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Gender Roles: Islamic Style Gender Roles

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Gender Roles: Islamic Style Gender Roles

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This image shows Iranian girls in a school classroom. Males & females are separated in school and you will only find male & female schools. No gender integrated schools exist for Islams. Females are very strong figures in the home, but in public, are not allowed to do many things such as kiss their partner or talk without permission. Mothers of daughters are tasked with arranging their marriages. Most Iranian females get married at around age 21.

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This image shows an Iranian slum. Slums in Iran are kept isolated away from tourist areas, or the capital of Tehran. In Iran, the rich and powerful don’t dress in very nice clothes, and those in debt could dress in suits and drive nice cars. The poor and rich do have a symbiotic relationship. The inferior provide services and food, and the rich and superior “pay” them.

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This image shows an oil plant in Iran. Oil is one of Iran's biggest important since it was discovered in 1980. It accounts for around 14% of the countries whole gross domestic product! Iran also has a big agricultural trade ranging from pistachios to green beans. Iran also produces textile products such as shoes, shirts, pants, and hats. They have had reports of child labor in these textile factories though. Many western countries have trade sanctions on Iran which weakens their economy.

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This image shows a petrochemical plant in Iran. There are various other industrial sectors that provide for the GDP such as farming, oil mining, and sharecropping. Mass sharecropping occurs in Iran because the landlords of the farmland rarely visit the farms, but offer low paying jobs to keep the farms in production. Iran was mostly a farming industry before 1979, when oil was found and an oil industry was born.

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This image shows two teenagers being executed by the state for homosexuality. Iran is a Islamic Republic and therefore uses extreme punishments for sins committed within the religion. Some other laws set in place by the Republic follow muslim rules such as public affection (ie. kissing) can land you in prison. Muslims are not permitted to drink alcohol in Iran and that can be punished by lashes. These islamic laws are not applicable to other religious factions living in Iran.

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This image shows Iranian Supreme leader discussing with the Assembly of Experts. To the Supreme Leader’s left, sits the president of Iran. Iran is an Islamic Republic and follows strict Islamic Laws centered around the Shia Islam religion.

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This image shows a civilian tearing down a statue of the final Shah of Iran, Mohammad Pahlavi. Massive civil reforms for a more islamic government caused the coup of the Shah’s government. The Shah’s government was replaced with a theocratic, semi-democratic, authoritarian, Islamic republic government in which the highest position is Supreme Leader.

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This picture shows a few 20 year olds wearing semi-western fashions and intermingling between genders. Those were many political freedoms Islamic Iranians had before the overthrow of the Shah in 1979. After the new government was put in place, strict Islamic rules were set in place restricting such freedoms. The shah was the king of Iran and ruled from 1501-1979.

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Though shia islam is that state religion, minorities of other religions are existent in Iran such as Judaism & Christianity. This image shows an Iranian Jew praying in a synagogue.  There are only roughly 8,500 jews living in Iran. Almost one hundred percent of all jews living in Iran have had generations of family there prior to them. The christian population ranges from about 300,000-370,000.

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This image shows hundreds of Shia Iranians praying on a Friday afternoon. Shia islam is the state reglion in Iran and around ninty five percent of the iranian population are shiites. They celebrate various islamic holidays such as Eid Al-Fitr, where shiites celebrate the end of the month of Ramadan.

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Iran has many agricultural and natural resource exports such as pistachios. Iran controls about 50% of the worlds pistachio distribution. They grow more pistachios than any other country in the whole world yearly. They are mainly grown in Bardeskan. Iran also produces a lot of oil.

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Iran has a very diverse climate ranging from tropical to arid. This is a volcano near the caspian coast, which is a tropical climate. Though the capsian coast is tropical the majority of Iran is arid. Due to its location on the equator, Iran has higher temperatures.