IRAN IRAQ WAR

Iran Iraq War

Iran Iraq War

Introduction

Iraq has an ancient cultural history and civilization. The country has had a history of multilingual people that can communicate in many languages. The identity of the people surpasses the language boundaries, and is more linked with geography. While there are many ethnic groups, the citizens belonging to the ancient civil culture and custom of multilingualism, have had healthy inter mutual relations, and advocated a common identity. Approximately 80 % of Iraqis are Arab, while some 15-20% of them are Kurds. The Kurds are a unique ethnic group with their own language, history and culture and are based in Northern Iraq. The country has two major religious sects namely Shiite and Sunni Muslims. During the tenure of Saddam Hussein, who was a Sunni, the Shiite was a minority. This has changed currently; the Shiites are in power and the dominant group. The division in these two sects is the presently the most unpredictable.

US-Iranian relations are not just a long process of confrontation in the past 20 years, but a complex, multi-factorial process that involves the interests of many countries in the region of "Greater Middle East", Russia, Europe, China and India. With the existence of the Islamic state in Iran, the country has become a powerful regional military region that cannot tolerate subordination or accountability. Iran's Strategic error of rejection of its priorities in the world that is the U.S. and many of the Western community members may be the result of the reform processes that are taking place in the country and are associated with the policy team. This view is connected, as Euro-centric notions of democracy and civil society, as well as the experience of the collapse of the Soviet political system. Yet among the Western intellectuals and politicians is an increased awareness that Iran is an Islamic civil society that needs to be considered in the dynamics. This paper shall be dealing with a multi-factorial examination of US-Iranian political relations, the role and importance of policies leading powers and states in the region in the development of US-Iranian relations.

Discussion

The Iran Iraq war and the fundamentalist religious beliefs imposed on the naive mind of the writer created the conflict of thoughts and understanding towards the way of living life. The writer who was forced to wear the veil at the age of 10, searched for her true identity by fighting against what was right and wrong in the prevailing conditions of that era. The novel evidently reflects the conflict between the Islamic culture in Iran and the 'avant-garde' life style of Satarpi and her family were living. Persepolis is the memoir of a young woman who grew up in the midst of the national conflicts of 1970 between Iran and Iraq.

The division between the Sunni and Shiite beliefs of Islam starts from the 7th Century when there was a conflict over who would be the leader of the Muslims after the passing away of Prophet ...