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The collective identities are · Religion, Ethnicity, Social Class, reformers vs. conservatives, and pragmatic conservatives vs. radical clerics

The divisions are in the cleavages are · Religion is a collective identity division because 90% of the population are shia Muslim and most of the other 10%are Sunni Muslims · Ethnicity because 15% are Persian 21% are Azeri 8% are Gilaki and Mazandarani 7% are Kurds 3% are Arabi. · Social classes are low middle and high just like what most people commonly think of. · Reformers vs. conservatives are theocracy vs. democracy · Pragmatic conservatives vs. radical clerics are the only ones

 Problems in the cleavage are · Religious problems are the constitution guarantees religious minorities their basic rights; Baha’i faith believer’s leaders have been executed, imprisoned and tortured. · Ethnicity’s problems are the Azeri live in the northwest worrying the Iranian government because they want a larger state by taking over the territory of Iran. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">· In the Social class peasant and low middle class help the government and the upper class <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">doesn’t <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">help the government. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">· The pragmatic conservatives like liberal economic policies that entice foreign trade, free markets, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">and direct foreign investment and their point of view is based on middle-class merchants and rural <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">landowner ties. The Radicals however assert that private property and economic inequality are <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">protected under Islamic law and they also give economic power to liberally-inclined technocrats and they call for measures to enhance social <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">justice