes may occur. They settle for less than what they ...

There has always been an urge for me to learn about different political structures and how political decisions are made. Political science is a major interest, because going to school in Tehran and the going to the Strayer University I learned about completely different governmental infrastructures. This has only led to feed my urge to know and learn more about political science. In Iran, the political style is is a mixture of theocracy and democracy. It can be very confusing to an outsider, because some officials are elected, while others are appointed by a specific person. This causes a ...

The hostage crisis in Iran was a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Iran. This happened between November 4, 1979 and January 20, 1981. During this period, fifty-two Americans were held hostage for 444 days in Iran (Samuels, Richard 176). The crisis started when a few Iranian students, who were supporting the Iranian Revolution took over the US Embassy in Tehran. During that period, President Carter referred to the hostages as victims of anarchy and terrorists. The hostage taking was a blow against America and its influence in Iran. The crisis undermined the Iranian revolution, and the support ...

The August 28, 2013 news article in the New York Times namely “Iran Slows Its Gathering of Uranium, Report Says” explains of the new position taken by Iran of slowing down the process of gathering Uranium which could be easily and swiftly converted into fuel for nuclear bombs. In this article, Broad discusses the first report made by international nuclear inspectors since the new president of Iran; Mr Rouhani took office. The international atomic energy agency has detailed in its quarterly report, the plans by Iran to expand the installation of a new generation of unconventional equipment for uranium ...

U.S. Keeps Eye on Iran Policy The September 2, 2013 news article in the New York Times namely “Drawing a Line on Syria, U.S. Keeps Eye on Iran Policy” says that as the US government pushes for punitive actions against the Syrian government; majority of the proponent of military action against Syria are of the opinion that a message should be conveyed to Iran in order to succeed. Unless the US enforces the sanctions against the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian administration; Iran may smell the weakness in the actions and instead push on with its nuclear ...

Introduction

Beginning in the 1970’s, the Shah of Iran began construction of a nuclear power plant in Bushehr. Although his overthrow in 1979 delayed Iran’s timetable for completing the plant, the newly established Islamic Republic turned to Russia and China to revitalize their program. Over the next 25 years, Iran eventually completed the Bushehr nuclear plant and to the dismay of International Atomic Energy Agency, United States, Israel, and Europe, embarked on a covert operation to reprocess uranium for use in a nuclear weapon. When coupled with Iran’s stated desire to destroy Israel, their ability to build ...

Introduction

Nuclear proliferation issue has essentially been a global worry since 1945. The two categories that is, unproclaimed and proclaimed nuclear club of states are deeply conscious of this issue of proliferation. Actually, all the states that fall under these two categories have largely agreed on the necessity to maintain nuclear club exclusivity. Nuclear proliferation policy terrain was much changed by fall of Soviet Union. For a long time, the Soviet Union and United States agreed on need for nonproliferation regime and cajoled, worked, and threatened the allies together with the others to refrain themselves from developing nuclear weapons. However, ...

Marjane Satrapi’s book Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, published by Pantheon Books of New York, NY in 2003, tells the author and artist’s own story of her childhood in Iran during the 1970s and 1980s during revolutionary times in her home country. Told in graphic novel or comic book form, Satrapi’s book illustrates what it was like to be a young girl growing up in Iran as regimes and social standards underwent monumental change. Presented from a young girl’s point of view, she navigates not only the typical hazards of growing up, but also ...

Geopolitics of a Region Is Determined By Its Resources

Introduction Geopolitics refers to the Physical and human geographical impact on foreign relations that accrue as a result of the resources a country possess. Geopolitics can also be viewed in an angle of a country’s economic dominance internationally in regard to what she produces. These factors can be natural or artificial which are of monetary value. Thus a country that is rich of natural resources like minerals dictates most of what other dependent countries does due to its command in the international market. There are vast resources a country or group of regional bodies can hold and make ...

Section 1

Nuclear Iran or Nuclear armed Iran has been a much source of debate off late. There have been different reactions from different lobbies to the Tehran’s much-feared nuclear program. Deliberations and talks on the topic have been going on between P5+1 countries and Iran to reach an amicable solution. While P5+1 countries led by US claim that Tehran already possesses nuclear weapons, Tehran has constantly declined the accusations and said that its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes and to ensure the power security in the nation. The secretive nature of Tehran’s nuclear program ...

Socio-Political Impact of Nuclear Power

The debate on the usability and safety of nuclear power has returned back to the limelight due to the on-going issue in Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant, and the growing number of nations trying to accumulate nuclear power for their national interest. Nuclear power remains as a crucial topic of national importance for many nations since the discussions for nuclear proliferation and disarmament took place after the Second World War. However, some nations had retained its use for electricity and for other applicable sciences. With the debate on nuclear power back due to the countries trying to harness such volatile ...

