This middle eastern country was once the center of persian empires and was the site of an islamic revolution in 1979.

It is Iran, seat of several Persian empires in history and where an Islamic Revolution took place in 1979.

Explanation:

even though you have attached neither the chart nor the generalizations, i have located them online. the right answer is d, since they are asking you about a generalization. you can only infer from the chart that between 2008 and 2009 the number of employed workers decreased significantly (from over 115 millions to 107 millions approximately), which signals some type of economic crisis.  

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