Iran Unit Terms

1. Assembly of Religious experts

2. ayatollahs

3. bazaaris

4. bonyads

5. Constitutions of 1906 and 1979

6. Expediency Council

7. fundamentalism

8. Guardian Council

9. Guardianship of the jurists (velayat – e – faqih)

10. imam

11. islamicists

12. Majles

13. Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

14. rentier state

15. rents

16. shah

17. Mossadegh

18. Shi’ism

20. Sunnis

21. supreme leader

22. White Revolution

23. Theocracy

24. Farsi

25. Qur’an

26. Shari’a

27. coup d’etat

28. Islamism (political islam)

29. Hezbollahis

30. dual society

31. linkage institutions (media, political parties)

32. Import substitution Industrialization (Mexico, Iran)

33. PPP Purchasing Power Parity (think effects of sanctions)

34. Unitary

35. Qanun (statutes)