Pros And Cons Leading Up To The American Revolution

In the eyes of many Iranians, the Iranian Revolution started before 1979. After the 1953 coup driven by the U.K and U.S ( specifically the C.I.A) the well liked prime minister Dr. Mossadeq was arrested. Reinstated in Mossadeq's place was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, AKA the Shah. The 1979 Revolution was then led by Ayatollah Khomeini who found many problems with the Shah’s rule of Iran, beginning with the Shah’s reform program. Key drivers of the 1979 Revolution were Iranians' growing frustration with economic inequality, the Shah's suppression of political opposition and widespread resentment of the government's close ties to the United States and Britain.

It all took place while the Shah was outside of the country. When he came back, Iran’s constitutional monarchy had fallen apart and the Shah possessed absolute power. It could be said that the aftermath of the 1953 Iranian coup was the undermining of authority. According to Jacob G. Hornberger, founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, "The coup, in essence, paved the way for the rise to power of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. U.S. officials, not surprisingly, considered the operation one of their greatest foreign policy successes - until, that is, the enormous convulsion that rocked Iranian society with the violent ouster of the Shah and the installation of a virulently anti-American Islamic regime in

The Pahlavi Dynasty introduced several reforms that had a significant impact on the role of women in Iranian society. The first of these reforms was Reza Shah’s Decree in 1953 which banned the donning of the chador as part of an attempt to modernize the perception of women within Iran. Whilst this did protect those women for whom wearing the chador was not a choice, and challenge the culture of shame which pressured women to veil themselves, it also antagonized Islamic communities and excluded religious women who wanted to opt in to the wearing of the chador. There were several oppressive policies introduced by the Shah in order to enforce this decree that restricted Iranian women’s ability to express their own conception of Islam. Police were

Although some injustices are solved, others never get the justice they deserve. The Iranian revolution also known as the Islamic revolution took place in 1979. Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi was overthrown and The Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took over. Ayatollah was a religious Islamic leader and wanted to make Iran into an Islamic republic. The culture of Iran was drastically changed when the Government became less secular than it was before.

Women's rights in Iran have for many years been a very controversial and heated topic. The way women live and are viewed by men in Iran has changed in so many ways throughout the end of the twentieth century leading into current day. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the last Shah of Iran and throughout his attempt to westernize his country he was overthrown by the Iranian Revolution, also known as the Islamic Revolution, on February 11th, 1979.[1] Religious rulers took over and influenced the Sharia Law, which are decisions on how to live life by studying religious texts. Ever since this change women have faced a struggle to survive in harsh conditions every day of their lives. Inequality between Iranian men and women is a major

After the Iranian revolution initiated, there were many modifications in both genders either the way they looked or the way they dressed. Women encountered many difficulties during the Iranian revolution. They were forced to wear veils on their heads and

At the turn of 1925, Reza Shah began the Pahlavi dynasty in Iran. He is mostly known for his attempts in modernizing Iran on the basis of the West. With this in mind, Reza Shah showed some of the biggest reform movements throughout Iranian society. One reform, such as greater access to higher education for women at Tehran University, show significant gains compared to previous years in Iran. One of the biggest points of controversy in the course of Reza Shah’s rule was the abolition of the chador and the enforcement of unveiling. The chador is a traditional staple of women’s clothing in Iranian culture that only shows the face from the brow line, and drapes over the body from head to toe like a veil. Under the circumstances, unveiling did not

However, the ideas had already spread throughout the Iranian people and religious protesting escalated continuously. People’s ideas of recreating a religious based government persisted to an unstoppable level. Khomeini, whom many protesters felt to be a hero, said in a speech in 1979, “Do not try to westernize everything you have! Look at the West, and see who the people are in the West that present themselves as champions of human rights and what their aims are. Is it human rights they really care about, or the rights of the superpowers? What they really want to secure are the rights of the superpowers. Our jurists should not follow or imitate them” (Ayatollah Khomeini: speech on the uprising of Khurdad 15, 2010). Based on this quote, the “voice” of the protesting Iranians was that westernization was not a good thing because the west does not care for human rights and freedoms of the lesser powers in the world and that the way to change for the better is to impose the Islamic values that already existed into society. In January of 1979, the Shah fled the country under the pressure of the people and Khomeini returned to Iran to be greeted as a hero (Bentley & Ziegler, n.d., p. 1117). Fighting erupted between Khomeini’s supporters and remaining military officials and on the eleventh of February the government fell. On the first of April, Khomeini proclaimed the beginning of the new Islamic republic (Islamic

During the Iranian Revolution in 1979 transformed Iran’s political,social,and economic structure. Secular Laws were replaced with Islamic laws creating an outburst. Women were often abused,raped,treated as slaves,and accused of false imprisonment. These tortures things that most women had to face are against the Islamic religion.

