Question

Nine young guerrillas launched a failed insurgency against a ruler from this family in an attempt to free an activist detained in the woods near Siahkal. For 10 points each:
[10m] A 1949 assassination attempt on a ruler from what family led to the banning of the Tudeh Party? In 1936, an earlier ruler from this family banned wearing the chador.
ANSWER: Pahlavi dynasty
[10h] Iranian scholar Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi disputes the nativist nature of this essay by Tudeh Party member Jalal Al-e-Ahmad. This 1962 essay, titled for a portmanteau term, describes the “plague” of consumer capitalism that led to Iran’s subjugation.
ANSWER: Gharbzadegi” (“garb-zad-ay-GHEE”) [accept “Westoxication,” “Westoxification,” “Disease of Westernism,” “Occidentalization,” “Occidentosis,” “Weststruckness,” or “Weststrucktedness”; or “Plagued by the West”; or “Westitis”; or “Euromania”; accept translations combining Occident or West with Plague, Disease, or Sickness]
[10e] “Westoxification” was later weaponized by this fundamentalist group to justify its governance of Afghanistan prior to the U.S.’s invasion in 2001.
ANSWER: Taliban [or Taleban; or Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan; or Afghan Taliban]
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