January 1978

The Iranian Revolution had a number of unique and significant characteristics. It produced profound change at great speed and replaced the world’s oldest empire with a theocracy based on Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists (or velayat-e faqih).

(Also known as the Islamic Revolution of 1979);The overthrow of Shah Reza Pahlavi as a reaction in part to the modernization of the nation based on Western culture, technology, and philosophy, and the establishment of an Islamic Republic.

The Islamic Revolution occurred in 1979, in the Muslim majority country of Iran. Islamist revolutionaries opposed the western secular policies of the authoritarian Shah of Iran Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. It replaced an authoritarian monarchy with a theocratic republic. The West claims the republic is authoritarian.

The Islamic Republic of Iran began with the Iranian Revolution. The first major demonstrations to overthrow Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi began in January 1978. Iran officially became the Islamic Republic on April 1, 1979, when Iranians overwhelmingly approved a national referendum to make it so.

Islam in Afghanistan began to be practiced after the Arab Islamic conquest of Afghanistan from the 7th to the 10th centuries, with the last holdouts to conversion submitting in the late 19th century. Islam is the official state religion of Afghanistan, with approximately 99.7% of the Afghan population being Muslim.

1 April 1979

Iran’s constitution, adopted after the Islamic Revolution in 1979, proclaims equality for men and women under Article 20, while mandating legal code adhering to Sharia law. Women are allowed to drive, hold public office, and attend university.

In Iran, since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the hijab has become compulsory. Women are required to wear loose-fitting clothing and a headscarf in public. To enforce this decree, police were ordered to physically remove the veil off of any woman who wore it in public.

It is safe to visit Iran for US citizens? Yes. Us citizens can travel to Iran as a tourist with no problem. This is contrary to the fact that the Bureau of Consular Affairs of the U.S. Department of State has announced the travel advisory level 4 and prohibits US citizens from traveling in Iran as tourists.

Do not travel to Iran due to the risk of kidnapping, and the arbitrary arrest and detention of U.S. citizens. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a Level 3 Travel Health Notice for Iran due to COVID-19, indicating a high level of COVID-19 in the country.

As of May 2016, the only countries to ban access around the clock to the social networking site are China, Iran, Syria, and North Korea. However, since most North Korean residents have no access to the Internet, China and Iran are the only countries where access to Facebook is actively restricted in a wholesale manner.

The United States’ Federal Aviation Administration has a current ban on all commercial flights flying over Iran, Iraq and the Gulf of Oman. Several other countries’ national airlines have also implemented flight diversions in Iranian airspace.

Qatar has forged closer economic ties with Iran since 2017 when neighboring Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other Arab states cut relations with Doha in a diplomatic row. The Qatari state carrier turned to Iranian airspace to keep its network that flies through its Doha hub operating.

Air France, Lufthansa, Malaysia Airlines, and Taiwan’s EVA Air said they would avoid the airspace, while Singapore Airlines said it would not fly over Iran, according to CNN.

Within hours, the FAA barred U.S. carriers from airspace over Iran, the Gulf of Oman and the waters between Iran and Saudi Arabia, citing “heightened military activities and increased political tensions in the Middle East, which present an inadvertent risk to U.S. civil aviation operations.”

The department said for 19 days in July 2019, Emirates operated flights over parts of Iranian airspace, even though the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration had barred flights because of heightened military activities and increased political tensions. Emirates must pay $200,000 of the fine within 120 days.

According to the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), six countries – Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, North Korea and Iraq – are completely off-limits to commercial airlines, as are parts of Ukraine, where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down in July 2014.

Investigators concluded that Russian forces transferred a Buk mobile surface-to-air missile battery to the rebels, who used it to shoot down the airliner, likely because they mistook it for a Ukrainian military transport.

Airplanes often avoid air paths that take them over Mt Everest or the Pacific Ocean. This is because “the Himalayas have mountains higher than 20,000 feet, including Mt Everest standing at 29,035 feet. However, most commercial airplanes can fly at 30,000 feet.”

They fly into and out of (via Dubai International Airport – Terminal 2) all the major US/NATO airbases in Afghanistan. There are also two major Afghan airliners called Pamir and Afghan Ariana.