For example, after the overthrow of the Shah of Iran and the rise of an Islamic republic in 1979, Iranian women’s rights declined drastically, as can be seen in the political cartoon from The Minneapolis Star. In this cartoon, a wilted flower represents Iranian women’s rights, and a devious Muslim man is seen in the background, which presumably symbolizes the new Islamic government led by the Ayatollah Khomeini. Thus, the creation of this new government has greatly diminished whatever women’s rights were previously established in Iran (Doc 9). This source, an American newspaper, may not be as accurate as, for example, a Muslim source because of a general American unfamiliarity with Islam. Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, a high-class Islamic woman, described her experiences as a Muslim female during this period in her memoir Faces in a Mirror: Memoirs from Exile. This specific excerpt depicts the immediate obedience of high-class Islamic women to their male superiors, despite their own intentions (Doc 10). Thus, although there were sparse attempts to reform the status of Islamic women in the 20th century, in general, the role of women remained the same, or in some cases it was even worse than before.

Because of Shariati’s brilliant mind, his political theories and interpretation of Islam as the revolutionary ideologue for social change, strongly ignited the desire and determination of the Iranians particularly Ayatollah Rohullah Khomeini to overthrow the Shah regime. The Iranian Revolution, was a popularly supported response to a corrupt regime, but unlike many prior revolutions, the main ideology fueling the revolution was religion. Although it was Shariati’s Shiism revolutionary ideologue that fueled the desire of the Iranians for change, much of the ideological justification was routed through Shi‘ism espoused by the ideological mastermind of the revolution, Khomeini who was at the same time influenced by Shariati’s ideas. Shariati died before the revolution, but Khomeinin borrowed mostly his idea from him and applied it. If not only his death, he could have sparked more debates and spread his brilliant political theories that will challenge other

The Islamic revolution or the Iranian revolution of 1979, refers to the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi the president who was supported by the united states and eventually replaced by Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the revolution. During this period, people were stript of their freedoms in areas such as freedom of speech, dress, education, and political views. Many were captured by the government claiming that they were ultimately evil and went against the well of god, their crimes varied from reading a western novel to not wearing the hijab properly (regardless of one's religion). Which generated the term political prisoner, a person is considered a political prisoner if they are imprisoned for exercising their right

Immediately after Ayatollah Khomeini arrived in Iran,the Islamic rules regulate all around the Iran.Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini could change Iranian relation and dependancy to the West and he could enhance iranian confidence to promote the quality of their life based on Islamic lessons and their tradition.As the principle message of Islam is modesty,Khomeini could expand and perform this essential message in the context of modesty.Following that,having Hijab and wearing the veil became mandatory and enforced without flexibility. But many of the women who had the Hijab by choice during the revolution took to the streets once again; only this time they were showing in opposition to the laws that were being implemented by the Islamic government, that they assisted put in power and in opposition to the implementation of the

Various factors influenced the 1979 Iranian revolution, but at the core of this significant event was Islamic fundamentalism. The Iranian religious leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, led this movement to end the thirty-seven-year reign of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, also known as the Shah of Iran (Diller 1991, p.152). The revolution was a combination of mounting social, economic, political and religious strains. The nation of Iran was never colonized, unlike some of its bordering countries, making its people intolerant of external influences. The Shah had gradually westernized and secularized his country, creating a strong American presence that was being felt

The shah’s authorization instinct coexisted with his zeal to modernize Iran. Before the Iranian revolution, he was praised for modernizing Iran because he borrowed the Left’s ideas of social justice and Equality to create his vision. Furthermore, he believed in planning rather than markets. In 1963, he launched the white revolution, a plan to re engineer Iranian society. Caryl tells us, the white revolution included,” a national literacy campaign, suffrage for women, nationalized forests, pasturelands, and water resources”(p.43) . Moreover, the white revolution promoted mixed economy by privatizing state-owned enterprises. American and British liked the shah because he privileges state owned enterprises. He wants oil control to be private, but still get profit from its production. There were many people