Bam Margera

According to Ryan Gee's message board, he is currently engaged to Missy Rothstein. Additional references and bibliography can be found in the more detailed articles linked to in this article. The video clip was immediately (and continues to be) widely circulated on the Internet. In her book, New Food of Life, Najmieh Batmanglij writes that "Iranian food has much in common with the other cuisines of the Middle East, but is often considered to be the most sophisticated and imaginative of them all, as colorful and complex as a Persian carpet.". The first 5,000 DVD copies of CKY4 contained a hidden Easter Egg - a two-minute video clip of Bam and his then-girlfriend, Jenn Rivell, having sex. ^[16]. Since the end of filming on Viva La Bam, Bam has replaced the red H2 with a blue H2. Norouz was nominated as one of UNESCO's Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2004.

Bam bragged that his was the only vehicle of its kind with a sunroof. The Iranian new year (Norouz) is celebrated on March 21, the first day of spring. The Lamborghini has been modified with help from friend Billy Idol to include a sunroof (a rough rectangle crudely cut with a jigsaw). Respect for the elderly and hospitality for the foreigners are also integral part of the Iranian etiquette.. A recent episode however showed the destruction of the H2 by Don Vito as revenge for constant torment. The quest for social justice and equity is an important Iranian cultural trait. Current episodes of Margera's show have shown him to own both a red 2003 Hummer H2 as well as a purple Lamborghini Gallardo and a Mercedes-Benz S55 AMG with a heartagram on the front instead of the mercedes-benz logo. Iran is now the world's fourth largest country of bloggers.

The Dream Seller is a nickname for long-time friend and fellow skater Brandon Novak. This includes the Internet, which has become an expanding means to accessing information and self expression among the younger population. He announced another film he is working on called The Dream Seller. All media in Iran are controlled directly or indirectly by the state and must be approved by the Ministry of Islamic Guidance. Margera is currently writing, producing, and directing his new feature film, a sequel to Haggard, titled Kiss a Good Man's Ass. Perhaps the best known director is Abbas Kiarostami. Bam has even had himself tattooed with the heartagram. With 300 international awards in the past 25 years, films from Iran continue to be celebrated worldwide.

A fan of, friend of, and occasional video director for HIM's frontman, Ville Valo, Margera has licensed the band's logo, the heartagram (a pentagram with two points curved to incorporate a heart symbol), for personal use. Poets such as Hafez, Omar Khayyam, and Ferdowsi, Iranian poetry has received world wide attention for their beautiful poems and songs. A 2006 sequel entitled Return to Sleepaway Camp will feature the CKY band members in cameo roles as camp counselors. The Persian language being used for over 2500 years has left distinct marks in the history of the written word. "CKY" stands for "Camp Kill Yourself", a reference to the movie Sleepaway Camp (1983), a favourite of CKY band frontman Deron Miller.
Persian literature is also highly regarded. When he was younger he would run into walls and be crazy, and his grandfather would say "Bam, bam, bam, chill out! Bam!" The name stuck, and soon everyone was calling him Bam, even his teachers. "Iran is The Heart and all the universe The Body,
Of this claim, the poet feels no regret or humility."
--Nizami.

Bam got his name from his grandfather.
همه عالم تن است و ایران دل
نیست گوینده زین قیاس خجل. In fact, he is featured as a main character in Tony Hawk's Underground (1 and 2). "Whether one thinks of Iran as Eden or Garden,
The smell of musk abounds there from friend and companion."
--Firdawsi. He has also been animated as a character into a number of pro-skateboarder Tony Hawk's video games. که ایران بهشت است یا بوستان
همی بوی مشک آید ار دوستان. In the DVD comentary for the seasons 4&5 of Viva La Bam, Margera has said that Element Skateboards pays him two million dollars a year, just for wearing their clothing. Many Iranians believe their culture to be the one and only reason why their civilization has continuously survived thousands of years of turmoil.

