After the defeat of Saddam Hussein regiment, Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki of Iraq excluded Iraqi Sunnis from having any power in the government and favored the majority in population: the Shia. ... Among them was the use of Iraq's counterterrorism laws which would allow him to imprison Sunnis in Iraq. ... After government troops began opening fire on civilians, Syrians organized and began arming themselves to protect themselves from government violence. ... Lee Smith of The Weekly Standard, says "Iraq's new prime minister, Haidar al-Abadi--named to the post by Quds Force commander ...

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People no longer feel that the government should have control over the religion of the country and the government. For the time being the government in Iran have control over the religious and government policies in this region of the world. ... The end of this regime came in 1979 when the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who was in exile in Iraq, came up with a new version of Islam called Islamic fundamentalism, called for the overthrow of the Pahlavis monarch. ... One reason that this government began so well was the Iraqi invasion in 1980 brought the country together. ... Since these two...

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She was faced by a very strict, pure form of Islam introduced by the Iranian government in order to erase Persian history. Since having lived in the two cultural contexts of Iraq and the USA, Neshat is able to examine the cultural concerns of individual beings in a metaphorical and poetic way. ... The inscriptions tell of a man who died in the Iran/Iraq conflict of the 1980's. ...

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The show more Kosovo refugees because the government and therefore the media needed to show the public that "The side of righteous America is pitted against the twisted Taliban, or Milosevic, or Iraq, or Noriega, etc". The truth has been manipulated as the government needed to justify the bombing of Kosovo to the public, and therefore used the "humanitarian" approach "endless coverage of the refugees on TV made the war for "humanitarian intervention" seem like a noble goal", manipulating the truth to suite the story that the media needed. ... This manipulation gets them ratings and pleases the...

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After the Mongols, much of the Middle East also had Mongolian features, including much of its government and economic systems. ... The Ayyubid state was only in control of small parts of Iraq and Syria and thus only made the Mongol invasion of the Middle East a bit more significant in their addition to the Ilkhanate Horde. ...

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A new government was installed, lead by the National Front leader Shahpour Bakhtiar. ... Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini then declared Bakhtiar's government illegal. ... Khomenei then appointed Liberation Movement leader Mehdi Bazargan to head a new provisional government. ...

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It has long been debated by many that Islam promotes inequality, it could be argued that if one does not look deeper into the matter, it would seem like that would be the case. What one can tend to do is solely blame it on religion; which is often the case. Looking at Middle Eastern states such as S...

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