Advanced Placement

Comparative Government


ISLAMIC REPUBLIC of IRAN

"Familiarize the people with the truth of Islam so that the next generation may not think that the men of religion in the mosques of Qum and al-Najaf believe in the separation of church from state."

-Ayatollah Ali Khameini

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei


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Questions and Concepts:
Vocabulary: 

ayatollah

theocracy

Majles

fatwa

Guardian Council

Supreme Leader

Farsi

Shi'ism

People of the Book

Qu'ran

Shari'a

bazaars

fundamentalism

jurist's guardianship

mosque

pasdaran

imam

Hezbollah

hojjat al-Islam

jihad

rentier state

dual society

OPEC

Imam Jum'ehs

Foundation of the Oppressed

Assembly of Experts

maslahat

Expediency Council

Ruhollah Khomeini

Ali Rafsanjani

Mohammed Khameini

Mohammed Khatami

Shah Reze Pahlavi

SAVAK

White Revolution

Tudah Party