Islamic Revolution

The Islamic Revolution in 1979, lead by the Ayatollah Khomeini, brought about a regime change in Iran by overthrowing Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. It has been a defining point in the modern history of Islam.

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• Global arrogance, is not satisfied with the Islamic Revolution's success because it is quite aware of the fact that our victory would result in the globalization of Islam.
  • Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, Speaker: Global arrogance fears Islam, Press TV, 30 Jun 2007

• ...the Islamic Revolution of Iran, was anything but a progressive movement. This was a conscious assault on the 2500 year old Persian Empire and the progressive Iranian people in the twentieth century. This untimely revolution outrageously installed the most oppressive theocratic Islamic system known to the history of mankind. With that, it renewed an era of Islamic terrorism and the revival of its never-ending passion for world domination.
  • Iran: It’s Time for a Progressive Revolution, 01 Jul, 2007

• After the Islamic revolution in Iran many people became interested in Islam, which was, hitherto, a very obscure religion usually associated with the Arabs, the poor, and the Blacks.
  • Women in Islam: An exegesis

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• God willing, the 21st century will see the defeat of the U.S. and the Zionists, and the victory of freedom-seeking nations of the world. The final goal of the [1979] revolution is to create global Islamic rule and a regime of law to be led by the Imam Mahdi.
  • Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, Commandant, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps

External links

• Al-Sharq Al-Awsat Editor: After U.S. Withdrawal, Gulf Will Be 'Under the Siege of the Islamic Revolution and Under the Pressure of Syrian Meddling'. MEMRI (1 November 2007).