What was the cause of the Iranian Revolution?
The revolution in Iran was a rejection of the Shah and his policies. It was not a rejection of their way of life. Indeed, Iran at the time, propped up by American Money, was the most western of the Islamic Countries, not always a popular way of life with the older clerics, particularly the Ayatollah Khomeini, an exiled cleric living in France. The people of Iran were living in an oil rich country, and yet poverty was not uncommon. They enjoyed freedoms unheard of in Saudi Arabia, yet were kept under the brutal force of the secret police, the Savak The Shah,while trying to embrace western style democracy, never was able to balance the western judicial system, western style of open government while contending with the Islamic tradition. Often, he would side step policy and take short cuts to enforce his own rules thus further alienating the people of his own country. At the end the youth rebelled against the brutal oppression of the secret police, the torture of the secret police in favo
