of income for the country is oil, the one object that had greatly

influenced its history. Iran's present government is run as an Islamic

Republic. A president, cabinet, judicial branch, and Majilesor or

legislative branch, makes up the governmental positions. A revolution

that overthrew the monarch, which was set in 1930, lasted over 15

years. Crane Brinton's book, An Anatomy of a Revolution, explains set

of four steps a country experiences when a revolution occurs.

Symptoms, rising fever, crisis, and convalescence are the steps that

occur. The Iranian Revolution followed the four steps in Crane

Brinton's theory, symptoms, rising fever, crisis, and convalescence

Numerous symptoms led to the crumbling downfall of Reza Shah

Pahlavi, ruler of Iran until 1978. One of these symptoms is rising

expectations which can be seen during the 1960's and 70's. The rich

Shah cleared the way for the land reform law, enacted in 1962. The

land minority had to give up its land to the government, and among

those stripped of land, were the Shi'ah Muslims. Iran's power

structure was radically changed in a program termed the "W

government, and remains in power today. Iran has a great number of

The colliding views of the Iranian groups, as well as the

workers has diminished as thousands of men marched off to the front

and a new leader by the name of Ali Hashemi Rafsanjani was elected and

which enabled the new rich to benefit from inflation, the government

revolutionaries. Like the other moderates, he was a representative of

following, and associated themselves with him. The rise of religious

does not benefit the lower classes. The middle class was the most

dictatorship, but the increase in oil prices and oil income beginning

November, several people were killed when police broke up

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