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Socio-political Comparison between Egypt and Iran

Introduction

Recent events in the Middle East due to the United States' pursuit of bringing democracy in Egypt have regained West's influence in the Middle East. The developments in preventing Iran from venturing a successful uranium expansion program and different trade sanctions on Iran by the international community have created United States influence in the Middle East.

Attempts to cause a change of regimes in different states by the United States, and to promote unilateral estimates is pursuing short-term placement of geopolitical interest above the principle of ensuring sustainable development .

The political influence is only the economic, finance, power, and the current actions of the United States that are attempts to interfere with the natural process and change the course of history.

In the light of these introductory remarks, this paper makes a historic, socio-economic and political comparison between Egypt and Iran, and discusses implications of US policy for regional stability.



Discussion

Historical context and background

A cursory look at the monuments of ancient Egypt reveals that this ancient civilization was not only impressive but also important to regional cultural development. The mere mention of ancient Egypt brings to mind Pharaohs, gigantic pyramids, elaborate temple complexes, and hieroglyphics-Egypt's picture language. Not only was ancient Egypt the longest existing ancient civilization, but also it was a unique civilization in that, unlike Mesopotamia, desert and the Mediterranean Sea surrounded its arable land and isolated the Egyptians from other groups of people. Also, Egypt was unique in that life and culture centered on, depended on, and were shaped by the Nile River (Owen, Pp. 61).

Although people lived in the area from 5500 BCE, historians usually define the kingdom of ancient Egypt as the time between the beginning of the dynastic period around 3100 BCE and the conquest of Alexander the Great in 332 BCE. In the Old Kingdom period (ca. 2640-2160 BCE), the Egyptians advanced monumental architecture to levels never seen before and rarely reached afterward. During this period, the pharaohs built the Great Pyramids at Giza, Saqqara, and elsewhere.

On the other hand, Iran is one of the countries in the world that has similar origins to ancient times. Its history goes back 5,000 years. Iran is located in a strategic position in the Middle East to Southeast Asia. The earliest evidence of human presence dates back to the Lower Paleolithic on the Iranian plateau in the valley Kerman Shah. Throughout history, Iran was repeatedly invaded and occupied by foreign powers. It is essential to study the history of Iran to understand its further development and make comparison with neighboring Middle East countries like Egypt (Owen, Pp. 210).

The first major civilization that lived in the present territory of Iran, were the Elamites. They settled in southwestern Iran in about 3000 A.D. In the 1500 A.D, Indo Aryan tribe began arriving in Iran from the famous Volga River located at north from the Caspian Sea and the Central Asia. Eventually, they settled in Iran's two main tribes of the Aryans - ...