HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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Question
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The Shah wanted Iran to be more modern and free; the Ayatolah and traditional Iranians didn’t like that
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The Shah wanted to give women more freedom and the vote; the Ayatolah and the traditional Shia saw women as half a person.
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The Shah was friendly with the United States and supported Israel; the Ayatolah and the traditional Shia saw the US and Israel as enemies.
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Shah died in exile in Egypt, where he had been granted asylum by President Anwar Sadat.
Detailed explanation-2: -President Nixon, who had first met the Shah in 1953, regarded him as a modernizing anticommunist statesman who deserved American support now that the British were withdrawing from the region.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was the architect of the Iranian Revolution and the first leader (rahbar) of the Islamic republic established in 1979. He articulated the concept of velāyat-e faqīh (“guardianship of the jurist”) using a historical basis, which underlay Iran’s Islamic republic.
Detailed explanation-4: -Reza Shah then decided to abdicate, to allow his son and heir, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, to adopt a policy appropriate to the new situation, and to preserve his dynasty. He wanted to go to Canada, but the British government sent him first to Mauritius and then to Johannesburg, where he died in July 1944.