Iran’s Nuclear Threat

REGIONAL STABILITY, GLOBAL SECURITY Regional Stability, Global Security: Finding a Workable Answer to Iran’s Nuclear Threat In the modern world, “rogue” states have become adept at wielding the threat of nuclear weaponry in the global political arena and wringing concessions from developed nations that have, at best, an imprecise knowledge of whether, and at what stage of development, nations like North Korea and Iran possess nuclear capability. It is a matter of intense interest among America’s intelligence and diplomatic communities to determine whether the persistently belligerent regime in Iran seeks political leverage against Israel and the United ...

Introduction & Background

Since the onset of the 2000s, possible nuclear arms race in the Middle East region has been the focus of the international community. The past decade saw Iran attempts to install nuclear weaponry face harsh criticism and opposition from the western powers. The west believes that if the Persian state succeeds, the already volatile Middle East would be a threat against international peace. Presently, according to intelligence reports, Israel is believed to possess nuclear weaponry though the current regime led by Benjamin Netanyahu continues to deny this. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty does not recognize Israel as a ...

The Issue

PKK is the Kurdish Worker’s Party, which under the leadership of Abdulla Ocalan, has been fighting to attain an autonomous Kurdistan from the state of Turkey (START, 2013). Abdulla Ocalan is credited to forming the party in 1978 in Fis, a village in the neighborhood of Lice (Songun, 2009). The ideology of the PKK has been based on Kurdish nationalism and socialism, where Ocalan has been advocating his ideas using orthodox Marxism. It was only until 1984 when this group started to utilize armed struggles against the Turkish government, as it sought to have their Kurdish rights recognized ...

Iran is a country of geographical and political importance as it is located in Middle East and central Eurasia. It is the eighteenth largest country in the world. Iran holds a powerful position in its region and also the world economy due to its petroleum and natural gas resources. It has the second largest natural gas reserves and fourth largest petroleum reserves in the world (CIA). The current constitution of Iran came into being in 1979 and has been enforced since then. The highest authority in the country is the Supreme Leader followed by the President. Currently the Supreme ...

Introduction

Over many years, the debate on how to solve issues related to Iran nuclear program have been on the rise and has since gained the attention of many countries across the globe. Though countries like Germany, France, and United Kingdom have shown considerable efforts towards solving these issues, United States have proved fervent and eager towards finding a long lasting solution or rather solutions to issues regarding the nuclear program of Iran. For this reason, debates, and differing perceptions, regarding the best solutions to adopt have being brought to the table. Though no apparent solution have been found as ...

Theory and Ideology

There is enough evidence by researchers as to the main sources related to the United States Policy on the Iranian Nuclear Program. United States has highly regarded itself as a nation with highly reputable national identity and ideology. This has been the basis of arguments for the development of protective mechanisms making the U.S influence the policies of foreign countries such as Iran (Hedges 2003). The above policies resulted to Iran reacting by placing Uranium Fuel as its first weapon in countering the U.S policies. There is no clear verification as to whether Iran will proceed to manufacture weapons ...

Iran War was not worth it because it increased Iran’s Influence due to the removal of Saddam Hussein as a regional “balancer.”

The United States has for a long time used the tactic of shifting alliances between Iraq and Iran so as to balance power in the Persian Gulf. This can be traced back to 1953 when the United States overthrew the Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq and substituted him with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.1 This move by the United States to overthrow Mossadeq was meant to contain the influence of the Soviet ...

Facebook users have gone crazy over the foreign policy conflict between Iran and Israel over Iran’s continued desire to have nuclear weapons. The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu argued for a “clear red line” to be drawn by the international community to defeat Iran’s attempt to have a nuclear weapon. In his United Nation General Assembly address, Netanyahu argued that if Iran posses the nuclear weapon, then no one in the world would be safe. Netanyahu went further to argue that Iran was on the verge of having a substantial amount of uranium to build a ...

Management

Introduction Evans (2011) has described the torturous and frustrating series of negotiations that occurred between the USA and Iran over the issue of capping of Iran’s nuclear program in exchange of lifting of sanctions. The negotiation process reflects the tenets and concepts necessary for negotiating across cultures as highlighted by Lewicki, Barry & Saunders (2015).

Summary

Evans (2011) traces the difficulties in the current negotiations on the nuclear issue between the USA and Iran to a number of factors. He attributes the 1953 Coup of Iran and the 1979 hostage crisis that manifested in the 1979 Islamic Revolution as landmark ...

