THE 1970S 1969 1979
CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST
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Fundamentalist Muslims overtook the government and imposed strict Islamic law
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Saddam Hussein took over the government and persecuted the Kurdish people.
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The United States took over the government and freed the people from the current dictatorship.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Following the March 1979 Islamic Republic referendum, in which 98% of Iranian voters approved the country’s shift to an Islamic republic, the new government began efforts to draft the present-day Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran; Khomeini emerged as the Supreme Leader of Iran in December 1979.
Detailed explanation-2: -Iranian Revolution, also called Islamic Revolution, Persian Enqelāb-e Eslāmī, popular uprising in Iran in 1978–79 that resulted in the toppling of the monarchy on February 11, 1979, and led to the establishment of an Islamic republic.
Detailed explanation-3: -The major cause of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 was the government’s inability to satisfy the rising expectations of the Iranian people-especially following the sudden enormous increase in the price of oil in 1973.
Detailed explanation-4: -As a result of the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Iran’s government changed from a monarchy to a theocracy. A theocracy is a type of government that is based on a religion. It is run by religious figures and its laws are based in religious laws.