CAS ME 101 : EGYPT & IRAN
11 Dec 2014
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Mubarak used the courts to ban protestful action subsidies have been reduced by necessity - Imf wants all subsidies to be dropped and decrease state employment. Islamism came to the middle east very forcefully in 1979 and it came from iran - unexpected, brought a 65 yr old clergyman to power khomeini took down the sha who had been supportive of the. Ahmad http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/white_revolution the sha was installed by the us to begin with mossadogh - http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/mohammad_mosaddegh http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/guardianship_of_the_islamic_jurists - khomeini inflated this to supervision by and of the state, like he was the supreme court. Shiite women seemed to get to the point being denied access to public space for reasons of dress, where they utilized dress as protest and entered the political sphere people who opposed. Khomeini were easily opposed by khomeini by appealing to ideas of national security - put fear in peoples eyes, calling protest treason.