(The real LAPD SWAT team helped with this prank). Iran has a long history of art, music, architecture, poetry, philosophy, Traditions, and ideology. Ashton Kutcher trapped Margera and his friend inside of a convenience store while staging a terrorist attack. Iran's eight largest cities (2006 populations, unless otherwise noted) are as follows (non-metropolitan estimates): ^[15]. Margera also appeared on Punk'd, in 2005. See Persecution of Bahá'ís and Religious minorities in Iran for more information. Margera also has a small speaking part in the skateboarding movie "Grind". Since the 1979 revolution the persecution has increased with executions and the denial of access to higher education.

Margera directed and co-wrote (with Brandon DiCamillo and Chris Aspite) a low-budget independent film called Haggard, starring himself and his friends, released in 2003. In contrast, the Bahá'í Faith, the largest religious minority in Iran, is not officially recognized, and has been persecuted during its existence in Iran. He became the 13th known skater to land it, and was the first street skater to successfully land it. The latter three minority religions are officially recognized and have reserved seats in the Majlis (Parliament), and are officially protected religions. As a professional skater in the summer of 2005, Margera successfully landed The Loop in Phoenix, Arizona. The remainder consists of non-Muslim religious minorities, mainly Bahá'ís, Zoroastrians, Jews and Christians.^[14]. Before becoming a professional skateboarder, he could be found frequenting the local skate spots, performing at area fairgrounds, and loitering at Fairman's skate shop. Most Iranians are Muslims; 90% belong to the Shi'a branch of Islam, the official state religion, and about 9% belong to the Sunni branch (many of whom are Kurds).

Margera was born and raised in West Chester, Pennsylvania, a western suburb of Philadelphia. Inversely, Iran has a diaspora estimated between two to three million people who emigrated to North America, Western Europe and South America, after the Iranian revolution for the greatest part. Margera's television antics push the generally accepted boundaries of good taste by seeking to shock and offend, thereby creating a large contingent of detractors who charge that he profits from the humiliation and misfortune of others. ^{[11] [12] [13]}. His videos and television shows often include his long-suffering parents, Phil and April, his uncle Vincent Margera ("Don Vito"), and ex-fiancée Jenn Rivell (Margera broke off his engagement to Rivell in early 2005). ^{[8] [9] [10]} Iran hosts more than one million foreign refugees (mainly from Afghanistan with some from Iraq), one of the largest figures on earth, and official government policy and social factors aim towards repatriation. Margera's crew includes Ryan Dunn, Brandon DiCamillo, Rake Yohn, Raab Himself, and Brandon Novak. Iran's population density is 40 persons per square kilometer.

Brandon Cole "Bam" Margera made his own skate videos known as the CKY quadrilogy, which is also the name of his brother Jess's heavy metal band (see CKY band). Iran's population size increased dramatically during the latter half of the 20th century to reach 70 million in 2006, although in recent years Iran appears to have taken control of its high population growth rate and many studies show that Iran's population growth rate will continue to decline until it will reach replacement level and stabilize by the year 2050 (100 million). His weekly Sirius Radio show is called Radio Bam. The literacy rate in Iran is above 90% and nearly 100% for its younger population. He cites Raab Himself as his only reason for attending high school, and dropped out after Raab got expelled. There are no official statistics on ethnicity numbers or percentages in Iran.^[7]. He grew up in West Chester, Pennsylvania and went to East High School. These percentages however are only estimates.

