Iran C

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's white coup was meant to

• overthrow the shah
• secularize the country
• strengthen the Majles
• drive the Sunnis from the country
• eliminate the reformists

The largest single ethnic group in Iran is

• Arab
• Azeri
• Kurd
• Persian v. Arabic
• Gilaki

Which of the following groups is most likely to be critical of the current regime in Iran?

• the peasantry
• urban working class
• the clergy
• the lower middle class
• middle and upper-middle class

Clergy who favor liberal economic policies that encourage foreign trade, free markets, and direct foreign investment are called

• radical clerics
• pragmatic conservatives
• hard-liners
• statists
• populists

The "Tehran spring" under the presidency of Muhammad Khatami (1997-2005) is best described as a time of

• alienation from the West
• restriction of individual civil liberties
• cautious political liberalization
• repudiation of the basic tenets of Islam
• diversification of the Iranian economy

The largest protests in recent Iranian history occurred after

• 9/11

• the selection of Ali Khamenei as Supreme Leader

• the 2005 election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president

• the 2009 election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president

• the 2013 election of Hassan Rouhani as president

Compared to China and Mexico, women in Iran are

• less equally represented in the legislature
• more likely to have large families
• less likely to go to college
• more likely to have positions in the executive branch
• almost completely absent from the paid labor force

Unlike the party system in Mexico, Iran's party system

• is relatively stable
• is organized into two large parties that dominate the others
• has a number of parties that have been banned but are still active
• is less factionalized
• encourages discussion of policymaking alternatives

Elections to the Majles and the presidency are conducted according to

• plurality with no runoffs
• plurality, with two rounds so that winners will get a majority
• proportional representation
• combined plurality and proportional representation for Majles, the Majles, plurality for the presidency
• the rules of an electoral college

Which type of candidate for elected office has the Guardian Council most often banned?

• hard-line conservative
• radical cleric
• statist
• free-marketer
• reformist