Current Situation

The nuclear program of Iran is currently the world’s most polarizing issue. While European and American have a believe that Tehran have a plan of building nuclear weapons, the leadership of Iran argues that the sole aim of developing the nuclear program is simply to generate electricity without dipping into the oil supply that is meant to be sold abroad and offer fuel to the country’s medical reactors. A report by international nuclear inspectors shows that Iran has already put in place three quarters of its nuclear centrifuges that is needed for completing deep underground site meant ...

In 2010, Michael Powell, the former chairman of the U.S. Federal Communication Commission (FCC) wrote an op-ed in which he endorsed a universal “national broadband plan,” to provide high speed internet to all Americans. He argued that it was a question of equality, because high speed internet access was “the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve the American Dream“ (Powell). Such government funded universal internet already exists in Switzerland, Finland, and Taiwan, and proponents of such ...

Poor Intercultural communication

Intercultural communication is a term used to explain the wide range of communication problems that appear within a group comprising of individuals from different cultural social, religious, ethnic, and educational backgrounds. It tries to comprehend how people from culturally different countries communicate, act and perceive their world. Culture determines how people encode messages, the type of medium they choose for transmitting the message, and the way in which the message is interpreted.

Relationship between Iran and USA

The relationship between Iran and the USA is currently extremely poor. There is no formal diplomatic relations between the two countries. There are many reasons for this ...

Abstract

The concept of the death penalty is one of the world’s most sensitive issues due to the fact countries are divided over its use and validity. While there are nations who have slowly removed the death penalty in their penal code, there are states who still see its worth and continue to practice it against the worst criminals in their history. Currently, countries like the United States and Iran continue the practice of the capital punishment despite the controversies regarding their executions and the nature of death penalty itself. However, it is visible that both nations varied extensively ...

Abstract August 21, 2010 was the date set for nuclear fuel to be weighed down to the first reactor at Bushehr. This was an announcement by the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency. The action would make the Bushehr resource be approved as a procedural power plant. The transfer of fuel to the facility was approximated to take a week. Bushehr fissile resource interested a number of controversies the United States inclusive. The reactor was designed with Russian specifications despite an agreement to be the central of a German-designed counter. At Bushehr, two reactors were present; one at its advanced ...

The Hostage Crisis, a Key to Understanding Modernity

In the history of human civilisation, there were very few ages characterised by stability and even less as peace. As no other species humanity can be characterised by warfare and conflicting nature of behaviour. There is probably no such region in the world, where there would not be various conflicts and were war did not take place. On the other hand, there are those regions where conflicts are transferred with mother's milk. The region of Middle East is the best example of such region. The Arab-Israeli conflict was a cornerstone of regional, interstate relations for almost two millennia. That ...

New York Times (1975) Iran will spend $15 billion in US over five years. Retrieved 15th April 2012 from: http://iranaffairs.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/15_billion_deal.

The article explains the genesis of the Iranian nuclear program and its relationship with US. The newspaper article reported that the US and Iran had signed a major economic agreement in which Iran would purchase American goods worth $15 billion over a five-year period. Moreover, the Iranian government would spend $7 billion to develop eight nuclear power plants in a 10-year period to generate 8,000 Megawatts of power.

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Section 1. Before reading the book by Marjane Satrapi “Persopolis” I must admit that I knew quite sufficient information about the Islamic Iranian revolution, without a too thorough knowledge of details, though. The following is literally the background I had for the last couple of years, definitely prior to reading the book. So, the Islamic Iranian revolution was a chain of developments that happened in Iran in 1979 and which resulted in overthrowing the shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi who later became a fugitive and fled to the United States of America. In the wake of the revolution not only ...

Iran’s possible acquisition of nuclear weapons should always be considered as part of a much broader strategic, economic and political context, especially since the U.S. has always regarded it as a vital interest since the 1940s and 1950s because of its strategic location and vast oil reserves. For this reason, the CIA overthrew the government of Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953 when he nationalized the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (British Petroleum), and then supported the Shah until the Islamic Revolution of 1979 (Gaddis 2005). Certainly a case could be made that Iran opted out of the Cold War at that ...

Political realism, liberalism and constructivism are three theories alive in international relations today. However, throughout history, one theory outshines the rest by continuously playing a vital role in world-wide affairs. From on-going wars to daily foreign policy acts, the philosophy of realism is applied more often than not. Realism looks at the uncertainty that exists between nations and how the various conflicts in the world need to be followed accordingly, without trust. This theory can be appropriately applied to events today and many historical conflicts over the centuries.

Comparatively, liberalism is a theory that, although it already existed, transformed ...