He is also the star of Viva La Bam, and member of the Jackass crew, two shows broadcast by MTV. While the number, percentage, and definition of the different Iranian peoples is disputed, the major ethnic groups and minorities in Iran include the Persians (51%), Azeris (24%), Gilaki and Mazandarani (8%), Kurds (7%), Arabs (3%), Baluchi (2%), Lurs (2%), Turkmen people (2%), Qashqai, Armenians, Georgians, Assyrians, Iranian Jews, Circassians and others (1 %). Brandon Cole "Bam" Margera (born September 28, 1979) is a professional skateboarder, creator of the "CKY" skate / prank / stunt videos, and radio personality. The majority of Iran's population speak one of the Iranian languages, though Persian is the official language. CKY Landspeed - 1999. Iran is also expanding its trade ties with Turkey and Pakistan and shares with its partners the common vision for the creation of a single economic market in West and Central Asia. CKY2K - 2000. Since the late 90's, Iran has increased its economic cooperation with other developing countries, including Syria, India, Cuba, Venezuela and South Africa.

CKY3 2001. Iran's major commercial partners are France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, China, Japan and South Korea. CKY4 - Latest and Greatest 2002. Iran has also developed a biotechnology, nanotechnology and pharmaceuticals industry. Jackass 2 2006. Even though a series of droughts has held back output growth substantially, Agriculture remains one of the largest employers. Grind 2003. Large-scale irrigation schemes, together with the wider production of export-based agricultural items such as dates, flowers and pistachios, produced the fastest economic growth of any sector in Iran over much of the 1990s.

Haggard: The Movie 2003. State investment has boosted agriculture with the liberalization of production and the improvement of packaging and marketing helping to develop new export markets. Jackass: The Movie 2003. The strong oil market in 1996 helped ease financial pressures on Iran and allowed for Tehran's timely debt service payments. It also has the world's second largest natural gas reserves (after Russia). Iran is OPEC's second largest oil producer and holds 10% of the world's proven oil reserves.

Iranian budget deficits have been a chronic problem, in part due to large-scale state subsidies– totaling some $7.25 billion per year–including foodstuffs and especially gasoline. Modern Iran has a solid middle class and a growing economy but continues to be plagued with high inflation and unemployment. Iran is also hoping to attract billions of dollars worth of foreign investment by creating a more favorable investment climate, such as reduced restrictions and duties on imports and the creation of free-trade zones like in Chabahar and the Island of Kish. The Iranian government is attempting to diversify by investing revenues in other areas, including, car manufacturing, aerospace industries, consumer electronics, petrochemicals and nuclear technology.

The current administration has continued to follow the market reform plans of the previous one and has indicated that it will pursue diversification of Iran's oil-reliant economy. Iran's economy is a mixture of central planning, state ownership of oil and other large enterprises, village agriculture, and small-scale private trading and service ventures.
. These islands belong to the province "Hormozgan".

The islands of Iran are not shown in this picture. Iran consists of 30 provinces:. The Annual precipitation ranges from 135 mm to 355 mm (6 to 14 in). The coastal plains of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman in southern Iran have mild winters and experience very humid and hot summers.

The average summer temperatures exceed 38°C (100°F). They get less than 200 mm (8 in) of rain and have occasional desert. The eastern and central basins are arid. These areas have severe winters, with average daily temperatures below freezing and have heavy snowfall.

At higher elevations to the west, settlements in the Zagros mountains basins experience lower temperatures. Annual precipitation is 680 mm (26 in) in the eastern part of the plain and more than 1700 mm (75 in) in the western side of the plain. Summer temperatures rarely exceed 29°C (84°F). On the northern edge of the country (the Caspian coastal plain) the temperatures nearly fall below freezing and remain humid for the rest of the year.

Iran's landscape produces several different climates. Iran is considered to be one of the fifteen states that comprise the so-called "Cradle of Humanity". The Iranian climate is mostly arid or semiarid, though subtropical along the Caspian coast. Smaller, discontinuous plains are found along the remaining coast of the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz and the Sea of Oman.

The only large plains are found along the coast of the Caspian Sea and at the northern end of the Persian Gulf, where Iran borders on the mouth of the Arvand river (Shatt al-Arab). The eastern half consists mostly of uninhabited desert basins like the saline Dasht-e Kavir, with the occasional salt lake. The populous western part is the most mountainous, with ranges such as the Zagros and Alborz Mountains, the latter of which also contains Iran's highest point, the Damavand at 5,604 m (18,386 ft). Iran's landscape is dominated by rugged mountain ranges that separate various basins or plateaus from one another.

