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Council on Foreign Relations Conflict Tracker: Confrontation between U.S. TeachMideast: Iran 21st century timeline. We strongly encourage pairing this unit with other lessons on Iran in order to provide students with a broader perspective of Iran’s history and political, religious and military significance.Ĭlick here for a list of vocabulary terms about the Middle East, which can be helpful to have on hand when teaching this topic. Major moments in the U.S.-Iran relationship include the CIA’s 1953 ousting of Iran’s Prime Minister Mossadegh, the 1979 Hostage Crisis, the creation of the 2015 JCPOA (commonly known as the Iran Nuclear Deal) and Trump’s subsequent (2018) withdrawal from the deal, which all lead up to current sanctions against Iran, the January assassination of a major military leader, and ongoing tensions in the Strait of Hormuz. A message was not returned as of publication time.Iran is an incredibly complex country that cannot be covered in just one unit. This resource guide is centered around helping teachers and students understand the complex relationship between Iran and the United States. The following tools provide context about the history of the relationship, what went wrong, and why tensions still exist today. Polygon reached out to Jafari via email to ask for his response to the backlash to his comments, whether his business has suffered in the aftermath, and why King's position was worth such a heavy investment through both Twitter and the Twitch appearance. It cost Kjellberg his affiliation with Maker, the YouTube multichannel network owned by Disney, and his contract with YouTube Red, which makes original programming for the site's premium content subscribers, was likewise canceled. Felix Kjellberg, 27, also known as PewDiePie, published several videos over the winter that referenced fascist and even anti-semitic themes, retroactively claiming they were jokes intended to shock. Jafari's argumentation and the fallout from it echoes another pop-culture vlogger who veered off topic into deeply political territory and was met with a large backlash. should refuse immigrants from "incompatible places." Interestingly, Jafari's heritage is of Hungary and Iran Iran is one of seven nations named in an executive order issued by the Trump administration restricting immigration, and a revised one following a successful challenge to the first. In the debate with Bonnell, Jafari suggests that the economic influence or benefit of immigration is something liberal academicians overstate, or that it goes unchallenged by people who don't want a fight with the politically correct. His defenders have complained that the reporting of Jafari's unsolicited Twitter comments and the remarks from his entirely willing, two-hour appearance on Bonnell's livestream amount to thought policing, character assassination, censorship or all three. How any of this would be relevant to Jafari's normal subjects, which have amassed him 3.1 million viewers on his own channel, is unclear. Jafari, apparently unsolicited for his opinion, said the following: King, supporting the Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders, said, "We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies," basically endorsing the idea of nations as singularly ethnic states. It all began on Sunday when Jafari tweeted a defense of U.S. JonTron’s channel is down about 10,000 subscribers since the controversy broke. Normal Boots is a member of the Polaris multichannel network on YouTube, and has 8.7 million subscribers combined. Other channels include Peanut Butter Gamer, Continue? Projared, The Completionist and Satchbag. VOX YOUTUBE IRAN SERIES
Jafari is the founder of Normal Boots, which is a series of YouTube channels that includes Did You Know Gaming, which has been featured repeatedly on Polygon. His comments revealed wide-ranging right-wing sympathies that appear to have blindsided many of his viewers, some of whom have withdrawn their YouTube subscriptions. Jon Jafari, 26, (pictured above) otherwise known as JonTron, tangled with Twitter followers on Sunday and then dug in deeper in a livestream debate about nationalism, ethnicity and immigration. Another YouTube personality is in hot water, this time over comments that echo long-running, widely discredited far-right talking points about immigration, ethnicity and nationalism.