Arab Spring 2010-2011Timeline

Tunisia December 2011

December 17, 2010Mohamed Bouazizi, street

vendor

January 14, 2011Zine el Abidine Ben Ali,Tunisian President since 1987resigns

Egypt January 2011• 1/17/11 (self-immolations)• 1/25/11 (Huge protests begin)• Tahrir Square, Cairo

Egypt February 11, 2011Mubarak resigns

Hosni Mubarak refusing to resign (Jan. 2011)

Mubarak in jail (in power from 1981-2011)

Arab Spring moves into summerLibya (Major protests begin February 2011)August 26, 2011Muammar Ghadaffi overthrown (in power 1969-2011)

Yemen (Protests begin in January 2011)November 23, 2011Ali Abdullah Saleh agrees to

step down(in power from 1978-2011)

SyriaProtests Begin March 2011

President Hafez al-AssadIn power 1970-200

President Bashar al-AssadIn power 200-present

Syria: Civil War

From Hurriyet Daily News, Istanbul, 9/1/12 (http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/syrian-rebels-too-fragmented-unruly.aspx?pageID=238&nID=29158&NewsCatID=352

Overthrowing the dictator is the beginning,

not the end!Now comes the hard part…

Remember the Iranian RevolutionA revolution that went the wrong way

Shah Reza PahleviOverthrown 1978-79

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ruled 1979-1989

Theocratic Rule, but FactionalismSupreme Leader President PresidentAli Khamenei Mohammed Khatemi Mahmoud

Ahmadinejad1989-present 1997-2005 2005-presentConservative Reformer New Right

June 2009 The Green MovementJune 12, 2009 Ahmadinejad wins election; clear fraud• June 13 Protests begin

Protesters arrested, killed, torturedLarge protests continued into December 2009Protests still occur on important dates

Leaders of the Green Movement?Mehdi Karubi Mir Hossein Mousavi

Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program• IAEA Reports on Iran• IAEA Chronology of Iran’s Program• US National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, 2007,

“Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities”• US Congressional Research Service report on “Iran’s

Nuclear Program: Status,” September 2012• Documents of UN Security Council Iran Sanctions

Committee

June 2013 ElectionPresident Hassan Rouhani