That is approximately the land mass of Alaska. Iran's total land mass is 1,648,000 km² / ≈636,300 mi² (Land: 1,636,000 km² / ≈631,663 mi², Water: 12,000 km² / ≈4,633 mi²). Iran borders Azerbaijan (length of border: 432 km / 268 mi ) and Armenia (35 km / 22mi) to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan (992 km / 616 mi) to the northeast, Pakistan (909 km / 565 mi) and Afghanistan (936 km / 582 mi) to the east, Turkey (499 km / 310 mi) and Iraq (1,458 km / 906 mi) to the west, and finally the waters of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman to the south. The rulings of the Special Clerical Court, which functions independently of the regular judicial framework and is accountable only to the Supreme Leader, are also final and cannot be appealed.

The Special Clerical Court handles crimes allegedly committed by clerics, although it has also taken on cases involving lay people. Decisions rendered in revolutionary courts are final and cannot be appealed. "Revolutionary" courts try certain categories of offenses, including crimes against national security. Public courts deal with civil and criminal cases.

The head of the Judiciary is appointed by the Supreme Leader, who in turn appoints the head of the Supreme Court and the chief public prosecutor. The Expediency Council has the authority to mediate disputes between Parliament and the Council of Guardians, and serves as an advisory body to the Supreme Leader, making it one of the most powerful governing bodies in the country. If a law passed by Parliament is deemed incompatible with the constitution or sharia, it is referred back to Parliament for revision. Hence the council can exercise veto power over Parliament.

The Council of Guardians is vested with the authority to interpret the constitution and determines if the laws passed by Parliament are in line with sharia (Islamic law). The head of the judiciary recommends the remaining six, which are officially appointed by Parliament. Twelve jurists comprise the Council of Guardians, six of whom are appointed by the Supreme Leader. The assembly has never been known to challenge any of the Supreme Leader's decisions, although according to the Iranian constitution it has the authority to remove the supreme leader from power at any time.

Members of the Assembly of Experts in turn elect the Supreme Leader. Like presidential and parliamentary elections, the Council of Guardians determines eligibility to run for a seat in this assembly. The Assembly of Experts, which meets for one week every year, consists of 86 "virtuous and learned" clerics elected by the public to eight-year terms. All MP candidates and all legislation from the assembly must be approved by the Council of Guardians.

It drafts legislation, ratifies international treaties, and approves the country's budget. The members are elected by direct and secret ballot. The unicameral Iranian parliament, the Islamic Consultative Assembly or "Majles-e Shura-ye Eslami", consists of 290 members elected to a 4-year term. Unlike many other states, the executive branch in Iran does not control the armed forces.

The Council of Ministers must be confirmed by Parliament. Eight vice presidents serve under the president, as well as a cabinet of 21 ministers. After his election, the president appoints and supervises the Council of Ministers (the cabinet), coordinates government decisions, and selects government policies to be placed before the parliament. According to the law, all presidential candidates must be approved by the Council of Guardians prior to running, after which he is elected by universal suffrage to a 4-year term by an absolute majority of votes.

The President of Iran is responsible for implementing the Constitution and acting as the head of the executive, except in matters directly concerned with (the office of) the Leadership. ^[6]. He, or the council of religious leaders, are elected by the Assembly of Experts, on the basis of their qualifications and the high popular esteem in which they are held. He also appoints six of the twelve members of the Council of Guardians.

He has the power to appoint and dismiss the leaders of the judiciary, the state radio and television networks, and the supreme commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The Supreme Leader is commander-in-chief of the armed forces and controls the Islamic Republic's intelligence and security operations; he alone can declare war. ^[5] According to the Constitution, the Supreme Leader of Iran is responsible for the delineation and supervision of "the general policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran." In the absence of a single leader, a council of religious leaders is appointed. The concept of velayat-e faqih (guardianship of the jurist) plays a crucial role in governmental structure of Iran.

