My stunning canvas by Gabriel Ricardo Sorondo Guirola (Yr. 17-19) https://padlet.com/gabrielg1/evxe1qu2khdu Made with panache en-us 2018-01-18 16:48:56 UTC 2025-11-17 10:51:26 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Send.png When and how did the Shah of Iran come to power? gabrielg1 https://padlet.com/gabrielg1/evxe1qu2khdu/wish/222513028 Mohammad Reza Shah took the title of Shah on 26 October 1967, following a coup'd'etat orchestrated by the United States and the United Kingdom due to discontent regarding the nationalization of Iranian oil by Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.

]]> 2018-01-18 16:56:11 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielg1/evxe1qu2khdu/wish/222513028 gabrielg1 https://padlet.com/gabrielg1/evxe1qu2khdu/wish/222515352 2018-01-18 17:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielg1/evxe1qu2khdu/wish/222515352 gabrielg1 https://padlet.com/gabrielg1/evxe1qu2khdu/wish/222519854 2018-01-18 17:09:32 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielg1/evxe1qu2khdu/wish/222519854 What kind of government did the Shah lead? gabrielg1 https://padlet.com/gabrielg1/evxe1qu2khdu/wish/222521582 A monarchy, that lead the country into a complete westernization disguised as a modernization, suppressing the current culture of Iran alongside with any opposition to his monarchy.]]> 2018-01-18 17:13:17 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielg1/evxe1qu2khdu/wish/222521582 gabrielg1 https://padlet.com/gabrielg1/evxe1qu2khdu/wish/222522950 2018-01-18 17:16:21 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielg1/evxe1qu2khdu/wish/222522950 When and how did the Shah lose power? gabrielg1 https://padlet.com/gabrielg1/evxe1qu2khdu/wish/222523969 The Shah lost power during his whole monarchy due to the policies he was following and the unrest he was causing around the mostly Shi'a community. The high amount of political prisoners (2,200). Policies against traditional merchants and corruption claims caused the people to break from unrest into a coup d'etat that will take place during the Iranian Revolution, on the 11 of February 1979.]]> 2018-01-18 17:18:20 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielg1/evxe1qu2khdu/wish/222523969 gabrielg1 https://padlet.com/gabrielg1/evxe1qu2khdu/wish/222526240 2018-01-18 17:23:18 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielg1/evxe1qu2khdu/wish/222526240 What role did Islamic fundamentalists play? gabrielg1 https://padlet.com/gabrielg1/evxe1qu2khdu/wish/222526659 They played a big role, since they believed that the Shah's modernization would erase any of their current culture, especially those of the more conservative ideals. The Islamic fundamentalists also engaged into a nasty throw of insults, which surrounded homosexuality and claims about not belonging to Iran (the government did too with the Islamic fundamentalists).]]> 2018-01-18 17:24:15 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielg1/evxe1qu2khdu/wish/222526659 "Shah Left" gabrielg1 https://padlet.com/gabrielg1/evxe1qu2khdu/wish/222528178 2018-01-18 17:27:22 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielg1/evxe1qu2khdu/wish/222528178 Who took over after he lost power? gabrielg1 https://padlet.com/gabrielg1/evxe1qu2khdu/wish/222529712 Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini. A Shi'a Muslim religious leader and a political leader that became the founder of the Islamic Republic. Afterwards he became the Supreme Leader of Iran and started to impose more conservative ideals over the country, in order to erase the Shah's westernization.]]> 2018-01-18 17:30:43 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielg1/evxe1qu2khdu/wish/222529712 gabrielg1 https://padlet.com/gabrielg1/evxe1qu2khdu/wish/222533517 2018-01-18 17:38:40 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielg1/evxe1qu2khdu/wish/222533517 What relation did his exile have to the Iranian hostage crisis? gabrielg1 https://padlet.com/gabrielg1/evxe1qu2khdu/wish/222534210 The opening scene of the movie, Argo, does a good explanation of this relation who is severely complicated to write about:

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