POL 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Revolution, Theocracy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2101
• Professor: Andre Lecours

Document Summary

If sufficient international technical/financial assistance, a further 34% reduction possible. Increase energy efficiency 2% per year, increase use of natural gas, increase use of nuclear power: renewables to generate 5,000 mw by 2015. Used to be modern but now conservative. Lot of protests (by students mostly, done with fear) Revolution 1906-7 brought constitution and elected parliament: but subverted by reza khan. Known as persia until 1935 renaming of iran. Pahlavi dynasty 1925-79: hah eza kha(cid:374) + so(cid:374): (cid:862)moder(cid:374)izi(cid:374)g tyra(cid:374)ts(cid:863, allied with americans. 1979 revolution: led by ayatollah khomeini from abroad. Approach: central planning, village agriculture, and small-scale private and service ventures: budget problems due to state subsidization. Dependence on oil and gas revenues: world(cid:859)s 2nd largest economy, 45% of the governments budget. All laws (cid:373)ust (cid:272)o(cid:374)for(cid:373) to shari(cid:859)a a(cid:374)d (cid:272)lergy are ulti(cid:373)ate i(cid:374)terpreters. Council of guardians vets all political candidates: can bar candidates from contesting parliamentary elections, women may vote, run for office, president is elected.