Iranian State in the post Revolutionary era

Running Head : Iranian State in the Post-Revolutionary Era

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Introduction

The Iranian revolution took place in the year 1979 .Before then , Iran had experienced two other important revolutions . They were however not as far reaching as the 1979 revolution . The first one was the 1906 revolution . This took place with the underpinning element of constitutional reforms for Iran as a nation . The second revolution came to pass in the year 1963 (Amir , 1988

The famous Iranian revolution of 1979 came as a surprise

to the world in that no one expected the Iranian dissidents to stage an upset in government . They were considered too feeble to be able to put up any kind of serious show leave a lone stage a coup . This revolution also lacked most of the common characteristics of revolutions in history . It ahs sometimes been described as the Islamic Revolution for the simple reason that it came with the installation of the principle of administration by use of the Islamic law popularly known as sharia Historians have gone a head to declare the Iranian revolution as the third great revolution to have occurred on earth . It is behind the French revolution and the Bolshevik revolution . The revolution was triggered by a series of demonstrations and strikes that came as a result of discontent among the Iranians (Hoveyda , 2003 . The accused the monarchy of grand corruption whereby state resources were being used by the monarchy and their friends at the expense of the...