Name, date and location of Revolution: The Iranian Revolution in Iran starting in, September, 1978, and ending in February, 1979.
Who Revolted?: The citizens of Iran revolted against the Shah 's police when the shah “alienate the clergy” thus taking away religion and pushing a westernized culture on a population that was 99% islamic (BBC). Many the women and youth revolted against the Shah.The Iranian women revolted, because they were against the veil. The government made them wear the veil because they believed that the hair made the men lust after them. So the women revolted and protested because they wanted to stand up for themselves and have freedom and they didn 't want to be pushed around. Once there was a woman killed in iran. She was …show more content…
In addition to that the Shah’s regime “supported by the U.S., became increasingly repressive” this pushed for further action towards a revolution, thus beginning a civil war in Iran (Evans). The Shah, specifically, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, began to be seen as a puppet to the Iranian people, mainly because of his interacts with the U.S. and Britain, letting them take all the oil and enforcing beliefs similar to them. Many people during the time revolted against Reza Shah and Ruhollah Khomeini was one of them, even going as far as to overthrow the Shah, later becoming the religious leader of …show more content…
This lead many people to rebel fully starting the Iranian Revolution. The “chador [or veil] was forced on women” and the education criterias became mainly based on religion (Sciolino). People revolted because it took away their basic rights of free will, although a majority of the people were religious, not everyone was, and to which certain extent to what you follow should pertain only to you based on one 's natural freedoms. Due to Ayatollah Khomeini many demonstrations started against him and his beliefs. Although Ayatollah was very religious, and as ideas that are likely to be seen as “good” he also had many deceiving ways, for example threatening soldiers saying that they “all have to obey the Islamic Republic. And if you don 't, you all will vanish” this shows the manipulative intention of him, and further reasoning of why one wouldn 't want a leader like that representing them (Mafie). After Khomeini died Mohammad Khatami takes place as supreme leader later followed by Ahmadinejad. Having another person 's beliefs be put on them on top of many drastic changes in life due to culture, pushed people heavily towards
Who Revolted?: The citizens of Iran revolted against the Shah 's police when the shah “alienate the clergy” thus taking away religion and pushing a westernized culture on a population that was 99% islamic (BBC). Many the women and youth revolted against the Shah.The Iranian women revolted, because they were against the veil. The government made them wear the veil because they believed that the hair made the men lust after them. So the women revolted and protested because they wanted to stand up for themselves and have freedom and they didn 't want to be pushed around. Once there was a woman killed in iran. She was …show more content…
In addition to that the Shah’s regime “supported by the U.S., became increasingly repressive” this pushed for further action towards a revolution, thus beginning a civil war in Iran (Evans). The Shah, specifically, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, began to be seen as a puppet to the Iranian people, mainly because of his interacts with the U.S. and Britain, letting them take all the oil and enforcing beliefs similar to them. Many people during the time revolted against Reza Shah and Ruhollah Khomeini was one of them, even going as far as to overthrow the Shah, later becoming the religious leader of …show more content…
This lead many people to rebel fully starting the Iranian Revolution. The “chador [or veil] was forced on women” and the education criterias became mainly based on religion (Sciolino). People revolted because it took away their basic rights of free will, although a majority of the people were religious, not everyone was, and to which certain extent to what you follow should pertain only to you based on one 's natural freedoms. Due to Ayatollah Khomeini many demonstrations started against him and his beliefs. Although Ayatollah was very religious, and as ideas that are likely to be seen as “good” he also had many deceiving ways, for example threatening soldiers saying that they “all have to obey the Islamic Republic. And if you don 't, you all will vanish” this shows the manipulative intention of him, and further reasoning of why one wouldn 't want a leader like that representing them (Mafie). After Khomeini died Mohammad Khatami takes place as supreme leader later followed by Ahmadinejad. Having another person 's beliefs be put on them on top of many drastic changes in life due to culture, pushed people heavily towards