Iranian Revolution, known as the Islamic Revolution, was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and the replacement of his government with an Islamic republic under the rule of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a leader of one of the factions in the revolt.
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Islamic Revolution relied heavily on support from the United States to hold on to power which he held for a further 26 years.
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Islamic Revolution was unusual for the surprise it created throughout the world.
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Insecurity and chaos created after the Constitutional Islamic Revolution led to the rise of General Reza Khan, the commander of the elite Persian Cossack Brigade who seized power in a coup d'etat in February 1921.
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Islamic Revolution established a constitutional monarchy, deposing the last Qajar Shah, Ahmed Shah, in 1925 and being designated monarch by the National Assembly, to be known thenceforth as Reza Shah, founder of the Pahlavi dynasty.
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Shah advertised the White Islamic Revolution as a step towards westernization, and it was a way for him to legitimize the Pahlavi dynasty.
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Part of the reason for launching the White Islamic Revolution was that the Shah hoped to get rid of the influence of landlords and to create a new base of support among the peasants and working class.
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Islamic Revolution mysteriously died at midnight on 23 October 1977 in Najaf, Iraq.
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Islamic Revolution decided to appoint Jafar Sharif-Emami to the post of prime minister, himself a veteran prime minister.
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Islamic Revolution retained Sharif-Emami's civilian government, hoping that protesters would avoid taking the streets.
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Islamic Revolution referred to himself as Padeshah, instead of the more grandiose Shahanshah, which he insisted on being called previously.
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Islamic Revolution apologized for mistakes that were committed during his reign, and promised to ensure that corruption would no longer exist.
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Islamic Revolution stated he would begin to work with the opposition to bring democracy, and would form a coalition government.
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Islamic Revolution ordered the army to allow mass demonstrations, promised free elections and invited the revolutionaries into a government of "national unity".
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Islamic Revolution sent a letter to American officials warning them to withdraw support for Bakhtiar.
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Islamic Revolution was later assassinated by an agent of the Islamic Republic in 1991 in Paris.
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Iranian Islamic Revolution was a gendered revolution; much of the new regime's rhetoric was centered on the position of women in Iranian society.
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Islamic Revolution further explains that the cultural, ideological, social and material factors shaping the social life and class differences in the period just prior to the revolution need to be studied in order to understand how the Iranian women's social consciousness developed and how it led them to take part in public protests.
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Khomeini and his loyalists in the revolutionary organizations implemented Khomeini's velayat-e faqih design for an Islamic republic led by himself as Supreme Leader by exploiting temporary allies such as Mehdi Bazargan's Provisional Government of Iran, whom they later eliminated from Iran's political stage one by one.
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Between June 1981 and March 1982, the theocratic regime carried out the largest political massacre in Iranian history, targeting communists, socialists, social democrats, liberals, monarchists, moderate Islamists, and members of the Baha'i faith as part of the Iranian Cultural Revolution decreed by Khomeini on 14 June 1980 with the intent of "purifying" Iranian society of non-Islamic elements.
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In terms of future relevance, the conflicts that originated from the Iranian Islamic Revolution continued to define geo-politics for the last three decades, continuing to do so today.
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Whether the Islamic Revolution Republic has brought more or less severe political repression is disputed.
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Revolutionary government rewrote laws in an attempt to force women to leave the workforce by promoting the early retirement of female government employees, the closing of childcare centers, enforcing full Islamic cover in offices and public places, as well as preventing women from studying in 140 fields in higher education.
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