What led to the Iranian Revolution?

Setting the Revolution into Motion

The early 1970s brought with it inflation in Iran's economy, and the Shah was criticized for his extravagance while most Iranians were suffering in poverty. The Shah's government suppressed any form of resistance and had exiled Ayatollah KhomeIni Islamic Revolution occurred in 1979, in the Muslim majority country of Iran. Islamist revolutionaries opposed the western secular policies of the authoritarian Shah of Iran Mohammed Reza Pahlavi ... It replaced an authoritarian monarchy with a theocratic republic. The West claims the republic is authoritarian.