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    The Iranian Revolution overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who was supported by the United States. Demonstrations against the Shah commenced in 1977 and intensified in 1978 through strikes and demonstrations. The Shah went into exile in January 1979, and Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile to a greeting of millions of Iranians. The royal government collapsed in February 1979, and Iran became an Islamic Republic under Khomeini's leadership in April 1979 through a national referendum and new constitution. The revolution was unusual in that it lacked typical causes of revolution and established an anti-Western theocratic government where Khomeini became Supreme Leader.

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    The Iranian Revolution overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who was supported by the United States. Demonstrations against the Shah commenced in 1977 and intensified in 1978 through strikes and demonstrations. The Shah went into exile in January 1979, and Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile to a greeting of millions of Iranians. The royal government collapsed in February 1979, and Iran became an Islamic Republic under Khomeini's leadership in April 1979 through a national referendum and new constitution. The revolution was unusual in that it lacked typical causes of revolution and established an anti-Western theocratic government where Khomeini became Supreme Leader.

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    The Iranian Revolution overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who was supported by the United States. Demonstrations against the Shah commenced in 1977 and intensified in 1978 through strikes and demonstrations. The Shah went into exile in January 1979, and Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile to a greeting of millions of Iranians. The royal government collapsed in February 1979, and Iran became an Islamic Republic under Khomeini's leadership in April 1979 through a national referendum and new constitution. The revolution was unusual in that it lacked typical causes of revolution and established an anti-Western theocratic government where Khomeini became Supreme Leader.

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    Unit 5 Section 2: Iranian Revolution

    Iranian Revolution and Islamic Fundamentalism


    This section was sourced from ck-12

    The Iranian Revolution refers to events involving the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty under
    Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who was supported by the United States and its eventual
    replacement with an Islamic republic under the Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader
    of the revolution, supported by various leftist and Islamic organizations and Iranian student
    movements.

    Demonstrations against the Shah commenced in October 1977, developing into a campaign of
    civil resistance that was of a religious nature (but with secular elements) and which intensified in
    January 1978. Between August and December 1978 strikes and demonstrations paralyzed the
    country. The Shah left Iran for exile on January 16, 1979, as the last Persian monarch, leaving his
    duties to a regency council and an opposition-based prime minister. Ayatollah Khomeini was
    invited back to Iran by the government and returned to Tehran to a greeting by several million
    Iranians. The royal reign collapsed shortly after on February 11 when guerrillas and rebel troops
    overwhelmed troops loyal to the Shah in armed street fighting, bringing Khomeini to official
    power. Iran voted by national referendum to become an Islamic Republic on April 1, 1979, and
    to approve a new theocratic-republican constitution whereby Khomeini became Supreme
    Leader of the country, in December 1979.

    The revolution was unusual for the surprise it created throughout the world: it lacked many of
    the customary causes of revolution (defeat at war, a financial crisis, peasant rebellion, or
    disgruntled military), occurred in a nation that was enjoying relatively good material wealth and
    prosperity, produced profound change at great speed, was massively popular, resulted in the
    exile of many Iranians, and replaced a pro-Western semi-absolute monarchy with an anti-
    Western authoritarian theocracy based on the concept of Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists (or
    velayat-e faqih). It was a relatively non-violent revolution and helped to redefine the meaning
    and practice of modern revolutions (although there was violence in its aftermath).

    Its outcome – an Islamic Republic "under the guidance of a religious scholar from Qom" – was,
    as one scholar put it, "clearly an occurrence that had to be explained.”

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