Green martyrdom and the Iranian state

Yarbakhsh, Elisabeth

doi:10.1080/10304312.2013.854871

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“…While all Muslims recognise the significance of Karbala, it is of particular importance to Shia believers. For them, Hossein is ‘the paradigmatic martyr’ (Yarbakhsh, 2014: 78). As Shariati (n.d.) points out, in European countries, the word martyr refers to the manner of a person’s death.…”

Section: Martyrdom and Mobilisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Protesters chanted ‘Allahu Akbar’ from rooftops in the evenings as was also done during the revolution against the Shah, and as then, the state sought to ban the practice (Rauh, 2013: 1328). The Shah had banned Ashura ceremonies in 1979, and the Islamic Republic repeated this move by banning Ashura ceremonies at Khomeini’s tomb in 2009 (Yarbakhsh, 2014: 82).…”

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“…‘[W]ords and gestures that for 30 years had sustained the political imagination of revolutionary Iran were redeployed in order to challenge the state by means of its own vocabulary’ (Yarbakhsh, 2014: 81). Thus, the Greens chanted ‘Down with the dictator’ instead of ‘Down with the Shah’; and instead of ‘Independence, Freedom, Islamic Republic’, they shouted ‘Independence, Freedom, Iranian Republic’ (Rauh, 2013: 1333).…”

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“…There was also an internal target. The opposition was portrayed as in cahoots with Western imperialism and Israel (Yarbakhsh, 2014: 81). Protesters were forced off the streets and opposition political activists jailed.…”

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When everywhere is Karbala: Murals, martyrdom and propaganda in Iran

Rolston

2017

Memory Studies

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In Tehran, murals depicting men who died in the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the Iran–Iraq war of 1980–1988 are ubiquitous. The murals represent an exercise in state propaganda, serving to remind citizens that these men died not simply for the nation but for Islam; they are martyrs. This message resonates with deeply held religious views in Iran. There is constant reference to the Battle of Karbala and the martyrdom of Imam Hossein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed. This is seen to prefigure the revolt of the people against the Shah in 1979, the defence of the Revolution against Saddam Hussein in the 1980s and, furthermore, the claim of the Iranian opposition that the ideals of the Islamic Revolution have been distorted by politicised clerics. In propagating the myth of Karbala, the murals function to control the masses, bolster elite power and marginalise opposition to that power.

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