After the revolution, Iran turned into an Islamic state abiding the Sharia law.

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There was also concern that a Shia-centric revolution in Iran may stimulate a similar uprising in Iraq, where the country's Sunni minority ruled over the Shia majority. The revolution led to the establishment of a Insecurity and chaos created after the Constitutional Revolution led to the rise of General Reza Khan, the commander of the elite There were widespread social, economic, and political reforms introduced during his reign, a number of which led to public discontent that would provide the circumstances for the Iranian Revolution. Popular ayatollah Khomeini worked to unite this opposition behind him (except for the unwanted 'In the post-Shah era, some revolutionaries who clashed with his theocracy and were suppressed by his movement complained of deception,Several events in the 1970s set the stage for the 1979 revolution.
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President Trump announces that the US will formally designate the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps, Tehran’s most powerful military institution, as a In the non-Muslim world, it changed the image of Islam, generating much interest in Islam—both sympatheticThe Islamic Republic positioned itself as a revolutionary beacon under the slogan "neither East nor West, only Islamic Republic ("Na Sharq, Na Gharb, Faqat Jumhuri-e Islami," i.e. The prospect of a fall into communism and a "second China" (after Mao Zedong won the Chinese Civil War) terrified the Dulles brothers. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.

Iranian students storm the US embassy in Tehran and