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Iran, Iraq: What’s the Difference?
Lisa AdeliUniversity of Arizona
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
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http://www.cuttingedge.org/map-syria-iraq-iran.jpg
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Similarities:
• Several hundred years of common history.• Regional identity and shared traditions
(close association).• Both have a Shi’a Muslim majority and
share pilgrimage sites.• Both write their languages in the same
alphabet and share some common terms.
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Differences:
• Several thousand years of separate history (in modern times, for example, Iran was not part of the Ottoman Empire).
• Different enemies (in modern times). • Iranian traditions shaped by Zoroastrian
religion; Iraq influenced by Sunni Islam.• Different languages (Iran’s main language
is Persian; Iraq’s is Arabic.)
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Babylon, Iraq
www.uoregon.edu/~klio/im/ane/Babylon%20-%20Stadtansicht%20-%20Zeichnung.jpg
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Persepolis, Iran
http://tabisite.com/gallery_as/iran/h940821persepolis_lion.JPG
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~rs143/Resources/Pics/rels143a.jpg
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http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iraq/facility/map-iraq.gif
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Euphrates River, Iraq
http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=1730&rendTypeId=4
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Desert in Iraq
http://www.snifflegear.com/Photos/Iraqi%20Desert%202.jpg
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Dohuk Province, Iraq
http://travel.u.nu/pic/iq/4642.jpg
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Baghdad, Iraq
http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=58693&rendTypeId=4
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http://biglizards.net/Graphics/ForegroundPix/IranMapSized.gif
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Bandar Abbas (as seen from the Persian Gulf)
www.ryu.titech.ac.jp/~ysep/student/ysep2003/present/IRANNN/Iran_files/image018.jpg
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Desert in Iran
http://aitotours.net/images/desert.jpg
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Iranian Kurdistan
http://ashtarydesign.com/gallery/kurdistan/lg/16.jpg
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Caspian Sea, Iran
http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/44753/seaside_view_s_.jpg
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Snow in Tehran (not a rare sight in winter)
http://jadi.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2007/5/17/2956275.html
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Persian Language (Iran)
• Also called “Farsi”• Indo-European (Aryan)• Dialects of Persian also spoken in
Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and among minorities in other states
• Arabic alphabet (with some differences) and some borrowed words from Arabic
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Arabic language (Iraq)
• Semitic language (like Hebrew)• Spoken throughout North Africa and
southwestern Asia• Also the liturgical language of Islam
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Iran_ethnoreligious_distribution_2004.jpg
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/in_depth/post_saddam_iraq/img/religion_ehtnic_map416.gif
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Nooruz (New Year), celebrated by the Kurds of Iraq
http://time-blog.com/middle_east/Nowruz.jpg
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Shi’a Muslim holy place – Qom, Iran
http://www.mojesafar.com/IMAGES/places/QOM.JPG
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Shi’a Muslim holy place – Karbala, Iraq
http://www.pictureninja.com/pages/iraq/karbala-mosque.JPG
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Afghani children in Torbat-e Jam refugee “guest city” in Iran
http://www.iranproject.org/images/
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Iranian children
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Base/1406/Pictures/more/kids2.jpg
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Iraqi children
http://www.defenselink.mil/dodcmsshare/newsstoryPhoto/2006-01/screen_20060110173032_children-20060110.jpg