Iran's makeup has several intricately connected governing bodies, some of which are democratically elected and some of which operate by co-opting people based on their religious inclinations. Iran is a constitutional Islamic Republic, whose political system is laid out in the 1979 constitution called Qanun-e Asasi. The struggle between the reformists and conservatives over the future of the country continues today through electoral politics and was a central Western focus in the 2005 elections where conservative candidate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad triumphed. In 1980 Iran was attacked by neighbouring Iraq and the destructive Iran-Iraq War continued until 1988.

embassy personnel in 1979, Iran's subsequent attempts to export its revolution, and its support of anti-Western militant groups such as Lebanese Hezbollah. In particular Iranian-American relations were severely strained after the Iranian seizure of U.S. It also engaged in an anti-Western course due to Western support of the Shah. The new theocratic political system instituted some conservative Islamic reforms as well as introducing an unprecedented level of direct clerical rule.

An Islamic republic was soon established under the Ayatollah Khomeini. His autocratic rule led to the Iranian revolution in 1979. With strong support from the USA and the UK, the Shah further modernized Iranian industry but crushed civil liberties. Mosaddegh's fall, the Shah's rule became increasingly dictatorial, particularly in the late 1970s.

Following Dr. It reinstated the Iranian monarchy, handing power back to former Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The operation was conducted following the Prime-Minister's nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. Mohammed Mossadegh, was removed from power in a complex plot orchestrated by British and US intelligence agencies (dubbed "Operation Ajax").

In 1953 Iran's democratically elected prime minister Dr. With the arrival of modernization in the late 19th century, Iranians were longing for a change and thus followed the Persian Constitutional Revolution of 1905/1911. From then on Persia increasingly became the rivalry arena for influencing colonial powers such as Russia and the United Kingdom. The Middle Ages saw the unfolding of many crucial events such as the Islamic Conquest of Iran, the destruction of Iran under the Mongol invasion begining in 1220, the conquest of Tamerlane, and the establishment of Iran's first Shi'a Islamic state under the Safavid dynasty in 1501.

Alexander the Great conquered Persia in 331 BC, soon only to be succeeded by the Parthian and Sassanid dynasties, who followed the Achaemenids as Persia's greatest pre-Islamic empires. The name Persia is derived from Persis, the ancient Greek name for the empire, although Eratosthenes also mentions the name "Iran". Written history in Iran begins with the Proto-Elamites around 3000 BC, and continues with the arrival of the Aryans and the establishment of the Median dynasty, followed by the Achaemenids, who built the world's first global empire, under Cyrus the Great in 546BC. The Iranian Revolution of 1979 ultimately led to the establishment of a theocratic Islamic Republic and the country retained its name, while its political title was changed to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

After Persian scholars protested, Mohammad Reza Shah in 1959 announced both Persia and Iran could be used interchangeably. ^[4] A dispute exists about the country's current official name. On March 21, 1935, Reza Shah Pahlavi issued a decree asking foreign delegates to use the native term Iran in formal correspondence. Until 1935, the country was referred to in the West as Persia, although Iranians have always referred to their country as Iran which means Land of the Aryans ^{[1] [2] [3]}.

. Iran is of great geo-strategic importance due to its position between the Middle East, Caucasia, Central Asia and the Persian Gulf and its proximity to Eastern Europe and the Indian subcontinent. The official name of the country is Islamic Republic of Iran and Shi'a Islam is the official state religion. In addition, it borders the Persian Gulf across which lie Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.

It borders Armenia, Azerbaijan (including its Nakhichevan exclave), and Turkmenistan to the north, Pakistan and Afghanistan to the east, and Turkey and Iraq to the west. Iran (Persian: ايران), also called Persia, is a Middle Eastern country located in Southwest Asia.