Iran

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Which of the following is the best description of the "Tehran spring" under khatami

A period of cautious political liberation

Which of the following would be most likely to support state provided welfare benefits for Iran's poor

A radical cleric

Which of the following is the most important reason the reformists lost control of the majles after the 2004 elections

The reformer splintered into different political parties the conservatives were united in one-party

Contrast to the queen of England the supreme leader of iran

Is not a figurehead

Important economic reform initiated by achnebidenjad 2010 was to

Allows secularist to participate in setting economic policy

Who has the power to remove the supreme leader?

Assembly of religious experts

Since 1989 one of the few checks on the supreme leader's power is the right of the

Assembly of religious experts to remove him from office

Which of the following is a similarity between the policymaking process in China and Iran

Both countries the president has ultimate authority over all other officials

What describes the allytoyah Khomeini?

Charasmatic

In contrast to the Safavid rulers of Iran, the Qajars rulers

Could not claim to be descendants of the 12 imams

Which of the following was not a democratic feature of Iran's constitution in 1906

Creation of the Guardian Council

Which of the following is the best description of Iranian party system

Iran's party system is factionalized and parties are fluid and weak

Iran's emergence as a rentier state under the pahlavis meant that the state

Did not have to rely on internal taxes for support

Policymaking faction that almost always stands in opposition to the statists are the

Free marketers

In order to win the election a presidential candidate must win at least 50% of the popular vote in

Iran and russia

Which of the following is a unique characteristic of the iranian political system that distinguishes it from other countries?

Iran is a theocracy

The two most important policymaking body's in Iran are the

Majles an guardian council

Ht is a conservative more likely to support?

More power for the supreme leader

The days of protests that followed the presidential election of 2008 were led by the supporters of

Mousavi

The largest ethnicity in Iran is

Persian

In contrast to political cultures in neighboring countries Iran's polical culture is strongly influenced by

Persian cultural roots

The highest official representing democratic principles in iran is the

President

What bodies are elected?

President, majles, assembly of religious experts

The main goal of the culture revolution that followed up adoption of the constitution of 1979 was to

Purify the country from secular values and beliefs

Ahmadinejads white coup has been waged againts

Reformers

What is a defining characteristic of the Iranian state

Religious character of the state

Which of the following are directly elected by Iranian voters

Representative of the majles the president and members of the assembly of religious experts

In Iran the ultimate legal authority lies in?

Sharia

The authority of Iran has a solid base in the religious principles of

Shiism

What describes the pahlavi dynasty?

Stressed modernization

Members of which of the following governing bodies and Iran must be clerics

The assembly of religious experts

The atatolah Khomeini interpreted velayat-e-faqih to mean that

The clergy have full authority over the entire shia community

Which of the following is not an important influence on the modern state from Iran's political culture

Totalitarianism

Contrast the political systems in Britain Russia in Mexico the political system in Iran has a

Unicameral legislature

A similarity between China's revolution of 1949 and Iran's revolution in 1979 was that both revolutions

Were Led by charismatic figures

Which of the following is an accurate description of the status of women in Iranian society

Women are well respected as doctors an government employees

Iran's most important international membership today is probably the

World trade organization


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