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Also Known As Enqelāb-e Eslāmī • Islamic Revolution
Date January 1978 - April 1, 1979
Location Iran

Did You Know?

  • This Revolution was partly a movement against the Westernization that accompanied modernization and the Shah starting in the 1950s.
  • The groups that opposed the Shah did not have what one might imagine as a cohesive political ideology or vision; they included far right-wing clergy who favored a theocratic government, nationalists, and far left-wing interests such as communists.

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Ruhollah Khomeini
Ruhollah Khomeini
Iranian religious leader
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
shah of Iran