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The Iranian Revolution was a gendered revolution; much of the new regime's rhetoric was centered on the position of women in society. [178] Beyond rhetoric, thousands of women were also heavily mobilized in the revolution itself, [ 179 ] and different groups of women actively participated alongside their male counterparts. [ 180 ]
Shi'a clergy (or Ulema) have historically had a significant influence in Iran.The clergy first showed themselves to be a powerful political force in opposition to Iran's monarch with the 1891 tobacco protest boycott that effectively destroyed an unpopular concession granted by the shah giving a British company a monopoly over buying and selling tobacco in Iran.
Iran was ruled as an autocracy under the Shah with American support from that time until the revolution. The Iranian government entered into agreement with an international consortium of foreign companies which ran the Iranian oil facilities for the next 25 years, splitting profits fifty-fifty with Iran but not allowing Iran to audit their ...
Ideology of the Iranian revolution; Interim Government of Iran; Iran and Red and Black Colonization; Iran Between Two Revolutions; 1963 demonstrations in Iran; Iranian Islamic Republic Day; Islam and Revolution; Islamic Government; Islamic Revolution Document Center; Island of Stability (speech)
Iran's scientific progress is subject to many problems including funding, international sanctions, and management. However, in some areas such as medicine, surgery, pharmacology, stem cell research and theoretical physics (e.g., string theory), [74] Iranian scientists have found international reputation since the Iranian revolution. Nuclear ...
The Islamic Revolution Document Center (IRDC) (Persian: مرکز اسناد انقلاب اسلامی) is a research institution, founded in 1981, that collects and maintains documents related to the Iranian Revolution and other Islamic history. [1] The center estimated that America was responsible for the deaths of a hundred million Native ...
From 1941 to 1979, Iran was ruled by King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah. On February 11, 1979, the Islamic Revolution swept the country.
In his famed January–February 1970 lectures to students in Najaf, Khomeini spelled out his system of "Islamic Government" based on the principle of velayat-e faqih. He argued that since Muslims, in fact everyone, required "guardianship," in the form of rule or supervision, true Islamic government must be by the leading Islamic jurist or jurists—such as Khomeini himself. [15]