DEVELOPMENT IN MIDDLE EAST
DEMOCRATIC REFORMS IN MIDDLE EAST
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Shah’s friendship with the Soviet Union
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return to traditional Islamic law
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lack of political and social rights for women
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non-Islamic influences on the culture and economy
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Detailed explanation-1: -Rise and exile of Ayatollah Khomeini (1963–1979) The post-revolutionary leader-Shia cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini-first came to political prominence in 1963 when he led opposition to the Shah and his White Revolution.
Detailed explanation-2: -In December, the army mutinied, and on January 16, 1979, the shah fled. Khomeini arrived in Tehran in triumph on February 1, 1979, and was acclaimed as the leader of the Iranian Revolution. With religious fervor running high, he consolidated his authority and set out to transform Iran into a religious state.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was the architect of the Iranian Revolution and the first leader (rahbar) of the Islamic republic established in 1979. He articulated the concept of velāyat-e faqīh (“guardianship of the jurist”) using a historical basis, which underlay Iran’s Islamic republic.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led an Islamic revolution in Iran, took the country away from the political leader called the Shah, and ran Iran as a theocracy from 1979 until his death in 1989.