https://padlet.com/annamao/shah Please read the following primary source from an Iranian in 1979. en-us 2018-01-26 03:34:01 UTC 2018-02-01 01:19:55 UTC hello@padlet.com annamao https://padlet.com/annamao/shah/wish/224929835 Under the Shah education was a means of pacification. Our history books were full of lies about the glories of the Iranian dynasties, and they encouraged racism towards non-Persian-speaking minorities in Iran as well as nearby nations. Yet the universities remained a bulwark of opposition to the Shah and his cultural aggression.

]]> 2018-01-26 03:51:59 UTC https://padlet.com/annamao/shah/wish/224929835 joanna_he111 https://padlet.com/annamao/shah/wish/224938080 Mohammad Reza [then] replaced his father on the throne (September 16, 1941).
With U.S. assistance Mohammad Reza then proceeded to carry out a national development program, called the White Revolution, that included construction of an expanded road, rail, and air network, a number of dam and irrigation projects, the eradication of diseases such as malaria, the encouragement and support of industrial growth, and land reform. In the 1960s and ’70s the shah sought to develop a more independent foreign policy and established working relationships with the Soviet Union and eastern European nations.
The White Revolution solidified domestic support for the shah, but he faced continuing political criticism from those who felt that the reforms did not move far or fast enough and religious criticism from those who believed westernization to be antithetical to Islam. ]]> 2018-01-26 05:36:43 UTC https://padlet.com/annamao/shah/wish/224938080 joanna_he111 https://padlet.com/annamao/shah/wish/224938404 The Shah systematically dismantled the judicial system of Iran and the country's guarantees of personal and social liberties. His regime consistently violated the codes of law and justice, destroying the dignity of our people by treating them like backward savages to be pulled with an iron hand out of the middle ages into the light of the modern era. Nearly every source of creative, artistic and intellectual endeavor in our culture was suppressed.]]> 2018-01-26 05:41:27 UTC https://padlet.com/annamao/shah/wish/224938404 joanna_he111 https://padlet.com/annamao/shah/wish/224938428 The media said little about the 80 percent of peasant families remaining landless, about the growing shanty towns holding the displaced peasants, the misery and alienation of these people ripped from their traditional way of life and subject to new economic and cultural pressures.]]> 2018-01-26 05:41:44 UTC https://padlet.com/annamao/shah/wish/224938428 joanna_he111 https://padlet.com/annamao/shah/wish/224938439 SAVAK conducted most of the torture, under the friendly guidance of the CIA.
The Shah greatly expanded the military and turned it against his own people. With newfound oil wealth the Shah bought $2C million of U.S. arms. The U.S. military trained Iranian officers. Despite claims that a strong army was needed to prevent external aggression, its real purpose became clear last year when the army murdered more than 50,000 Iranians fighting the Shah.]]> 2018-01-26 05:42:01 UTC https://padlet.com/annamao/shah/wish/224938439 joanna_he111 https://padlet.com/annamao/shah/wish/224938470 Our people have experienced enormous physical and spiritual suffering under the Shah… If existing laws can be amended overnight to intimidate Iranian students, why cannot the same laws be changed to require the extradition of criminals like the Shah?]]> 2018-01-26 05:42:32 UTC https://padlet.com/annamao/shah/wish/224938470 joanna_he111 https://padlet.com/annamao/shah/wish/224938537 In what ways/areas did the people feel the Shah was oppressing them in contrast with actual historical events?What does this show about Iranians' attitude toward the government in 1979?]]> 2018-01-26 05:43:27 UTC https://padlet.com/annamao/shah/wish/224938537 joanna_he111 https://padlet.com/annamao/shah/wish/224991308 “Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.” Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 30 Nov. 2017, Accessed 27 Jan 2018. www.britannica.com/biography/Mohammad-Reza-Shah-Pahlavi.
“Life Under The Shah.” The Harvard Crimson, The Harvard Crimson, Inc. 6 Dec. 1979, Accessed 27 Jan 2018. www.thecrimson.com/article/1979/12/6/life-under-the-shah-pit-was/.]]> 2018-01-26 10:33:33 UTC https://padlet.com/annamao/shah/wish/224991308 annamao https://padlet.com/annamao/shah/wish/225522619 What groups does the narrator describe to be the most oppressed? What is the similarity between these groups?]]> 2018-01-29 08:51:30 UTC https://padlet.com/annamao/shah/wish/225522619